Azure Management & Governance Flashcards
What lets you standardise cloud subscription or environment deployments?
Azure Blueprints
What lets you deploy a new Test/Dev environment with security and compliance settings already configured?
Azure Blueprints
Each component in a blueprint definition is known as what?
An artifact
What is a service in Azure that enables you to create, assign, and manage policies that control or audit your resources?
Azure Policy
What is a way of grouping related policies together?
An Azure Policy initiative
What prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed?
A resource lock
What are the two types of resource lock?
Delete and ReadOnly
What provides access to various content, tools, and other resources about Microsoft security, privacy, and compliance practices?
The Microsoft Service Trust Portal
How many parameters does an Azure Blueprint Artifact need to be valid?
0
How can you prevent non-compliant resources from being created, without having to manually evaluate each resource as it’s created?
Azure Policy
What lets you purchase Azure-based solutions and services from third-party vendors?
Azure Marketplace
What is designed to give you an estimated cost for provisioning resources in Azure?
The pricing calculator
What is designed to help you compare the costs for running an on-premises infrastructure compared to an Azure Cloud infrastructure?
The TCO calculator
What provides the ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on resource spend, and create budgets that can be used to automate management of resources?
Cost Management
What provide a single location to quickly check on all of the different alert types that may show up in the Cost Management service?
Cost alerts
What are the three types of cost alert?
Budget alerts
Credit alerts
Department spending quota alerts.
What Azure feature can help stay organized and track usage based on metadata associated with resources?
Tags
What’s the best method to estimate the cost of migrating to the cloud while incurring minimal costs?
Use the Total Cost of Ownership calculator to estimate expected costs.
What evaluates your Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs?
Azure Advisor
What helps you keep track of Azure resource, both your specifically deployed resources and the overall status of Azure?
Azure Service Health
What is a global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure region?
Azure Status
What can notify you when service issues, planned maintenance, or other changes may affect the Azure services and regions you use?
Service Health
What provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources, such as a specific virtual machine instance?
Resource Health
What is a platform for collecting data on your resources, analyzing that data, visualizing the information, and even acting on the results?
Azure Monitor
What can monitor Azure resources, your on-premises resources, and even multi-cloud resources like virtual machines hosted with a different cloud provider?
Azure Monitor
What is the tool in the Azure portal where you’ll write and run log queries on the data gathered by Azure Monitor?
Azure Log Analytics
What are an automated way to stay informed when Azure Monitor detects a threshold being crossed?
Azure Monitor Alerts
Which is not one of the recommendation categories for Azure Advisor?
Reliability
Capacity
Cost
Capacity
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?
Resource health
What is a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools?
Azure portal
What is a browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell?
Azure Cloud Shell
What is a shell with which developers, DevOps, and IT professionals can run commands called command-lets (cmdlets)?
Azure PowerShell
What is functionally equivalent to Azure PowerShell, with the primary difference being the syntax of commands?
Azure CLI
What simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multi-cloud and on-premises management platform?
Azure Arc
What is the deployment and management service for Azure?
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
What service helps you manage your Azure, on-premises, and multi-cloud environments?
Azure Arc
What two components could you use to implement a “infrastructure as code” deployment?
Azure Blueprints and ARM Templates
