AZ-900 Study Guide

The company would like to develop a cloud solution by making use of Azure Government. Azure Government can only be used by certain types of clients to develop cloud solutions. What are the types of customers that can make use of Azure Government in this situation?

A United States government contractor, and A United States government entity.

Your company ג €™s developers intend to deploy a large number of custom virtual machines on a weekly basis. They will also be removing these virtual machines during the same week it was deployed. Sixty percent of the virtual machines have Windows Server 2016 installed, while the other forty percent has Ubuntu Linux installed. You are required to make sure that the administrative effort, needed for this process, is reduced by employing a suitable Azure service. You recommend the use of: Microsoft Managed Desktop, Azure Reserved Virtual Machines (VM) Instances, or Azure DevTest Labs?

Azure Dev Test Labs

Your company has virtual machines (VMs) hosted in Microsoft Azure. The VMs are located in a single Azure virtual network named VNet1. The company has users that work remotely. The remote workers require access to the VMs on VNet1. You need to provide access for the remote workers. What should you do?

Configure a Point-to-Site (P2S) VPN

You have 50 virtual machines hosted on-premises and 50 virtual machines hosted in Azure. The on-premises virtual machines and the Azure virtual machines connect to each other. Which type of cloud model is this?

Hybrid

You are tasked with deploying Azure virtual machines for your company. You need to make use of the appropriate cloud deployment solution. Should you make use of SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Your company plans to deploy several custom applications to Azure. The applications will provide invoicing services to the customers of the company. Each application will have several prerequisite applications and services installed. You need to recommend a cloud deployment solution for all the applications. What should you recommend?

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

You have been informed by your superiors of the companyג€™s intentions to automate server deployment to Azure. There is, however, some concern that administrative credentials could be uncovered during this process. You are required to make sure that during the deployment, the administrative credentials are encrypted using a suitable Azure solution. Solution: You recommend the use of Azure Information Protection. You recommend the use of Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Neither

Yes or No: A Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that hosts web apps in Azure provides full control of the operating systems that host applications.

No

Yes or No: A company can extend a private cloud by adding its own physical servers to the public cloud.

No

Yes or No: A platform as a service (PaaS) solution that hosts web apps in the Azure provides full control of the operating systems that host applications.

No

Yes or No: A private cloud must be disconnected from the internet.

No

Yes or No: An Azure virtual machine can be in multiple resources groups.

No

Yes or No: Building a data center infrastructure is an example of operational expenditure (OpEx) costs.

No

You are planning to migrate a company to Azure. Each of the company's numerous divisions will have an administrator in place to manage the Azure resources used by their respective division. You want to make sure that the Azure deployment you employ allows for Azure to be segmented for the divisions, while keeping administrative effort to a minimum. Solution: You plan to make use of several Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) directories. Does the solution meet the goal?

No

You are required to deploy an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution in Azure. You want to make sure that you are able to build, test, and deploy predictive analytics for the solution. Solution: You should make use of Azure Cosmos DB. Does the solution meet the goal?

No

Your company's Azure subscription includes a Basic support plan. They would like to request an assessment of an Azure environment's design from Microsoft. This is, however, not supported by the existing plan. You want to make sure that the company subscribes to a support plan that allows this functionality, while keeping expenses to a minimum. Solution: You recommend that the company subscribes to the Professional Direct support plan. Does the solution meet the goal?

No

Yes or No: Azure Cosmos DB is an example of software as a service (SaaS).

No its PaaS

Public Cloud

No required capital expenditure

Your company's Active Directory forest includes thousands of user accounts. You have been informed that all network resources will be migrated to Azure. Thereafter, the on-premises data center will be retired. You are required to employ a strategy that reduces the effect on users, once the planned migration has been completed. The solution is to?

Plan to require Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

A DNS server that runs on an Azure virtual machine is an example of a ____________.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

A Microsoft SQL Server database that is hosted in the cloud and has software updates managed by Azure is an example of______.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Azure Cosmos DB is an example of a ________________________ offering.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Hybrid Cloud

Provides a choice to use on-premises or cloud-based resources

Private Cloud

Provides complete control over security

Your company has datacenters in Los Angeles and New York. The company has a Microsoft Azure subscription. You are configuring the two datacenters as geo-clustered sites for site resiliency. You need to recommend an Azure storage redundancy option. You have the following data storage requirements: ✑ Data must be stored on multiple nodes. ✑ Data must be stored on nodes in separate geographic locations. ✑ Data can be read from the secondary location as well as from the primary location What Azure stored redundancy options should you recommend?

Read-only geo-redundancy storage

Microsoft Intune is an example of _________________________.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Yes or No: A Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that hosts web apps in Azure can be configured to automatically scale the number of instances based on demand.

Yes

Yes or No: A Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that hosts web apps in Azure can be provided with additional memory by changing the pricing tier.

Yes

You are required to deploy an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution in Azure. You want to make sure that you are able to build, test, and deploy predictive analytics for the solution. Solution: You should make use of Azure Machine Learning Studio. Does the solution meet the goal?

Yes

Your company has an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) environment. Users occasionally connect to Azure AD via the Internet. You have been tasked with making sure that users who connect to Azure AD via the internet from an unidentified IP address, are automatically encouraged to change passwords. Solution: You configure the use of Azure AD Identity Protection You configure the use of Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

You configure the use of Azure AD Identity Protection

You are planning a strategy to deploy numerous web servers and database servers to Azure. This strategy should allow for connection types between the web servers and database servers to be controlled. Solution: You include a local network gateway in your strategy. You include network security groups (NSGs) in your strategy.

You include network security groups (NSGs) in your strategy.

You are tasked with deploying a critical LOB application, which will be installed on a virtual machine, to Azure. You are informed that the application deployment strategy should allow for a guaranteed availability of 99.99 percent. You need to make sure that the strategy requires as little virtual machines and availability zones as possible. Solution: You include two virtual machines and one availability zone in your strategy. You include two virtual machines and two availability zones in your strategy. You include one virtual machine and two availability zones in your strategy.

You include two virtual machines and two availability zones in your strategy.

Your company's infrastructure includes a number of business units that each need a large number of various Azure resources for everyday operation. The resources required by each business unit are identical. You are required to sanction a strategy to create Azure resources automatically. Solution: You recommend that the Azure API Management service be included in the strategy. You recommend that management groups be included in the strategy. You recommend that the Azure Resource Manager templates be included in the strategy.

You recommend that the Azure Resource Manager templates be included in the strategy.

Your company plans to migrate all its data and resources to Azure. The company's migration plan states that only Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions must be used in Azure. You need to deploy an Azure environment that meets the company's migration plan. What should you create?

an Azure App Service and Azure SQL databases

Your developers have created 10 web applications that must be hosted on Azure. You need to determine which Azure web tier plan to host the web apps. The web tier plan must meet the following requirements: ✑ The web apps will use custom domains. ✑ The web apps each require 10 GB of storage. ✑ The web apps must each run in dedicated compute instances. ✑ Load balancing between instances must be included. ✑ Costs must be minimized. Which web tier plan should you use?

Basic Tier

Azure Files is an example of __________________.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Yes or No: Microsoft SQL Server 2019 installed on an Azure virtual machine is an example of platform as a service (PaaS).

No

Yes or No: With software as a service (SaaS), you must apply software updates.

No

Yes or No: You can create a resource group inside of an other resource group.

No

Your developers have created a portal web app for users in the Miami branch office. The web app will be publicly accessible and used by Miami users to retrieve customer and product information. The web app is currently running in an on-premises test environment. You plan to host the web app on Azure. You need to determine which Azure web tier plan to host the web app. The web tier plan must meet the following requirements: ✑ The website will use the miami.weyland.com URL. ✑ The website will be deployed to two instances. ✑ SSL support must be included. ✑ The website requires 12 GB of storage. ✑ Costs must be minimized. Which web tier plan should you use?

Standard Tier

Yes or No: A Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that hosts web apps in Azure provides professional development services to continuously add features to custom applications.

Yes

Yes or No: A Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution that hosts web apps in Azure provides the ability to scale the platform automatically.

Yes

Yes or No: A resource group can contain resources from multiple Azure regions.

Yes

Yes or No: Azure Backup is an example of a platform as a service (PaaS).

Yes

Yes or No: Azure Backup is an example of platform as a service (PaaS).

Yes

Yes or No: Azure SQL Database is an example of a platform as a service (PaaS).

Yes

Yes or No: Leasing software is an example of operational expenditure (OpEx) costs.

Yes

Yes or No: Monthly salaries for technical personnel are an example of operational expenditure (OpEx) costs.

Yes

Yes or No: To build a hybrid cloud, you must deploy resources to the public cloud.

Yes

Yes or No: With infrastructure as a service (Iaas), you must install the software that you want to use.

Yes

Your company plans to migrate all its data and resources to Azure. The company's migration plan states that only Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions must be used in Azure. You need to deploy an Azure environment that meets the company migration plan. Solution: You create an Azure App Service and Azure SQL databases. Does this meet the goal?

Yes

Your company's Active Directory forest includes thousands of user accounts. You have been informed that all network resources will be migrated to Azure. Thereafter, the on-premises data center will be retired. You are required to employ a strategy that reduces the effect on users, once the planned migration has been completed. Solution: You plan to sync all the Active Directory user accounts to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Does the solution meet the goal?

Yes

Your company is planning to migrate all their virtual machines to an Azure pay-as-you-go subscription. The virtual machines are currently hosted on the Hyper-V hosts in a data center. You are required to make sure that the intended Azure solution uses the correct expenditure model. Solution: You should recommend the use of the elastic expenditure model. You should recommend the use of the scalable expenditure model. You should recommend the use of the operational expenditure model

You should recommend the use of the operational expenditure model

What does a customer provide in a software as a service (SaaS) model?

application data