Business continuity

Question 1

Overview

Answer 1

1) Evaluate hybrid and Azure-hosted architectures for Microsoft System Center deployment
2) Design a monitoring strategy
3) Design Azure business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities
4) Design a disaster recovery strategy
5) Design Azure Automation and PowerShell workflows
6) Describe the use cases for Azure Automation configuration

Question 2

Evaluate hybrid and Azure-hosted architectures

Answer 2

1) Understanding System Center components supported in Azure.
2) Design considerations for managing Azure resources with System Center.
3) Understanding which scenarios dictate a hybrid scenario.

Question 3

System Center components supported in Azure

Answer 3

1) Operations Manager
2) Configuration Manager
3) Virtual Machine Manager
4) Orchestrator
5) Data Protection Manager
6) Service Manager
7) App Controller
8) Endpoint Protection

Question 4

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Answer 4

1) configure and manage your virtualization hosts, networking, and storage resources.
2) single view into all virtualization and cloud infrastructure and resources.
3) Microsoft Hyper-V, ESX, and XenServer hosts, as well as Azure cloud resources

Question 5

System Center Virtual Machine Manager work

Answer 5

1) deploy resources
2) create and manage private and public clouds and their resources.
3) It uses template-driven workload deployment
4) Virtual Machine Manager Integrates directly with Azure and is a conduit for other components to integrate with Azure.

Question 6

System Center Orchestrator

Answer 6

1) Orchestrator is a workflow management solution for the datacenter
2) you can automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in your environment
3) execution arm of moving and changing configurations of systems

Question 7

System Center Orchestrator uses

Answer 7

1) create runbooks with which you can execute management tasks on and between systems
2) integrates with other System Center components so that it can be the execution arm, performing actions on behalf of other components

Question 8

Data Protection Manager

Answer 8

1) enterprise backup system
2) supports bare-metal restores and restores to alternate systems
3) integrates directly with Azure by downloading, installing, and configuring the Azure Online Backup Agent on the Data Protection Manager server

Question 9

System Center Configuration Manager

Answer 9

1) deploy software, drivers, and configuration settings to VMs
2) You can now add a Cloud Distribution Point. This means that you can upload updates and software to Azure directly;
3) you simply need to set up certificate authentication with Azure and configure the distribution point.

Question 10

Microsoft Intune.

Answer 10

1) Intune is Microsoft Software as a Service (SaaS) product offerings.
2) a software deployment and configuration management service.
3) make configuration changes, if VMs are accessible through a technology such as VPN access.
4) not considered direct integration
5) the cloud distribution point is considered direct integration.

Question 11

System Center App Controller

Answer 11

1) self-service environment to configure, deploy, and manage VMs and services across private and public clouds
2) Using App Controller and Virtual Machine Manager, you can take a template of a machine on-premises datacenter, stage it in App Controller, and then deploy it into Azure.
3) App Controller integrates directly with Azure by configuring a Public Cloud Connector

Question 12

System Center Service Manager

Answer 12

1) integrated database management system (DBMS) platform for automating and adapting your organization’s IT service management best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

Question 13

Service Manager options

Answer 13

1) provides a service catalog, self-service request portal, release and Service Level Agreement (SLA) management, data warehousing and reporting, and incident and change requests.
2) Central repository to track automations and tasks generated from other elements of System Center.

Question 14

Service Manager connectivity

Answer 14

does not connect directly to Azure. All connectivity from Service Manager is done through other System Center components.

Question 15

System Center Operations Manager

Answer 15

1) monitor services, devices, and even some applications from a single console.
2) It includes dashboard capabilities with rollup and drill-down for services running on a computer or device.

Question 16

monitoring with or without an agent

Answer 16

1) Agent monitoring provides much greater insight than agentless monitoring.
2) Agentless monitoring, or monitoring via ICMP or SNMP, is run from an Operations Manager server querying the device.

Question 17

Monitoring dashboad

Answer 17

1) built-in dashboards and the capability to create your own dashboards to get a fully customized view of your environment.
2) can show state, health, and performance information at a very detailed level.
3) It can also generate alerts on availability, performance, configuration or even security situations.

Question 18

System Center Endpoint Protection

Answer 18

1) security solution for the Microsoft platform that provides malware protection, identification, and remediation.
2) There is no direct integration with Azure
3) security capabilities built in to Endpoint Protection are available as a service in Azure VMs.

Question 19

Design a monitoring strategy

Answer 19

1) Monitoring Azure solutions
2) Capabilities of System Center
3) built-in Azure capabilities
4) third-party monitoring tools, including open source
5) use-cases for Operations Manager, Global Service Monitor, and Application Insights
6) use-cases for WSUS, Configuration Manager, and custom solutions
7) Azure architecture constructs, such as availability groups and update domains, and how they impact a patching strategy

Question 20

products and services for monitoring Azure solutions

Answer 20

1) two portals
2) Azure Monitor and Diagnostic Service (built in portals)
3) get monitoring information from the Azure Management APIs

Question 21

Other monitoring products

Answer 21

1) Operations Manager (add Azure Management Pack)
2) Virtual Machine Manager and System Center App Controller
3) Configuration Manager along with WSUS can monitor and manage software updates and deploy new updates

Question 22

Identify third-party monitoring tools, including open source

Answer 22

1) CloudNinja Metering Block
2) New Relic
3) AzureWatch
4) AppDynamics

Question 23

Global Service Monitor

Answer 23

is an Azure cloud service used to monitor availability of a public website from multiple external points.

Question 24

WSUS

Answer 24

1) apply application updates and patches to Vms
2) unified management and monitoring capabilities
3) auto-approve process for updates that can be configured

Question 25

Software Distribution Point in Azure

Answer 25

all of the servers and all of the clients, both on-premises and remote, will now download their updates from the software distribution point in Azure. This means that all the servers and users in your corporate headquarters will be downloading updates over the Site-to-Site VPN.

Question 26

Fault Domain

Answer 26

1) physical layer of a service or deployment
2) includes everything that makes up a Single Point of Failure (SPoF) for a system
3) do not have the ability to set or change a particular fault domain
4) Availability Set to force servers and services into different Fault Domains

Question 27

Azure Apps or App Service Web Apps availability set

Answer 27

1) managed by an Update Domain
2) logical grouping of role services that defines separation between services.
3) Different from an Availability
4) it has no impact on Fault Domain allocation.

Question 28

Update Domain configuration

Answer 28

1) configured in the service definition file (.csdef) by changing the UpgradeDomainCount variable.
2) maximum of 20 update domains per role service
3) the default is set to 5 per service

Question 29

patches or upgrades

Answer 29

1) they are applied within a single Update Domain.
2) When that Update Domain is finished, Azure moves on to the next one
3) The more Update Domains you have, the less of a burden or probability of failure during an update.
4) longer it will take to perform the updates because they are done sequentially.

Question 30

virtual IP (VIP) swap

Answer 30

1) best practice to use the VIP swap to deploy your application update, which gives you the opportunity to test your application.
2) It also gives you the ability to roll-back the update very easily by doing the VIP swap again to bring back the prior version of the application.

Question 31

Recovery Point Objective

Answer 31

What is an acceptable amount of data loss? How many minutes, hours, or days of data can your business afford to lose in case of a disaster

Question 32

Recovery Time Objective

Answer 32

How long you are prepared to be down before the data and services are back online after a disaster?

Question 33

SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group

Answer 33

1) only works when SQL is configured properly and running in a cluster of VMs in Azure.
2) To set up this configuration, you need a three-node cluster of servers, and then configure Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) using the three VMs.
3) You can use more, but three is the minimum: one for the primary database, one for the replica database, and one for the quorum or witness. All three VMs should be in the same storage container and in the same Availability Set

Question 34

Hyper-V Replica

Answer 34

1) asynchronously replicate VM changes from one Hyper-V host to another Hyper-V host
2) HTTP

Question 35

Azure Site Recovery

Answer 35

works in conjunction with Hyper-V Replica to automate and orchestrate the recovery to a second site by monitoring all sites and executing workflows as needed to fail-over to the replica site.

Question 36

Design and deploy Azure Backup

Answer 36

1) Flexible capability
2) Resilient, nondisruptive, on-demand, and scheduled
3) Scalable and secure offsite storage
4) Meet RPO and RTO
5) Simple data recovery
6) Simple management and monitoring
7) End-user capabilities

Question 37

StorSimple

Answer 37

1) complete turnkey hybrid storage solution.
2) It is a physical device that you install in your datacenter and has the capability of performing storage tiering.
3) both spinning media as well as solid-state drives (SSDs).
4) iSCSI protocol, storage in Azure is presented as locally attached iSCSI volumes

Question 38

Azure powershell authenticate

Answer 38

1) Add-AzureAccount cmdlet

2) Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile and Import-azurePublishSettingsFile cmdlets to authenticate Windows PowerShell to Azure

Question 39

Azure PowerShell command to retrieve the primary storage account

Answer 39

$StorageAccountKey = Get-AzureStorageKey $StoreName | %{ $_.Primary }

Question 40

Desired State Configuration

Answer 40

1) is the automated process of forcing a desired configuration onto a system.
2) This is obtained by inspecting systems and automatically changing the configuration to match that of the desired state

Question 41

Practical applications of Desired State Configuration

Answer 41

1) Install or remove windows roles and features
2) Running Windows PowerShell scripts
3) Managing registry settings
4) Managing files and directories
5) Starting, stopping, and managing processes and services
6) Managing groups and user accounts
7) Deploying new software
8) Managing environment variables
9) Discovering the actual configuration state on a given node
10) Fixing a configuration that has drifted away from the desired state