AZ-900 Prep Flashcards
What factors impact OpEx costs?
Resource Type, Consumption, Maintenance, Geography, Subscription type, Azure Marketplace
The _____ _____ is designed to give you an estimated cost for provisioning resources in Azure
Pricing Calculator
The _____ is designed to help you compare the costs for running an on-premises infrastructure compared to an Azure Cloud infrastructure
TCO calculator
What is the difference between the Pricing Calculator and the TCO Calculator?
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.
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.
Cost Management
A subset of Cost Management that provides a quick visual for your Azure costs and allows you to identify expense trends.
Cost Analysis
What are the three types of Cost Alerts?
Budget alerts, Credit alerts, and Department spending quota alerts.
Notify you when spending, based on usage or cost, reaches or exceeds the amount defined in the alert condition of the budget.
Budget Alerts
Notify you when your Azure credit monetary commitments are consumed.
Credit Alerts
Three ways to organize related resources.
Subscriptions, Resource Groups, and Tags.
A resource tag consists of a _____ and a _____.
name, value
Lets you standardize cloud subscription or environment deployments.
Azure Blueprints
Each component in the blueprint definition is known as an ________.
Artifact
Is it possible for artifacts to have no additional parameters (configurations)?
Yes
How do Azure Blueprints help monitor deployments?
Because they are version-able
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.
Azure Policy
What do you call a group of related policies?
An initiative
How are azure policies inherited?
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,
Prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed.
Resource Lock
Resource locks can be applied to what levels?
Individual resources, resource groups, or even an entire subscription.
What are the two types of resource lock?
Delete (Can be read and updated) and ReadOnly (Can only be read, not updated).
How do I delete or change a locked resource?
Remove the lock first, then you can modify or delete the resource.
A browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell supports…
Azure Powershell and Azure CLI (Bash)
Besides the browser-based Azure Cloud Shell, how else can you use Azure Powershell?
You can install and configure Azure PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and Mac
What is the main difference between Azure Powershell and Azure CLI?
Syntax
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
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Demonstrating the Infrastructure as Code concept, allows you to describe the resources you want to use in a declarative JSON format.
ARM Template