Azure Architecture and Services 2.1 Flashcards

Core components

1
Q

Describe Azure Geography

A

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

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2
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Describe Azure Regions

A

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

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3
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Azure Sovereign Regions

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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

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4
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Region Pairs

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

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5
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Management Groups

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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

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6
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Subscriptions

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

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7
Q

Why would I create multiple
subscriptions?

A

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

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8
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Resource Groups

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

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9
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Resources

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

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10
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Management Group

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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.

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11
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Subscriptions

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

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12
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Resource Groups

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A container that holds for
resources with a common lifecycle

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13
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Availability Zones

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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.

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14
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Azure Datacenters

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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.

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