Cloud Concepts

Question 1

What is cloud computing?

Answer 1

On-demand availability of cloud-based resources:

1) Compute
2) Networking
3) Storage

Question 2

What is scalability?

Answer 2

The ability to scale out, scale up or scale down.

Question 3

What is High Availability?

Answer 3

This means you have multiple resources to process requests in the event one resource is not available.

Question 4

What is Fault Tolerance?

Answer 4

This describes how azure will ensure you have zero downtime for services.

Question 5

What is Disaster Recovery?

Answer 5

Uses “time -to-recover” and recovery point metrics to recovery from things like tornadoes, floods and more.

Question 6

What is Elasticity?

Answer 6

The ability to quickly increase or decrease computer processing and resources.

Question 7

What is Agility?

Answer 7

The ability to rapidly test and deploy to the cloud.

Question 8

What is Consumption-based pricing?

Answer 8

You pay based on:

• Per Execution
• Per Second
• Per combination.

Question 9

What are the three Cloud Service Models?

Answer 9

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) ex: Virtual Machine
Platform as a service (PaaS) ex: Azure CDN / Cosmo DB.
Software as a Service (SaaS) ex: Microsoft 365

Question 10

What is Serverless?

Answer 10

Yes there are servers, just none you need to manage.

• it is extreme PaaS
• Application free software - just a single function.

Question 11

What is the Azure Market place?

Answer 11

A solutions and services App Store.

• Includes Apps, VMs, templates and services.
• 1 click purchasability.
• Integrate via the Portal, CLI or Powershell.
• free and paid for.