az 204 practice test Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

You are developing an Azure Function that processes messages from an Azure Storage Queue. The function occasionally fails due to transient errors when connecting to an external API. You need to ensure that failed messages are automatically retried and eventually moved to a poison queue after multiple failures. What should you implement?

Your application uses Azure Blob Storage to store user-uploaded documents. You need to implement a solution that generates a temporary URL allowing external users to upload files directly to a specific container for the next 2 hours without exposing your storage account key. Which approach should you use?

You are deploying a containerized web application to Azure Container Instances. The application requires access to secrets stored in Azure Key Vault. You need to implement authentication without storing credentials in the container image or environment variables. What should you configure?

Your Azure App Service web application experiences high CPU usage during specific hours of the day. You need to implement a monitoring solution that sends an alert to the operations team when CPU usage exceeds 80% for more than 5 consecutive minutes and automatically captures diagnostic information. What should you configure?

You are developing a microservices application where Service A needs to call Service B. Both services are deployed as Azure Container Apps. You need to ensure that Service A can discover and communicate with Service B securely without exposing Service B to the internet. What should you implement?

Your application stores session data in Azure Cosmos DB using the SQL API. Users report slow performance when retrieving their session information. Analysis shows that queries are scanning multiple partitions. The session data is accessed by userId. What should you do to optimize query performance?

You are developing an API using Azure API Management that fronts multiple backend services. You need to implement a policy that caches GET responses for 1 hour but only for requests that include a specific query parameter 'cacheEnabled=true'. Where and how should you configure this policy?

Your Azure Function App uses a service principal to authenticate with Azure SQL Database. The security team requires that credentials be rotated every 90 days without application downtime. You need to implement a solution that automatically retrieves the current database password. What should you configure?

You deployed an ASP.NET Core web application to Azure App Service. Users report intermittent 500 errors, but you cannot reproduce the issue in development. You need to capture detailed exception information and trace logs without redeploying the application. What should you do?

Your application publishes messages to an Azure Service Bus topic with three subscriptions. Subscription A should receive all messages, Subscription B should only receive messages where the message property 'Priority' equals 'High', and Subscription C should receive messages where 'Department' equals 'Sales' or 'Marketing'. How should you configure the subscriptions?