Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

You are developing an Azure Function App that processes order data from a queue. The function occasionally experiences transient errors when connecting to an external payment API. You need to ensure that failed messages are retried automatically and that messages causing repeated failures are moved to a separate queue for manual investigation after 5 attempts. What should you implement?

Your application stores customer profile images in Azure Blob Storage. Users from Europe and Asia are experiencing slow download times. The images rarely change after upload, and you need to improve global access performance while minimizing costs. What should you implement?

You are developing a web API that needs to authenticate users and authorize access to specific resources. The API should accept tokens from Azure AD and validate that users have the appropriate role claims. Which authentication approach should you implement?

Your Azure Function processes thousands of IoT messages per minute from Event Hub. You notice that the function is experiencing high memory consumption and occasionally timing out. Application Insights shows multiple concurrent executions. What configuration changes should you make to optimize performance?

You need to deploy a containerized microservice application to Azure that automatically scales based on HTTP traffic and supports blue-green deployments. The solution should minimize infrastructure management. Which Azure service should you use?

Your application needs to store shopping cart data that expires after 30 minutes of inactivity. The data must be accessible across multiple web servers with minimal latency. Which Azure storage solution should you implement?

You are developing an API that needs to access secrets from Azure Key Vault. The API runs on Azure App Service. You need to implement the most secure authentication method that doesn't require storing credentials in configuration. What should you configure?

Your application uses Application Insights to monitor performance. You notice that the telemetry volume is very high, and costs are increasing. You need to reduce costs while maintaining visibility into critical errors and performance issues for production environments. What should you configure?

You are developing a microservices application where Service A needs to call Service B asynchronously. Service B may be temporarily unavailable, and messages must be processed in the order they are received for each customer. Which Azure messaging solution should you implement?

Your organization requires that all API calls to external third-party services be logged and monitored for compliance. The APIs are called from multiple Azure Functions. You need to implement a solution that centralizes this logic without modifying each function's code. What should you use?