AZ-900
What is the minimum charge for having an Azure Account each month, even if you don't use any resources?
0
What is the most number of virtual machines that can me managed under a single Virtual Machine Scale Set?
1000
How many regions does Azure have in Brazil?
2!!
Approximately how many regions does Azure have around the world?
60+!!
What is the SLA for two or more VMs in an availability set?
99.95%
What is the service level agreement for two or more Azure Virtual Machines that have been manually placed into different Availability Zones in the same region?
99.99%
What are Azure Availability Zones?
A feature of Azure that allows you to manually specify into which data center your VMs are placed, which allos you to achieve higher availability than any other region
Which of the following is a good example of a Hybrid cloud?
A server runs in your environment, but places files in the cloud so that it can extend the amount of storage it has access to
What makes a system highly available?
A system specifically designed to be resilient, with no single point of failures
What feature of a system makes it elastic?
Ability to increase and reduce capacity based on actual demand!!
What is Single Sign-On?
Ability to use an existing user id and pass to sign in to other applications and not have to create/memorize a new one
Which of the following is something that Azure Cognitive Services API can currently do?
All of these (speak text in an extremely realistic way, translate text from one language to another, recognize text in an image, create text from audio)
What benefit does a Content Delivery Network (CDN) provide its users?
Allows you to reduce the traffic coming into a web server for static, unchanging files such as images, videos and PDFs
Azure Synapse Analytics
Analyzes big data. Enterprise Data Warehousing
What does it mean if a service is in General Availability (GA) mode?
Anyone can use the service for any reason!!
What does it mean if a service is in Public Preview mode?
Anyone can use the service, but it must not be for production uses
What is the benefit of using a command line tool like Powershell or CLI as opposed to the Azure portal?
Automation
Which major cloud provider offers the most international locations for customers to provision virtual machines and other servers? Google Cloud Platform
Azure
What is Azure's preferred Identity/authentication service?
Azure Active Directory
Which Azure service is the recommended Identity-as-a-Service offering inside Azure?
Azure Active Directory (AD)
An IT administrator has the requirement to control access to a specific app resource using multi-factor authentication. What Azure service satisfies this requirement?
Azure Active Directory (You can use Azure AD to control access to your apps and your app resources, based on your business requirements. In addition, you can use Azure AD to require multi-factor authentication when accessing important organizational resources.)
What feature within Azure will make recommendations to you about reducing cost on your account?
Azure Advisor
What service does Azure provide as an optional upgrade to protect against DDoS attacks?
Azure DDoS Protection Standard
If you are a US federal, state, local, or tribal government entities and their solution providers, which Azure option should you be looking to register for?
Azure Government
Where do you go within the Azure Portal to find all of the third-party virtual machine 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 is the MAIN management tool used for managing Azure resources with a graphical user interface?
Azure Portal
Which Azure website tool is available for you to estimate the future costs of your Azure products and services by adding products to a shopping basket and helping you calculate the costs?
Azure Pricing Calc
What does ARM stand for in Azure?
Azure Resource Manager
What is the name of Azure's hosted SQL database service?
Azure SQL Database
Which is not Iaas
Azure SQL Database
Which tool within Azure is comprised of : Azure Status, Service Health and Resource Health?
Azure Service Health!!
Who is responsible for the security of the physical servers in an Azure data center?
Azure is responsible for physical security
Which Azure service is meant to be a security dashboard that contains all the security and threat protection in one place?
Azure security center
What two types of DDoS protection services does Azure provide? Select two.
Basic, standard
Azure Databricks
Build AI solutions. Support python, scala, r, java, SQL, tensorflow, pytorch, scikit-learn
What is the concept of being able to get your applications and data running in another environment quickly?
Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery!!
What ways does the azure resource manager model provide to deploy resources?
CLI, REST API/SDK, Powershell, Azure Portal
Which tool within Azure helps you to track your compliance with various international standards and government laws?
Compliance Manager
What database service is specifically designed to be extremely fast in responding to requests for small amounts of data (called low latency)?
Cosmos DB
What is a DDoS attack?
Denial of Service attack that sends so much traffic to a network that it cannot respond fast enough; legitimate users become unable to use the service
Which of the following is not a feature of Azure Functions?
Designed for backend batch applications that are continuously running
Windows servers use "remote desktop protocol" (RDP) in order for administrators to get access to manage the server. Linux servers use SSH. What is the recommendation for ensuring the security of these protocols?
Do not allow Public Internet access over the RDP and SSH ports directly to the server. Instead, use a secure server like Bastion to control access to the servers behind
Besides Azure Service Health, where else can you find out any issues that affect the Azure global network that affect you?
Each VM has a Resource Health Blade!!
What is the concept of Big Data?
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
True or false: there are no service level guarantees (SLA) when a service is in General Availability (GA)
FALSE
True or false: Azure charges for bandwidth used "inbound" to Azure
FALSE. Inbound is free. Outbound is not
True or False: Azure is a public cloud, and has no private cloud offerings
False
True or false: You cannot have more than one Azure subscription per company
False
Which of the following elements is considered part of the "perimeter" layer of security?
Firewall
What is the new data privacy and information protection regulation that took effect across Europe in May 2018?
GDPR
Which European nation has it's own Azure Region that is specifically set for strict adherence to data privacy standard unlike any other region?
Germany
What is the name of the group of services inside Azure that hosts the Apache Hadoop big data analysis tools?
HDInsight!!
If you wanted to simply use Azure as an extension of your own datacenter, not primarily hosting anything there but using it for extra storage or taking advantage of some services, what hosting model is that called?
Hybrid cloud!!
Who is responsible for the security of your Azure Storage account access keys?
I am responsible (not Azure)
A virtual machine is called what type of hosting model?
IaaS
Which of the following cloud computing models requires the highest level of involvement in maintaining the operating system and file system by the customer?
IaaS
What type of files can Content Delivery Network speed up the delivery of
Images, videos, JavaScript files, PDFs
Within the context of privacy and compliance, what does the acronym ISO stand for, in English?
International Organization for Standardization!!
What Azure resource allows you to evenly split traffic coming in and direct it to several identical virtual machines to do the work and respond to the request?
Load balancer or Application Gateway
What type of container is used to collect log and metric data from various Azure Resources?
Log Analytics Workspace
What Azure tool gives you the ability to manage multiple subscriptions into nested hierarchies?
Management groups
Which of the following is a feature of the cool access tier for Azure Storage?
Much cheaper to store files than the hot access tier
Which feature of Azure Active Directory will require users to have their mobile phone in order to be able to log in?
Multi-factor auth
What is the basic way of protecting an Azure Virtual Network subnet?
Network Security Group (NSG) - a fairly basic set of rules that you can apply to both inbound traffic and outbound traffic that lets you specify what sources, destinations, and ports are allowed to travel through from outside the virtual network to inside the virtual network
Which free Azure security service checks all traffic travelling over a subnet against a set of rules before allowing it in, or out.
Network Security Group (Network Security Group (NSG) - a fairly basic set of rules that you can apply to both inbound traffic and outbound traffic that lets you specify what sources, destinations and ports are allowed to travel through from outside the virtual network to inside the virtual network)
What is the benefit of using Powershell over CLI?
No benefit, it's the same
Each person has their own user id and password to log into Azure. But how many subscriptions can a single account be associated with?
No limit!!
Azure Data Lake Analytics
On-demand analytics turned into insights. Simplifies big data
What would be a good reason to have multiple Azure subscriptions?
One person/credit card paying for resources, but many people who have accounts in Azure. You need to separate out resources between clients so there is absolutely no chance of resources being exposed between them!!
Azure HDInsight
Open-source analytics. Works with Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, machine learning services
What is the concept of Availability?
Percentage of time a system responds properly to request, expressed as a percentage
Which of the following scenarios would Azure Policy be a recommended method for enforcement?
Prevent certain Azure Virtual Machine instance types from being used in a resource group (Azure Policy can add restrictions on storage account SKUs, virtual machine instance types, and rules relating to tagging of resources and groups. It cannot prompt a user to ask them if they are sure)!!
Azure Services can go through several phases in a Service Lifecycle. What are the three phases called?
Private preview, public preview, general availability
Select the way(s) to increase the security of a traditional user id and password system?
Require users to change passwords more frequently, use multi-factor auth which requires an additional device to verify identity, do not allow users to log into an application except using a company registered device, require longer and more complex passwords
In what way does Multi-Factor Authentication increase the security of a user account?
Requires a user to possess something like their phone to read an SMS or use a mobile app
What types of resources are defined as "compute resources"?
Resources that perform some type of task that requires CPU cycles to perform the work
Office 365 is what type of hosting model
SaaS
Logic apps, functions, and service fabric are all examples of what model of compute within Azure?
Serverless model
Features a part of Azure AD
Smart lockout, Device management, custom banned password list, single sign on!!
Where is Azure's region in Africa located?
South Africa
True or False: Azure still has some responsibilities to manage the hardware even in the Infrastructure as a Service model
TRUE
True or false: you can create your own policies if built-in Azure Policy is not sufficient to your needs
TRUE
One of the benefits of the cloud is agility. What does that mean in the context of the cloud?
The ability to respond to change "rapidly" based on changes to market or environment; ensuring fast time to market!!
What is the default amount of credits that you are given when you first create an Azure Free account?
The default is US$200
Your organization has implemented an Azure Policy that restricts the type of Virtual Machine instances you can use. How can you create a VM that is blocked by the policy?
The only way is to remove the policy, create the resource, and add the policy back
True or false: Formal support is not included in private preview mode.
True
Which of the following methods of deploying a virtual machine provides the highest availability SLA?
Two or more VMs across availability zones in the same region
Why is a user id and password sometimes not enough to prove someone is who they say they are?
User id and password can be used by anyone such as a coworker, ex-employee or hacker half-way around the world
Which of the following Azure features is most likely to deliver the most immediate savings when it comes to reducing Azure costs?
Using Azure Reserved Instances for most of your VMs
What Azure product allows you to autoscale virtual machines from 1 to 1000 instances, and also provides load balancing services built in?
VM Scale Sets
What hardware device is required to exist or be installed on your company network in order to set up a site-to-site VPN?
VPN Gateway
Which US State is in the East US 2 Region
Virginia
What is the maximum amount of Azure Storage space a single subscription can store?
Virtually Unlimited
Application Gateway contains what additional optional security feature over a regular Load Balancer?
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Can you give someone else access to your Azure subscription without giving them access to your username and password?
YES
Why would someone prefer a Consumption-based pricing model as opposed to a Time-based pricing model?
You can save a lot of money if you don't use the resource often as opposed to having it available for 24/7
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!!
Which of the following is considered a downside to using Capital Expenditure (CapEx)?
You must wait over a period of years to depreciate that investment on your taxes
What is a benefit of economies of scale?
the more you buy of something, the cheaper it is for you
