AZ-104 Question 244
Single answerYou are an Azure Administrator for Fabrikam, Inc., which hosts multiple Azure VMs and Azure App Service web apps. The company wants to monitor CPU usage for virtual machines and response times for the web apps. They also need to configure alerts that notify the operations team when thresholds are exceeded and display these metrics on a shared dashboard. Which approach should you implement to fulfill these requirements?
- A
Use Azure Monitor to gather metrics, create metric alerts, and build dashboards in Azure.
- B
Configure Azure Security Center to detect performance anomalies and create custom dashboards for CPU usage.
- C
Enable Diagnostics in Azure Advisor to automatically create response time alerts and shared dashboards.
- D
Leverage Azure Policy to define resource compliance rules and real-time alert notifications.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Azure Monitor is the central hub for collecting and analyzing monitoring data from various Azure resources. By creating alerts for CPU usage and response times, you can proactively notify the operations team of performance issues, while dashboards provide a unified view of real-time metrics and historical data.
- A. Correct.
Azure Monitor is the recommended solution to gather and analyze metrics, create alerts, and build dashboards across multiple Azure resources, making it the correct approach to meet the scenario’s monitoring and alerting requirements.
- B. Incorrect.
Azure Security Center is primarily focused on security posture and threat prevention, not detailed resource performance metrics or custom dashboards for CPU usage across multiple services.
- C. Incorrect.
Azure Advisor provides recommendations for best practices and cost optimization. It does not provide the advanced performance monitoring or consolidated dashboards required in this scenario.
- D. Incorrect.
Azure Policy ensures resource compliance and sets guardrails on resources, but does not provide the robust custom metric monitoring and alerting capabilities needed for this scenario.