8. Monitoring and Management Flashcards
What is governance and how does it benefit you?
Topic: Governance
Set of rules, policies, and roles to define acceptable use of resources.
Governance keeps you compliant and out of trouble
What are two tools to implement governance on users?
Briefly describe each.
Topic: Governance
- Azure policy - used to create policies, and ensures that resources are compliying with attached policies
- Locks - Tools to govern ability to change and remove resources
What is a policy?
Topic: Governance
A set of rules to define and ensure resource compliance.
What is Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)?
Describe the two elements that RBAC controls.
Topic: Governance
RBAC defines which user has access to specific resource, and defines the actions users can perform on a resource.
List the 3 elements of RBAC
Describe each element
Topic: Governance
- Security principle - represent an entity such as a user or group, which can access the resource
- Role definition - collection of permissions, such as read, write, and delete
- Scope - the resource the access applies to
What can you assign locks to and what types of locks can you assign.
Topic: Governance
Locks can be assigned to:
* Subscriptions
* Resource groups
* Resources
The types of locks are:
* Delete - where you can’t delete the object
* Read-only - where you can’t modify the object
What are two tools to implement goverance on resources?
Briefly describe each
Topic: Governance
- Azure Blueprints - templates for creating resources and deploying a standard cloud environment
- Azure Advisor for Security Assistance - integrated into Azure Security Center
What is Azure Monitor?
Topic: Azure Monitor
Collects telemetry to analyze dashboard, and enable monitoring from a single place.
What is telemetry
Topic: Azure Monitor
Information about how services or devices are performing, which is sent to a central point for analysis.
What are three outcomes of using Azure monitor?
Topic: Azure Monitor
- Maximize performance
- Maximize availability
- Identify issues
What are three Azure Monitor tools that provide greate visibility into environment?
Briefly describe each
Topic: Azure Monitor
- Log analytics - store and query log data to gain valuable insights
- Application Insights - Performance insights for Web Apps
- Azure Monitor Alerts - sends notifications to unexpected events
What is Azure Service Health?
Topic: Azure Service Health
A portal to notify about planned and unplanned incidents.
What is Azure Arc?
Mention a technical and simplified definition.
Topic: Azure Arc
Technical: Centralized governance and management for on-premisis and multi-cloud computing resources.
Simplified: Enables managing non-Azure resources as if they were in Azure.
