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Q1: You need to investigate the http server log output to resolve the issue with the ContentUploadService. Which command should you use first?

A. az webapp log

B. az ams live-output

C. az monitor activity-log

D. az container attach

Verify answer

Correct Answer: C

Scenario: Users of the ContentUploadService report that they occasionally see HTTP 502 responses on specific pages.

“502 bad gateway” and “503 service unavailable” are common errors in your app hosted in Azure App Service.

Microsoft Azure publicizes each time there is a service interruption or performance degradation.

The az monitor activity-log command manages activity logs.

Note: Troubleshooting can be divided into three distinct tasks, in sequential order:

1.

Observe and monitor application behavior

2.

Collect data

3.

Mitigate the issue

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/monitor/activity-log

Q2:Which parameter should you use?

You are developing a web application that uses the Microsoft identity platform for user and resource authentication. The web application calls several REST APIs.

A REST API call must read the user\’s calendar. The web application requires permission to send an email as the user.

You need to authorize the web application and the API.

A. tenant

B. code_challenge

C. state

D. client_id

E. scope

Verify answer

Correct Answer: E

Microsoft identity platform and OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow, Request an authorization code

https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/oauth2/v2.0/authorize?

The authorization code flow begins with the client directing the user to the /authorize endpoint. In this request, the client requests the openid, offline_access, and https://graph.microsoft.com/mail.read permissions from the user.

Parameters include:

*

scope required

A space-separated list of scopes that you want the user to consent to. For the /authorize leg of the request, this parameter can cover multiple resources. This value allows your app to get consent for multiple web APIs you want to call.

Incorrect:

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tenant required

The {tenant} value in the path of the request can be used to control who can sign into the application. Valid values are common, organizations, consumers, and tenant identifiers. For guest scenarios where you sign a user from one tenant into

another tenant, you must provide the tenant identifier to sign them into the resource tenant.

*

code_challenge recommended / required

Used to secure authorization code grants by using Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE). Required if code_challenge_method is included. This parameter is now recommended for all application types, both public and confidential clients, and

required by the Microsoft identity platform for single page apps using the authorization code flow.

*

client_id

The Application (client) ID that the Azure portal – App registrations experience assigned to your app.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/v2-oauth2-auth-code-flow

Q3:Does the solution meet the goal?

Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution. Determine whether the solution meets the stated goals.

You are developing and deploying several ASP.Net web applications to Azure App Service. You plan to save session state information and HTML output. You must use a storage mechanism with the following requirements:

1.

Share session state across all ASP.NET web applications

2.

Support controlled, concurrent access to the same session state data for multiple readers and a single writer

3.

Save full HTTP responses for concurrent requests

You need to store the information.

Proposed Solution: Enable Application Request Routing (ARR)

A. Yes

B. No

Verify answer

Correct Answer: B

Instead deploy and configure Azure Cache for Redis. Update the web applications.

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/caching#managing-concurrency-in-a-cache

Q4:Which Azure Cosmos 06 API should you use for the application?

You are designing a web application to manage user satisfaction surveys. The number of questions that a survey includes is variable.

Application users must be able to display results for a survey as quickly as possible. Users must also be able to quickly compute statistical measures including average values across various groupings of answers.

A. Core

B. Mongo DB

C. Gremlin

D. Table API

Verify answer

Correct Answer: D

Q5:HOTSPOT

A software as a service (SaaS) company provides document management services. The company has a service that consists of several Azure web apps. All Azure web apps run in an Azure App Service Plan named PrimaryASP.

You are developing a new web service by using a web app named ExcelParser. The web app contains a third-party library for processing Microsoft Excel files. The license for the third-party library stipulates that you can only run a single

instance of the library.

You need to configure the service.

How should you complete the script? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hot Area:

Verify answer

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/manage-scale-per-app

Q6:What should you do?

You need to resolve the log capacity issue.

A. Create an Application Insights Telemetry Filter

B. Change the minimum log level in the host.json file for the function

C. Implement Application Insights Sampling

D. Set a LogCategoryFilter during startup

Verify answer

Correct Answer: C

Scenario, the log capacity issue: Developers report that the number of log message in the trace output for the processor is too high, resulting in lost log messages.

Sampling is a feature in Azure Application Insights. It is the recommended way to reduce telemetry traffic and storage, while preserving a statistically correct analysis of application data. The filter selects items that are related, so that you can

navigate between items when you are doing diagnostic investigations. When metric counts are presented to you in the portal, they are renormalized to take account of the sampling, to minimize any effect on the statistics.

Sampling reduces traffic and data costs, and helps you avoid throttling.

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/sampling

Q7:You need to update the API. What should you do?

You are developing several Azure API Management (APIM) hosted APIs.

You must make several minor and non-breaking changes to one of the APIs. The API changes include the following requirements:

Must not disrupt callers of the API.

Enable roll back if you find issues.

Documented to enable developers to understand what is new.

Tested before publishing.

A. Configure and apply header-based versioning.

B. Create and publish a product.

C. Configure and apply a custom policy.

D. Add a new revision to the API.

E. Configure and apply query string-based versioning.

Verify answer

Correct Answer: E

Explanation:

Versioning schemes

Different API developers have different requirements for versioning. Azure API Management doesn\’t prescribe a single approach to versioning, but instead provides several options.

Path-based versioning

Header-based versioning

When the header versioning scheme is used, the version identifier needs to be included in an HTTP request header for any API requests. You can specify the name of the HTTP request header.

Query string-based versioning

When the query string versioning scheme is used, the version identifier needs to be included in a query string parameter for any API requests. You can specify the name of the query string parameter.

Note: Versions in Azure API Management

Versions allow you to present groups of related APIs to your developers. You can use versions to handle breaking changes in your API safely. Clients can choose to use your new API version when they\’re ready, while existing clients continue

to use an older version. Versions are differentiated through a version identifier (which is any string value you choose), and a versioning scheme allows clients to identify which version of an API they want to use.

For most purposes, each API version can be considered its own independent API. Two different API versions might have different sets of operations and different policies.

With versions you can:

Publish multiple versions of your API at the same time.

Use a path, query string, or header to differentiate between versions.

Use any string value you wish to identify your version, which could be a number, a date, or a name.

Show your API versions grouped together on the developer portal.

Take an existing (non-versioned) API, and create a new version of it without breaking existing clients.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-versions

Q8:Which Azure Cosmos D8 API should you use for the application?

You are developing an application to manage shipping information for cargo ships. The application will use Azure Cosmos D8 for storage.The application must run offline when ships are at sea. The application must be connected to Azure when ships are in port.

A. Core

B. MongoDe

C. Cassandra

D. Gremlin

Verify answer

Correct Answer: C

Q9:HOTSPOT

You have an app that stores player scores for an online game. The app stores data in Azure tables using a class named PlayerScore as the table entity. The table is populated with 100,000 records.

You are reviewing the following section of code that is intended to retrieve 20 records where the player score exceeds 15,000. (Line numbers are included for reference only.)

You have the following code. (Line numbers are included for reference only.)

You store customer information in an Azure Cosmos database. The following data already exists in the database:

You develop the following code. (Line numbers are included for reference only.)

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hot Area:

Verify answer

Box 1: No

Box 2: Yes

The TableQuery.Take method defines the upper bound for the number of entities the query returns.

Example:

query.Take(10);

Box 3: Yes

Box 4: Yes

References:

https://www.vkinfotek.com/azureqa/how-do-i-query-azure-table-storage-using-tablequery-class.html

Q10:HOTSPOT

You are building a traffic monitoring system that monitors traffic along six highways. The system produces time series analysis-based reports for each highway. Data from traffic sensors are stored in Azure Event Hub.

Traffic data is consumed by four departments. Each department has an Azure Web App that displays the time-series-based reports and contains a WebJob that processes the incoming data from Event Hub. All Web Apps run on App Service

Plans with three instances.

Data throughout must be maximized. Latency must be minimized.

You need to implement the Azure Event Hub.

Which settings should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hot Area:

Verify answer

Box 1: 6

The number of partitions is specified at creation and must be between 2 and 32.

There are 6 highways.

Box 2: Highway

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-features

Q11:What code do you add at line CS07 of ConfigureSSE.ps1?

You need to ensure the security policies are met.

A. -PermissionsToKeys create, encrypt, decrypt

B. -PermissionsToCertificates create, encrypt, decrypt

C. -PermissionsToCertificates wrapkey, unwrapkey, get

D. -PermissionsToKeys wrapkey, unwrapkey, get

Verify answer

Correct Answer: B

Scenario: All certificates and secrets used to secure data must be stored in Azure Key Vault.

You must adhere to the principle of least privilege and provide privileges which are essential to perform the intended function.

The Set-AzureRmKeyValutAccessPolicy parameter -PermissionsToKeys specifies an array of key operation permissions to grant to a user or service principal. The acceptable values for this parameter: decrypt, encrypt, unwrapKey, wrapKey,

verify, sign, get, list, update, create, import, delete, backup, restore, recover, purge

Incorrect Answers:

A, C: The Set-AzureRmKeyValutAccessPolicy parameter -PermissionsToCertificates specifies an array of certificate permissions to grant to a user or service principal. The acceptable values for this parameter: get, list, delete, create, import,

update, managecontacts, getissuers, listissuers, setissuers, deleteissuers, manageissuers, recover, purge, backup, restore

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azurerm.keyvault/set-azurermkeyvaultaccesspolicy

Q12:HOTSPOT

You need to configure security and compliance for the corporate website files.

Which Azure Blob storage settings should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hot Area:

Verify answer

Box 1: role-based access control (RBAC)

Azure Storage supports authentication and authorization with Azure AD for the Blob and Queue services via Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC).

Scenario: File access must restrict access by IP, protocol, and Azure AD rights.

Box 2: storage account type

Scenario: The website uses files stored in Azure Storage

Auditing of the file updates and transfers must be enabled to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Creating a diagnostic setting:

1.

Sign in to the Azure portal.

2.

Navigate to your storage account.

3.

In the Monitoring section, click Diagnostic settings (preview).

4.

Choose file as the type of storage that you want to enable logs for.

5.

Click Add diagnostic setting.

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-monitoring

Q13:Which two policies can you use?

You provide an Azure API Management managed web service to clients. The back-end web service implements HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).

Every request to the backend service must include a valid HTTP authorization header.

You need to configure the Azure API Management instance with an authentication policy.

Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

A. OAuth Client Credential Grant

B. Basic Authentication

C. Certificate Authentication

D. Digest Authentication

Verify answer

Correct Answer: AD

Q14:HOTSPOT

You need to configure Azure Cosmos DB.

Which settings should you use? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Hot Area:

Verify answer

Box 1: Strong

When the consistency level is set to strong, the staleness window is equivalent to zero, and the clients are guaranteed to read the latest committed value of the write operation.

Scenario: Changes to the Order data must reflect immediately across all partitions. All reads to the Order data must fetch the most recent writes.

Note: You can choose from five well-defined models on the consistency spectrum. From strongest to weakest, the models are: Strong, Bounded staleness, Session, Consistent prefix, Eventual

Box 2: SQL

Scenario: You identify the following requirements for data management and manipulation:

Order data is stored as nonrelational JSON and must be queried using Structured Query Language (SQL).

Q15:DRAG DROP

You are developing a new page for a website that uses Azure Cosmos DB for data storage. The feature uses documents that have the following format:

You must display data for the new page in a specific order. You create the following query for the page:

You need to configure a Cosmos DB policy to the support the query.

How should you configure the policy? To answer, drag the appropriate JSON segments to the correct locations. Each JSON segment may be used once, more than once, or not at all. You may need to drag the split bar between panes or scroll to view content.

NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

Select and Place:

Verify answer

Box 1: compositeIndexes

You can order by multiple properties. A query that orders by multiple properties requires a composite index.

Box 2: descending

Example: Composite index defined for (name ASC, age ASC):

It is optional to specify the order. If not specified, the order is ascending.

{

“automatic”:true,

“indexingMode”:”Consistent”,

“includedPaths”:[

{

“path”:”/*”

}

],

“excludedPaths”:[],

“compositeIndexes”:[

[

{

“path”:”/name”,

},

{

“path”:”/age”,

}

]

]

}

…

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