Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Advanced Practice Exam: Hard Questions 2025

A multinational enterprise is designing a hybrid cloud architecture where on-premises applications must communicate with Azure resources through a private, dedicated connection. The solution must guarantee consistent network performance with predictable latency, support bandwidth up to 100 Gbps, and bypass the public internet entirely. The company's compliance requirements mandate that traffic never traverses shared network infrastructure. Additionally, the connection must support both Azure Resource Manager and classic deployment models. Which connectivity solution meets all these requirements?

An organization operates a mission-critical application across three Azure regions. They need to implement a disaster recovery strategy where the RTO is less than 1 hour and RPO is near-zero. The application uses Azure SQL Database, Azure Storage, and Azure App Service. During a regional outage, the failover must be automatic without manual intervention, and the solution should maintain transactional consistency across all services. Which architectural approach best satisfies these requirements?

A financial services company must comply with regulations requiring that all data remains within specific geographic boundaries and that cryptographic keys used for encryption are managed exclusively by the organization without any access by the cloud provider. The company plans to use Azure Storage and Azure SQL Database. Data must be encrypted both at rest and in transit, and the company must be able to prove to auditors that Microsoft cannot access the encryption keys under any circumstances. Which combination of Azure services meets these compliance requirements?

A company with 50 Azure subscriptions across multiple departments needs to implement a governance strategy. They require consistent enforcement of resource naming conventions, automatic tagging of resources with cost center information, prevention of deployment in specific regions due to data residency laws, and mandatory encryption for all storage accounts. The solution must apply retroactively to existing resources and automatically to new resources, with ability to audit non-compliance across all subscriptions from a central location. What is the most appropriate Azure service to implement this governance framework?

An organization is migrating to Azure and needs to optimize costs for a workload that consists of 20 virtual machines running data processing jobs. The jobs run continuously 24/7 throughout the year and cannot be interrupted. Performance requirements are consistent and predictable. The company wants to minimize costs while ensuring compute capacity is always available. They are committed to using Azure for at least three years. Which pricing model provides the most cost-effective solution?

A healthcare organization processes sensitive patient data and must implement defense-in-depth security. They need to ensure that even if an attacker compromises a virtual machine, they cannot exfiltrate data to the internet or move laterally to other resources. The solution must allow legitimate application traffic between tiers (web, application, database) while denying all other traffic by default, including outbound internet access except to specific Azure services. Network traffic must be logged for security analysis. Which combination of Azure networking services best implements this security architecture?

A global company operates applications in Azure that serve users across North America, Europe, and Asia. They need to minimize latency for all users while ensuring high availability and the ability to distribute traffic based on geographic location. During maintenance windows in one region, traffic should automatically route to the next nearest region without user intervention. The solution must support both weighted traffic distribution for gradual rollouts and priority-based routing for disaster recovery scenarios. Which Azure service provides these comprehensive traffic management capabilities?

An enterprise is implementing a cloud governance model where different business units have autonomy to create and manage their own resources within budgets, but the IT department must maintain oversight, enforce security standards, and allocate costs accurately. The organization structure has a parent company with three subsidiaries, each with multiple departments. Azure resources must be organized to support cost reporting by subsidiary and department, enable delegation of management permissions at appropriate levels, and allow centralized policy enforcement. Which Azure organizational structure best supports these requirements?

A company is designing a serverless architecture for a data processing pipeline that ingests events from IoT devices at a rate of 100,000 events per second. The pipeline must process events in order within each device stream, support exactly-once processing semantics to prevent duplicate processing, scale automatically to handle varying loads, retain event data for 7 days for replay scenarios, and enable multiple independent consumer applications to process the same event stream simultaneously. Which Azure service best meets these requirements?

A software development company uses Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines and needs to implement a strategy where infrastructure deployment code and application code follow identical quality gates. Infrastructure must be version-controlled, changes must be peer-reviewed and tested in non-production environments before production deployment, and the ability to rollback infrastructure changes must be maintained. The infrastructure includes virtual networks, storage accounts, databases, and virtual machines across multiple Azure regions. Which approach best implements infrastructure as code with these governance requirements?