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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources Flashcards
50 question-and-answer cards covering Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources as it is examined in Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate. 24 of them are printed below, taken from across the deck — no signup, no paywall on the preview.
24 sample cards from the Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources deck
Sampled from the end of the deck, so these are different cards from the ones shown on the syllabus page.
What storage redundancy options are available for a Recovery Services vault?
Locally redundant storage (LRS), Geo-redundant storage (GRS, the default), and Zone-redundant storage (ZRS). GRS can also enable Cross-Region Restore.
Why must storage redundancy of a Recovery Services vault be set before the first backup?
The storage replication type (LRS/GRS/ZRS) can only be changed while no backup items are protected in the vault; once a backup item exists, the redundancy setting is locked.
What extension is installed on an Azure VM to enable Azure VM-level backup?
The VMSnapshot extension (Microsoft Azure Backup VM extension) is installed by the Azure Backup service to coordinate application-consistent snapshots.
What is a backup policy in Azure Backup?
A backup policy defines the schedule (when/how often backups run) and the retention range (how long recovery points are kept), including daily/weekly/monthly/yearly retention rules.
What consistency levels can Azure VM backup snapshots achieve?
Application-consistent (uses VSS on Windows / pre-post scripts on Linux — best), File-system consistent (crash-safe, no in-flight memory), and Crash-consistent (as if power was pulled — least desirable).
What restore options are available when restoring an Azure VM from backup?
Create a new VM, Restore disks (then attach/build a VM), Replace existing disk, and Restore specific files/folders via File Recovery (mounting the recovery point as an iSCSI drive).
What is the default and maximum backup frequency for standard Azure VM backup policy?
The standard policy backs up once per day. The Enhanced backup policy supports multiple backups per day (e.g., every 4 hours), giving lower RPO.
How does Azure Files backup work, and where are snapshots stored?
Azure Files backup uses native file-share snapshots managed by Azure Backup through a Recovery Services vault. Snapshots are stored within the storage account (local snapshots), and the vault manages scheduling, retention, and restore.
What restore granularity does Azure Files backup support?
You can restore the entire file share or individual files/folders, either to the original location or an alternate location, from a snapshot recovery point.
What is soft delete for Azure Backup?
A feature that retains deleted backup data for an additional period (default 14 days) at no extra cost after a backup item is deleted, allowing recovery of accidentally or maliciously deleted backups.
What is the default soft-delete retention period and is it configurable?
The default soft-delete retention is 14 days at no cost. It can be configured between 14 and 180 days (extended/configurable soft delete), with charges for retention beyond 14 days.
How do you permanently delete backup data protected by soft delete?
You must first disable/undelete then stop protection with delete, or wait for the soft-delete period; after soft delete you 'undelete' to recover, or the data is purged automatically once the soft-delete window expires.
What is Always-on / enhanced soft delete in Azure Backup?
Enhanced (always-on) soft delete can be made irreversible (cannot be disabled) to guarantee protection against malicious deletion, providing immutability for backup data.
What is Azure Site Recovery (ASR)?
A disaster recovery (DRaaS) service that replicates workloads (Azure VMs, on-premises VMware/Hyper-V/physical servers) to a secondary location and orchestrates failover and failback to keep applications running during outages.
What is the difference between Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Backup protects data against corruption/loss/accidental deletion by storing recovery points for restore. Azure Site Recovery provides business continuity by replicating whole workloads to a secondary region for fast failover during a disaster.
What is a recovery point in Azure Site Recovery, and what types exist?
A recovery point is a snapshot of replicated data you can fail over to. Types: Crash-consistent recovery points (disk state) and App-consistent recovery points (include in-memory/app data, generated less frequently).
What is a failover and a failback in Azure Site Recovery?
Failover is switching production to the replicated copy in the secondary site during an outage. Failback is returning production to the original primary site after it is restored.
What is a test failover (DR drill) in Azure Site Recovery?
A non-disruptive validation that creates a copy of the workload in an isolated network at the DR site to verify the recovery plan works, without impacting production or ongoing replication.
What is a recovery plan in Azure Site Recovery?
An orchestration object that groups machines and defines the ordered sequence (groups, manual actions, scripts/runbooks) for failing over and recovering a multi-tier application as a unit.
Define RPO (Recovery Point Objective).
RPO is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time — how far back the recovery point can be. It determines how frequently backups/replication must occur (e.g., a 1-hour RPO means losing at most 1 hour of data).
Define RTO (Recovery Time Objective).
RTO is the maximum acceptable amount of time to restore service after a disruption — how long the system can be down before it must be back online.
How do RPO and RTO differ in what they measure?
RPO measures acceptable data loss (looks backward in time before the incident); RTO measures acceptable downtime (looks forward — time to recover). Lower values for either cost more.
What is a typical RPO offered by Azure Site Recovery for Azure-to-Azure replication?
Azure Site Recovery provides continuous replication for Azure VMs with an RPO of about 30 seconds (crash-consistent recovery points generated every ~5 minutes, app-consistent per schedule).
What components are needed to set up disaster recovery for Azure VMs with Site Recovery?
A target/secondary region, a Recovery Services vault, a target resource group, target virtual network, a cache storage account (for replication logs), and replication policy defining recovery point retention and app-consistent snapshot frequency; the Mobility service extension is installed on each VM.
What this deck covers
The Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources deck follows the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources syllabus — 3 chapters and 12 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 16.7 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 193 characters, which is long enough to carry the reasoning and short enough to say out loud.
A deck like this earns its keep on the second and third pass. Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then use the cards to find the specific facts that have not stuck.
Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources flashcards FAQ
How many Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources flashcards are in this Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate deck?
50 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
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Yes. The preview here is free to read with no signup, and the full 50-card deck is free inside the Examius app.
What do the Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources cards cover?
They follow the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources syllabus — 3 chapters and 12 topics — so the questions track what is actually examinable.
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