Azure Web Apps

Question 1

Four benefits of App Service Plans

Answer 1

(1) Http based service for hosting web apps
(2) Security, load balancing and automation
(3) Apps scale and run on either Windows or Linux\
(4) Costs are determined by the app service plan

Question 2

What are the App Plans for non-isolation

Answer 2

Free
Basic
Standard
Premium
Premium Plus

Question 3

Benefits are the six benefits of isolated environment

Answer 3

(1) Full isolated and dedicated environment
(2) Can put in own VNet
(3) High scale and high memory utilization
(4) Isolation and secure network access
(5) Fine-grained control over network traffic
(6) Apps can connect over VPN to on-premises resources

Question 4

Eight basic steps to provision a Web App in Azure Portal

Answer 4

(1) Select subscription
(2) Create or use an existing resource group
(3) Name
(4) Publish (code or docker)
(5) Runtime Stack
(6) Operating System
(7) Region
(8) App Service Plan (SKU and Size)

Question 5

Steps to create a Web App using the Azure CLI

Answer 5

(1) Create the resource group and select region
az group create –name my-rg –location eastus2
(2) Create the app service plan
az appservice plan create
–name –location
[–is-linux –sku]
(3) Create the web app
az webapp create –name –plan –resource-group
[–runtime]

Question 6

Powershell main commands for creating a web app

Answer 6

New-AzResourceGroup -Name $rgname -Location $location
New-AzAppServicePlan -Name $appname -Location $location
New-AzWebApp -Name $appname -Location $location
-AppServicePlan $appname -ResourceGroupName $rgname

Question 7

Benefits of ARM templates (name at least 7 of 14)

Answer 7

(1) Declarative Syntax
(2) Repeatable Results
(3) Orchestration
Deploys interdependent resources are created in right order
Resource Manager will deploy resources in parallel
(4) Create any Azure Resource
(5) Extensibility
Can embed PowerShell or Bash scripts
(6) Testing
Can test in the ARM Template Tool Kit
(7) Preview Changes (what-if operation)
(8) Built-in validation
Template(s) will only run by the RM if passes validations
(9) Track Deployments
Get history of deployments including template, parameters passed in and output
(10) Policy as code
(11) Deployment Blueprints (pre-built templates with security and complience)
(12) CI/CD Integration
(13) Exportable Code
(14) Authoring Tools (Azure Studio Code)

Question 8

Powershell commands for deploying an ARM Template

Answer 8

(1) New-AzResourceGroup -Name $rgname -Location $location
(2) New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName $rgname
-TemplateUri {url}

Question 9

Azure CLI commands for deploying an ARM Template

Answer 9

(1) az group create –name $rgname –location $location
(2) az group deployment create –resource-group $rgname –template-url {url}

Question 10

Difference between managed and unmanaged certificates

Answer 10

Managed are certificates that are backed by a trusted certificate provider and then mapped to your domain.
Unmanaged are self signed certificates you can create your self.

Question 11

SSL/TSL Bindings are available for these plan types

Answer 11

Basic, Standard and Premium(s)
(Free or Shared not available)

Question 12

Steps to set up a certificate
(Need to Complete)

Answer 12

(1) Under App Service, go to Custom Domains
(2)

Question 13

Types of Diagnostic Logging

Answer 13

(1) Application Logging
(2) Web Server Logging
(3) Detailed Error Measage
(4) Failed Request Tracing
(5) Deployment Logging

Application Logging - Critical, Errors and Warnings. Can store on file share or Azre Storage

Question 14

Repositories that Continous Deployment Configuration in Azure

Answer 14

(1) GitHub
(2) Bitbucket
(3) Azure Repos

Question 15

Types of Scaling

Answer 15

(1) Scaling Veritically
(2) Scaling Horizontally

Know the difference. Also manual and auto scaling and auto scaling types (metric(s) or scheduled