Describe cloud service types
Objective describe.cloud-service-types sits in Describe cloud concepts, which carries 27% of the Azure Fundamentals exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Microsoft Azure page it rests on.
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Which statement best describes Azure App Service?
The concept
Managed application hosting takes the machine out of the picture. You supply code and a runtime choice, and the provider handles capacity, patching and the operating system beneath it.
Why this answer
The source states App Service lets you run web applications, mobile back ends, and RESTful APIs without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure, matching this option exactly.
- Correct: this is the core definition of App Service given in the overview.
- BDescribes an IaaS virtual machine service, not the PaaS web hosting model App Service provides.
- CDescribes a managed database service such as Azure SQL Database, not App Service.
- DDescribes a network security appliance, unrelated to App Service's web-hosting purpose.
- EDescribes a storage tier concept, not a compute/web hosting platform like App Service.
Now you: objective describe.cloud-service-types questions
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Sample question 1 of 3
A development team is deciding between the Azure Functions Premium plan and the Flex Consumption plan for a workload with occasional traffic spikes but a strict need to minimize cold-start latency on critical requests, even at higher cost. Which plan best fits this priority?
Sample question 2 of 3
An architect is comparing Azure App Service and Azure Functions for a workload made up of short-lived, event-triggered tasks with highly variable execution frequency, rather than a continuously running web front end. Which service type better matches this workload pattern?
Sample question 3 of 3
A platform team manages dozens of independent web applications and needs large-scale isolation across all of them, rather than deep OS-level customization for any single app. Based on App Service's decision guidance, which option should they choose?
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