Azure 0.1

What does Azure Monitor monitor ? (4)

1) Activity Logs 2) Performance 3) Consumption 4) Operational Data ?

What are infrastructure services available with (PaaS) ? (2)

1) App Services 2) Web Apps ?

What services are provided with Software (as a Service) ? (Delivered as a service...) (9)

1) Applications 2) Data 3) Runtime 4) Middleware 5) Operating System 6) Virtualization 7) Servers 8) Storage 9) Networking ?

What services are provided with Traditional IT ? (You manage...) (9)

1) Applications 2) Data 3) Runtime 4) Middleware 5) Operating System 6) Virtualization 7) Servers 8) Storage 9) Networking ?

What services are provided with Infrastructure (as a Service) ? (4)

1) Applications 2) Data 3) Runtime 4) Middleware ?

What services are provided with Platform (as a Service) ? (2)

1) Applications 2) Data ?

What applications does Azure Cloud Shell support ?

1) Azure CLI 2) Azure Power Shell 3) Bash to manage Linux 4) Windows 5) Mac OS VMs Azure Cloud Shell supports common programming languages.

You need to use Azure Cloud Shell to manage Linux virtual machines (VMs) that are already deployed and in use. What tool is used to magae LInux VMs in Cloud Shell?

1) Azure Command-line interface (CLI) 2) Azure Power Shell

Container Services ? (3)

1) Azure Container Instances 2) Azure Kubernetes Service 3) Container Registry ?

What are infrastructure services available with (SaaS) ? (4)

1) Azure Database 2) Azure Database 3) Cosmos DB 4) Outlook 365 ?

How do you access Cloud Shell ?

1) Azure Portal 2) shell.azure.com

Virtual Machine Services ? (4)

1) Azure VMs 2) VM Scale Sets 3) App Services -----> Build Web Apps 4) Functions ?

Network Services ? (8)

1) Azure Virtual Network 2) Azure Load Balancer 3) VPN Gateway 4) Azure Application ------->WAF 5) Content Delivery Network 6) Firewall 7) DDoS Protection 8) Network Security Groups (NSGs) ?

Storage Services ? (4)

1) Blob Storage 2) Disk Storage 3) File Storage 4) Archive Storage ?

How is Azure organized ? (5)

1) Geographies 2) Regions 3) Availability Zones 4) Resource Groups 5) Availabilty Sets ?

How are Geographies broken up into area ?

1. Americas 2. Europe 3. Asia Pacific 4. Middle East and Africa

What are Azure Regions ?

1. Are always paired with other regions. 2. Contain one or more datacenters. 3. Specify the location of resources ?

You are directed to determine Service Level Agreeement (SLA) support for Azure services. You need to identify which Azure service have a financially-backed SLA. Which three Azure services have a financially-backed SLA?

1. Azure DNS 2. Multi-factor authentication 3. Security Center Standard tier

Captital Expenditure (Cap Ex) ?

A (usually large) amount of money invested in an asset (building, computers, equipment) spent up front, and it returns back profits slowly over time; majjor cash drain or loan required; cannot be deducted from your taxes in one year, depreciated over several years ?

SQL Server 2016 on Linux ?

A IaaS offering because you can manage the Linux operating system ?

IoT Hub ?

A PaaS offering becuase it allows you to manage an application ?

Skype ?

A SaaS oofering because it on;ly allows you to manage its users ?

Computer Services ?

A category of services in Azure that provides CPU cycles for rent ?

Resource Groups ?

A folder structure in Azure in which you organize resources like databases, virtual machines, or almost any resource ?

Azure Datacenter ?

A group of interconnected buildings in the same location that contains all the servers, power, wiring and internet connectivity to run Azure services ?

Azure SQL Database ?

A managed database solution that is compatible with SQL Server; SaaS ?

High Availability ?

A system specifically designed to be resilient when some component of the system fails ?

Operating Expenditure (OpEx) ?

An amount of money spent "every month" as an operating expense; hopefully you earn more money in revenue from it than you spend; can be deducted from your taxes immediately; many accountants prefer OpEx over CapEx for the tax and cash flow benefits ?

What is Azure Government?

Azure Government delivers a dedicated cloud enabling government agencies and their partners to transform mission-critical workloads to the cloud. Azure Government services handle data that is subject to certain government regulations and requirements, such as FedRAMP, NIST 800.171 (DIB), ITAR, IRS 1075, DoD L4, and CJIS. In order to provide you with the highest level of security and compliance, Azure Government uses physically isolated datacenters and networks (located in U.S. only).

Which Azure Resource can be managed as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ?

Azure Internet-of-Things (IoT) Central ?

What is the diffrerence between Azure Policy and Role-based access control (RBAC) ?

Azure Policy is a way to restrict access to specific resource types similar to role-based access control (RBAC). However, they solve different problems. RBAC focuses on user actions at different scopes. You might be added to the contributor role for a resource group, allowing you to make changes to anything in that resource group. Azure Policy focuses on resource properties during deployment and for already-existing resources. Azure Policy controls properties such as the types or locations of resources. Unlike RBAC, Azure Policy is a default-allow-and-explicit-deny system.

A PaaS infrastructure makes what resource available ?

Azure SQL Database ? With PaaS, you do not manage the operating ssytem, but you can mange the application that runs the operating system.

What are Geographies ?

Azure divides the world into geographies that are defined by geopolitical boundaries or country borders. An Azure geography is a discrete market typically containing two or more regions that preserve data residency and compliance boundaries. This division has several benefits. Geographies allow customers with specific data residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies ensure that data residency, sovereignty, compliance, and resiliency requirements are honored within geographical boundaries. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

Machine Learning limitations ?

Cannot be deployed or managed by Azure Machine Learning service. Machine Learniong Studio solutions aremaanged in Machine Learning Studio and are only deployed as web services ?.

What is a Private Cloud?

Cloud services offered only to select users. THis is sometimes called an "internal cloud". Looks and acts like cloud computing, but uses resources and servers available only to your company or organization ?

What is a Public Cloud ?

Cloud services provided over the public internet to anyone who wants to sign up for them?

Which statement best describes regulatory compliance responsibilities in an Azure cloud-based deployment ?

Compliance is a shared responsibility of Microsoft and the subscriber ? Microsoft is responsible from providing an environment that meets compliance requirerment, while the subscriber is responsible for meeting compliance with their own resources. Azure meets a divergent set of international and inducstry-specific compliance standards and has mnore compliance certifications than any other cloud provider. It includes tools like Compliance Manager to help meet complince goals.

What is a Region Pair ?

Each Azure region is always paired with another region within the same geography (such as US, Europe, or Asia) at least 300 miles away. This approach allows for the replication of resources (such as virtual machine storage) across a geography that helps reduce the likelihood of interruptions due to events such as natural disasters, civil unrest, power outages, or physical network outages affecting both regions at once. If a region in a pair was affected by a natural disaster, for instance, services would automatically fail over to the other region in its region pair.

Cosmos DB ?

Extremely laow latency (fast) storage designed for smaller pieces of data quickly; SaaS ?

Azure Advisor ?

Integrates with Azure Secuirty Center to provide a consoilidated view of recommendations for Azure resources. It can help improve cost effectiveness, performance, high avalability, and security of Azure resources ?

Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) ?

Kubernetes containers in Azure. Runs on Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Has auto-scaling, but also requirers more overhead to run ?

Application Security Groupos (ASGs) ?

Let you organize similar servers sao you can easily define and implment security policies based on those groups. ASGs let you apply security too the groups as a whole ?

Azure SQL Database for MySQL ?

Managed MySQL database in Azure ?

A SaaS infrastructure makes what resource available ?

Outlook ? With SaaS, you do not manage the operating system or an application, but you can manage the application's users.

Consumption-Based Model ?

Paying for something based on how much you used, as opposed to paying for something no matter if you use it or not ?

What is Azure AI ?

Proven, secure, and responsible AI capabilities on your terms with Azure AI. Build mission-critical solutions that can analyze images, comprehend speech, make predictions using data, and imitate other intelligent human behaviors—all using Azure AI.

Machine Learning Studio ?

Provides a collaborative drag-and drop visual workspace to work with machine learning solutions ?

Role-bassed access control (RBAC) ?

RBAC supports various scopes, including mangement groups, subscriptions, resource groups and resources.

Regions and Countries ?

Regions cannot span countries. They are tied to a single country or geogreaphical region ?

Regions and datacenters ?

Regions do not represnt an area within a geographical area ?.

Which statementdescribes a benefit that is unique to Azure Government ?

Resources in Azure Government are deployed to datacenters that are separate from non-government resources ?

Your company has a new policy to be able to limit access to resources at the resource group and resource scopes in a detailed, granular way. Access will be granted to various groups and indvidual users. You need to implement the new policy. What should you use ?

Role-based access control (RBAC) ?

Managed Disk ?

Slightly more expensive, but this will allow Azure to provide some additional features that reduce the burden of managing your own storage account; pay per month for a provided GB limit; IaaS ?

Load Balancer ?

Sometimes called a level-4 load balancer; allows you to improve performance by splitting work among two or more identical machines; allows for horizontal scaling of application performance by adding more servers; IaaS ?

Application Gateway ?

Sometimes called a level-7 load balancer; a type of load balancer that operates at the application level and can understand HTTP syntax; it can make load balancing decisions off of a domain name, or part of a URL path; IaaS ?

Elasticity ?

The ability of a system to authomatically grow when maximum capacity is reached, and automatically shrink to minimize waste ?

Scalability ?

The ability of a system to grow it's capacity "easily" when a system reaches its maximum capacity ?

Fault tolerance ?

The ability of a system to remain operational after a critical failure through configurations and other measures such as redundant hardware ?

Azure Container Instances (ACI) ?

The quickest way to create a container on Azure. You can deploy an image to Azure in about a minute. It can be sued in production, but is not easily scalable ?

Virtual Machine Scale Sets ?

There is a set of identical virtuial machines (from 1 to 1000 instances) that are designed to auto-scale up and down based on user demand; IaaS ?

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 ?

Availability Zones ?

Unique physical locations within an Azure Region, made up of one or more datacenters; there is a minimum of three zones in each region; you can manually place your resources in an availability zone for highest availability.

A IaaS infrastructure makes what resource available ?

Virtual machine (VM) ? With IaaS, you do not maange the physical hardware, but you can manage the operating system and configuration. With a VM, you have full controil over the operating system and configurration, such as assigning an IP address to a virtual network adapter.

Availability ?

What percentage of time does a system respond properly to requests, expressed as a percentage over time ?

What is Horizontal Scaling ?

With auto-scaling, you can configure rules that monitor metrics such as requests, memory usage, and central processing unit (CPU) percentage to determine when Azure shoud automatically add and remove virtual machine instances.

Storage Services ?

A category of services in Azure that provides cheap, infinite file storage ?

Database Services ?

A category of services in Azure that provides fast, structured and unstructured data storage ?

IoT Central ?

Microsoft's IoT service that makes it easy for users to manage and monitor IoT devices at scale.

Networking Services ?

A category of services in Azure that provides network connectivity, performance, and monitoring services for inter-server and Internet communication ?

Azure Storage ?

A cheap place to store files, along with basic table and queue features; pay per Gigabyte; IaaS ?

VPN Gateway ?

A device that allows encrypted private communication between a single computer or a ntwork of servers, and an Azure network; IaaS ?

Hypervisor ?

A layer that runs on top of the physical server Operating System that allows multiple guest operating systems (virtual machines) to run in an isolated manner on top ?

What is a Hybrid Cloud ?

A mixture between your own private networks and servers, and using the public cloud for some things. TYpically used to take advantage of the unlimited inexpensive growth benefits of the public cloud ?

What is a paired region ?

A paired region is always inthe same geography, such as the US, but is always the farthest from the original region, at least 300 miles away.

What is a Region ?

A region is a geographical area on the planet containing at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are nearby and networked together with a low-latency network. Azure intelligently assigns and controls the resources within each region to ensure workloads are appropriately balanced. When you deploy a resource in Azure, you will often need to choose the region where you want your resource deployed.

Virtual Network ?

A representation of a real network; all virtual machines must be connected to a virtual network subnet, and this allows them to talk to talk to each other and to the Internet as long as it follows the rules of the network that you define ?

Regions ?

A set of related, interconnected datacenters which are no more than a few miles apart; you must select a region when creating most Azure services; there are currently 54 active or planned worldwide; the most of any cloud computing provider; you willl not hyave access to all 54 because some of them are restricted ?

What staement accurately describe the Microsoft Privacy Statement ?

1) Some Microsoft products requirer personal inforkmation or the product cannot be used. 2) Microsoft may share personal information with vendors working on Microsoft's behalf

What are infrastructure services available with (IaaS) ?

1) Virtual machine 2) Load balancer 3) Virtual network 4) Server 5) Firewall 6) Router ?

Content Delivery Network ?

Allows you to improve performance by removing the burdsen of serving static, unchanging files from the main server toa network of server's around the globe; a CDN can reduce traffic to a server by 50% or more, which means you can serve more users or serve the same users faster; SaaS ?

PaaS ?

Allows you to manage applications without controlling the underlying (OS) ? This includes development frameworks and databases, such as Azure SQL Database. WIth PaaS, you do not create the VM. You only have control of the applications on the VM.

Azure Cloud Shell and authentication ?

Allows you to open up an authenticated, browser-based management shell from virtually anywhere ?

IaaS ?

Allows you to rent hardware and have control over the operating system (OS) ? This includes virtiual machines (VMs), storage, and virtual networks (VNets). With IaaS, you create the VM's attach storage devices to them, and assign the VMs to VNets that you create. You control applications that are installed on the VM. OS updates are authomatically handled by Azure.

SaaS ?

Allows you to subscribe to software ? An example is Office 365.

App Services ?

Allows you to upload your code and configuration into Azure, and Azure will run the application as you specify; lots of integrations with Visual Studio, and other features and benefits provided on this platform; PaaS ?

Azure Policies ?

Are used to enforce rules that apply to resources to help ensure compliance and meet Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirerments?

Locks ?

Are used to limt access to a subscription, resource groups, or resource by setting the access Lock levels as CanNoDelete or ReadOnly. When a Lock is set for a subscription or resource group, it applies to all resources contained in that scope.

Backup and Recovery Storage ?

As You would expect, this is a specialized storage account that will manage your backups from virtual machines and perform recoveries ?

What is an availability zone ?

Availability Zones are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking. It is set up to be an isolation boundary. If one zone goes down, the other continues working. Availability Zones are connected through high-speed, private fiber-optic networks.

Virtual Machines ?

Looks, acts, feels, tastes like a real server in front of you, except it's running inside Azure's data center in a virtualized environment; Azure supports Windows and Linux virtual machines, with dozens of varieties of each; IaaS ?

Azure Functions ?

Small pieces of code that are designed to perform some task quickly; these are like connector code designed to do small things; severless model ?

Scalability ?

The ability to increase workload resource support without performance loss through resources provided to meet peak demands ?

Disaster Recovery ?

The ability to quickly return to an operational state after a failure or loss through use of data backups and other means ?

Disaster Recovery ?

The ability to reover from a big failure within an acceptable period of time, with an acceptable amount of data lost ?

Agility ?

The ability to respond to change "rapidly" based on changes to market or environment ?

Economies of Scale ?

The more you buy something, the cheaper it is per unit to buy, and the cheaper it is to maintain ?

Machine Learning Studio publishes machine learning models as what ?

Web services ?

Azure Security Groups ?

You can use an Azure network security group to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network. A network security group contains security rules that allow or deny inbound network traffic to, or outbound network traffic from, several types of Azure resources. For each rule, you can specify source and destination, port, and protocol.