az-900 practice test Intermediate Practice Exam: Medium Difficulty 2025

A retail company wants to deploy a web application that can automatically scale based on user demand during peak shopping seasons. The company wants to minimize infrastructure management while maintaining control over the runtime environment. Which Azure service best meets these requirements?

Your organization has deployed resources across multiple Azure subscriptions. Management wants to enforce a policy that prevents anyone from creating virtual machines in the East US region across all subscriptions. What is the most efficient approach to implement this requirement?

A financial services company is migrating to Azure and must ensure that their data remains within their country's borders due to regulatory compliance. They also need high availability with automatic failover. Which combination of Azure features addresses both requirements?

Your company is evaluating cloud deployment models. The security team requires complete control over the physical infrastructure, while the development team wants to leverage cloud services for faster deployment. The IT department has budget constraints and wants to optimize existing hardware investments. Which deployment model best satisfies all these requirements?

A development team needs to ensure their application can withstand an Azure datacenter failure within a region. They want the lowest latency between redundant instances while maintaining this resilience. Which Azure availability option should they implement?

Your organization wants to predict and control Azure spending while ensuring development teams can provision resources as needed. You need to implement a solution that alerts when spending reaches 80% of the allocated budget and automatically provides recommendations for cost optimization. Which Azure service combination accomplishes this?

A healthcare application processes patient data and must comply with strict data protection regulations. The application needs to scale automatically, process data in real-time, and ensure that no infrastructure management is required from the development team. Which cloud service model and Azure service combination best fits this scenario?

Your company has deployed 50 virtual machines across three subscriptions for different departments. The IT manager needs to ensure consistent tagging for cost tracking, apply security updates uniformly, and monitor compliance across all VMs. Which Azure management tool is specifically designed for this centralized management scenario?

A startup is building a microservices-based application and needs to decide between different compute options. They require container orchestration, automatic scaling based on CPU usage, and the ability to manage complex deployments with rolling updates. They have container expertise in-house. Which Azure service is most appropriate?

Your organization is planning to move several on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure. Some databases require minimal administrative overhead and automatic scaling, while others need full control over the SQL Server instance for custom configurations. Which combination of Azure database services addresses both requirements?