Azure Management Flashcards
What is the Azure Resource Manager (ARM)?
A managment tool that allows you to create, update and delete resources in your azure subscription. It manages all your resources and resource groups.
What notation does ARM use to create/update/delete resources?
JSON
What are ARM Templates?
They are already existing templates of resources or resource groups that define the data that can be used to create and deploy more similar resources.
Why should you use ARM Templates?
It makes deployment faster and easier since you don’t have to define the data for every single resource deployment, just one.
What is Azure Arc?
It management tool for On prem resources and environments.
What is the difference between Azure Resource Manager and Azure Arc?
ARM is used for cloud resources, while Arc is for On prem.
What is Azure Advisor?
A Tool that evaluates and analyses deployed resources and makes recommendations to optimize your resources.
What does Azure Advisor provide recommendations about for resources?
Reliability
Security
Performance
Cost
Operational Excellence
What is Azure Service Health?
A collection of services that provide data on the status your resources and things that could affect said status. It also provides data on general azure status and service status.
TRUE OR FALSE: Azure Service Health informs you about outages in specific azure datacentres/regions that could affect your resources.
TRUE
This is something that could affect the status of your resource, so Azure Service Health with report on it to notify you beforehand.
What is Azure Monitor?
A tool that monitors the availability and performance of applications of services by collecting, analysing and acting on telemetry from both cloud and on prem environments.
Where is the log and history stored for your azure resources?
Azure Monitor
List the data can Azure Monitor provide.
- Application insights
- Logs and log analytics
- Smart Alerts
- Automation Alerts
TRUE OR FALSE: Azure Service Health can provide alerts.
TRUE
It can provide alerts for specific scenarios or status changes.
What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?
A service that allows you to run applications in containers.