Q13 Event Grid Domain 3 · 20–25% of exam

An Event Grid subscriber is offline for maintenance. By default, how long does Event Grid keep retrying delivery of an event?

  1. A 30 minutes
  2. B Up to 24 hours or 30 attempts (correct answer)
  3. C 7 days
  4. D It doesn't retry

Shortcut: Event Grid retries for 24 hours / 30 attempts by default; add dead-lettering to keep failures. You can lower both limits per subscription, and a dead-letter destination keeps events that still can't be delivered.

By default Event Grid retries with an exponential backoff for up to 24 hours or 30 delivery attempts, whichever comes first. You can lower both limits per subscription, and a dead-letter destination keeps events that still can't be delivered.