Microsoft Azure Assessment: Sample Questions | Bryq
Beginner
Intermediate
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These are three sample questions from Bryq’s Microsoft Azure assessment, a technical test for hiring cloud engineers, Azure administrators and DevOps engineers. The full assessment covers three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced, from core cloud services to governance, security and application architecture. Each question is multiple choice, with one correct answer out of four options.
Beginner
Intermediate
Question
What does pay-as-you-go pricing mean in Azure?
Select your answer
You pay only for the resources you actually use.
You pay a fixed monthly fee, regardless of how much you use.
You pay upfront for one or three years of usage.
You use services for free until you reach a set limit.
WHY IS THIS THE CORRECT ANSWER
Pay-as-you-go bills for actual consumption, such as compute hours or storage used, with no upfront commitment. Committing to one or three years in advance is a different model, reserved instances, which lowers the price in exchange for that commitment.
Intermediate
Intermediate
Question
You need to prevent a production database from being deleted by accident, even by users with Owner access. What should you apply?
Select your answer
A delete lock on the resource.
A tag marking the database as production.
A Reader role assignment for all users.
An Azure Policy that audits deletions.
WHY IS THIS THE CORRECT ANSWER
A delete lock blocks deletion for everyone, including Owners, until the lock itself is removed, which makes it ideal for preventing accidents. Tags only label resources. A Reader role would block all changes, not just deletion. An audit policy records actions without stopping them.
Advanced
Intermediate
Question
A web application must stay available even if an entire Azure region goes down. Which design best achieves this?
Select your answer
Deploy to two regions with global traffic routing and geo-replicated data.
Spread the application across availability zones within one region.
Run the application on a larger virtual machine scale set.
Take daily backups and restore them in another region if needed.
WHY IS THIS THE CORRECT ANSWER
Availability zones protect against the failure of a data center within a region, but not against the loss of the whole region. Running in a second region, with global routing and replicated data, lets traffic fail over automatically. Restoring from backups also works, but it means hours of downtime and possible data loss.
