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Cloud concepts

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easy · AZ900-PUBLIC-001

Which statement best describes cloud computing?

A. Buying physical servers and installing them in your own office.
B. Accessing computing services like servers, storage, and software over the internet.
C. Using only free software tools to manage business data.
D. Moving every security responsibility from the customer to Microsoft.

easy · AZ900-PUBLIC-002

A company wants to avoid buying servers upfront and pay only when compute resources are used. Which cloud concept is most directly described?

A. Consumption-based pricing
B. High availability
C. Fault tolerance
D. Private cloud

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medium · AZ900-MCG-002

A retail company runs an online store that receives normal traffic most of the year but experiences a large increase in visitors during holiday sales. The IT team wants the platform to automatically add computing resources during peak demand and reduce resources afterward to control costs. The company also wants to avoid purchasing additional physical servers for short-term use. The team should prioritize a cloud solution that provides what capability?

A. Elasticity
B. Fault tolerance
C. Disaster recovery
D. Low latency

medium · AZ900-MCG-003

Which statement best describes high availability and fault tolerance?

A. A guarantee that no application ever needs backups
B. A requirement to use only on-premises hardware
C. A pricing method for purchasing physical servers
D. Design approaches that help workloads stay available during failures

medium · AZ900-MCG-008

Which of the following cloud service models provides the most control over the underlying infrastructure?

A. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
B. Platform as a Service (PaaS)
C. Software as a Service (SaaS)
D. Function as a Service (FaaS)

medium · AZ900-MCG-016

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) gives customers more control over operating systems, storage, and networking than Software as a Service (SaaS).

A. False
B. True

Shared responsibility

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medium · AZ900-PUBLIC-003

A team stores sensitive files in Azure Storage. Microsoft secures the physical datacenter. Who is responsible for configuring access permissions to the storage account?

A. Microsoft, because the files are stored in Azure.
B. The customer, because access configuration is part of their cloud usage.
C. The internet service provider, because the storage is reached over the internet.
D. No one, because cloud services automatically make data public.

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Azure architecture

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medium · AZ900-PUBLIC-004

An application should keep running if one datacenter in an Azure region has an outage. Which Azure architecture concept is most relevant?

A. Availability zones
B. Management groups
C. Azure Marketplace
D. Tags

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Identity and access

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medium · AZ900-PUBLIC-005

Which pairing correctly separates authentication from authorization in Azure?

A. Microsoft Entra ID verifies who the user is; Azure RBAC controls what the user can do.
B. Azure RBAC verifies the user password; Microsoft Entra ID chooses resource permissions.
C. Azure Marketplace authenticates users; tags authorize resource access.
D. Subscriptions authenticate users; availability zones authorize resource actions.

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hard · AZ900-HARD-001

An organization has multiple Azure subscriptions under a single Microsoft Entra tenant. The security team wants to ensure that all newly created resources across every subscription must include a CostCenter tag, a specific team can manage virtual machines but cannot grant access to other users, and the controls should apply consistently across current and future subscriptions. Which two actions should the organization take?

A. Assign an Azure Policy initiative at the management group scope that requires the CostCenter tag.
B. Assign the Owner role to the VM team at the subscription scope.
C. Assign the Virtual Machine Contributor role to the VM team at the appropriate scope.
D. Create a resource lock on each subscription to prevent resources without tags from being created.

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medium · AZ900-MCG-004

Which two statements describe identity and access management with Microsoft Entra ID?

A. A pricing detail that does not describe identity or access management
B. A deployment model that is not part of Microsoft Entra identity and access management
C. Microsoft Entra ID centralizes identity, sign-in, and access management for users and applications
D. Microsoft Entra ID works with access controls such as roles and permissions to protect resources
E. An unrelated Microsoft service that does not manage Azure identities

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Management and governance

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medium · AZ900-PUBLIC-006

A company wants to apply consistent rules across many Azure subscriptions. Which feature helps organize subscriptions for governance at scale?

A. Management groups
B. Availability zones
C. Azure Functions
D. Public cloud

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