Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Practice Test sample questions

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1. What does IaaS stand for?
A) Infrastructure as a Service  B) Internet as a Service  C) Integration as a Service  D) Intelligence as a Service
2. Which Azure service provides scalable virtual machines?
A) Azure App Service  B) Azure Virtual Machines  C) Azure Functions  D) Azure Container Instances
3. What is the Azure Shared Responsibility Model?
A) Microsoft manages everything  B) The customer manages everything  C) Microsoft manages the physical infrastructure; customers manage their data and applications  D) Responsibilities are split by cost
4. Which Azure service is a serverless compute option?
A) Azure Virtual Machines  B) Azure App Service  C) Azure Functions  D) Azure Kubernetes Service
5. What is an Azure Resource Group?
A) A billing account  B) A logical container for Azure resources that share the same lifecycle  C) A type of virtual network  D) A subscription tier
6. What is Azure Blob Storage primarily used for?
A) Storing structured relational data  B) Storing unstructured data such as images, videos and documents  C) Running virtual machines  D) Managing DNS records
7. Which Azure service provides a managed relational database with SQL Server compatibility?
A) Azure Cosmos DB  B) Azure SQL Database  C) Azure Table Storage  D) Azure Cache for Redis
8. What does Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provide?
A) Physical network security  B) Identity and access management for cloud resources  C) Content delivery  D) Virtual machine management
9. What is the purpose of Azure Availability Zones?
A) To reduce costs  B) To protect applications from datacenter failures within a region  C) To speed up content delivery  D) To manage subscriptions
10. Which tool helps estimate Azure costs before deployment?
A) Azure Cost Management  B) Azure Pricing Calculator  C) Azure Advisor  D) Azure Monitor
11. What is Azure ExpressRoute?
A) A fast CDN  B) A private, dedicated connection between on-premises networks and Azure  C) A load balancer  D) An API gateway
12. What does Azure Policy do?
A) Sets user passwords  B) Enforces organisational standards and compliance on Azure resources  C) Monitors network traffic  D) Manages virtual machines
13. Which Azure service delivers globally distributed, multi-model database capabilities?
A) Azure SQL Database  B) Azure Cosmos DB  C) Azure Synapse Analytics  D) Azure Database for MySQL
14. What is an Azure Subscription?
A) A type of virtual machine  B) A billing boundary and access control boundary in Azure  C) A type of storage account  D) A VPN gateway
15. Which Azure service provides DDoS protection?
A) Azure Firewall  B) Azure DDoS Protection  C) Network Security Groups  D) Azure Bastion
16. What is the purpose of Azure Monitor?
A) To manage user identities  B) To collect, analyse, and act on telemetry data from Azure and on-premises environments  C) To store virtual machine images  D) To manage DNS
17. What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?
A) A serverless compute service  B) A managed container orchestration service  C) A relational database service  D) A CDN
18. Which pricing model allows you to pay only for compute time used?
A) Reserved  B) Spot  C) Pay-as-you-go  D) Hybrid Benefit
19. What is Azure Blueprints used for?
A) Creating virtual networks  B) Defining a repeatable set of Azure resources and policies for environments  C) Monitoring costs  D) Running containers
20. What does "geo-redundant storage" mean in Azure?
A) Data is stored in multiple storage accounts  B) Data is replicated to a secondary region hundreds of miles away  C) Data is stored faster  D) Data is encrypted
21. Which service provides a web application firewall (WAF) in Azure?
A) Azure Firewall  B) Azure Application Gateway  C) Network Security Groups  D) Azure Front Door
22. What is the Azure free account?
A) A permanently free tier with unlimited resources  B) 12 months of free popular services plus always-free services and a credit for the first 30 days  C) Free access for students only  D) Free for non-profit organisations only
23. What is Azure Service Health?
A) A performance benchmark tool  B) A personalised dashboard that provides alerts about Azure service issues that affect your resources  C) A cost management tool  D) An identity service
24. Which Azure storage type is best for storing virtual machine disks?
A) Blob Storage  B) File Storage  C) Managed Disks  D) Queue Storage
25. What is Azure Bastion?
A) A DNS service  B) A fully managed PaaS service providing secure RDP/SSH access to VMs without public IP exposure  C) A load balancer  D) A content delivery network
26. What does the Azure Well-Architected Framework include?
A) Billing history  B) Five pillars: Cost Optimisation, Operational Excellence, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, Security  C) SLA guarantees  D) Azure service documentation
27. Which tool provides recommendations to optimise Azure cost, security, reliability, and performance?
A) Azure Policy  B) Azure Advisor  C) Azure Monitor  D) Azure Blueprints
28. What is a Management Group in Azure?
A) A team of Azure administrators  B) A container for organising multiple subscriptions with unified policy and access management  C) A type of storage account  D) A virtual network
29. What is the purpose of Azure Key Vault?
A) To store virtual machine backups  B) To securely store and manage secrets, keys, and certificates  C) To manage user accounts  D) To monitor network traffic
30. Which compliance framework certifies that Microsoft Azure meets international cloud security standards?
A) ISO 9001  B) ISO/IEC 27001  C) PCI DSS only  D) HIPAA only