AZ 900 TEST PREP

What are the two features that Azure AD provides? Choose two.

Azure AD provides many features, but only the two are listed. AUTHENTICATION & APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

Which tool within the Azure Portal will make specific recommendations based on your actual usage for how you can improve your use of Azure?

Azure Advisor - a tool that will analyze your use of Azure and make you specific recommendations based on your usage across availability, security, performance and cost categories

Where do you go within the Azure Portal to find all of the third-party virtual machines and other offers?

Azure Marketplace

Which feature within Azure collects all of the logs from various resources into a central dashboard, where you can run queries, view graphs, and create alerts on certain events?

Azure Monitor

What does ARM an abbreviation for in Azure?

Azure Resource Manager // Azure Resource Manager (ARM) - this is the common resource deployment model that underlies all resource creation or modification; no matter whether you use the portal, PowerShell or the SDK, the Azure Resource Manager takes those commands and executes them

Which feature within Azure alerts you to service issues that happen in Azure itself, not sepcifically related to your own resources?

Azure Service Health

What azure resource allows you to evenly split traffic coming in and directed to several identical virtual machines to do the work and respond to the request?

Load balancer or application gateway

What azure toll gives you the ability to manage multiple subscriptions and to nested hierarchies?

Management groups

For tax optimization, which type of expense is preferable? OpEx or CapEx

OP EX

Which Azure AD licenses (select two) are made available through Azure?

Pay as you go & Azure Active Directory Free

Which of the following scenarios would Azure Policy be a recommended method for enforcement?

Prevent certain Azure VM instance types from being used in a resource group.

What does it mean if a service is in Public Preview mode?

Anyone can use the service but normal service level agreements do not apply.

What is the concept of Big Data?

An extremely large set of data that you want to ingest and do analysis on; traditional software like SQL server cannot handle big data as efficiently as specialized products.

What is a DDoS attack?

A denial of a service attack that sends so much traffic to a network that it cannot respond fast enough; legit users become unable to use the service.

What type of documents does the Microsoft Service Trust Portal provide?

A list of standards that Microsoft follows, pen test results, security assessments, white papers, faqs, and other documents that can be used to show Microsofts compliance efforts.

Which of the following would be an example of an Internet of Things (IoT) device?

A refrigerator that monitors how much milk you have left and sends you a text message when you're running low.

Which of the following is something that Azure Cognitive Services API can currently do?

ALL of the above - Recognize faces in a pic, translate text between languages, speak text in an extremely realistic way, recognize text in an image, create text audio.

What is the default amount of credits that you are given when you first create an Azure Free account?

Default is $200 USD

True or false: Azure charges for bandwidth used "inbound" to Azure

FALSE - Ingress bandwidth is free. You pay for egress (outbound).

True or false: You cannot have more than one Azure subscription per company

FALSE - You can have multiple subscriptions, as a way to seperate out resources between billing units, business groups, or for any reason you wish.

True of false: Azure Powershell scripts and Command Line Interface (CLI) scripts are entirely compatible with each other?

FALSE; PowerShell is it's own language, different than CLI

Within the context of privacy and compliance, what does the acronym ISO stand for, in English?

International Organization for Standardization

What types of resources are defined as "compute resources"?

Resources that perform some type of task that requires CPU cycles to perform the work.

True or False: Under the Infrastructure as a Service model, Azure is responsible for managing the physical host, physical network, and physical datacenter.

TRUE

With Azure public cloud, anyone with a valid credit card can sign up and get services immediately

TRUE - Yes, Azure public cloud is open to the public in all countries that Azure supports.

What is Single Sign-On?

The ability to use an existing userID and password to sign into other application and not have to create/memorize a new one.

Whats the benefit of economies of scale?

The more you buy of something, the cheaper it is for you.

True or false: Azure Cloud Shell allows access to the CLI and Powershell consoles in the Azure Portal

True

True or false: you can create your own policies if built-in Azure Policy is not sufficient to your needs

True, you can create custom policies using JSON

Which of the following elements is considered part of the "perimeter" layer of security?

Use a firewall

Approximately how many regions does Azure have around the world?

Was 54, no 60+

What operating systems does Microsoft supply Azure Virtual Machine images for?

Windows and Linux

Why is Azure App Services considered Platform as a Service?

You give Azure the code and configuration and you have no access to the underlying hardware.

What does it mean if a service is in Private Preview mode?

You have to apply to get selected in order to use that service.