100% Free AZ-500 Practice Exam Questions (2026)

You are configuring and securing a network environment. You deploy an Azure virtual machine named VM1 that is configured to analyze network traffic. You need to ensure that all network traffic is routed through VM1. What should you configure? 

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Overview -

Contoso, Ltd. is a consulting company that has a main office in Montreal and two branch offices in Seattle and New York.

The company hosts its entire server infrastructure in Azure.

Contoso has two Azure subscriptions named Sub1 and Sub2. Both subscriptions are associated to an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant named contoso.com.

Existing Environment -

Azure AD -

Contoso.com contains the users shown in the following table.

Sub1 -

Sub1 contains six resource groups named RG1, RG2, RG3, RG4, RG5, and RG6.

User9 creates the virtual networks shown in the following table.

Sub1 contains the locks shown in the following table.

Sub2 -

Sub2 contains the virtual networks shown in the following table.

Sub2 contains the virtual machines shown in the following table.

All virtual machines have public IP addresses and the Web Server (IIS) role installed. The firewalls for each virtual machine allow ping requests and web requests.

Sub2 contains the network security groups (NSGs) shown in the following table.

NSG1 has the inbound security rules shown in the following table.

When creating and managing sensitive data such as API keys and database connection strings in Azure, which service should you primarily use?

You have an Azure subscription that contains an Azure SQL Database logic server named SQL! and an Azure virtual machine named VM1. VM1 uses a private IP address only. The Firewall and virtual networks settings for SQL1 are shown in the following exhibit.You need to ensure that VM1 can connect to SQL1. The solution must use the principle of least privilege. What should you do?

You have 10 on-premises servers that run Windows Server. You plan to implement Microsoft Defender for Cloud vulnerability scanning for the servers. What should you install on the servers first?