Describe Azure architecture and services Flashcards
After making an Azure account, what do you need in order to start creating Azure resources?
An Azure subscription
What command can you enter when in Azure CLI to change to Azure powershell?
pwsh
What is a region?
a geographical area on the planet that contains at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are nearby and networked together with a low-latency network.
What type of resource are availability zones primarily for? (4)
- VMs
- managed disks
- load balancers
- SQL databases
What are availability zones?
physically separate datacenters within an Azure region
What three categories do resources that support availability zone fall into?
Zonal services: You pin the resource to a specific zone (for example, VMs, managed disks, IP addresses).
Zone-redundant services: The platform replicates automatically across zones (for example, zone-redundant storage, SQL Database).
Non-regional services: Services are always available from Azure geographies and are resilient to zone-wide outages as well as region-wide outages.
What is a region pair?
a pairing with another region within the same geography (such as US, Europe, or Asia) at least 300 miles away to allows= for the replication of resources across a geography that helps reduce the likelihood of interruptions because of events such as natural disasters, civil unrest, power outages, or physical network outages that affect an entire region.
What are Sovereign Regions?
Instances of Azure that are isolated from the main instance of Azure (maybe for compliance or legal purposes)
What are you required to do when creating a resource?
Assign it to a resource grou
Azure subscriptions are…
a unit of management, billing, and scale
How many Azure subscriptions can an account have?
Multiple, but it only requires one
What are the two types of subscription boundaries?
Billing and access control
How does a subscription billing boundary work?
Azure generates separate billing reports and invoices for each subscription so that you can organise and manage costs
How does a subscription access control boundary boundary work?
Azure applies access-management policies at the subscription level, and you can create separate subscriptions to reflect different organisational structures
How are availability zones connected?
through high-speed, private fiber-optic networks
What is the minimum number of availability zones present in all availability zone-enabled regions?
Three
Do all Azure regions contain availability zones?
No, regions that do not still can contain multiple data centers however they are not connected via their own independent network
What do virtual machines provide?
provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in the form of a virtualised server
What is an image?
a template used to create a VM
What is a VM scale set?
a group of identical, load-balanced VMs
What does the update domain VM grouping determine?
VMs that can be rebooted at the same time
How does fault domain VM grouping work?
it groups your VMs by common power source and network switch
In what two ways do availability sets group VMs
update domain and fault domain
What type of resources can you pick when creating a VM? (3)
- Size
- Storage
- Networking
what command is used in Azure CLI to create a virtual machine?
az vm create
What does Azure Virtual Desktop allow?
It enables you to use a cloud-hosted version of Windows from any location
How does Azure virtual desktop provide centralised security?
With Microsoft Entra ID
What are containers?
A virtualisation environment
What is the difference between containerisation and virtualisation?
What is a benefit of Azure functions?
enables you to build and host web apps, background jobs, mobile back-ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure
When are Azure functions commonly used?
when you need to perform work in response to an event (often via a REST request), timer, or message from another Azure service, and when that work can be completed quickly, within seconds or less.