Compute (VMs & containers)
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Compute (VMs & containers): example questions & answers
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Which Azure compute option automatically increases or decreases the number of identical VM instances based on demand?
- AA Virtual Machine Scale Set✓
- BA single Azure Virtual Machine
- CAzure Bastion
- DAn Availability Set
Answer: Virtual Machine Scale Sets create and manage a group of identical, load-balanced VMs that can automatically scale out or in based on metrics or schedules.
What does an Availability Set protect against?
- ANetwork DDoS attacks
- BRegion-wide outages
- CHardware failures and planned maintenance within a single datacenter✓
- DCompromise of the storage account's access keys
Answer: Availability Sets distribute VMs across fault and update domains within a datacenter, protecting against localized hardware failures and host maintenance events.
To achieve the highest VM SLA against datacenter failures, how should you deploy VMs?
- AIn a single fault domain inside one rack of the datacentre
- BIn a single Availability Set within one datacentre
- CUsing only spot instances
- DAcross multiple Availability Zones in a region✓
Answer: Deploying VMs across two or more Availability Zones protects against an entire datacenter failure and provides the highest single-region availability SLA.