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Azure disk storage: T/F ephemeral OS disks can be resized after they are provisioned
False
Azure disk storage: T/F ephemeral OS disks support the azure encryption and the azure backup features
False
What is a hybrid cloud?
Hybrid clouds combine features of public and private clouds but can expose host computers to users outside your organization.
What cloud model would you pick if you want to rent out hardware and manage everything else?
Iaas
You need to configure access to office 365 for users at work. To group users for assignment of permissions what can you use?
Security group
You need to determine if the azure platform meets a particular regulatory standard. How can you find the answer to this question?
The Microsoft trust center
What is the definition of elasticity?
The ability for a resource to automatically grow or shrink as needed
Why would one use azure multi-factor authentication?
To increase security and avoid breaches in the login process
What language do azure functions execute in?
Trick question: almost all modern languages
What is azure analytics good for?
Troubleshooting and deep diagnostics
What aspects of an azure service are guaranteed in the SLA? Uptime Performance Connectivity Varies by service
Varies by service
What is the concept of economies at scale
When you buy in bulk you get things at a cheaper rate - Microsoft shares that with you through azure
How can you schedule an azure function to run at a certain time?
With a cron expression
AZURE RBAC: Can role information be accessed in the azure CLI
Yes
AZURE RBAC: can roles manage access to specific resources?
Yes
What tool should be used to copy data from on premise storage to an azure storage account?
AzCopy command-line tool
What is the SLA for azure app service
99.95
What is the SLA for two VMs in the same availability zone across different regions?
99.95
If you have two VMs in different availability zones in the same region what is the SLA?
99.99
You need to make sure NO ONE including administrators can create additional resources in azure resource group. What will you do to achieve this object?
A lock (read only)
What is Azure Databricks?
A powerful data analytics platform for developing data intensive applications (for data science peeps)
What is azure storage reserved capacity?
A way to get discounted rates when you commit to a reservation of a year or more for azure data lake storage gen2 and for block blobs in standard storage accounts
What does azure hybrid benefit do?
Allows you to use on premise licenses with with servers in azure
Azure disk storage: what is a temporary disk?
An unmanaged disk for short term storage
Implementing azure MFA will ensure the user is who they claim to be. This is an example of:
Authentication
Using role-based access control (RBAC) in azure we can determine which resources and services a user has access to. This is an example of
Authorization
You want to implement MFA (multi factor authentication) based on risk associated with the request. What service should you implement?
Azure AD Identity Protection
Your work wants to implement a new security policy, when users connect from an unusual location they must be prompted for MFA. If access from an anonymous IP, they should be forced to reset their password. What feature will you implement?
Azure AD identity protection
What tool can help with gathering recommendations on reducing the cost of VMs running in azure?
Azure advisor
You have a group of VMs deployed in azure and want to identify recommendations on how to reduce the cost of running these VMs. What tool Is best for this?
Azure advisor
What azure solution allows you to do the following: Automatically detect performance anomalies Help diagnose issues by using powerful analytics tools See what users can do with web apps Help continuously improve web apps performance and stability
Azure application insights
What azure service enables delivery of templates for repeatable deployment and configuration of new subscriptions and environments?
Azure blueprints
You need to implement multi factor authentication for your AD users. But you only want to do this when they are in an untrusted location or on an unmanaged device. What feature should you implement?
Azure conditional access
What is the fastest and simplest way way to deploy a development environment in azure?
Azure container instances
What tool helps you manage existing costs
Azure cost management
What azure service is best to allow functions to react to a major increase in temperature?
Azure event hub
What tool would you use to collect log files for a specific application?
Azure log analytics
You need to identify and enforce your works corporate policy across new and existing azure deployments. What service is best to do this?
Azure policy
What is the tool to estimate up front costs?
Azure pricing calculator
You need to calculate the estimated cost of a set of azure resources before you deploy them. What tool will you use?
Azure pricing calculator
You need to identify deviations from Microsoft security best practices in your azure cloud infrastructure. What service should you use?
Azure security advisor
Your works legal department is asking if we are meeting regulatory requirements in azure for our specific set up. What service should help answer this question?
Azure security center
You want to categorize costs by business unit at work in azure. What azure feature should you use to simplify this task?
Azure tags
How can you filter azure costs?
By tags associated to resources and services
Azure Germany is available to:
Eligible customers and partners globally doing business in the EU/EFTA
Who is azure china available to?
Legal entities in China
What is the correct order for organizing structure resources?
Management groups -> subscriptions -> resource groups -> resources
What are some scenarios you would want to use azure data box?
Massive one time transfers Massive periodic transfers An initial bulk transfer
You want to identify unsanctioned apps that may be responsible for data leakage and unwanted SaaS expenses (aka shadow IT) what service should you use?
Microsoft cloud app security
Are services in public preview available in all azure regions?
No
Azure disk storage: Does azure backup feature only work with managed disks?
No
Contoso has deployed an azure VM scale set for a front end web application. They want guidance on configuring the virtual network for these resources. Will the azure advisor tool provide recommendations for these resources?
No
Do services in public preview include a SLA
No
To manage service lifecycle with more granularity Contoso cloud architects have designed a model that involves a large number of resource groups. Will contour incur additional costs for the resource groups?
No
Your company is planning to host services in azure. You want to leverage identities in azure Active Directory but still need to support on premise identities in Active Directory MFA. Can you support single sign on and multi factor authentication without synchronizing on-premise identities to azure?
No
What are the three main benefits to the consumption based model?
No upfront cost No need to purchase and manage infrastructure Pay for additional resources if and when needed
AZURE POLICY: A virtual machine that does not log into a specified log analytics workspace is deemed _________________
Non compliment
What cloud model would you pick if you want all of the cloud services to be abstracted away from developers?
PaaS
What is the standard lifecycle for services released by Microsoft
Private preview - public preview - general availability
What are some advantages of Microsoft managed desktop
Reduced boot times for virtual machines Increase battery life on devices Reduce device crashes
What service would you use to ensure your application is safe from downtime caused by natural disasters or power outages
Region pairs
What cloud model would you pick if you really like software and want to use it but not manage anything else?
SaaS (office 365)
Contoso is planning on migrating to azure and the CIO has asked for a tool to estimate costs before migrating. Does azure cost management work as an appropriate solution?
Yes
Can users outside of china utilize azure services deployed in azure china?
Yes any authorized user globally
What is serverless computing?
The abstraction of infrastructure, hardware, and operating systems
Where can you go to ensure azure is compliment with regulatory obligations? Such as HIPPA
The trust center
Azure disk storage: T/F The throughput of a virtual disk that has an I/O size of 1024KB and an IOPS of 200 is 200 MB/s
True
T/F a single azure AD can support the creation of multiple azure administrative domains
True
T/F alerts in azure monitor proactively notify you of critical conditions and can take corrective actions
True
T/F azure logic apps can execute logic triggered by azure services without writing any code
True
T/F for azure reservations the size of a cosmos DB reservation required is dependent on the compute capacity used by Cosmos DB resources
True
T/F in azure monitor you can set the user response of an alert to specify where it is in the resolution process
True
T/F to manage alert instances in azure monitor users should have the azure built in roles of either monitoring contributor or monitoring reader
True
What is authentication
Verifying the user is who they claim to be
What is Microsoft's circular centers program?
When a server is no longer being used it is decommissioned and repurposed to be recycled either within Microsoft or elsewhere. This reduces e-waste
What is the definition of high availability?
When a service can run with very little downtime
What is the public cloud?
When multiple organizations subscribe to a cloud service provider such as azure and share the infrastructure
What is SaaS?
When the cloud provider hosts applications on the cloud servers
What is the private cloud?
When the organization deploys its own cloud infrastructure, usually behind a firewall
Are azure services in public preview available to all customers?
Yes
Can you analyze AWS costs on the azure portal?
Yes
You plan to deploy several Azure virtual machines. You need to ensure that the services running on the virtual machines are available if a single data center fails. Solution: You deploy the virtual machines to two or more scale sets. Does this meet the goal? A. Yes B. No
Yes
AZURE POLICY: guest configuration uses _________ _______ ________ __ to audit the settings of a new windows virtual machine
Desired state configuration v2
If you are doing any work for the US government what would you do in azure?
Develop a cloud solution using azure government (NOTE YOU MUST HAVE A PHYSICAL US LOCATION)
T/F the utilization percentages of azure reservations can be viewed in the cost manager
FALSE they are viewed in the azure portal
T/F Resources in a resource group inherent tags that are applied to the resource group
False
T/F azure logic apps have to be called specifically and cannot be run when certain conditions are met
False
T/F in azure monitor you can only see all alert instances in all your azure resources generated in the last seven days on the alerts page
False
T/F resources in a resource group must be located in the same region as the resource group
False
T/F you cannot create alerts in azure monitor
False
You want the DNS service to be more resilient and available to users and customers. What is the best way to achieve this objective?
Host DNS zones in azure DNS and integrate them with azure hosted applications
When is data available to be read in the secondary location in geo redundant storage?
If a failover from the primary region to the region location occurs
What is IaaS?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) allows a cloud user to use hardware maintained by the cloud provider
What is azure service health good for?
It is a parent of three smaller services that essentially tell you how services are doing at the azure level, your resource group level, or your individual cloud resource level
What is the difference between scalability and elasticity?
Scalability does not happen automatically
If you care about not wasting any memory what is the best azure resource for you?
Serverless computing
What are the eligible licenses for azure hybrid benefit?
Sql server, exchange server, and windows server with active software assurance
AZURE MONITOR: What three actions can you configure when cpu usage rises above a designated threshold?
Start execution of an azure run book Send email notifications Call a webhook
AZURE RBAC: For azure roles how can scope be specified?
Subscription, resource group, resource
T/F azure reservation discounts are not applicable for the duration of the overlap of the runtimes of two different SQL databases overlap
TRUE