50 Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty Practice Questions: Question Bank 2025

You are deploying Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for a pilot. You need a simple way to publish a full desktop to a small group of users and control access using Azure AD groups. What should you create?

Your AVD session hosts are joined to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Users report that their mapped drives and printers are inconsistent across sessions. You need to provide a consistent user profile experience across multiple session hosts. What should you implement?

You need to restrict access to AVD so that only devices compliant with your organization’s policies can connect. What should you configure?

You want to quickly verify whether session host VMs are available and accepting new user connections in a pooled host pool. What is the simplest setting/status to check in the Azure Virtual Desktop host pool?

You have a pooled host pool with multiple session hosts. You must ensure users are distributed evenly across hosts to reduce the chance of a single host becoming a bottleneck. Which load-balancing setting should you use?

You plan to deploy session hosts at scale and want consistent configuration (extensions, settings, domain join) with minimal administrative overhead. You also want to be able to roll out changes safely over time. What approach should you use?

You publish a RemoteApp to users. The app launches, but it cannot access a line-of-business database hosted on-premises. The database is reachable from other on-prem servers. Which configuration is most likely missing for the AVD session hosts?

You use FSLogix profile containers. Users intermittently receive errors that their profile cannot be loaded. You find that profile VHDX files sometimes remain locked after users disconnect unexpectedly. What is the most appropriate FSLogix-related mitigation?

Your security team requires that session hosts have no public IPs and that administrative access be tightly controlled. You still need to allow administrators to manage the VMs. Which design best meets the requirement?

You need to implement autoscaling for a pooled host pool. Requirements: (1) ensure enough session hosts are running to meet demand during peak, (2) power off unused hosts during off-peak, and (3) avoid disconnecting active users. What should you implement?

You are deploying Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) session hosts in a new host pool. The security team requires that session host VMs do NOT have public IP addresses and that all management access uses Azure services. Which approach best meets the requirement with minimal administrative overhead?

Users report that after a successful Azure AD sign-in to the AVD client, they are repeatedly prompted for credentials when connecting to a desktop. You want to reduce credential prompts and improve sign-in experience. What should you enable?

You need to ensure that user profiles persist across different session hosts in a pooled host pool. Which profile solution is recommended for Azure Virtual Desktop?

You are designing a pooled host pool where users must access SMB-based profile storage. The security team requires that the storage account is not accessible from the public internet. Which design meets the requirement while supporting FSLogix?

Your organization wants to publish a legacy line-of-business application as RemoteApp in AVD. The application requires a specific set of registry keys and local files that must be present for all users at sign-in. What is the best approach to ensure consistent configuration across all session hosts?

You have two host pools: one for contractors and one for full-time employees. You must ensure contractors can only access RemoteApps and cannot access full desktop sessions. What should you configure?

After enabling FSLogix in a pooled host pool, users intermittently receive temporary profiles. You suspect the profile container share is reachable but some users cannot create or attach their VHD(X). Which configuration issue is the most likely cause?

You need to monitor end-user connection reliability and logon performance for Azure Virtual Desktop, and you want a centralized dashboard to identify patterns across host pools. What should you implement?

A pooled host pool uses an Azure Compute Gallery image. You update the image to include a critical application patch. You must roll out the update with minimal user disruption and be able to quickly revert if issues occur. What is the best approach?

You are troubleshooting an issue where users can launch the AVD client and see published resources, but connections fail only when users are off the corporate network. On-network users connect successfully. You suspect name resolution or routing for private resources used during session establishment (for example, profile storage and domain services). What is the most appropriate first step to validate the root cause?

You are deploying Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) session hosts joined to Microsoft Entra ID. Users must be able to sign in to the session hosts and access on-premises file shares. Which identity approach should you implement?

Users report that clipboard redirection is not working in a Windows 11 multi-session host pool, but drive and printer redirection works. You must enable clipboard redirection for all users with the least administrative overhead. What should you do?

You need to publish a legacy line-of-business application to users without providing access to the full desktop. Which AVD feature should you use?

A pooled host pool experiences high sign-in times and profile corruption incidents. Users roam between session hosts frequently. You want to improve profile reliability and sign-in performance. What should you implement?

You want to ensure session hosts are automatically placed into drain mode before maintenance so no new user sessions are accepted, while allowing existing sessions to finish. Which approach is most appropriate?

You need to restrict AVD access so that users can only connect from compliant or hybrid-joined devices. Which solution should you implement?

You are designing a multi-region AVD deployment for business continuity. Users should connect to the closest region during normal operations, and fail over to a secondary region if the primary region is unavailable. Which design best meets the requirement?

You deploy MSIX app attach for a set of applications. Users can see the apps in the Start menu, but launching fails with missing dependency errors. The applications worked on a test VM. What is the most likely cause?

You must ensure that AVD session host VMs can only be enrolled if they were created from your approved image pipeline, and you want to prevent unknown VMs from registering with the host pool. What should you use?

After enabling autoscaling, you observe that session hosts sometimes power off even though there are still disconnected sessions that must remain available for fast reconnection. You want to ensure disconnected sessions are handled according to policy before shutdown. What should you configure?

You create a new Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) host pool and plan to use FSLogix profile containers. You want to enforce a single, consistent set of FSLogix settings across all session hosts without manually editing local registry values on each VM. What should you use?

A user reports that when they open their RemoteApp in Azure Virtual Desktop, it opens but cannot reach internal web applications that are only accessible on your corporate network. Full desktop sessions from the same host pool can access the internal apps. What is the most likely cause?

You have an Azure Virtual Desktop host pool joined to Azure AD. You want to restrict access so that only compliant, hybrid-joined Windows devices can connect to AVD resources. What should you configure?

You want Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts to automatically register themselves to a host pool during deployment. Which value is required for the registration step?

Your company uses Azure Virtual Desktop with multiple host pools. You need to ensure that users always connect to the closest region for best performance, but you also want a single URL for users to access resources. What should you implement?

You are using FSLogix profile containers on Azure Files. Users intermittently receive errors indicating their profile cannot be mounted, and you notice peaks in authentication failures to the file share. You want to reduce reliance on passwords and improve reliability of access to the share from Azure AD-joined session hosts. What should you implement?

You publish a RemoteApp (legacy accounting app) in an Azure Virtual Desktop application group. Users report that the app launches but printing fails only from this RemoteApp; printing works in full desktop sessions. You need a targeted change for this application without affecting other apps. What should you do first?

You manage a pooled host pool with load balancing set to Depth-first. During business hours, users report slow logons when a subset of session hosts become heavily loaded while others remain unused. You want to distribute new sessions more evenly across hosts. What should you change?

You must meet a security requirement that session host VMs in Azure Virtual Desktop have no direct inbound connectivity from the internet, and RDP/SSH must not be exposed. Administrators still need to manage the VMs when necessary. What is the best approach?

After deploying a new image to a pooled host pool using Azure Image Builder, users report that Teams optimization is no longer active (audio/video is degraded and CPU usage is high). The Teams client is installed, but the optimization status shows as disabled. What should you verify and remediate first?

You need to provide users with a full desktop experience in Azure Virtual Desktop. To reduce administrative overhead, you want to minimize the number of host pools and avoid maintaining separate host pools for each workspace. Which assignment should you configure?

Users report that when they open Word in an Azure Virtual Desktop session, it prompts for sign-in repeatedly and does not retain the license state across sessions. You use Microsoft Entra ID authentication and FSLogix profile containers. What should you configure to improve the sign-in and activation experience for Microsoft 365 Apps?

You want to ensure Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts can reach only required Azure services (such as AVD control plane, Azure Storage for FSLogix containers, and Microsoft Entra ID) without allowing unrestricted outbound internet access. What is the best approach?

You have a pooled Azure Virtual Desktop host pool with scaling enabled. After business hours, all VMs shut down as expected. However, a small set of users in different time zones need access 24/7. You want to keep costs low while ensuring access for those users at any time. What should you do?

A security team requires that Azure Virtual Desktop users must reauthenticate when connecting from unmanaged devices, but should have seamless sign-in from compliant corporate devices. Which solution best meets the requirement?

You need to deploy an updated golden image to an existing pooled host pool with minimal user disruption. Sessions should drain gracefully from old hosts before they are replaced. What should you do first?

Users in a pooled host pool report that their FSLogix profiles intermittently fail to load and they receive temporary profiles. You confirm the storage account hosting the profile containers is reachable. You suspect the issue occurs when too many sessions start at once during morning logon. What is the most appropriate mitigation?

You need to publish a legacy application that requires administrative installation but must be available to users without granting them local admin rights on the session hosts. The app updates monthly and you want a controlled rollout. Which approach is recommended?

Your organization uses a hub-and-spoke network. Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts are in a spoke VNet, and all outbound traffic must go through the hub firewall. After deployment, session hosts can reach internal resources but cannot complete Azure Virtual Desktop registration/heartbeat. DNS is working. What is the most likely cause?

You need to meet a compliance requirement: user sign-ins to Azure Virtual Desktop must be logged, and you must be able to investigate which user initiated a specific session on a specific session host, including the time of connection and disconnection. Which combination provides the most complete solution?