Chapter 1: Gaining the Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification Flashcards
A person with which Azure certification would likely code and test an Azure solution based on best-case cloud design patterns as explained and designed by the Azure Solutions Architect Expert?
Azure Developer Associate
A person with which Azure certification will design and likely configure the security, network, compute, and storage on the platform?
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
A person with which Azure certification will collaborate with stakeholders and deploy the application to the platform and manage future changes?
Azure DevOps Expert
A person with which Azure certification will monitor and maintain implemented Azure features?
Azure Administrator Associate
Which exams are required in order to earn the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification?
AZ-303 and AZ-304
Which Azure exam is focused on the following components: Implement and monitor an Azure infrastructure, implementation of management and security solutions, implementation of solutions for apps, and implementation and management of data platforms?
AZ-303: Azure Architect Technologies
Which Azure exam is focused on the following components: Design monitoring, designing identity and security, designing data storage, designing for business continuity, and designing infrastructure?
AZ-304 Azure Architect Design
Which optional Azure exam can provide a taste of what’s to come in the AZ-303 and AZ-304 exams, help define areas needing more study, and provide a more gradual on-ramp to understanding Azure technologies and design?
AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
When an Azure App Service solution is created, what is the default URL?
*.azurewebsites.net
In which preview phase does an Azure feature become available on the portal, presented by its name followed by a “(Preview)” tag?
Public preview, also known as beta testing
Which status signifies that an Azure feature has completed testing successfully, and is fully supported by Microsoft Support?
Generally Available
With respect to the subtle difference between the terms “product” and “feature”, which term refers to an object like Azure Virtual Network, Azure App Service, Azure Web Apps, or Azure SQL; something that is bought; something that is selected after clicking the “+ Create a Resource” link in the portal?
product
With respect to the subtle difference between the terms “product” and “feature”, which term refers to an additional, usually optional, capability that can be added to the product?
Feature
Do the following terms refer to products or features: Azure Virtual Network, Azure App Service, Azure Web Apps, Azure SQL?
Products
Do the following terms refer to products or features: Application Insights, Azure Search, Backup, SSL/TLS, custom domains
Features
What is the first significant product created when you begin consuming Azure products and features?
an Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Which product is sometimes referred to as a tenant?
an Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Which Azure product can also be referred to as an identity as a service?
Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Which Azure product is used for authenticating sign-ins and identity protection?
Azure Active Directory (AAD)
What is the structure of the initial domain name for your Azure subscription, including the unique name you provide?
*.onmicrosoft.com, where * is the unique name you provide.
Which concept was created to store all corporate user credentials, user profiles, and permissions in a central global location for enterprise authentication?
Active Directory
Which Azure product provides the same authentication and authorization capabilities of Active Directory, but on the Azure platform?
Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Which product’s tenant can be used to link and authenticate software as a service capabilities like Bing, Office 365, and Dynamic CRM?
Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Which product can be synchronized with an on-premise Active Directory so that users inside an internal network can use the same credentials to authenticate on a compute resource running on the Azure platform?
Azure Active Directory (AAD)
Which Azure Active Directory tool is used to provide synchronization between an on-premise Active Directory and Azure Active Directory?
Azure AD Connect
For which Azure products is a network infrastructure provided, including both an internal and an external IP address, for which in most scenarios the endpoint becomes immediately and globally accessible?
Azure VM, Azure App Service, or Azure Functions
With respect to Azure network infrastructure, which of the following attributes are free: public IP addresses, inbound and outboung global or regional peering, inbound and outbound data transfers between AZs, data transfers between resources within the same virtual network
Data transfers between resources within the same virtual network
What feature is missing from the following description of a typical network configuration in Azure: inbound and outbound port/firewall rules, network security groups (NSGs), enabling security via the Azure Security Center
Load balancing rules
What is Microsoft’s infrastructure-as-a-service product offering?
Azure Virtual Machines (VM)
Which Azure product is a highly scalable and enterprise-ready compute platform?
Azure VM
What concept describes an offering in which all the hardware necessary to run a server, such as CPUs/compute, memory, and storage, is provided by the cloud service provider?
Infrastructure-as-a-service
In an infrastructure-as-a-service model such as Azure VM, are the networking capabilities provided and supported by the customer or service provider?
service provider
In an infrastructure-as-a-service model such as Azure VM, is the customer or service provider responsible for the operating system, configuration, updates, and applications?
Customer
When choosing Azure VM to handle your compute requirements, what are the three most important considerations to make that help ensure a successful deployment or migration?
Location, size, operating system
In how many of the Azure regions around the world is Azure VM available and supporting Windows and Linux operating systems?
All 54
In terms of vCPUs and RAM, what is the smallest size of VM available in Azure VM?
1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
In terms of vCPUs and RAM, what is the largest size of VM available in Azure VM?
128 vCPUs and 432 GB RAM
What is Azure’s platform-as-a-service offering?
Azure App Service
What concept describes an offering in which in addition to the network infrastructure, the operating system and its updates are also the responsibility of the cloud provider?
Platform as a service
Azure Web Apps/WebJobs, Azure App Service Web App for Containers, Azure Mobile Apps, and Azure API Apps are the four flavors of what product?
Azure App Service
Which enterprise-grade app is an additional flavor of Azure App Service tenant which belongs solely to the customer who creates it?
Azure Service Environment
In which flavor of Azure App Service is the configuration of a cypher suite order solely available?
Azure Service Environment
Why is the configuration of a cypher suite order solely available in the Azure Service Environment flavor of Azure App Service?
Because other customers may not want the cypher suite configured in that order.
Which Azure product offers both the Windows and Linux operating systems and supports a large majority of coding languages, such as .Net Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, etc.
Azure App Service
All flavors of which Azure product support autoscaling, load balancing, intergration with AAD and OAuth providers, and great deployment capabilities integrated with Git, DevOps, and GitHub?
Azure App Service
Which Azure service is used for longer-running workloads that don’t require an HTTP connection to remain connected from start to finish?
WebJobs
What type of WebJob instance is like a batch job or small program that runs offline in the background, triggered by a cron scheduler?
a triggered WebJob
What concept describes a WebJob that monitors a queue of some kind and performs some action on each message that enters the queue?
continuous / AlwaysOn
Which Azure offering supports Windows and Linux-based containerized applications?
Azure App Service Web App for Containers
In which Azure App Service offering can you write the registry, access the event log, work with COM, and change the order of the default cypher suite?
Azure App Service Web App for Containers
Which Azure App Service offering is even more flexible than App Service Environment in many cases?
Azure App Service Web App for Containers
Which Azure App Service offering was at one time called Zumo?
Azure Mobile Apps
Which Azure App Service offering is similar to Azure Web Apps but optimized for a mobile scenario?
Azure Mobile Apps
Which Azure App Service offering features simple integration with a data source, easy integration with multiple authentication providers, and the ability to send push notifications to mobile devices?
Azure Mobile Apps
Which Azure App Service offering provides a cross-platform SDK specifically created to work in the context of multiple operating systems such as iOS, Android, and Windows?
Azure Mobile Apps
With which Azure App Service offering does Azure Mobile Apps share its basic features such as autoscaling, load balancing, and monitoring?
Azure Web Apps
Which Azure App Service offering is the quickest way to deploy and create RESTful APIs?
Azure API Apps
Which Azure App Service offering has built-in support for Swagger?
Azure API Apps
Which Azure App Service offering features instances that typically have some kind of GUI or an interface for an individual to interact with the application?
Azure Web Apps
Which Azure App Service offering features endpoints that usually exchange and process JSON documents instead of having a GUI or page to interact with?
Azure API Apps
What is the serverless product offering from Microsoft called?
Azure Functions
What concept describes an application that is not allocated to a server/compute resource when the application is not in use?
Serverless
In which two scenarios can you configure an Azure Function:
a Consumption plan or an App Service plan
In which Azure Functions plan will resources be deallocated and placed back into a pool of compute resources, shutting down the application, after 20 minutes of non-use?
a Consumption plan
Which Azure Functions plan is often referred to as dynamic mode?
Consumption plan
In which Azure Functions plan does the following limit apply: The combined consumption is limited to 1.5 GB of memory per Functions app?
Consumption plan
In an Azure Functions Consumption plan, what is the limit of memory allowed per Functions app?
1.5 GB
In which Azure Functions plan does the following limit apply: Scaling is handled by a scale controller; there is no manual or autoscaling?
Consumption plan
In an Azure Functions Consumption plan, what is the name for the tool that handles scaling in lieu of manual or auto-scaling?
a scale controller
On which architecture does an Azure Function run?
The same architecture as Azure App Service
When running in which mode does an Azure Function have access to the same compute resources as App Service would?
an App Service plan
When running in an App Service plan, what feature provides the limit on the memory the Functions app can consume?
The App Service plan’s SKU
Which Azure Functions plan supports scaling based on custom rules?
An App Service plan
Which Azure Functions plan supports enabling AlwaysOn?
An App Service plan
Which Azure Functions feature helps avoid any latent cold-start or warmup issues by preventing the app/function from being shut down after 20 minutes of non-use?
AlwaysOn
If you are going to run new Azure Functions and you already have an App Service plan with spare or unused compute capacity, how might you be able to save some money?
Run the Azure Functions on your existing ASP.
Between Azure App Service and Azure Functions, which is more useful for smaller workloads that resemble a single method?
Azure Functions
Using which model should you implement small work sets in Azure Functions after breaking them down from large workloads?
The Durable Functions model
Which Azure product is a virtual gateway that is placed between consumers and actual APIs?
Azure API Management
Which Azure product can be thought of as a proxy or gateway in front of other APIs that reroutes the request to the proper API based on the parameters and signature of the URL?
Azure API Management
Which Azure product provides the ability to expose separate APIs to external and internal consumers?
Azure API Management
Which Azure product reduces complexity and confusion by hiding the actual API landscape from consumers?
Azure API Management
Which Azure product controls usage and limits consumption of your APIs?
Azure API Management
Which Azure product includes monitoring capabilities and error detection for your APIs?
Azure API Management
Which Azure product can connect to any and multiple APIs on the internet and expose them via a single endpoint?
Azure API Management
Which Azure product allows group-based access control to APIs?
Azure API Management
What are the six supported API types for Azure API Management?
OpenAPI, WADL, WSDL, Logic app, API app, Functions app
Which Azure API Management-supported API type can be described as a non-language-specific but standard interface to REST APIs?
OpenAPI
Which Azure API Management-supported API type can be described as an XML description of a RESTful HTTP-based web service?
WADL
Which Azure API Management-supported API type can be described as an XML description of an HTTP-based SOAP web service?
WSDL
Which Azure API Management-supported API type can be described as a visual, scalable, and hybrid workflow management?
Logic app
Which Azure API Management-supported API type can be described as an API hosted using the Azure App Service product?
API app
Which Azure product allows you to monitor your solution and make sure it remains available and performant after deployment?
Azure Monitor
Which Azure product includes both Log Analytics and Application Insights?
Azure Monitor
Which Azure product supports end-to-end monitoring of applications that can identify how a customer consumes a product, locate bottlenecks, and recommend some actions to improve the customer experience using its recommendations analyzer?
Azure Monitor
Which feature of Azure Monitor stores application and diagnostic logs into a query-able data source based on Azure Data Explorer?
Log Analytics
Which Azure offering is a highly scalable service for logging and storing telemetry data?
Azure Data Explorer
Which portion of Azure Monitor is the interface to create the workspaces that capture telemetry data and query the data source to gather performance, usage, and application behavior information?
Log Analytics
Which relatively simple and well-documented query language is used to extract data from Log Analytics?
KUSTO
Which portion of Azure Monitor is metrics-driven and represents a set of data in a graphical calculation over a given time frame?
Application Insights
Which portion of Azure Monitor offers the charting capabilities found in a product called Metrics Explorer?
Application Insights
Which Azure product monitors the availability, performance, and usage of web applications?
Metrics Explorer
Which portion of Azure Monitor can monitor applications hosted on Azure and on-premise?
Application Insights
Which portion of Azure Monitor can trigger alerts which can find bottlenecks in code executions using a profiler based on PerfView?
Application Insights
Which portion of Azure Monitor can build an application map that identifies dependencies between different Azure products?
Application Insights
What is Microsoft’s database as a service offering called?
Azure SQL
Which Azure product provides data storage, allows you to configure and optimize data without needing to be a database administrator, and removes the requirement for managing the server which the database runs?
Azure SQL
Which four fundamental activies are required for placing your data into a relational database?
Creating the database, configuring security, migrating the data, monitoring the database
Which two scenarios allow the consumption of a SQL Server database on the Azure platform?
Azure SQL Database, or SQL Server on an Azure virtual machine
Which Azure SQL Database paradigm is a database that runs inside an Azure SQL Database instance but has its own resources and is manageable using a SQL Database server?
Single database
Which Azure SQL Database paradigm is the typical entry point for new applications that desire to start small and then scale up as consumption increases?
Single database
In which Azure SQL Database paradigm would a customer have multiple databases each residing on the same Azure SQL Database server?
Elastic pools
Which Azure SQL Database paradigm helps solve the problem of predicting the amount of capacity required per database by having the platform provide the performance capacity per database within a defined budget?
Elastic pools
In Azure SQL Database, which pricing model is used to price single databases and elastic pools?
Database transaction unit, or DTU (eDTU for elastic)
What term created by the Azure SQL team measures reads, writes, CPU, and memory consumption in Azure SQL Database?
Database transaction unit, or DTU (eDTU for elastic)
What are three examples of the service tiers you can select which determined the number of DTUs allocated to a single database or elastic pool?
Basic, Standard, or Premium
Which Azure SQL Database paradigm is as close as you can get to a replica of an on-premise installation of SQL Server, which still getting the benefits of database as a service?
Managed instance
Which pricing model, similar to the way prices are calculated for an on-premise SQL Server database, is used to calculate the price of Azure SQL Database managed instances?
The vCore-based purchasing model
How can you emulate an on-premise SQL Server instance running on infrastructure as a service in Azure when your on-premise SQL Server installation has dependencies that prevent using any of the database as a service offerings?
Run SQL Server on a virtual machine
When running SQL Server on a virtual machine in Azure, which four pieces of information must you configure?
Windows version, SQL Server version, size of the virtual machine, and license agreement
What is the default configuration of the Azure SQL firewall feature, with respect to Azure resources and all other external resources?
All Azure resources pass through the firewall and all other resources external to Azure are not allowed through.
How does the Azure SQL firewall determine whether a resource is an Azure resource or an external resource?
Determined based on IP
True or false: the Azure SQL Database is not inside a virtual network and has a globally accessible endpoint?
True
How can you improve security if the globally accessible endpoint of Azure SQL Database is a concern?
Strong firewall settings
Which Azure SQL tool determines whether the source database is compatible with the destination database when migrating data to a single pool or an elastic pool?
Data Migration Assistant (DMA)
What type of file does Data Migration Assistant (DMA) create after confirming the source database is compatible with the destination database?
BACPAC
After creating a BACPAC file with Data Migration Assistant (DMA), by which two methods can you import that file into the destination?
Use the Azure Portal or a SqlPackage
Why is the Data Migration Assistant not intended for migrating a production database?
There could be extended downtime
Which service can you use to reduce downtime while migrating a production database?
Data Migration Service (DMS)
After confirming the source database is compatible with the destination database while migrating to a managed instance or a SQL Server instance on Azure Virtual Machine, how should you complete the process of migrating the data to Azure?
Use the native SQL Service restore capabilities via a BAK file.
Which three tools are capable of monitoring an Azure SQL database:
Query Performance Insights, Query Store, XEvents
What is Azure’s NoSQL database offering called?
Azure Cosmos DB
Which Azure database offering would be optimal if your data storage requirements call for key/value pairs?
Azure Cosmos DB
Which Azure database offering would be optimal if your data storage requirements call for document storage capability?
Azure Cosmos DB
Which Azure database offering would be optimal if your data storage requirements call for graphing data stores?
Azure Cosmos DB
Which Azure database offering would be optimal if your data storage requirements call for globally replicated data?
Azure Cosmos DB
Which Azure database offering would be optimal if your data storage requirements call for results in JSON format?
Azure Cosmos DB
Which Azure database offering would be optimal if your data storage requirements call for exposing data via a RESTful API?
Azure Cosmos DB
What are the five DB types supported by Azure Cosmos DB?
Core (SQL), MongoDB, Cassandra, Azure Table, Gremlin (graph)
What are the container and item entities called in a Core (SQL) database in Azure Cosmos DB?
container: Collection, item: Document
What are the container and item entities called in a MongoDB database in Azure Cosmos DB?
container: Collection, item: Document
What are the container and item entities called in a Cassandra database in Azure Cosmos DB?
container: Table, item: Row
What are the container and item entities called in an Azure Table database in Azure Cosmos DB?
container: Table, item: Item
What are the container and item entities called in a Gremlin (graph) database in Azure Cosmos DB?
container: Graph, item: Node or Edge
What is the default naming convention for a database account in Azure Cosmos DB?
*.documents.azure.com
Which Azure offering provides useful capabilities for storing content that is globally accessible, secure, scalable, and durable?
Azure Storage
What the four data services provided by Azure Storage?
Azure Blob storage, Azure File storage, Azure Queue storage, Azure Table storage
Which Azure Storage data service is a scalable object store for binary and text data?
Azure Blob storage
Which Azure Storage data service consists of managed file shares?
Azure File storage
Which Azure Storage data service consists of a messaging store and queuing
Azure Queue storage
Which Azure Storage data service is a NoSQL data store, now part of Cosmos DB?
Azure Table storage
What must you first create via a RESTful API, the CLI, or using an ARM template, before utilizing Azure Storage?
a storage account
True or false: It is possible to have multiples of each service type within a single storage account?
True
The following are some common uses of which Azure storage data type: Support the upload of large files from a website; backup and restore / archival or disaster recovery; writing logs?
Azure Blob storage
What is the name of the Azure SDK that allows you to upload a large file to an Azure Storage blob container without worrying about whether the HTTP connection made for the upload will time out before the transmission completes?
CloudBlobClient
What is the default naming convention for accessing an Azure file share globally?
*.file.core.windows.net, where * is the name of your storage account
Which protocol does Azure File storage use?
Server Message Block (SMB)
What is the size limit for messages stored in Azure Queue storage?
64KB
