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Explain an Azure Availability Set?

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An Azure Availability Set is a logical grouping of VMs that helps maintain availability during hardware failures or system updates. The availability sets virtual machines across the fault and updates domains.

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How do Azure Availability Sets improve availability?

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Ensures VMs are distributed across multiple fault domains and update domains, reducing the impact of hardware failures or planned maintenance.

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What is fault domain in an Availability Set?

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A fault domain is a physical location within a datacenter, representing a group of VMs that share a common power source and network switch.

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What is an update domain in an Availability Set?

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An update domain is a group of VMs that can undergo reboot or maintenance simultaneously to ensure service continuity.

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How many fault domains can an Availability Set have?

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Availability Sets can have up to 3 fault domains.

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How many update domains can an Availability Set have?

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Availability Sets can have up to 20 update domains.

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Can a VM belong to an Availability Set and Scale set simultaneously?

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No, they serve different products

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For a Availability Set what does an update domain represent?

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It represents a group of VMs that may be rebooted at the same time during maintenance.

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How do Availability Sets protect against hardware failures?

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By distributing VMs across fault domains, they minimize the impact of hardware failures.

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How do Availability Sets help during planned maintenance?

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By distributing VMs across update domains, they ensure not all VMs are rebooted at the same time during maintenance.

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Can Availability Sets span across multiple regions?

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No, Availability Sets are confined to a single region within Azure.

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What is the recommended use case for Availability Sets?

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Availability Sets are ideal for workloads that require high availability within a single region.

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Do Availability Sets provide disaster recovery?

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No, Availability Sets do not provide disaster recovery; they only improve availability within a single region.

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Can VMs in an Availability Set be scaled using Virtual Machine Scale Sets?

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No.

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Explain Availability Sets

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Availability Sets distribute VMs within a zone into the fault domain in the zone.

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What is the primary use of Azure Scale Sets?

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To deploy and manage a group of identical, load-balanced VMs.

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What feature of Scale Sets ensures high availability?

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Automatic distribution of VMs across fault and update domains.

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How does Scale Sets enable elastic scalability?

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By automatically increasing or decreasing the number of VMs based on demand.

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What is a common use case for Scale Sets?

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Hosting large-scale stateless applications, containerized workloads, and microservices.

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What feature does Scale Sets support to reduce costs?

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Integration with Spot VMs to use surplus capacity at lower cost.

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How do Azure Scale Sets integrate with load balancing?

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They work with Azure Load Balancer to distribute incoming traffic across VMs.

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What types of disks are supported in Scale Sets?

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Managed Disks, including Standard HDD, Standard SSD, and Premium SSD.

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How do Scale Sets improve resilience?

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They support automatic OS and application updates without downtime.

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What network configurations can Scale Sets use?

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They support both public and private virtual network configurations.

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How do Scale Sets handle scaling policies?

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They can scale based on custom metrics, scheduled events, or CPU usage.

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What is the maximum number of VMs a Scale Set can have?

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Up to 1,000 VMs when using managed disks.

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Can Azure Scale Sets work with virtual machine extensions?

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Yes, they support extensions to install and configure software after deployment.

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How does Scale Sets integrate with Azure monitoring?

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It integrates with Azure Monitor to provide performance metrics and logs.

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What is the role of health probes in Azure Scale Sets?

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They ensure traffic is only directed to healthy VMs in the set.

30
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Can Azure Scale Sets be used with containers?

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Yes, they support Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for container orchestration.

31
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What is an Azure Placement Group?

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An Azure Placement Group is a logical grouping used for distributing virtual machines in availability sets or scale sets across different fault domains and update domains.

32
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How many VMs can be placed in a single placement group for an availability set?

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Up to 100 VMs can be placed in a single placement group for an availability set.

33
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What is the purpose of using Azure Placement Groups?

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The purpose is to ensure high availability by distributing VMs across fault domains and update domains.

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Can Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets span multiple placement groups?

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Yes, scale sets can span multiple placement groups to support more than 100 VMs.

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What is the fault domain and update domain alignment within a placement group?

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Each placement group ensures that VMs are distributed across the same fault domains and update domains.

36
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How do placement groups impact VM performance?

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Placement groups can reduce network latency by keeping related VMs close together in the same physical server group.

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Can placement groups be used for both Azure VMs and scale sets?

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Yes, placement groups are used for both Azure VMs in availability sets and in Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

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What is the benefit of using placement groups in terms of networking latency?

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By placing VMs in the same group, networking latency between the VMs can be minimized.

39
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How does Azure handle VM failures within a placement group?

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Azure attempts to restart failed VMs within the same placement group to maintain high availability.

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Can you control placement group distribution for VMs in the portal?

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Yes, placement group distribution can be controlled in the Azure portal during the VM configuration.

41
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What is the max fault domain count in a placement group?

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The max fault domain count in a placement group is 3 for availability sets.

42
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How does placement group placement affect zonal availability?

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Placement group alignment ensures that VMs in the same group are available across zones in zonal deployments.

43
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What is the relationship between a placement group and a load balancer?

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A load balancer can be associated with VMs in a placement group to distribute traffic across fault and update domains.

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How do you configure placement groups for zonal deployments?

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To configure placement groups for zonal deployments, you need to specify the zone during the deployment of the scale set or VM.

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What are the key considerations when using placement groups in a large scale set?

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When using placement groups in a large scale set, ensure you properly distribute instances across groups to avoid fault domain and update domain saturation.

46
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What is an Azure Availability Zone?

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An Azure Availability Zone is a physically separate location within an Azure region, designed to provide high availability and fault isolation.

47
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How do Azure Availability Sets differ from Availability Zones?

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Availability Sets are specific to a single data center in a region, while Availability Zones are physically separated locations within a region.

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What are the main components of an Azure Region?

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An Azure Region is a set of data centers located within a specific geographic area, linked through a low-latency network.

49
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How does Azure define Fault Domains?

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Fault Domains are a logical group of hardware that share a common power source and network switch, helping isolate failures.

50
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What is the purpose of Update Domains in Azure?

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Update Domains ensure that only a portion of the VMs in a service are rebooted during planned maintenance events.

51
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How do Fault Domains enhance availability?

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Fault Domains provide physical isolation of workloads across different racks in a data center, reducing the impact of localized failures.

52
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What is the difference between Fault Domains and Update Domains?

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Fault Domains isolate failures in hardware, while Update Domains stagger updates to prevent downtime from affecting all resources simultaneously.

53
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How do Azure Regions help with disaster recovery?

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Azure Regions enable disaster recovery by allowing workloads to be replicated or failed over to another region in the event of a regional outage.

54
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What is the benefit of using Availability Zones for durability?

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Availability Zones provide durability by distributing resources across physically separate locations, reducing the risk of localized failures.

55
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How do Availability Sets help maintain service availability?

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Availability Sets protect applications from hardware failures by distributing VMs across multiple Fault and Update Domains within a data center.

56
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What is the purpose of zonal and regional architecture in Azure?

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Zonal and regional architecture in Azure helps to increase availability and disaster recovery by distributing services across multiple zones or regions.

57
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How does Azure ensure high availability for VMs?

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Azure ensures high availability for VMs by distributing them across Availability Zones, Availability Sets, and Update/Fault Domains.

58
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What are the key features of Azure for disaster recovery?

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Key features include replication, geographic distribution, and failover capabilities through Availability Zones, Regions, and paired regions.

59
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How does Azure infrastructure manage hardware failures?

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Azure manages hardware failures through Fault Domains, Availability Sets, and automated VM recovery processes.

60
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What is the relationship between Availability Zones and Regions?

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Availability Zones are separate locations within a Region, providing redundancy, while Regions are larger geographic clusters of multiple data centers.

61
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Describe the logical constructs that make up a region in Azure?

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  1. Region
  2. Availability Zones
  3. Fault zones
  4. Update zones
62
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Within an Azure region, we have Zones; what are the logical units thet make up the zones?

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  1. Fault Zone
  2. Update Zone
63
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If I have an Azure Availability Set with two fault domains, three Update domains, and nine virtual machines during a planned maintenance, how many VM are still working?

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Six

64
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If I have an Azure Availability Set with two fault domains, three update domains, and nine virtual machines during a fault zone failure maintenance, how many VM are still working?

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Six

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