Monitoring & backup
38 free practice questions with explanations
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Monitoring & backup: example questions & answers
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Which Azure Monitor component collects and stores log and performance data for querying with KQL?
- A Action groups
- B Log Analytics workspace ✓
- C Activity log alerts
- D Network Watcher
Answer: A Log Analytics workspace stores log and metric data that you query using Kusto Query Language (KQL) for analysis and alerting.
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What does the Azure Activity Log record?
- A Guest OS performance counters
- B Subscription-level control-plane events such as resource changes ✓
- C Application trace logs
- D Raw network packets
Answer: The Activity Log captures control-plane operations like who created, updated, or deleted resources at the subscription level, useful for auditing.
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In Azure Monitor alerts, what is the role of an action group?
- A It defines the metric threshold
- B It defines the notifications and actions to run when an alert fires ✓
- C It stores the log data
- D It scales virtual machines
Answer: An action group is a reusable collection of notification preferences and actions (email, SMS, webhook, runbook) triggered when an alert condition is met.
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Which Azure service backs up Azure VMs, on-premises servers, and workloads to a Recovery Services vault?
- A Azure Site Recovery
- B Azure Backup ✓
- C Azure Monitor
- D Azure Advisor
Answer: Azure Backup protects data by backing up VMs, files, and workloads into a Recovery Services vault with configurable retention policies.
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What is the primary purpose of Azure Site Recovery (ASR)?
- A Backing up individual files
- B Orchestrating replication and failover of workloads for disaster recovery ✓
- C Collecting performance metrics
- D Hosting container images
Answer: Azure Site Recovery replicates workloads to a secondary location and orchestrates failover and failback, providing business continuity and disaster recovery.
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Which diagnostic tool helps verify connectivity and diagnose network traffic issues between Azure resources?
- A Azure Advisor
- B Network Watcher ✓
- C Azure Policy
- D Azure Bastion
Answer: Network Watcher provides tools like Connection Troubleshoot, IP flow verify, and NSG flow logs to diagnose and monitor Azure network conditions.