Microsoft Azure Quiz
Microsoft Azure services and concepts: compute, storage, and the Azure-specific tooling teams rely on.
This category currently has 100 questions in the SERVBG quiz bank. Below are a few sample questions: the full interactive quiz shuffles through the whole set with instant scoring.
Sample questions
A VM Scale Set is configured with a scale-out policy triggered when average CPU exceeds 75% for 5 minutes. The scale-in policy removes instances when CPU drops below 25%. What is the default cooldown period between scale operations in Azure VMSS?
- 1 minute
- 15 minutes
- 5 minutes
- 10 minutes
- 30 minutes
You run an Azure Spot VM workload and want to maximize the chance of retaining capacity. Which eviction policy ensures the VM is deallocated (not deleted) upon eviction so the disk persists?
- Hibernate
- Delete
- Preserve
- Deallocate
- Stop
An AKS cluster has a system node pool and a user node pool. You want to prevent user workloads from scheduling on system node pool nodes. What is the built-in mechanism AKS applies automatically to system node pools?
- A CriticalAddonsOnly=true:NoSchedule taint is applied
- System node pools use a dedicated VLAN that rejects non-system pods
- An OPA policy enforced by Azure Policy prevents scheduling
- System pools are unschedulable by default via cordon
- A nodeSelector label system=true blocks user pods automatically
In AKS Automatic mode (GA 2024), which cluster management responsibility is fully removed from the operator compared to Standard mode?
- Pod security admission is disabled and replaced with built-in Azure Defender policies
- Node pool configuration, OS upgrades, and Kubernetes version upgrades are fully managed by Azure
- The operator no longer needs to create namespaces; AKS generates them from workload annotations
- RBAC configuration is automated via Entra ID group sync without operator input
- Networking plugin selection is removed; Automatic always uses kubenet
Azure Functions Consumption plan charges based on execution count and memory-time. What is the free grant per subscription per month for execution count?
- 5 million executions
- 500,000 executions
- 10 million executions
- 1 million executions
- Unlimited executions
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