Describe Azure architecture and services

Question 1

Azure regions

Answer 1

one or more datacenters in a nearby region with low latency.

Question 2

Availability zones

Answer 2

physically separate datacenters within an Azure region.

Question 3

Region pairs

Answer 3

paired with another region 300 or more miles away for redundancy and resiliency against natural disasters

Question 4

Azure resources

Answer 4

vms, networks, databases, services within Azure

Question 5

Resource group

Answer 5

the grouping of resources, only one resource in each group and cannot be nested.

Question 6

Azure subscriptions

Answer 6

billing and access control boundary within the subscription. Multiple subs under one account.

Question 7

Azure management groups

Answer 7

a level of scope above subscriptions

Question 8

Azure VMs

Answer 8

Iaas. still needs configures, updates, and maintenance of software.

Question 9

VM scale sets

Answer 9

create and manage identical load balanced VMs. auto increase and decrease to demand.

Question 10

VM availability sets

Answer 10

VMs stagger updates, have varied power and network connectivity

Question 11

Update domain

Answer 11

only one update domain grouping will be offline at a time

Question 12

fault domain

Answer 12

splits VMs into three fault domains to protect against network or power failure

Question 13

Azure virtual desktop

Answer 13

virtualize cloud-hosted windows from any location. Separated from local hardware creating more security

Question 14

multi-session

Answer 14

os system that allows concurrent users on a single vm