AZ-104 domain - 14% of the exam

Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources

Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources is 14% of the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) (AZ-104) exam. These are the objectives it covers, each with practice questions and worked explanations.

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Free sampleMonitor and Maintain Azure Resourcesmedium

An administrator needs to store numeric values that describe resource performance at regular intervals and analyze them in near real time with a time-series store. Which half of the Azure Monitor data platform fits this need?

  • AAzure Monitor Metrics, which keeps numeric data in a time-series database Correct
  • BAzure Monitor Logs, which keeps event records that you query with KQL
  • CAzure Activity Log, which keeps the audit trail of control-plane writes
  • DAzure Service Health, which keeps the status of platform-wide incidents
Metrics is the numeric, time-series half of the Azure Monitor data platform; Logs is the queryable record half. Azure Monitor Metrics is the half of the data platform that collects numeric values at regular intervals into a time-series database optimized for near real-time analysis.

Why A is correct: Correct. Azure Monitor Metrics is the half of the data platform that collects numeric values at regular intervals into a time-series database optimized for near real-time analysis.

Why B is wrong: Logs holds log and trace records queried with KQL, not the time-series numeric store described.

Why C is wrong: The activity log records control-plane operations, not regular-interval numeric performance values.

Why D is wrong: Service Health reports platform incidents and advisories, not a time-series store of resource metrics.

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