ARM Templates, BASH and Powershell Commands

Question 1

What command do you use to connect to Azure via Powershell

Answer 1

Connect-AzAccount

Question 2

What dose CLI stand for?

Answer 2

Command Line Interface

Question 3

What dose Azure CLI achieve?

Answer 3

It’s a cross-platform command-line program to connect and execute administrative commands on Azure resources.

Question 4

Create a resource group using CLI?

Answer 4

az group create –name StorageRG –location westus

Question 5

Create a storage account using CLI?

Answer 5

az storage account create –name WLblobSA123 –reseource-group storageRG –ksu Standard_RAGRS –kind StorageV2

Question 6

Command used to login to CLI?

Answer 6

az login

Question 7

Create VM using CLI?

Answer 7

az VM create –resource-group WLRG –name WLVM1 –image UbuntuLTS

Question 8

Azure CLI command group for the following:
Resource Groups
Key Vault
SQL Databases
Storage Accounts
Virtual Machines
Web Applications

Answer 8

az group
az keyvault
az sql server
az storage account
az vm
az webapp

Question 9

What are the Azure CLI command groups?

Answer 9

Resource Groups
Key Vault
SQL Databases
Storage Accounts
Virtual Machines
Web Applications

Question 10

In an ARM template what is the element $schema used for

Answer 10

This describes the version of the template language.

Example below
“$schema”: “https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#”,

Question 11

In an ARM template what is the element contentVersion used for

Answer 11

This is the version of the template.

Example below
“contentVersion”: “1.0.0.0”,

Question 12

In an ARM template what is the element resource used for

Answer 12

This is the main section where you define the resources that need to be deployed as part of the template.

Question 13

In an ARM template what is the element parameters used for

Answer 13

These are values that can be provided to template that can be used to customize the deployment of the resources.

Question 14

In an ARM template what is the element variables used for

Answer 14

These are values that can be reused in the template.

Question 15

In an ARM template what is the element functions used for

Answer 15

These are user-defined functions that can be used in the template.

Question 16

In an ARM template what is the element outputs used for

Answer 16

These are values that are returned after the deployments.

Question 17

What are the resources that can be deployed using ARM

Answer 17

Storage Accounts for VMs
Availability Sets for VMs
Virtual Networks for Load Balancers and VMs
Network Interfaces for VMs
Load Balancers
Virtual Machines

Question 18

What file type is used for ARM Teplates

Answer 18

JSON files

Question 19

What dose JSON stand for

Answer 19

JavaScript Object Notation

Question 20

How can you deploy ARM Teplates?

Answer 20

Either via the Azure Portal (Azure Resource Manager) or Azure CLI Bash

Question 21

How would you deploy ARM template via CLI

Answer 21

az deployment group create –resource-group <resourcegroupname> --template-file template.json</resourcegroupname>

Question 22

Where can you use Azure Powershell?

Answer 22

You can use Azure Powershell either on your local powershell client and login to Azure or you can use CloudShell via the Azure Portal