Azure Practice Flashcards
What are two basic services provided by all cloud providers? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Storage
2) Compute
What are two characteristics of a consumption-based model? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) No upfront costs
2) the ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer needed.
What is an advantage of cloud computing compared to on-premises deployments?
You can scale more quickly.
[Answer choice] refers to upfront costs incurred one time, such as hardware purchases.
Capital Expenditures (CapEx)
Which cloud deployment model are you using if you have servers physically located at your organization’s on-site datacenter, and you migrate a few of the servers to the cloud?
Hybrid Cloud
Increasing compute capacity for an app by adding RAM or CPUs to a virtual machine is called [answer choice].
Vertical Scaling
Deploying and configuring cloud-based resources quickly as business requirements change is called [answer choice].
Agility
Increasing compute capacity for an app by adding instances of resources such as virtual machines is called [answer choice].
Horizontal Scaling
In cloud computing, [answer choice] allows you to deploy applications to regional datacenters around the world
Geo-location
Increasing the capacity of an application by adding additional virtual machine is called [answer choice].
Horizontal Scaling
Which cloud service model provides you with the most control over the hardware that runs applications?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
In a platform as a service (PaaS) model, which two components are the responsibility of the cloud service provider? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Operating System
2) Physical Network
Your organization is building a custom application. You need to focus on application development rather than configuration and management of servers. Which cloud service model should you use?
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
What uses the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud service model?
Azure Virtual Machines
[Answer choice] is the logical container used to combine and organize Azure resources.
A resource group.
[Answer choice] are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region.
Availability zones
Which two components are created in an Azure subscription? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Resources
2) Resource Groups
Which Azure resource is a software emulation of a physical computer that includes a virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources?
A virtual machine
Which Azure compute service can you use to deploy and manage a set of identical virtual machines?
Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
What can you use to execute code in a serverless environment?
Azure Functions
You need to allow resources on two different Azure virtual networks to communicate with each other. What should you configure?
Peering
What are two services that allow you to run applications in containers? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Azure Container Instances
2) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Which storage service should you use to store thousands of files containing text and images?
Azure Blob Storage
Which Azure Blob storage tier stores data offline and offers the lowest storage costs and the highest costs to access data?
Archive
Which two scenarios are common use cases for Azure Blob storage? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Serving images or documents directly to a browser
2) Storing data for backup and restore
Which Azure Storage service should you use to store unstructured files, such as images, that will be served on webpages?
Azure Blob Storage
Which two protocols are used to access Azure file shares? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Network File System (NFS)
2) Server Message Block (SMB)
What enables a user to sign in one time and use that credential to access multiple resources and applications from different providers?
Single sign-on (SSO)
What can you use to ensure that a user can only access applications from compliant devices?
Conditional Access
Which type of strategy uses a series of mechanisms to slow the advancement of an attack that aims to gain unauthorized access to data?
Defense in depth
What Azure AD feature can you use to configure security authentication that requires users to use their mobile phone to sign in?
Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
What Azure AD feature can you use to ensure that users can only access Microsoft Office 365 applications from approved client applications?
Conditional Access
What can you use to ensure that users authenticate by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) when they attempt to sign in from a specific location?
Conditional Access
Which two factors affect Azure costs? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Resource Usage
2) Resource Location
Which two scenarios are common billing use cases for resource tags? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Associating costs with different environments
2) Categorizing costs by department
Which two features are available by using Azure Cost Management + Billing? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Create & manage budgets
2) Generate historical reports & forecast future usage
You need to associate the costs of resources to different groups within an organization without changing the location of the resources. What should you use?
Resource tags
What can you use to ensure that new and existing Azure resources stay in compliance with corporate standards?
Azure Policy
What can you use to define the resources you want to provision in a declarative JSON format?
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
Which management layer accepts requests from any Azure tool or API and enables you to create, update, and delete resources in an Azure account?
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Which two tools are accessible via Azure Cloud Shell and allows you to write Bash scripts to manage an Azure environment?
1) Azure CLI
2) Azure PowerShell
What should you use to access Azure Cloud Shell?
A web browser
What can you use to manage servers across cloud platforms and on-premises environments?
Azure Arc
You have a team of Linux administrators that need to manage the resources in Azure. The team wants to use the Bash shell to perform the administration. What should you recommend?
Azure CLI
You need to be notified when there are new recommendations for reducing Azure costs. Which tool should you use?
Azure Advisor
You need to create a custom solution that uses thresholds to trigger autoscaling functionality to scale an app up or down to meet user demand. What should you include in the solution?
Azure Monitor
What should you proactively review and act on to avoid service interruptions, such as service retirements and breaking changes?
Health advisories
What can you use to automatically detect performance anomalies for web apps?
Azure Application Insights
Which Azure service can generate an alert if virtual machine utilization is over 80% for five minutes?
Azure Monitor
What can you use to find information about planned maintenance for Azure services that are critical to your organization?
Azure Service Health
Which two factors affect Azure costs? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Resource location
2) Resource usage
You need to compare the costs of running an application in an on-premises datacenter with the costs of running the application in Azure. What should you use to assist you?
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator
What can you use to ensure that a development team can only create virtual machines of a certain size?
Azure Policy
Which two actions can be performed by using the graphical user interface (GUI) in the Azure portal?
1) Create new resources
2) Review a graphical view of all the services you are using
What provides recommendations to reduce the cost of Azure resources?
Azure Advisor
You need to review the root cause analysis (RCA) report for a service outage that occurred last week. Where should you look for the report?
Azure Service Health
What can you apply to an Azure virtual machine to ensure that users cannot change or delete the resource?
A lock
Which feature in the Microsoft Purview governance portal should you use to manage access to data sources and datasets?
Data Policy
Which two attributes are characteristics of the private cloud deployment model? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Hardware must be purchased.
2) The company has complete control over physical resources and security.
Which two characteristics are common advantages of cloud computing? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Geo-distribution
2) High availability
An example of[answer choice]is automatically scaling an application to ensure that the application has the resources needed to meet customer demands.
Elasticity
In which two deployment models are customers responsible for managing operating systems that host applications?
1) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
2) On-premises
Which type of cloud service model is typically licensed through a monthly or annual subscription?
Software as a Service (SaaS)
What is the customer responsible for in a software as a service (SaaS) model?
Data and access
In a region pair, a region is paired with another region in the same[answer choice].
Geography
For which resource does Azure generate separate billing reports and invoices by default?
Subscriptions
Which resource can you use to manage access, policies, and compliance across multiple subscriptions?
Management groups
Which two services can you use to establish network connectivity between an on-premises network and Azure resources?
1) Azure VPN Gateway
2) ExpressRoute
What can you use to provide Mac and Android users with access to a Windows environment that will run Windows-based applications?
Azure Virtual Desktop
Which Azure Blob storage service tier has the highest storage costs and the fastest access times for reading and writing data?
Hot
What can you use to allow a user to manage all the resources in a resource group?
Azure role-based access control (RBAC)
Which two services are provided by Azure AD?
1) Authentication
2) Single sign-on (SSO)
What can you use to sync identities from an on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domain to Azure AD?
Azure AD Connect
You have an Azure virtual machine that is accessed only between 9:00 and 17:00 each day. What should you do to minimize costs but preserve the associated hard disks and data?
Deallocate the virtual machine
What can you use to restrict the deployment of a virtual machine to a specific location?
Azure Policy
What can you use to create resources in Azure and includes a validation step to ensure all resources are created in a specific order based on dependencies, in parallel and idempotent?
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
Which Azure component allows you to replicate resources across a geography to ensure business continuity during a natural disaster at the primary site?
Region pairs
[Answer choice]is the deployment and management service for Azure.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Which two Azure resources can make use of availability zones?
1) Azure SQL Databases
2) Virtual Machines
To which object or level is an Azure role-based access control (RBAC) role applied?
Scope
What are cloud-based backup services, data replication, and geo-distribution features of?
A disaster recovery plan
What is high availability in a public cloud environment dependent on?
The service-level agreement (SLA) that you choose
In which cloud service model is the customer responsible for managing the operating system?
Infrastructure as a service (Iaas)
Which cloud service model is used by Azure SQL Database?
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Which type of cloud service are virtual networks?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
You plan to build a new solution in Azure that will use platform as a service (PaaS) products. What should you use to estimate the monthly costs?
Azure pricing calculator
You need to recommend a solution for Azure virtual machine deployments. The solution must enforce company standards on the virtual machines. What should you include in the recommendation?
Azure Policy
You need to ensure that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled on accounts with write permissions in an Azure subscription. What should you implement?
Azure Policy
What is an Azure Storage account named storage001 an example of?
A resource
Which scenario is a use case for a VPN gateway?
Connecting an on-premises datacenter to an Azure virtual network
Which storage service offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible by using Server Message Block (SMB) protocol?
Azure Files
What is the purpose of defense in depth?
To use several layers of protection to prevent information from being accessed by unauthorized users
What are two characteristics of the public cloud deployment model? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.
1) Servers and storage are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service provider.
2) Services are offered over the internet and are available to anyone who wants to purchase them.
Why is cloud computing often less expensive than on-premises datacenters?
You are only billed for what you use.
