Azure in Bullet Points (GitHub | https://github.com/undergroundwires/Azure-in-bullet-points/tree/master/AZ-104%20Microsoft%20Azure%20Administrator)

Question 1

Azure Cloud Shell

Answer 1

Browser Accessible Shell for Managing Azure Resources
Can provide Bash or PowerShell
When you open it for the first time, it creates a new storage account called azcloudshell and some numbers. It then also creates a file share that stores your user information.
This is an interactive, authenticated, browser accessible terminal for managing Azure Resources.

Question 2

Resource Tagging

Answer 2

Tags are metadata elements that you apply to your Azure resources.
They are key value pairs that help you identify resources based on settings that are relevant to your organization.
If you want to track the deployment environment for your resources, add a key named Environment.
Child Resources do not inherit resource group tags
You can search for Tags and see filtered lists
In the portal, resources are tagged after resources is created as opposed to PowerShell/CLI

Question 3

ARM Consumption API

Answer 3

Returns usage details
Supported only in Enterprise enrollments and Web Direct Subscriptions
Available through CLI and different SDKs

Question 4

Azure Pricing Calculator

Answer 4

Azure Pricing Calculator can help you understand the costs of moving workloads to the Azure Cloud.
It estimates Azure pricing once all your data and applications are in Azure

Question 5

Azure Advisor

Answer 5

Azure Advisor offers actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance and costs. Do more with less. Reduce costs, increase efficiency, and accelerate growth with Azure
It can help identify wastage such as idle VMs, DBs. You can then configure automatic shutdown in VMs

It also provides recommendations about security, high availability, performance.
Can also provide cost recommendations

Question 6

Subscription Blade

Answer 6

This is the navigation model in the Azure portal is built around the concept of blades. Blades are the visualization elements used to describe a resource or to display a form as part of a workflow

This can assist in cost analysis where you can filter by tags
Invoices
Download usage details
Transfer/cancel subscription
Set up billing alerts

Question 7

Azure Resource Providers

Answer 7

This is a collect of REST operations that provide functionality for an Azure service.
For example, the Key Vault service consists of a resource provider named Microsoft KeyVault. The resource provider defines REST operations for working with vaults, secrets, keys and certs