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What runs inside of an app service plan that specifies the number of VMs and the configuration of those VMs?

App service app

What is a logical container for one or more VMs that are running your web app?

App service plan

What are items added to blueprints called?

Artifacts

What allows you to establish encrypted connections between azure Vnets, or between Vnets and onprem networks?

Azure VPN gateway

What are 2 methods of connecting VNets to onprem networks?

Azure VPN gateway (1.25 gbps over public internet) ExpressRoute (10 gbps private fiber)

What makes applications and OSes easily available to multiple users from almost any device?

Azure Virtual Desktop

What service makes it easy to host web apps in the cloud because it's a PaaS service that removes the mgmt burden from the user?

Azure app service

What's a good storage option for unstructured data such as binary files?

Azure blob storage

What allows you to save configurations and resources so that they can be easily deployed in the future?

Azure blueprints

What documentation covers requirements for regulations around the globe and how Microsoft addresses compliance?

Azure compliance docs

If you need to move a large amount of data to blob storage, what is a good option to use?

Azure data box

This is based on the community edition of the open source MySQL database system and is a managed service that removes the burden from the user

Azure database for MySQL

What's the managed service for hosting PostgreSQL databases?

Azure database for PostgreSQL

What is virtual disk storage for azure VMs that allow you to remove the mgmt burden of disks?

Azure disk storage

What allows you to have disk space in the cloud that you can map to a drive onprem?

Azure files

What's a private cloud for governments that's only accessible by US citizens?

Azure government

What allows you to define rules that are applied when azure resources and created and managed?

Azure policy

What allows azure services to communicate with each other and the internet?

Azure virtual network (VNet)

What's the most flexible cloud model for when a client needs specific compliance guidelines or has legacy onprem resources?

Hybrid

Regions are sometimes referred to as?

Latency boundaries due to having less than 2 ms between them

What helps you figure out expenses in Azure by providing an estimates based on the resources you need?

Pricing calculator

An area within a specific geographical boundary and typically hundreds of miles apart from each other?

Region

Geographical area on the planet with one but usually more datacenters connected with low-latency network (<2 milliseconds)

Region

Customers should deploy azure resources to multiple ___________ to ensure availability

Regions

What 4 things can artifacts in blueprints be?

Resource group ARM template Policy Assignment Role Assignment

What connects 2 azure VNets to each other without the usual bandwidth restrictions?

Virtual network peering

What method connects to VNets together over Microsoft's private backbone and is not encrypted?

Virtual network peering

What datacenters are in a private cloud designed to comply with EU regulations?

Azure Germany

A Regional feature that's a grouping of physically separate facilities designed to protect from data center failures. If zone goes down others continue working Not all regions are supported Supported region has three or more zones

Availability Zone

What protects your VMs with fault domains and update domains?

Availability sets

This ensures that your resources are deployed into separate datacenters in a region

Availability zone

What architectural component allows you to specify exactly which data center in a region a VM resides?

Availability zone

What is the cloud based identity service in azure?

Azure Active Directory

What is a PaaS offering in Azure for hosting websites?

Azure App Service

What allows you to run containers for very little cost?

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

What is a NoSQL database in the cloud for unstructured data?

Azure Cosmos DB

This allows you to analyze your costs at a granular level (highly detailed; having many small and distinct parts)

Azure Cost Management

What allows you to create a budget and configure alerts based on that budget?

Azure Cost Management

Microsoft's version of SOAR and SIEM?

Azure Sentinel

What is a managed service that makes it easy to host kubernetes clusters in the cloud?

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

This is how azure management tools create and manage azure resoucres

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

What's a relational database in the cloud that's completely managed by Microsoft?

Azure SQL Database

Which support plan allows opening tickets?

Basic, Developer, Standard, Professional Direct

Azure regions are broken out into _________________ and you're charged differently based upon this

Billing zones

Physical facility within a region Hosting for group of networked servers Own power, cooling & networking infrastructure

Data Center

Moving to the cloud reduces the infrastructure you own which reduces what?

Capital Expenditures (CapEx)

Microsoft calls an expressroute connection a ______________.

Circuit

What brings together best practices and information from Microsoft employees, partners and customers to help you transition to the cloud more easily?

Cloud adoption framework

What policies can be applied against users using assignments and access controls?

Conditional Access policies (Azure AD Identity Protection)

What allows you to create an image of an application and everything needed to run it?

Container

What 2 things provide information on the terms of use of Microsoft services and how data can be used with those services?

Data protection addendum (DPA) Online Service Terms (OST)

A subset of azure government is approved for DoD usage because they have additional compliance related to_____________________________________________?

DoD Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization

Purchasing a __________________ agreement or purchasing from a _______________ can save you money on azure services

Enterprise / Cloud solution provider (CSP)

What allows integration of azure AD with other services and cloud platforms?

Enterprise Applications

What allows you to have a high bandwidth connection to Azure of up to 10 Gbps?

Express route

What protects your VM from a hardware failure in a hardware rack?

Fault domains

What are the 3 App Service pricing tiers?

Free - no cost for testing and runs on VM with other app service customers Shared - low cost and same as above Basic, Standard, Premium, PremiumV2 - higher cost tiers - dedicated VMs not shared with other customers

Discrete market Typically contains two or more regions Ensures data residency, sovereignty, resiliency, and compliance requirements are met Fault tolerant to protect from region wide failures

Geographies

Each region belongs only to one ___________

Geography

This is usually a country and contains at least 2 regions

Geography

What is peering VNets in different regions called?

Global virtual network peering

What are the 3 azure blob storage tiers?

Hot, cool, Archive

Consumption-based model reduces your day to day expenses - what is this called?

Operational Expenses (OpEx)

What kind of router does express route connect to?

MS Enterprise Edge (MSEE) router

This allows you to assign policies and access control to azure resources

Management groups

What's a source of Microsoft and 3rd party templates for creating azure resources?

Marketplace

Azure services are billed according to ______________ associated with the resource

Meters

What is the concept of the cloud pyramid: Increased control over your resources means more responsibility Decreased control is more on the cloud provider's part

Shared responsibility model

What is the comprehensive statement from Microsoft that outlines how Microsoft uses, handles and protects your data and personal information?

The Microsoft privacy statement

What allows you to enter details of your onprem resources that provides an estimate of how much you can save by moving to the cloud?

Total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator

What online resource outlines Microsoft's approach to security, privacy and compliance?

Trust Center

What protects your VMs from reboots?

Update domains

What method connects 2 Vnets over the internet but might experience latency because of the gateways involved, encryption and bandwidth restriction?

VPN Gateway method

What are the 3 service categories for availability zones?

Zonal services (You pin the resource to a specific zone - Virtual Machines, Disks, IP addresses etc.) Zone-redundant services (The platform replicates automatically across zones - SQL database, Storage, etc.) Non-regional services: Services are always available from Azure geographies and are resilient to zone-wide outages as well as region-wide outages

one or more data centers make up a ___________

Zone

Traffic over express route doesn't travel over the ______________

internets

An availability zone is set up to be an ________________ so if one zone goes down, the other continues working.

isolation boundary

What tenant environment is public and private cloud?

public - multitenant private - single tenant

ARM uses __________ to create and manage resources

resource providers

All your azure resources are created within an azure __________________

subscription

What 2 items can be added to a management group?

subscriptions or other mgmt groups

An ARM __________ allows you to ensure consistency of large azure deployments

template

Round-trip latency between 2 regions must be no greater than?

2 ms

How many minutes of downtime per month for 99.95?

21

How many minutes of downtime per month for 99.999?

25.9 seconds

There are at least _____ availability zones in every supported region

3

How many minutes of downtime per month for 99.99?

4

How many minutes of downtime per month for 99.9?

43

SLA for a single VM using premium storage?

99.9

SLA for two or more VMs in an availability set?

99.95

SLA for two or more VMs in an availability zone in same region?

99.99

Microsoft's terms for beta and production?

Preview and General Availability

What is the term for cloud providers taking advantage of buying large amounts of infrastructure to be used by cloud consumers?

Principle of economies of scale

What allows you to control how users and applications can interact with your azure resources?

RBAC

This allows you to separate azure resources in a logical way and you can tag them for easy mgmt

Resource groups

4 factors that affect cost

Resource type How you purchase resources Azure regions you use Billing zone your resources are in

What allows you to set up auto-scale rules to scale horizontally when needed?

Scale sets

What is adding more VMs to handle additional load?

Scaling out (Horizontally)

What is adding additional CPUs, more memory or using a more powerful VM?

Scaling up (Vertically)