Q35 Service Bus Domain 3 · 20–25% of exam Priority · Real Exam

Which condition causes a message to be dead-lettered even before any delivery attempt?

  1. A MaxDeliveryCount exceeded
  2. B TimeToLive expiry with dead-lettering on expiration enabled (correct answer)
  3. C Lock renewal
  4. D Duplicate detection

Shortcut: When EnableDeadLetteringOnMessageExpiration is set, a message whose TTL lapses while queued is moved to the dead-letter queue with reason TTLExpiredException.