AZ-204 Certification Practice Question #88

Question

You develop Azure solutions.
A .NET application needs to receive a message each time an Azure virtual machine finishes processing data. The messages must NOT persist after being processed by the receiving application.
You need to implement the .NET object that will receive the messages.
Which object should you use?

Accepted Answer

The question asks for a .NET object to receive messages from an Azure queue in a point-to-point pattern where messages must not persist. `QueueClient` (Azure.Storage.Queues, .NET v12) is the current API—its `ReceiveMessages` + `DeleteMessage` pattern delivers and removes messages. `CloudQueueClient` is the deprecated v11 equivalent. Both `SubscriptionClient` and `TopicClient` belong to the publish-subscribe messaging pattern (one-to-many), inappropriate here. Suggested Answer, Most Voted (14 votes), and the highest-upvoted commenter all agree on A. Minority dissent (B/SubscriptionClient) lacks enough votes to shift the answer.

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