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?
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