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Test 1

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  1. Contoso Financial has 40 Azure subscriptions in a single Microsoft Entra tenant, and the platform team expects to add roughly one subscription per month as new business units… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. A manufacturer authenticates its 9,000 Microsoft 365 users through an on-premises Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) farm. After a ransomware incident took the… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A security operations team collects the SigninLogs table into a Log Analytics workspace. Analysts run interactive KQL queries against roughly the last 30 days of data. An auditor… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A SaaS provider runs a single multi-tenant OLTP database on Azure SQL Database. The database is currently 3.6 TB and grows by roughly 400 GB each month, and the business plans… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A research institute writes about 60 TB of instrument output per year into a general-purpose v2 storage account as block blobs. Analysts read a file heavily during its first 30… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A retailer runs a three-tier line-of-business application on 60 Azure virtual machines in the North Europe region. After a tabletop exercise, the board mandates that a complete… · Business Continuity
  7. A payments platform stores its ledger in an Azure SQL Database in the East US region. The resiliency design must satisfy all of the following: - The loss of a single availability… · Business Continuity
  8. A media company serves an HTTPS web application from identical deployments in West Europe, East US, and Southeast Asia. Users report slow page loads from whichever region is… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. An insurance company is decomposing its claims engine into microservices. The messaging layer between the intake service and the adjudication workers must satisfy four… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A broadcaster must move 320 TB of archived video from an on-premises NAS into Azure Blob Storage. The archive is effectively static; a handful of files change per week. The site… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 2

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  1. A retailer runs a promotions platform made of a virtual machine scale set that autoscales between 20 and 200 instances during sales events, plus 12 Azure Function apps. Every… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. An auditor reviewing a bank's Azure estate finds that 22 engineers hold permanent Owner assignments on the production subscription. The remediation plan must satisfy all of the… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A logistics company runs a third-party SIEM in its own datacenter and has no plans to replace it. Security wants the Azure activity log from all 14 subscriptions, plus resource… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A trading firm stores position data in an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account with a single write region in East US and read regions in West Europe and Australia East. The risk… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A public-sector agency stores 8 TB of case documents as block blobs in a general-purpose v2 storage account in West Europe. The design must meet these requirements: - If one… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. During a tabletop exercise, a healthcare provider's security team demonstrates that an attacker who compromises an account holding the Backup Contributor role can stop… · Business Continuity
  7. A university is deploying a two-instance web tier on Azure virtual machines in a region that supports availability zones. The service must stay available if a single Azure… · Business Continuity
  8. A ticketing company is replatforming eight containerized microservices. Each one reads from an Azure Service Bus queue, and the queues are empty for most of the day but receive… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. A manufacturer is consolidating 30 workload virtual networks, each in its own subscription, onto a single network design. Security requires that every packet leaving a workload… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A publisher plans to exit its datacenter, which runs roughly 800 VMware virtual machines. The application owners have left the company and no one can say which servers belong to… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 3

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  1. A bank is designing key management for customer-managed encryption keys used by Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage. The security architecture board sets these requirements: -… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. An engineering firm runs an internal expenses application on an on-premises IIS server that uses Integrated Windows Authentication against Active Directory. After closing its… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A manufacturer has 35 subscriptions in one Microsoft Entra tenant, with resources in West Europe, East US, and Germany West Central. The monitoring design must satisfy: -… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. An insurer is retiring the SQL Server 2016 cluster that hosts 140 databases for a claims platform. The platform uses SQL Server Agent jobs, cross-database queries, Service… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A pharmaceutical company is migrating a genomics pipeline out of its own datacenter. The pipeline's compute nodes run Linux and mount the dataset over NFS, while a Windows… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A clinical trials company stores results in an Azure SQL Database. The regulator requires that one full backup per month be retrievable for seven years, and one full backup per… · Business Continuity
  7. A payments processor runs its settlement pipeline on an Azure Service Bus Premium namespace in North Europe. After a regional incident at a competitor, the risk team writes these… · Business Continuity
  8. A retailer is building an HTTP API as a .NET isolated Azure Functions app on Linux. The design must satisfy the following: - The function app must reach an Azure SQL database and… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. An energy company connects its datacenter to Azure over an ExpressRoute circuit with private peering. Application servers that remain on-premises must read from an Azure Storage… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A university runs a single-region web application on virtual machines in one virtual network in North Europe. The redesign must: - route requests whose path starts with /api to… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 4

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  1. A platform team governs 40 subscriptions that all sit under a single management group. The network operations team needs to create and modify route tables, network security… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. Three partner firms are joining a consortium project. About 400 of their engineers need the same bundle of access: membership of one security group, assignment to two enterprise… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. An operations manager asks to be told when Azure itself is the problem: an outage affecting a service the company uses, an upcoming planned maintenance window on the regions it… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A utility stores smart meter readings in an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL container. There are 40,000 meters in four regions, the container already holds 5 TB, and it grows… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A retailer wants to land nightly extracts from an on-premises SQL Server instance and an on-premises SAP HANA system into Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, where Synapse serverless… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A consultancy has moved its department file server to a 4 TB Azure file share. The requirements for protecting it are: - a daily backup, with daily, weekly, and monthly… · Business Continuity
  7. A gaming company keeps player profiles in an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL account with a write region in West Europe and a read region in East US. After a faulty deployment silently… · Business Continuity
  8. A hedge fund runs a Monte Carlo risk simulation every night. The workload is a command-line executable invoked roughly 60,000 times with different inputs; the invocations are… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. A logistics company wants to expose 40 internal REST APIs to about 200 partner developers. The design must provide: - one hostname and one consistent URL scheme in front of… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A retailer is connecting 900 stores to Azure. Each store already has an SD-WAN appliance from a vendor that participates in Microsoft's connectivity automation program. The… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 5

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  1. A bank's security review of its Microsoft Entra tenant produces four requirements: - Every user must satisfy multifactor authentication before performing Azure management… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. A managed service provider operates the Azure estates of 60 customers, each in its own Microsoft Entra tenant. Its 45 engineers currently sign in to each customer's directory… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A charity runs a public donation website on Azure App Service. Operations wants to know within minutes if the site stops responding to visitors anywhere in the world, wants… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A manufacturer is building a data lake that Azure Databricks and Synapse Analytics will query. The design must satisfy the following: - store several petabytes of raw and curated… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A broker-dealer must retain trade confirmations as blobs for seven years in a form that satisfies SEC Rule 17a-4(f). The compliance officer sets these conditions: - once written… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. An engineering firm runs 120 VMware virtual machines in a single on-premises datacenter and has no second site. After an insurer's review, the firm must be able to bring the… · Business Continuity
  7. A SaaS company runs its product on a single Azure Kubernetes Service cluster in West Europe, with container images in one Azure Container Registry in the same region. The board… · Business Continuity
  8. A retailer's product catalog site repeatedly reads the same rows from Azure SQL Database and keeps shopping-cart session state in a database table. Latency is poor at peak. The… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. A media company deploys its App Service web app, running on a Premium v3 plan, twice a week. Users currently see errors for about a minute after each deployment while the app… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. An insurer runs 400 Windows and Linux servers: about 280 in its own datacenters and 120 on Amazon EC2. None of them can be migrated this year. The platform team wants to: - see… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 6

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  1. A retailer is building a mobile shopping app for an expected 2 million consumers. Customers must be able to sign up themselves with an email address or a social account, reset… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. A company wants every resource in a subscription to carry the CostCenter tag of its parent resource group. Existing resources that lack the tag must be corrected, new deployments… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A development subscription has a monthly budget of USD 5,000. Finance wants an email when actual spending reaches 80 percent of the budget, and the platform team wants an… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. An online store keeps orders in an Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL container partitioned by /status, which holds values such as pending, paid, shipped and returned. Most new writes… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A payments company stores national identification numbers in a column of an Azure SQL Database. Database administrators, cloud operators and Microsoft staff must never see the… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A global booking application uses Azure Cosmos DB with East US as the only write region and West Europe as a read replica. Booking offices in both continents write all day. The… · Business Continuity
  7. Before go-live, an architect wants evidence that a zone-redundant application keeps working when an availability zone goes down and when a dependency responds slowly. The tests… · Business Continuity
  8. An AKS cluster will grow to about 4,000 nodes running roughly 100,000 pods. The virtual network address space is limited because it connects to on-premises networks over… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. An Azure Virtual Desktop deployment uses a pooled, multi-session host pool to keep costs low. Users are assigned to a different session host at each sign-in, but they expect… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. An insurer exposes APIs from backends in Azure and from a datacenter. A regulation requires that calls to the datacenter APIs are processed inside the datacenter and never travel… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 7

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  1. A company has 40 Azure subscriptions under several management groups. The chief information security officer wants one measurable security posture score across all of them, a… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. An enterprise is designing its management group hierarchy for an Azure landing zone. Shared services (identity, connectivity, management) need their own policies and access… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A platform team runs several AKS clusters whose workloads already expose Prometheus metrics. The team has PromQL alert rules and Grafana dashboards, and it does not want to run… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A manufacturer ingests about 2 TB a day of telemetry from 100,000 sensors. Engineers need interactive ad hoc queries over billions of rows that return in seconds, built-in time… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A company stores block blobs in a general-purpose v2 storage account in West US. New and changed blobs under a specific container prefix must be copied asynchronously to a second… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A stateful application runs on AKS and stores data on persistent volumes backed by Azure Disks. The team needs scheduled backups of both the Kubernetes resources and the volume… · Business Continuity
  7. A stateful application runs on single-instance virtual machines in availability zone 1 of Germany West Central. Data residency rules require that the data stays in that region… · Business Continuity
  8. A company connects its datacenter to a hub virtual network with a single ExpressRoute circuit that uses private peering. The circuit is not geo-redundant. Leadership wants a… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. An order process runs several steps and then waits up to 14 days for a manager's approval before continuing. It must retry failed steps, be resilient to restarts, and contain… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A company runs a steady base load of compute in Azure but keeps changing it: VM families are replaced every few months, some workloads move to other regions, and part of the… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 8

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  1. A company collects Windows event logs from thousands of VMs using Azure Monitor Agent and a data collection rule (DCR) that sends everything to a Log Analytics workspace… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. A company issues TLS certificates for its internal web applications from DigiCert. An architect wants Azure Key Vault to request, renew, and store these certificates… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A company wants sign-in attempts that Microsoft Entra ID Protection classifies as medium or high risk, based on signals such as an anonymous IP address or an unfamiliar sign-in… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A single Azure SQL Database supports an internal reporting tool that is queried in short bursts a few times per day and is idle the rest of the time. Usage volume is… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. An IoT ingestion pipeline writes millions of small telemetry objects, typically a few kilobytes each, to Azure Blob Storage every minute. The application is sensitive to storage… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A company stores block blobs for a document management application in a standard general-purpose v2 storage account. A recent incident where an application bug overwrote… · Business Continuity
  7. A company is migrating an application to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. The design must survive the loss of an entire availability zone with automatic failover… · Business Continuity
  8. A company stores product images in a storage account. When a new blob is created, a resize function must process every image, but only blobs uploaded to the /incoming/thumbnails… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. A gaming company runs a custom TCP based matchmaking service on Standard Load Balancers deployed in three Azure regions. Players must connect to the closest healthy region… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A batch processing workload runs on a large virtual machine scale set behind a Standard Load Balancer. Instances make a high volume of outbound HTTPS calls to a set of external… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 9

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  1. A company builds its container images in a GitHub Actions workflow hosted entirely on GitHub's own runners, outside Azure. The pipeline needs to push images to Azure Container… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. An HR system holds each employee's hire date and termination date, and it already writes those attributes into Microsoft Entra ID through HR-driven provisioning. The company… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. An order processing system is split across six microservices running in Azure Container Apps, each written in a different language. A single customer order can pass through four… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A software vendor gives each of its 300 customers a dedicated Azure SQL Database on the same logical server, one database per tenant for isolation. Usage is bursty and… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A healthcare company stores patient records in an Azure SQL Database. A compliance requirement states that the database's data and log files must be encrypted at rest with a key… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A small internal reporting database on Azure SQL Database (General Purpose tier) is used by a few analysts during business hours. If the primary region has an outage, the… · Business Continuity
  7. A company protects 40 virtual machines with Azure Backup in a Recovery Services vault configured for geo-redundant storage. The workload does not need continuous replication or… · Business Continuity
  8. A company runs Azure Kubernetes Service clusters in West Europe, East US, and Southeast Asia, each pulling the same container images on every deployment and during autoscaling… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. A three-tier application runs in a single virtual network subnet: web, application, and database virtual machines are mixed together on the same subnet because of an earlier… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A defense contractor must run a set of Windows Server virtual machines under a compliance requirement that states no other customer's workload may ever run on the same physical… · Infrastructure Solutions

Test 10

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  1. A company has already onboarded 300 Windows and Linux virtual machines to Azure Arc and Azure resource management. The security team now adds a new requirement: it must be able… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  2. A company is retiring its last on-premises domain controller after moving all workloads to Microsoft Entra ID. It still has an Azure Files share that end users map as a network… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  3. A holding company has more than 200 Azure subscriptions spread across 15 management groups. The cloud governance team needs to run ad hoc queries such as "list every public IP… · Identity, Governance & Monitoring
  4. A retailer runs a nightly Azure Data Factory pipeline that copies the entire 800-GB orders table from an on-premises SQL Server instance into Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for… · Data Storage Solutions
  5. A company already has 40 TB of Parquet files in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account that several existing Spark and reporting pipelines depend on and cannot be moved. The… · Data Storage Solutions
  6. A finance company runs SQL Server 2019 on an IaaS virtual machine in Azure. Compliance requires a recovery point objective of 15 minutes for the databases on that VM, along with… · Business Continuity
  7. A design calls for a stateful application tier that must keep running if an entire Azure availability zone in the region becomes unavailable. The team wants Azure to… · Business Continuity
  8. A development team runs the same web application in three environments (dev, test and production) across several App Service instances. They want to turn features on or off for… · Infrastructure Solutions
  9. A manufacturer runs three on-premises Windows file servers totaling 60 TB of SMB shares that it wants to migrate to Azure file shares. The migration must minimize downtime with… · Infrastructure Solutions
  10. A logistics company publishes a single ShipmentUpdated event whenever any shipment changes status. Four independent downstream systems each need their own copy of every event… · Infrastructure Solutions