1) You are designing a disaster recovery plan for an application with strict compliance requirements. The goal is to replicate data between regions and failover within minutes in case of a primary region failure. Which solution should you implement?

2) A team needs to regularly process and analyze large datasets from different sources, such as on-premises SQL databases and SaaS applications. Which two services together best support this need?

3) You are setting up an application where users need to authenticate using their company’s on-premises AD credentials. Which two services would facilitate this integration?

4) To monitor and improve the performance of your application’s SQL queries and database structure, which Azure feature would be the most useful?

5) You need to set up an ETL pipeline to cleanse, aggregate, and analyze incoming data for a machine learning model. The data is unstructured and streaming in real-time. Which services would be most effective?

6) Your organization requires highly secure storage for secrets, encryption keys, and certificates used by applications. Which Azure service provides this functionality?

7) You have a multi-tier web application with users across the globe. To minimize latency, ensure failover, and distribute traffic intelligently, which service should you configure?

8) A company wants to minimize costs by automatically scaling down VM resources during off-peak hours. Which Azure service should be used to automate this process?

9) Your application needs to perform high-volume, real-time transaction processing with low latency. Which Azure database service is best suited for this scenario?

10) To secure inbound connections to your VMs without exposing them to the public internet, which Azure feature would you configure?

11) A healthcare application requires compliance with data privacy standards by ensuring only authorized users can access data. Which combination of Azure services would enforce access and auditing requirements?

12) You are deploying a serverless architecture for an IoT application with event-driven processing. Which combination of Azure services is best suited for this?

13) Your application handles sensitive customer data, which must be encrypted and only accessible by specific users. Which solution ensures data encryption and controlled access?

14) A retail application requires logging and monitoring of user activity and resource utilization to analyze behavior and optimize resources. Which service can collect and analyze this telemetry data?

15) Your organization needs to replicate data between Azure SQL databases for read-only access and reporting across multiple regions. Which feature would be most suitable?

16) You are developing a business continuity plan for a mission-critical application that requires near-zero downtime. Which approach would provide the most resilient architecture?

17) An application needs high-performance storage for structured data with transactional consistency. Which storage service should you select?

18) You need to allow secure, cross-application communication without exposing APIs to the internet. Which Azure networking feature best supports this?

19) For a large-scale machine learning project, you require parallel processing and data transformation capabilities on structured and unstructured data. Which service is ideal for this workload?

20) You’re building a multi-tier web application on Azure with separate front-end, middleware, and database tiers. How would you isolate these tiers for enhanced security?