Azure management and governance Flashcards
What are the cost affecting factors in Azure?
Subscription type
Resource type
Usage metrics
Configuration (How much CPU, OS)
Region
Reserved capacity
Bandwidth (free inbound, paid outbound)
What are the cost reducing options?
Reserved instances (paying upfront)
Spot pricing (bid for available capacity)
Hybrid benefit (combining on-premise licences with cloud)
Deleting unused resources
Deallocating unused VMs
Migrating from Iaas to Paas
What are Tags in Azure?
A feature for more complex categorization of resources. One resources has a name and multiple tags allowing grouping, filtering, analyzing. They are not inherited.
Your organization wants to analyze the actual costs of services that have been used in the last month. Which service do you recommend?
a) TCO calculator
b) Pricing calculator
c) Azure cost management and billing tool
d) Azure advisor
c) Azure cost management and billing tool
What are Azure policies?
Standards and compliance enforced by Azure.
What are Azure blueprints?
Defined packages of reusable resources used to rapidly build environments and ensure compliance and governance.
What are Azure Locks?
Protection from accidental deletion or modification. They are inherited and multiple locks can be applied.
What is Service Trust portal?
A website that provides all documents around how MS complies with regulations, compliance and security.
What is Azure Arc?
Hybrid and multi-cloud management solution, that allows projecting non-Azure and on-premise resources into Azure.
What are ARM templates?
JSON files containing resources configuration important for bulk deployment and redeployment.
What two components could you use to implement a “infrastructure as code” deployment?
a) Azure policy and Azure Arc
b) Bicep and ARM templates
c) Azure monitor and Azure Arc
b) Bicep and ARM templates
What are the 5 recommendation categories for Azure Advisor?
Reliability, Security, Performance, Operational Excellence and Cost
You receive an email notification that virtual machines (VMs) in an Azure region where you have VMs deployed is experiencing an outage. Which component of Azure Service Health will let you know if your application is impacted?
a) Azure status
b) Service health
c) Resource health
Resource Health. It is a tailored view of your actual Azure resources. It provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources.
