AZ-900 Prep Flashcards

1
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What factors impact OpEx costs?

A

Resource Type, Consumption, Maintenance, Geography, Subscription type, Azure Marketplace

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2
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The _____ _____ is designed to give you an estimated cost for provisioning resources in Azure

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Pricing Calculator

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3
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The _____ is designed to help you compare the costs for running an on-premises infrastructure compared to an Azure Cloud infrastructure

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TCO calculator

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What is the difference between the Pricing Calculator and the TCO Calculator?

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The TCO Calculator helps you calculate the cost of converting your on-prem infrastructure to an Azure Cloud infrastructure.
The Pricing Calculator can give you an estimate for individual resources, build out a solution, use an example scenario, etc. to see an estimate of the Azure expenses.

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5
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Provides the ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on resource spend, and create budgets that can be used to automate management of resources.

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Cost Management

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6
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A subset of Cost Management that provides a quick visual for your Azure costs and allows you to identify expense trends.

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Cost Analysis

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7
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What are the three types of Cost Alerts?

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Budget alerts, Credit alerts, and Department spending quota alerts.

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Notify you when spending, based on usage or cost, reaches or exceeds the amount defined in the alert condition of the budget.

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Budget Alerts

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9
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Notify you when your Azure credit monetary commitments are consumed.

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Credit Alerts

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10
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Three ways to organize related resources.

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Subscriptions, Resource Groups, and Tags.

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11
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A resource tag consists of a _____ and a _____.

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name, value

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12
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Lets you standardize cloud subscription or environment deployments.

A

Azure Blueprints

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13
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Each component in the blueprint definition is known as an ________.

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Artifact

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14
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Is it possible for artifacts to have no additional parameters (configurations)?

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Yes

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15
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How do Azure Blueprints help monitor deployments?

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Because they are version-able

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16
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A service in Azure that enables you to create, assign, and manage policies that control or audit your resources. These policies enforce different rules across your resource configurations so that those configurations stay compliant with corporate standards.

A

Azure Policy

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17
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What do you call a group of related policies?

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An initiative

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18
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How are azure policies inherited?

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Policies can be set at any level (resource, resource group, subscription). If you set a policy at a parent level, all of its children inherit the policy,

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19
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Prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed.

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Resource Lock

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20
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Resource locks can be applied to what levels?

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Individual resources, resource groups, or even an entire subscription.

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21
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What are the two types of resource lock?

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Delete (Can be read and updated) and ReadOnly (Can only be read, not updated).

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22
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How do I delete or change a locked resource?

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Remove the lock first, then you can modify or delete the resource.

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23
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A browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell

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Azure Cloud Shell

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24
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Azure Cloud Shell supports…

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Azure Powershell and Azure CLI (Bash)

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25
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Besides the browser-based Azure Cloud Shell, how else can you use Azure Powershell?

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You can install and configure Azure PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and Mac

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26
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What is the main difference between Azure Powershell and Azure CLI?

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Syntax

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27
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The deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account

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Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

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28
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Demonstrating the Infrastructure as Code concept, allows you to describe the resources you want to use in a declarative JSON format.

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ARM Template

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29
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Evaluates your Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs.

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Azure Advisor

30
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This tool is designed to help you save time on cloud optimization.

A

Azure Advisor

31
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A broad picture of the status of Azure globally.

A

Azure Status

32
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Provides a narrower view of Azure services and regions than Azure Status. It focuses on the Azure services and regions you’re using.

A

Service Health

33
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What tool allows you to set up alerts to notify you when service issues, planned maintenance, or other changes may affect the Azure services and regions you use?

A

Service Health

34
Q

A tailored view of your actual Azure resources. It provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources, such as a specific virtual machine instance.

A

Resource Health

35
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A platform for collecting data on your resources, analyzing that data, visualizing the information, and even acting on the results.

A

Azure Monitor

36
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The tool in the Azure portal that allows you to write and run log queries on the data gathered by Azure Monitor.

A

Azure Log Analytics

37
Q

An automated way to stay informed when Azure Monitor detects a threshold being crossed. Can trigger on both log events and metrics.

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Azure Monitor Alerts

38
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An Azure Monitor feature that monitors your web applications. It is capable of monitoring applications that are running in Azure, on-premises, or in a different cloud environment.

A

Application Insights

39
Q

How long does a free account grant you access to select Azure products?

A

12 months

40
Q

How long does a free student account grant you access to select Azure products?

A

12 months

41
Q

A geographical area on the planet that contains at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are nearby and networked together with a low-latency network.

A

A region

42
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Physically separate datacenters within an Azure region. They are made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

A

Availability Zones

43
Q

Instances of Azure regions that are isolated from the main instance of Azure.

A

Sovereign Regions

44
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Anything you create, provision, deploy, etc. in Azure. (Virtual Machines (VMs), virtual networks, databases, cognitive services, etc.)

A

A resource

45
Q

When you create a resource, you’re required to place it into a _____ _____ .

A

resource group

46
Q

How many resource groups can a resource be in at a time?

A

One

47
Q

Can resource groups be nested?

A

No

48
Q

When you apply an action to a resource group, what happens?

A

That action is applied to all resources in that resource group.

(If you delete a resource group, all the resources will be deleted. If you grant or deny access to a resource group, you’ve granted or denied access to all the resources within the resource group.)

49
Q

These allow you to logically organize your resource groups and facilitate billing.

A

Subscriptions

50
Q

Required under your Azure account, it provides you with authenticated and authorized access to Azure products and services.

A

A subscription

51
Q

How many subscriptions is an account required to have?

A

One

52
Q

Azure applies access-management policies at the subscription level, and you can create separate subscriptions to reflect different organizational structures.

A

Access Control Boundary

53
Q

This subscription type determines how an Azure account is billed for using Azure. You can create multiple subscriptions for different types of billing requirements.

A

Billing Boundary

54
Q

You might create different subscriptions to separate access based on what three things?

A

Environments, organizational structure, or billing.

55
Q

Provide a level of scope above subscriptions, they provide a way to efficiently manage access, policies, and compliance for those subscriptions.

A

Management Groups

56
Q

How can you give a user access to multiple subscriptions?

A

Create a management group with multiple subscriptions, then assign the user to that group.

57
Q

A Virtual Machine is an example of IaaS, Paas, or Saas?

A

IaaS

58
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Lets you create and manage a group of identical, load-balanced VMs.

A

Virtual Machine scale sets

59
Q

Designed to ensure that VMs stagger updates and have varied power and network connectivity, preventing you from losing all your VMs with a single network or power failure.

A

Availability sets

60
Q

A desktop and application virtualization service that runs on the cloud.

A

Azure Virtual Desktop

61
Q

A lightweight virtualization environment that is a better alternative to VMs when used dynamically.

A

Containers

62
Q

This tool is ideal when you’re only concerned about the code running your service and not about the underlying platform or infrastructure.

A

Azure Function

63
Q

Enables you to build and host web apps, background jobs, mobile back-ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure.

A

Azure App Service

64
Q

Allows two virtual networks to connect directly to each other.

A

Virtual Network Peering. (VNet Peering)

65
Q

Is traffic between peered networks public or private?

A

Private, it never enters the public internet.

66
Q

How can you enable incoming connections to a resource from the internet?

A

By assigning a public IP address to an Azure resource or putting the resource behind a public load balancer.

67
Q

Provides a dedicated private connectivity to Azure that doesn’t travel over the internet. Useful for environments where you need greater bandwidth and even higher levels of security.

A

Azure ExpressRoute

68
Q

Gateways specify statically the IP address of packets that should be encrypted through each tunnel.

A

Policy-based VPN gateway

69
Q

IP routing (either static routes or dynamic routing protocols) decides which tunnel interface to use when sending each packet.

A

Route-based gateway

70
Q

In most cases, which type of VPN gateway should you use?

A

Route-based gateway

71
Q

Lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection.

A

Azure ExpressRoute