Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Practice Exam: Test Your Knowledge 2025

You are configuring Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for your organization. You need to ensure that users can reset their own passwords without contacting the help desk. The solution must minimize administrative effort. What should you implement?

Your company has multiple Azure subscriptions. You need to apply a policy that prevents users from creating virtual machines in the East US region across all subscriptions. The solution must minimize administrative effort. Where should you assign the Azure Policy?

You have an Azure subscription that contains 50 virtual machines. You need to ensure that a specific user can start and stop all virtual machines but cannot delete them or modify their configuration. What should you assign to the user?

Your organization uses Azure AD with multiple external partners. You need to allow partner users to access specific applications without creating accounts in your Azure AD tenant. The solution must allow partners to use their existing organizational credentials. What should you configure?

You need to store 10 TB of data that will be accessed infrequently (less than once per month) and must be retained for 7 years for compliance purposes. The solution must minimize costs. Which Azure Storage access tier should you use?

You have an Azure Storage account that contains blob data. You need to prevent accidental deletion of blobs and containers while still allowing new blobs to be added and existing blobs to be modified. What should you configure?

Your company has an on-premises file server with 5 TB of data that must be synchronized to Azure. Users need to access files from both on-premises and Azure with minimal latency. The solution must maintain a single source of truth. What should you implement?

You have an Azure virtual machine that runs a web application. The VM experiences high CPU usage during business hours (9 AM to 5 PM) but low usage during other times. You need to automatically adjust the VM size based on CPU usage to optimize costs. What should you implement?

You are deploying a web application that must automatically scale out to 10 instances when CPU usage exceeds 75% and scale in to 2 instances when CPU usage drops below 25%. The application consists of identical stateless web servers. What Azure service should you use?

You have an Azure virtual machine that needs to access Azure Key Vault to retrieve secrets. You need to configure authentication without storing credentials in the application code or configuration files. What should you configure?

You plan to deploy 100 identical virtual machines that must be distributed across multiple fault domains and update domains to maximize availability. The VMs will run a stateless application. What should you use?

You have an Azure VM that was recently stopped (deallocated). After starting the VM, users report they cannot connect to it. You verify that the public IP address has changed. You need to ensure the VM always uses the same public IP address even after being deallocated. What should you do?

Your Azure virtual network contains multiple subnets. You need to ensure that virtual machines in one subnet cannot communicate with virtual machines in another specific subnet, but all subnets should still have internet access. What should you configure?

You have two Azure virtual networks, VNet1 in East US and VNet2 in West US. You need to enable resources in VNet1 to communicate with resources in VNet2 using private IP addresses. What should you configure?

You are configuring an Azure Application Gateway for a web application. Users report that their sessions are being directed to different backend servers, causing them to lose their login state. You need to ensure that requests from the same user always go to the same backend server. What should you configure?

Your company has an Azure virtual network that contains several virtual machines. You need to ensure that traffic from the internet to the VMs is filtered based on application-layer protocols (HTTP/HTTPS) and can inspect the content of the requests for threats. What should you implement?

You have an Azure subscription that contains 20 virtual machines. You need to be notified when any VM's CPU usage exceeds 85% for more than 10 minutes. The solution must minimize administrative effort. What should you create?

You are troubleshooting network connectivity issues for an Azure virtual machine. You need to verify if the VM can reach a specific endpoint on the internet and identify any network routing issues. Which Azure tool should you use?

Your company requires that all Azure activity logs for the subscription be retained for 5 years for compliance purposes. The logs must be stored cost-effectively. What should you configure?

You have an Azure virtual machine that needs to be backed up daily. The backup must be retained for 30 days. You need to implement the backup solution with minimal administrative effort. What should you use?