Azure Services

Question 1

Azure Express Route

Answer 1

Allows you to develop private connections between Azure datacenters and infrastructure on-prem or colocation

Question 2

Azure Load Balancer

Answer 2

A layer 4 load balancer that distributes incoming traffic among healthy virtual machine instances

Question 3

VNet Peering

Answer 3

Connects two VNets (virtual networks) through the Azure backbone network

Question 4

App Service Plan

Answer 4

Allows you to chose between a pre-configured VM with a runtime stack or Docker container to run an app

Question 5

Azure Web App

Answer 5

Web application service that allows you to build, deploy, and host web apps, mobile apps, and API apps

Question 6

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Answer 6

A PaaS that offers the ability to run a containerized application

Question 7

Virtual Machine (VM)

Answer 7

A software-based computer that runs on a physical computer. Azure VM’s are an IaaS offering that allows you to manage the OS and configuration

Question 8

Azure Stack

Answer 8

Allows users to run Azure services on-prem

Question 9

Availability Zone

Answer 9

A service that allows you to deploy two or more Azure services into two distinct datacenters within a region

Question 10

Management Group

Answer 10

A way to apply policies and access control to Azure resources

Question 11

Virtual Network

Answer 11

Allows Azure services to communicate with each other and the Internet

Question 12

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

Answer 12

Allows users to easily deploy multiple Azure resources at once. Declarative templates can be used instead of deployment scripts

Question 13

Resource Group

Answer 13

A logical container for Azure services

Question 14

Availability Set

Answer 14

Protects users from maintenance events and downtime caused by hardware failure