Cloud Flashcards
What are the 2 basic services offers by cloud providers?
Compute power and storage
How much processing your computer can do?
Compute power
Storage
RAM
Utilization
Compute power
In a shared responsibility model who is responsible for the physical security, power cooling, and network connection?
Cloud provider
The cloud provider is responsible for data and information stored in the cloud as well as access security of who receives access
False, consumer
Infrastructure as a service you are responsible for your own platform’s software but none of your infrastructure
True
Infrastructure as a service you are responsible for your own platform’s software but none of your infrastructure
True
Physical hosts, physical network, and physical data enter are responsibility of the customer
False,
Microsoft/cloud provider
What responsibilities are shared in paas?
-identity and directory infrastructure
-applications
-network controls
True or false. Information and data stored in the cloud, devices allowed to connect to the cloud and the accounts/identities are responsibility of the customer and not the cloud provider
True
What is a con to a private cloud?
Higher cost
You use multiple public cloud providers. You use different features from different cloud providers or are migrating from one cloud to the other is called what?
Azure migration
Multi cloud
Entra I’d
Azure integration
Multi cloud
Ms set of technologies to help manage your cloud environment is what?
Arc
Purview
Application insight
Arm
Azure arc
Let’s you run your VMware workloads in azure with seamless integration and scalability is what?
Purview
VMware solution
VMware application
Consumption
Azure VMware solution
What 2 types of expenses are considered for IT infrastructure models?
Capital expenditure and operational expenditure
One time up front expenditure to purchase or secure tangible resources such as a building, repaving parking lot
Opex
Capex
Multi
Azure solution
Capex
Spending money on services or products over time such as leasing a company vehicle or signing up for cloud service
Opex
Capex
Multi
Azure solutions
Opex
Which cloud service places the most responsibility on the customer?
Paas
Saas
Iaas
Faas
Iaas
When building or deploying a cloud app what 2 considerations do you need to factor?
Uptime (availability) and ability to handle demand (scale)
What happens if the percentage of uptime is not kept from a cloud provider for a company that was agreed on in the SLA?
Entitled to a credit,
What are reasons you do t want 100% uptime?
-required maintenance or upgrades
-duplicating every component in case one component failed
-would require back up components to pick up service tasks with 0 interruption to customers
True or false, Service at 99 and 99.9% doesn’t have a big discrepancy
False,
99% can have down time of 1.68 hours per week, 7.2hours per month
99.9% down time is 10 minutes per week, 43.2 minutes per month
Azure services is one standard SLA. True or False
False, each is different
Ability to adjust resources to meet demand
Scalability
Elasticity
Storage
Computing
Scalability
Focuses on increasing or decreasing capabilities of a resource
Vertical elasticity
Vertical scaling
Horizontal elasticity
Horizontal scaling
Vertical scaling
If you were developing an app and you needed more processing power you could scale up to add more cpu or ram to the vm or scale down if needed is an example of what?
Vertical scaling
Adding or subtracting the number of
Vertical elasticity
Vertical scaling
Horizontal elasticity
Horizontal scaling
Horizontal scaling
What is an example of horizontal scaling?
Steep jump in demand, you can add additional vm’s or drop (manual or automatic)
Ability if a system to recover from failures and continue to function. Pillar of Azure Well-Architect framework
Elasticity
Scalability
Predictability
Reliability
Reliability
Influenced by azure well architect framework, focused on by performance or cost
Reliability
Predictability
Performance
Cost
Predictability
Predicts resources needed to deliver a positive experience for your customers. Supports: auto scaling, load balancing, and HA
Vertical scaling
Horizontal scaling
Performance
Cost
Performance
Using cloud analytics you can predict cost and adjust resources. What are 2 cloud cost resources?
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Pricing calculator
Helps flag any resources out of compliance with corporate standards and has mitigation strategies
Cloud auditing
Templates
Predictability
Cost
Cloud auditing
If you want patches and maintenance taken care of automatically then IaS is the best deployment
False, paS or saS
IAS would give you maximum control
Managing cloud resources such as:
Scaling resources auto, deploy resources by preconfigured template, monitor health resources, auto alerts on performance metrics in real time
Management in the cloud
Management of the cloud
Management within
Management without
Management of the cloud
How you are able to manage your cloud environment and resources: web portal, command line, api, power shell
Management in the cloud
Management of the cloud
Management within
Management without
Management in the cloud
Ability if a system to recover from failures and continue to function
Reliability
Predictability
Scalability
Reliability
You’re setting up cloud resources similar to your on premise data center, then moving the things running on prem to running on Iaas is what migration?
Lift and shift migration
You have established configurations for development and test environments that you need to rapidly replicate. You can start up or shut down the different environments rapidly with which cloud service
Iaas
Renting space in a data center is iaas
True
Paying for a complete deployed solution is iaas
False, SaaS
In paas the customer maintains the physical infrastructure, physical security, and connection to the internet
False, the cloud provider
Identity and directory infrastructure, applications, and network controls are shared b/w cloud provider and customer
True
Dev frameworks
Analytics or business intelligence
Are examples of what?
Paas
SaaS
Iaas
Paas
Email, messaging and connectivity software are what cloud service?
Saas
What type of cloud service would a finance and expense tracking solution typically be in?
SaaS
Access to software solutions, finance and expense tracking,email or ticketing systems
Used within the price calculator and provides recommendations, how to optimize services and spending limits
Azure advisor
TCO
Capex
Opex
Azure advisor
Operational expense is building out and maintaining infrastructure
False, capital expense
Opex is renting of infrastructure as you need it like compute, storage and networking
Resource type, Consumption, Maintenance, Geography, Subscription type, Azure marketplace
Are cost factors for what?
Opex
Capex
TCO
Pricing calculator
Opex
How does azure track resources usage and generate a usage record for a calculated bill?
TCO
Metered instances
Pricing calculator
Capex
Metered instances
True or false. Creating the same storage account in a different region may show a different cost and changing of the settings Can also impact the price
True
Commiting to using a set amount of cloud resources in advance and receiving discounts on those “reserved” resources
Subscription type
Pay as you go
Consumption
Maintenance
Consumption
Where can you purchase azure based solutions and services from third party vendors like a managed network firewall appliance?
TCO
Pricing calculator
Consumption
Azure market place
Azure marketplace
Designed to give you an estimated cost for provisioning resources in Azure. Can see an estimate of the Azure spend
Pricing calculator
TCO
Opex
Consumption cost
Pricing calculator
Nothing is provisioned, just estimates for services
Designed to help you compare costs for running an on premises infrastructure compared to azure cloud.
Pricing calculator
TCO
Opex
Consumption
TCO
Products, Example scenarios, Saved estimate, FAQs are tabs for what?
TCO
pricing calculator
Application insight
Tags
Pricing calculator
How would you share a cost estimate from a pricing calculator with your team?
-Select export to save your estimate as an excel doc
-select save or save as to save your estimate to the saved estimates tab for later
-Select share to generate a url so you can share the estimate with your team
All the above
Define workloads, Adjust assumptions, View report are steps for what?
TCO
Policy
Application insight
Arc
TCO
True or false. Adjust assumptions specifies your currency within TCO
True
Quickly being able to check azure resource costs, create alerts on resources create budgets to automate management of resources
Cost management
Opex
Consumption
Capex
Cost management
View total cost in a variety of different ways like billing cycle, region and resource
Cost management
Cost anyalysis
Cost alert
Budget alert
Cost analysis
Single location to check on all of the different alert types that show up
Cost management
Cost awareness
Cost alerts
Cost analysis
Cost alerts
Budget alerts and cost management are creating using the azure portal or the azure consumption api
True
What notifies you when you azure monetary commitments are consumed?
Credit alerts
Frosty spending quota alerts
Budget alerts
Cost alerts
Credit alerts
Notify when a fixed threshold is met and configured in the EA portal
Credit alerts
Department spending quota alerts
Budget alerts
Cost alerts
Department spending quota alerts
Resource management, Cost manage and optimize, Operations, Security, Governance and regulatory compliance, Workload optimization
Are meta data for what?
TCO
Application insight
Tags
Purview
Tags
Family of data governance, risk and compliance solutions that help you get a single unified view into your data
Purview
Consumption
TCO
Price calculator
Purview
Insight for on premise, multi cloud, and SaaS data together
2 main solution area of Ms Purview
-Risk and compliance
-unified data governance
Ms 360 is a core component, includes teams, one drive and exchange. Protects sensitive data and risks within purview
Unified data governance
Risk and compliance solutions
Data classification
Data lineage
Risk and compliance
In purview unified data governance helps you create up to date map of entire data classification, identify where sensitive data is in your estate, create secure data environment, insight on how data is stored, manage access to data
True
Where would you create, assign, and manage or audit your resources to enforce different rules across your resource configuration so they compliant with corporate standards?
Data governance
Azure policy
Risk management solutions
Azure compliance
Azure policy
Azure policy enables individuals and group policies called initiative
True
Azure policy is a way of grouping related initiatives together
False, azure policy initiative
Prevents resources from being accidentally deleted
Azure Rbac
Azure policy
Resource lock
Governance
Resource lock
Read only resource lock means authorized users can still ready and modify a resource but can’t delete it
False, delete
Read only can read a resource but can’t delete the resource. Similar to permissions granted
Provides access to various content, tools and other resources about ms security, privacy and compliance practices
Azure policy
Risk lock
Governance
Service trust
Service trust
Let’s you save or pin documents to quickly access them on your my library page. Can also receive notifications when documents are updated
Service trust
My library
All documents
Azure policy
My library
Single landing place for documents. Can pin documents here
Service trust
My library
All documents
Azure policy
All documents
How can you prevent the creation of a non compliant resource without having to manually evaluate each source?
Azure policy
Azure purview
Azure resource manage
azure resource lock
Azure policy
What’s the best way to prevent inadvertently deletion of a resource?
Azure policy
Azure purview
Azure resource manage
azure resource lock
Azure resource lock
Web based unified console that provides an alternative to command line tools. Designed for resiliency and continuous availability. Configure access options,create dashboards and build/monitor everything
Azure portal
Azure power shell
Azure CLI
Azure lock
Portal
Browser based tool with no local installation that allows you to create/manage azure resources through a shell. Authenticates to azure credentials and knows your permissions.
Azure portal
Azure power shell
Azure CLI
Azure cloud shell
Cloud shell
Supports both powershell and CLI
Where you can run command-let’s (cmdlets) call rest api to perform manage tasks in azure. Can configure in windows, Linux and Mac
Azure portal
Azure power shell
Azure CLI
Azure lock
Powershell
Syntax commands. Handles tasks and complex orchestrastiobs through code. Bash based
Azure portal
Azure power shell
Azure CLI
Azure lock
Azure CLI
Provides a centralized way to manage entire environment including non azure resources, hybrid virtual machines, services regardless of location, devops practices to support new cloud patterns, cluster extensions
Azure portal
Azure power shell
Azure CLI
Azure Arc
Arc
Resource manager
Name 2 resources azure arc allows you to manage outside of azure
Servers
Kubernetes
Data services
SQL server
Vm
You use this to manage deployments using repeatable templates and configurations. ARM templates and Bicep are 2 examples of using this to maintain your environment
Infrastructure as code
CLI
Power shell
ARM
Infrastructure as code
Name 2 benefits of ARM templates
Declarative syntax
Repeat results
Orchestration
Modular files
Extensibility
Language that uses declarative syntax to deploy azure resources. Defines infrastructure and config. Arm deploys based on this file. Arm is written in json. These are simpler
CLI
Bicep
Infrastructure as code
Powershell
Bicep
Name 2 benefits of bicep
-Support for all resource types and api versions
-simple syntax
-Repeatable result
-orchestration
-modularity
What service helps you manage on premise and multi cloud environments?
Azure arc
Policy
Cloud manager
ARM
Arc
2 components for infrastructure as code deployment
Bicep/arm templates
Policy/arc
Monitor/arc
Arm/json
Bicep/arm templates
Evaluates azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, performance and reduce costs. Designed to help you save time on cloud optimization.b
Azure advisor
Resource manager
Arc
Arm
Advisor
What 5 categories of filters are in azure advisor?
Reliability
Security
Performance
Operational excellence
Cost
Operational excellence is to improve the continuity of your business critical applications
False, reliability
Oper excel is to achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource management, and deploy best practice
Global cloud solution to help manage infrastructure need, reach customers, innovate and adapt rapidly. Keeps track of resources both specifically deployed and overall status of azure
Azure advisor
Service health
Elasticity
Horizontal scaling
Service health
Broad picture of the status of azure globally.binfirms you if service outages in azure on azure status page. Global view of the health of all azure services. Good reference for incident with widespread impact
Azure advisor
Resource manager
Status
Arm
Azure status
Resource health is a tailored view of actual azure resources. Provides information about health of indv cloud resources like vm instance.
True
Service health focuses on services/region you’re using. Look here for service impacting communication, planned maintenance
Platform for collecting data on resources, analyzing that data, visualizing the information and even acting on the results. Not just azure but watches on premis and other vms on different cloud providers
Azure advisor
Resource manager
Monitor
Service health
Azure monitor
Write and run log queries on the data gathered by azure monitor. Robust tool that will you to write and test queries
Azure advisor
Log analytics
Monitor
Service health
Log analytics