Azure Fundamentals performance-based questions

What a PBQ is on this exam

Multiple choice and multiple response, plus drag-and-drop ordering and hot area items where you click a region of a screenshot.

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Ours are written from the published objectives, never from anyone’s memory of a live exam. What follows is what each shape asks you to do.

The four shapes

• Matching

  8 tasks

  Pair each item with the one that fits it, from a pool holding more options than slots, so the last pair cannot fall out by elimination.

• Sorting

  2 tasks

  Drop each item into the category it belongs to. Several items per category, so knowing one does not give you the rest.

• Hot area

  2 tasks

  A panel of settings with the fields and values the question turns on, and a region to point at for each prompt.

• Sequencing

  2 tasks

  Put steps in the order a process actually runs. Getting the steps right and the order wrong scores the way it does on the exam, which is partly.

Every task is scored slot by slot, so a sequence with two steps out of place is not marked the same as one with none right. Partial credit is how the real exam scores these, and a practice set that marks them all-or-nothing tells you less than the number it prints.

Coverage against the published blueprint

Microsoft Azure publishes the weight of each domain. The set is written to those weights rather than to whichever domain is easiest to build a task from, which is the difference between a sample of the exam and a pile of exercises.

• Describe cloud concepts3 tasks · 27% of the exam
• Describe Azure architecture and services6 tasks · 38% of the exam
• Describe Azure management and governance5 tasks · 35% of the exam

What each answer rests on

Every task carries the page its answer was checked against, and the link is in the walkthrough where you can open it. Here they are up front, so you can check us before starting rather than after.

• Microsoft13 pages · 14 tasks

• Microsoft Learn, Azure Storage redundancy2 tasks
• Microsoft Learn, Access tiers for blob data1 task
• Microsoft Learn, Azure availability zones1 task
• Microsoft Learn, Azure Monitor overview1 task
• Microsoft Learn, Choose an Azure compute service1 task
• Microsoft Learn, Cost Management best practices1 task
• Microsoft Learn, How Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication works1 task
• Microsoft Learn, Lock resources to prevent changes1 task
• Microsoft Learn, Select Azure regions1 task
• Microsoft Learn, Shared responsibility in the cloud1 task
• Microsoft Learn, What are Azure management groups?1 task
• Microsoft Learn, What is Azure Policy?1 task
• Microsoft Learn, What is Azure role-based access control?1 task

Every source behind the AZ-900 question bank