Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retail company experiences high traffic during holiday seasons and minimal traffic during off-peak months. They want to optimize costs while ensuring performance during peak periods. Which cloud computing benefit best addresses this requirement?

Your organization is migrating a legacy application to Azure. The application requires full control over the operating system, custom software installations, and specific security configurations. Which Azure compute service should you recommend?

A company needs to ensure their Azure resources in a specific region remain available even if a single datacenter fails. Which Azure architectural component provides this capability?

Your finance department needs to analyze Azure spending across multiple departments, each using different subscriptions. They want to categorize costs by department, project, and environment. What should you implement?

A company wants to enforce a policy that prevents users from creating resources in certain Azure regions due to data residency requirements. Which Azure service should they use?

Your company is deploying a web application that needs to store user profile images. The images are accessed frequently for the first week after upload, then rarely accessed afterward. Which Azure Storage solution provides the most cost-effective approach?

A development team needs to ensure their production environment remains unchanged while they test infrastructure modifications. They want to preview changes before applying them. Which Azure Resource Manager feature should they use?

Your organization needs to provide temporary access to external contractors to manage specific Azure VMs for a 3-month project. The contractors should not have access beyond this period. What is the most appropriate approach?

A company runs a mission-critical application that must maintain 99.99% uptime. The application currently runs on VMs in a single Availability Zone. What architectural change would best improve the availability SLA?

Your company needs to ensure that all Azure SQL Databases are configured with encryption at rest and that this requirement is automatically checked and reported across all subscriptions. Which combination of Azure services best addresses this need?