Azure Architecture and Services 2.1

Question 1

Describe Azure Geography

Answer 1

A discrete market, typically containing
two or more regions, that preserves data
residency and compliance boundaries

Question 2

Describe Azure Regions

Answer 2

A set of datacenters deployed within a
latency-defined perimeter and connected
through a dedicated regional low-latency
network.

Question 3

Azure Sovereign Regions

Answer 3

operated by special trustees.
Special regions that you might need to
for compliance or legal purposes:
Government (Fed govt, DoD), China.
physical and logical isolation

Question 4

Region Pairs

Answer 4

A relationship between 2 Azure Regions
within the same geographic region for
disaster recovery purposes.

Question 5

Management Groups

Answer 5

Management groups provide a level of
scope above subscriptions.
Each directory is given a single top-level
management group called the “Root”.
A boundary for management and application of policy

Question 6

Subscriptions

Answer 6

Subscription is a logical container used to
provision resources in Azure.

Question 7

Why would I create multiple
subscriptions?

Answer 7

when subscription limits are reached.
to use different payment methods.
to isolate resources between departments, projects, etc

Question 8

Resource Groups

Answer 8

A container that holds related resources for an Azure solution.
Used to group resources that share a common resource lifecycle.

Question 9

Resources

Answer 9

An entity managed by Azure, like
a virtual machine, virtual network, or
storage account.

Question 10

Management Group

Answer 10

Can be used to aggregate policy and
initiative assignments via Azure Policy.
Can contain multiple subscriptions.
All new subscriptions will be placed under
the root management group by default.

Question 11

Subscriptions

Answer 11

Are a unit of management, billing, and scale
within Azure.
Serve as a management boundary for assigning
Azure policies, governance, and isolation.

Question 12

Resource Groups

Answer 12

A container that holds for
resources with a common lifecycle

Question 13

Availability Zones

Answer 13

Unique physical locations within a region with independent
power, network, and cooling.
Comprised of one or more datacenters.
Tolerant to datacenter failures via redundancy and isolation.

Question 14

Azure Datacenters

Answer 14

Physical buildings that contain thousands of servers
and other hardware to provide cloud computing
services.
Azure datacenters are located all over the world
and are organized into regions.
Designed to be secure, reliable, and efficient,
leveraging economies of scale, multi-tenant.