1.1 - Virtual Machines

Question 1

What is a Virtual Machine?

Answer 1

A service that cloud providers offer as IaaS It is a portion of a machine that is running in an Azure Data Center that you can control You can remote into it and install any software You pay for the time you use

Question 2

What is a benefit of using ARM Templates?

Answer 2

You can create resources using JSON templates and passing parameters You can automate resource creation and implement Desired State Configuration

Question 3

What is a prerequisite for encrypting the operating system disk of a virtual machine?

Answer 3

You must have an encryption key inside an Azure Key Vault

Question 4

If you are unable to connect from your computer to a Windows VM by RDP, what is the first thing you should check?

Answer 4

Check to see if port 3389 is open on the Network Security Group

Question 5

What is the default VM size that Azure wants to use when you create a VM?

Answer 5

Standard DS1

Question 6

You have to encrypt an existing virtual machine named “stagingvm”. This virtual machine is in a resource group named “staging”. A key name “vmkey” has been created in the Azure key vault for this purpose. Name or ID of the key vault is “demovault”. You have to complete the below Azure CLI command to ensure all disks on the virtual machine are encrypted with the key

What are the values of Area 1,2,3 and 4

Answer 6

Area 1: vm encryption

Area 2: –disk-encryption-keyvault

Area 3: –key-encryption-key

Area 4: All
Here the question specified to encrypt all of the volumes, we need to specify the “All” value. This will ensure that all disks on the machine are encrypted.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/vm/encryption?view=azure-cli-latest