Q17 Event Grid Domain 3 · 20–25% of exam Priority · Real Exam

An event delivery fails repeatedly. What is Event Grid's default behaviour?

  1. A It drops the event immediately
  2. B It retries with exponential backoff for up to 24 hours, then discards unless a dead-letter destination is configured (correct answer)
  3. C It queues indefinitely
  4. D It disables the subscription

Shortcut: Event Grid retries on a backoff schedule bounded by the event time-to-live (24 hours by default). Configuring a dead-letter storage container preserves undeliverable events.