Management & governance
25 free practice questions with explanations
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Management & governance: example questions & answers
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What is the main purpose of Azure Policy?
- A To enforce organizational standards and assess compliance of resources ✓
- B To create virtual machines automatically
- C To provide DDoS protection
- D To distribute network traffic
Answer: Azure Policy enforces rules and effects over resources to keep them compliant with corporate standards and service-level agreements.
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Which Azure feature lets you apply restrictions to prevent accidental deletion or modification of critical resources?
- A Resource tags
- B Resource locks ✓
- C Azure Blueprints
- D Management groups
Answer: Resource locks (CanNotDelete or ReadOnly) prevent users from accidentally deleting or modifying critical Azure resources.
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What is the purpose of resource tags in Azure?
- A To physically isolate resources
- B To apply metadata such as cost center or environment to resources ✓
- C To encrypt resource data
- D To restrict network access
Answer: Tags are name-value pairs of metadata applied to resources, useful for organizing, reporting on, and tracking costs by category.
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Which Azure service provides personalized recommendations to optimize cost, security, reliability, and performance?
- A Azure Monitor
- B Azure Advisor ✓
- C Azure Policy
- D Azure Sentinel
Answer: Azure Advisor analyzes your configurations and usage to provide actionable recommendations across cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance.
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What does Azure Monitor primarily do?
- A Collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry from Azure and on-premises environments ✓
- B Creates virtual machines
- C Manages user passwords
- D Provides a content delivery network
Answer: Azure Monitor collects and analyzes telemetry (metrics and logs) from cloud and on-premises resources to maximize availability and performance.
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Which Azure tool provides a health view of your individual Azure resources, such as a specific VM?
- A Azure Service Health
- B Azure Resource Health ✓
- C Azure Status page
- D Azure Advisor
Answer: Azure Resource Health provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources and helps diagnose and resolve issues.