Assessment Test Flashcards
Microsoft Azure enables your organization to move IT expenditures to: A. Capital expenditures B. Operational expenditures C. A controlled expense model D. None of the above
B. Operational expenditures
Azure is a consumption-based cloud model in which you pay only for the services that you consume, enabling you to move from a CapEx model to an OpEx model.
Which of the following tools can you use to estimate the expense of moving a data center from on-premises to Azure? A. Azure Pricing Calculator B. Azure Cost Management + Billing C. Azure TCO Calculator D. Azure CLI
C. TCO Calculator
The TCO Calculator helps you consider the costs of facilities, power, and related expenses associated with moving services hosted in a data center to Azure.
The term agility in Microsoft Azure refers to:
A. The ease with which you can move workloads from on-premises to Azure and back again
B. The ability to quickly adjust resources such as memory to adapt to changes in demand
C. The ability to add more front-end web servers to a web application to adapt to increased demand
D. The ability to quickly create redundancy in a solution
B. The ability to quickly adjust resources such as memory to adapt to changes in demand
Agility refers to the ability to adjust resources to meet changes in demand.
Which of the following describes the benefit economy or scale as it relates to Microsoft Azure?
A. The capability to distribute resources across multiple regions to reduce cost
B. The ability to place resources in less expensive Azure regions to reduce costs
C. The capability to automatically scale down the number of virtual machines in an Azure solution to reduce costs when demand decreases
D. The decrease in price per subscriber as more subscribers added
D. The decrease in price per subscriber as more subscribers added
As the number of subscribers increases, the cost of to provide a service to those subscribers goes down because the cost is spread across more users, providing an economy of scale.
Which of the following is an example of vertical scaling?
A. Adding VMs to a web app as demand increases
B. Reducing memory allocated to VMs when demand decreases
C. Adding CPU cores to a VM when demand increases
D. Both B and C
D. Both B and C
D. Vertical scaling refers to adding or removing resources such as CPU cores or memory as demand changes.
A Service that provides the capability to deploy a SQL database without the need for you to set up a VM or install SQL Server is an example of: A. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) B. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) C. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) D. Data-as-a-service (DaaS)
C. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)
Accessing an application through a web page rather installing the application on your local device is an example of: A. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) B. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) C. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) D. Data-as-a-service (DaaS)
B. Software-as-a-service
Deploying virtual machines (VMs) in a shared cloud environment is an example of: A. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) B. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) C. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) D. Data-as-a-service (DaaS)
A. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
Which of the following accurately describes an Azure geography?
A. It corresponds to a single country or to a market encompassing multiple countries.
B. It always corresponds to a specific country.
C. It represents a set of physical data centers.
D. None of the above
A. It corresponds to a single country or to a market
An Azure geography can align to a single country or to a market that encompasses multiple countries, such as Europe.
An Azure region:
A. Describe a specific Azure data center
B. Is usually paired with another region to ensure high availability
C. Can span across multiple countries
D. Encompasses the data centers in which all of your Azure resources reside
B. Is usually paired with another region to ensure high availability
Regions are usually paired with other regions in Azure to help ensure high availability
Azure China is a physically isolated instance of Azure available only to Chinese government entities.
A. Yes
B. No
B. No
Azure China is physically isolated instance of Azure, but it is available to business as well as governmental organizations within China
You are deploying three VMs in a single region as web front ends to web application. You need to ensure that power outages or other potential data center outages do not make your web application unavailable.
Which of the following achieves this goal?
A. You place the VMs in availability set.
B. You place the VMs in separate resource groups
C. You place the VMs in different availability zones.
D. You deploy additional VMs to other regions.
C. You place the VMs in different availability zones.
Distributing VMs across availability zones helps guard against data center outages.
What is the function of a resource group in Azure?
A. It provides automatic scaling of CPU cores, memory, and other resources for VMs.
B. It enables you to establish a higher SLA for VMs
C. It protects resources from being deleted.
D. It serves as a logical container for Azure resources.
D. It serves as a logical container for Azure resources
Resources groups serve as a logical container for Azure resources.
Is the underlined portion of the following statement true, or does it need to be replaced with one of the other fragments that appear below?
Azure Resource Manager enables you to deploy multiple resources using JSON-based templates.
A. Is the primary tool you use to manage resources in Azure.
B. Is the blade in Azure portal that provides access to resources management and monitoring tools, including management templates
C. Enables you to interactively allocate additional CPU cores and memory to VMs.
D. No change is needed.
D. No change is needed
The underlined fragment is correct
Which of the following statements is not true regarding Azure subscriptions?
A. A subscription is aligned to a specific Azure region.
B. You can move resources from one subscription to another
C. Subscriptions can help simplify Azure billing and cost management.
D. You can move a subscription to a new Azure AD tenant
A. A subscription is aligned to a specific Azure region.
Subscriptions are just logical containers and therefore are not limited to a single region.
Azure App Service provides support for multiple development languages, containers, and Windows and Linux.
A. Yes
B. No
A. Yes
The statement is true
Which of the following can you use to orchestrate container management in Azure? A. Azure Container Instance (ACI) B. Azure Resource Manager C. Azure Kubernetes D. Azure CLI
C. Azure Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes provides orchestration services for containers that you create with ACI
Is the underlined portion of the following statement true, or does it need to be replaced with one of the other fragments that appear below?
Containers that you deploy in a group Azurr support only the Linux OS.
A. Support only the Windows OS.
B. share the same OS as other containers in the group.
C. Require configuration of the OS for each container.
D. No change is needed.
B. share the same OS as other containers in the group.
All containers in a group share the same OS
You need to set up a storage solution in Azure to enable you to store the state of an application from one execution of the application to the next. Which of the following storage solutions provide that capability? A. Azure Disk B. Azure Blob C. Azure Files D. Azure Archive
C. Azure Files
Azure Files enables you to save application state from one execution to another
Which of the following data solutions would be the most cost-efficient solution for storing and retrieving sales data for your sales team using SQL statements?
A. Host a database using Azure SQL Database
B. Host a database using Azure Managed SQL Instance
C. Install SQL Server on a VM in Azure
D. Host a database using Cosmos DB
A. Host a database using Azure SQL Database
The most cost-effective option is to use Azure SQL Database.
Which of the following does not provide load balancing between resources in Azure? A. Azure Front Door B. Azure Traffic Manager C. Azure Load Balancer D. Azure network security groups (NSGs)
D. Azure network security groups (NSGs)
Azure NSGs do not provide load0balancing capability.
You have deployed a web application in Azure and need HTTPS traffic to be routed to a specific endpoint based on the requested URL. Which of the following load-balancing solutions provides this capability? A. Azure Traffic Manager B. Azure Load Balancer C. Azure Application Gateway D. Azure network security groups
C. Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway provides URL-based routing
You need to ensure that network traffic between your on-premises data center and Azure is securely encrypted as it traverses the Internet, but you do not want your organization to manage the service. Which of the following should you choose? A. Azure VPN Gateway B. Azure Point-to-point VPN C. Azure ExpressRoute D. AzureRoute Direct
C. Azure ExpressRoute
Azure ExpressRoute is the appropriate solution to provide VPN across the Internet, managed by a third party.
Your organization has compliance restrictions that prevent your data from traversing the Internet between your on-premises data center and your resources in Azure. Which of the following provides a solution for this requirement? A. Azure Managed VPN B. Azure ExpressRoute Direct C. Azure VPN Gateway D. Azure ExpressRoute
B. Azure ExpressRoute Direct
Azure ExpressRoute Direct provides similar capabilities as Azure Express Route but is not routed across the Internet
Which of the following is an appropriate solution for placing video files and large documents close to where your globally dispersed users are located to reduce latency?
A. A dedicated point-to-point VPN connection between the source files and each location.
B. Azure DirectRoute
C. Azure Content Delivery Network
D. None of the above
C. Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) enables you to place replicas of content geographically near the users who need to consume the content.
Which of the following solutions would enable only you and one of your peers to access and manage an Azure VM using RDP on port 3389?
A. Role-based access control (RBAC) and an Azure network security group (NSG)
B. An appropriately designed Azure policy applied to the resource group containing the VM
C. Azure Firewall
D. Azure Font Door
A. Role-based access control (RBAC) and an Azure network security group (NSG)
An Azure NSG enables you to restrict access to the VM based on port, and RBAC enables you to restrict access to specific individuals.