Azure Microsoft Practice Questions

Migrating to cloud services enables an organization to budget infrastructure costs________

as an operational expense

Which Azure feature enhances manageability and reliability by provisioning virtual machine instances based on workload?

autoscale

_______ is the delivery of computing services such as compute power, storage, software, and analytics over the internet

cloud computing

You are a cloud engineer for a retail company. You need to decide whether to use private or public cloud. What's an advantage using a public versus private cloud?

costs are lower and spread among multiple tenants

PaaS: Who is in charge of data?

customer

PaaS: who is in charge of apps?

customer

________ is the ability to restore a cloud service in the wake of a catastrophic loss

disaster recovery

Automatically increasing or decreasing resources to meet spikes and drops in demand is called?

elasticity

A container requires you to configure the host virtual machine

false

A container requires you to manually install dependencies

false

Regions can span countries

false

Regions represent physical datacenters

false

A company plans to use a custom software as a service (SaaS) application and wants to minimize costs. The company is legally required to maintain and secure all data onsite, which cloud model should they use?

hybrid

This is a combination of on-premise infrastructure with a public cloud, which model is this?

hybrid

Your company deploys resources in Azure. According to the shared responsibility model, which task will you be required to perform?

install critical updates on vm's

A resource group can contain resources from the same region as the resource group onlu

no

Azure ExpressRoute is used to secure traffic between virtual networks

no

The hybrid cloud allows you to deploy resources with no capital expenditure and minimal IT expertise?

no

PaaS: who is in charge of storage?

provider

PaaS: who is in charge of virtualization?

provider

A company wants to deploy multiple servers to host web applications but wants to keep hardware costs and management costs at a minimum. The solution should be highly scalable, which cloud version should they use?

public

Cloud resources are owned and operated by a service provider and delivered over the Internet, which model is this?

public

Your company does not have IT experts or the money to purchase its own servers, which cloud model should they use?

public

Your company wants to create a virtual network with 10 virtual machines and no CapEx costs, which model should they use?

public

Your organization hosts its ecommerce solution on a computing infrastructure thats provided by a third party service provider and shared with other organizations. You only pay for the compute power, storage, and networking resources you use, which model is this?

public

A private cloud requires _______

the infrastructure to be on a private network

You can add a resource to or remove a resource from a resource group as long as the resource group is not locked

yes

Speed and flexibility in allocation and deallocation of required resources is called?

Agility

You deploy two Azure VM's running Windows Server 2016 and one VM running Ubuntu Linux. All three VM's and their resources are added to the same Azure region. A test plan directs that you need to delete the resource group once the initial test cycle is completed. What is the result of this action?

All of the VM's contained in the resource group are deleted

Which setup represents a hybrid cloud model?

An Azure web Application Program Interface (API) that connects to an on premises SQL server database on an on premises private data center

There are no upfront costs when using the consumption based model?

yes

What is the maximum length of time you can use the credits from an Azure free subscription before it expires?

30 days

In the IaaS cloud service model, the subscriber is responsible for the management of which two components? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

Applications Operating System (OS)

You need a serverless solution that meets the following requirements. Which product should you choose? - execution is triggered through an HTTP request - You pay only for the time the code runs - You do not have to manage app infrastructure

Azure Functions

Which Azure resource can be managed as a SaaS?

Azure IoT

You want to purchase Azure VM's and software licenses under one agreement, what type of subscription should you use?

Enterprise

You want to evaluate Azure App Services for six months, what type of subscription should you use?

Free

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is used to manage API cryptographic keys?

No

Azure IaaS provides and manages container orchestrators

No

Can a subscription only have one license?

No

Creating a VM running Windows Server 2016 is an example of PaaS?

No

For organizations with consistent, high utilization, the consumption based pricing model is the most efficient one?

No

Youre responsible for managing applications and middleware while Azure manages the OS

No

Example of SaaS program

Outlook

A company needs to develop a web app designed to run on both computers and mobile devices and manage the application life cycle, IPS?

PaaS

Azure Cosmos DB is IPS?

PaaS

A company needs to make productivity applications available to all employees, including those that work from home, on a pay-as-you-go basis, IPS?

SaaS

Microsoft Office 365 is IPS?

SaaS

Sales: Use a provider managed calendar to schedule appointments and meetings, IPS?

SaaS

Manually increasing or decreasing resources to meet predictable workload is called?

Scalability

What is the advantage of moving your company's infrastructure to Azure by using a public cloud deployment model?

The company is able to scale up as needed with no CapEx costs

Your company migrates vm's from an on-premise datacenter to Azure. As a part of the migration, all existing physical servers in your datacenter are decommissioned. The migrated workloads runs on Azure VM's. What are two possible benefits of the migration?

- absence of upfront costs for physical infrastructure - pay-as-you-go model

What is the purpose of a resource group?

A resource group serves as a container for Azure resources like VM's and web apps

A company wants to expand its cloud presence by deploying additional resources to Azure. The company plans to use templates based on existing resources to automate the deployment process. Ensuring consistent deployment is critical. What should the company use?

Azure Resource Manager

Example of PaaS program

Azure SQL Database

SaaS gives you a way to give users access to sophisticated apps in a pay-as-you-go system?

Yes

How can Azure lower capital expenditure (CapEx) costs? A. Azure reduces the amount of maintenance that is associated with the configuration of firewalls, which reduces costs B. Azure allows you to reduce the level of IT staffing that is required to maintain on-premises applications and services C. Azure allows you to pay monthly based on usage rather than pay upfront for physical hardware D. Azure allows you to pay annually to reduce overall costs that are associated with its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

C. Azure allows you to pay monthly based on usage rather than pay upfront for physical hardware

To improve performance of a mission-critical application, your organization has implemented cloud bursting. Which statement describes the benefit cloud bursting provides?

Cloud based resources are provisioned when on-premise servers reach 100% resource capacity

Your company suffers a catastrophic web outage due to a misconfigured driver on a database server. You need to find a cloud solution that allows the highly customized web application to run without requiring management of OS settings and services. However, the company's web developers must be able to maintain customizations, what should you do to meet these requirements?

Deploy the web app functionality using PaaS

A company needs to deploy a VM to run a resource intensive data analysis application, IPS?

IaaS

A company needs to transition to an on premises data center to the cloud with minimal impact on users?

IaaS

Azure Storage is IPS?

IaaS

Finance: Use provider managed hardware to run a customized database, IPS?

IaaS

The service provider is responsible for all infrastructure hardware in Saas, PaaS, and IaaS?

Yes

Use provider managed business intelligence services to analyze marketing trends, IPS?

PaaS

PaaS: Who is incharge of OS?

Provider

You can transfer an existing subscription to a new Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant.

Yes

Your company plans to migrate applications and services onto the cloud. You recommend for a hybrid cloud to be deployed. Why would you make this recommendation?

To augment on-premise resources by providing overflow capacity

Example of IaaS program

VM

Which Azure deployed resource can be seen as a IaaS?

VM

Can a subscription contain one or more resource group?

Yes

The customer always retains responsibility for the data?

yes

The public cloud allows you to deploy resources without managing the underlying hardware?

yes

The private cloud allows you to deploy resources by having minimal IT expertise?

no

The responsibility for the management of accounts is transferred to the cloud provider?

no

The responsibility for the operating system in PaaS is retained by the customer?

no

You want to evaluate Azure VM's for 18 months, what type of subscription should you use?

pay-as-you-go

A company needs to implement a solution where it maintains management control over hardware and infrastructure. The solution can be physically deployed offsite. Which cloud model should they use?

private

Cloud resources are maintained on a private network and used exclusively by one business or organization, which model is this?

private

Your company wants to control the methods used to have a high level of security for its resources, which cloud model should they use?

private

Which two infrastructure services are valid hybrid cloud infrastructures?

private & public cloud on premises infrastructure and public cloud

You have completed the migration of your organization's core servers and processes to cloud-based vm's. Your final project involves migrating a weekly batch-processing task that relies on operating system drivers to print PDF reports. You need to meet this requirement by minimizing costs, what do you do?

run the batch processing task using spot instances

The company is deploying a critical business application on two virtual machines (VM), the deployment needs to support: - highly available access - separate fault and update zones - minimal latency between instances Most users who need to access the app are in the Azure East US 2 region

separate availability zones

With ______ developers deploy code and pay for its runtime only, without worrying about the provisioning, configuration and management of the underlying infrastructure

serverless computing

A container can be accessed over the Internet by IP address or domain name

true

A container can run on Windows or Linux

true

A container can scale out as needed

true

A container represents a single app and its dependencies

true

Regions are always paired with other regions

true

Regions contain one or more datacenters

true

Regions specify the location of resources

true

Azure Storage encryption is enabled by default and cannot be disabled

yes

In the fixed price model, you pay for resources even if you dont even use them?

yes

Can multiple subscriptions be owned by a single organization?

Yes

IaaS allows you to rent hardware and have control over the Operating System (OS)?

Yes

PaaS allows you to manage applications without controlling the underlying OS?

Yes

Resources can be allocated on a pay-as-you-go basis in IaaS

Yes

SaaS allows you to subscribe to the software?

Yes

Locking a resource group as read-only locks all resources contained in the group

yes

Resources can interact with other resources in a different resource group

yes