10 free, exam-style Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free AZ-900 practice test to study every exam domain.
The AZ-900 exam has 60 questions and runs 0 hours 45 minutes.
These 10 free AZ-900 questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A company is moving several workloads to Azure and wants to understand its obligations under the cloud shared responsibility model. Which responsibility ALWAYS remains with the customer, regardless of whether they use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS?
Correct answer: C - The information and data, plus the accounts and identities they own
A development team needs to publish a web application and a REST API, but wants to avoid managing, patching, or configuring the underlying operating system and servers. Which cloud service type is MOST appropriate?
Correct answer: A - Platform as a Service (PaaS), which manages the OS for you
During a traffic spike, an application running on a single virtual machine becomes slow. The team responds by adding several identical virtual machines behind a load balancer to share the load. This is an example of:
Correct answer: D - Adding more identical instances to share load (scaling out)
A CFO notes that the company no longer makes large upfront hardware purchases and instead pays only for the cloud resources consumed each month. This shift is BEST described as a move from:
Correct answer: B - Capital expenditure (CapEx) to operational expenditure (OpEx)
A team chooses a serverless compute option for an event-driven task that runs only when files are uploaded. Which characteristic BEST describes the expected behavior of this serverless approach?
Correct answer: C - It scales automatically with demand, can scale to zero when idle, and bills only for execution
An architect must design an application so that it stays available even if an entire physical datacenter within an Azure region experiences a power or cooling failure. Which Azure capability is specifically designed to protect against this?
Correct answer: D - Availability zones, which are isolated datacenters within a region
An enterprise has 12 separate Azure subscriptions and needs to apply a single set of governance policies and access controls consistently across all of them at once. Which Azure construct should they use?
Correct answer: A - A management group placed above the subscriptions
A bank requires a connection between its on-premises datacenter and Azure that is private, dedicated, and does NOT travel over the public internet. Which option meets this requirement?
Correct answer: B - Azure ExpressRoute, a private dedicated link to Azure
A team wants their storage data to remain available if a single datacenter fails, by keeping three copies spread across three separate availability zones within the SAME region. Which redundancy option should they choose?
Correct answer: C - Zone-redundant storage (ZRS), three copies across three zones
A company must retain compliance archives that are almost never accessed, and can tolerate several hours to retrieve the data when it is occasionally needed. Which blob storage access tier offers the LOWEST storage cost for this scenario?
Correct answer: D - Archive tier, the lowest-cost tier for rarely accessed data
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