Describe Azure compute and networking services Flashcards

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What is virtualization?

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Emulation of physical machines

Different virtual hardware configuration per machine/app

Different operating systems per machine/app

Total separation of environments

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Name 4 key characteristics of Virtual Machines

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Total control over the operating system and the software

Supports marketplace and custom images

Can run any application/scenario

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What are Virtual Machines best suited for?

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Custom software requiring custom system configuration

Lift-and-shift scenarios

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Name 3 key characteristics of Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Set of identical virtual machines

Built-in auto scaling features

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What are Virtual Machine Scale Sets designed for?

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Designed for manual and auto-scaled workloads like web services,* batch processing, etc.

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Key characteristics of Azure Batch

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IaaS

High Performance Computing

Suitable for working in parallel with lots of information

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Name 5 key characteristics of Containers

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Use host’s operating system

Emulate operating system (VMs emulate hardware)

Lightweight (no O/S)

Respond quicker to demand changes

Designed for almost any scenario

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Name 3 characteristics of Azure Container Instances

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Simplest and fastest way to run a container in Azure

Platform as a Service PaaS

Serverless Containers

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What are Azure Container Instances designed for?

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Small and simple web apps/services

Background jobs

Scheduled scripts

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Name 3 characteristics of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)

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Open-source container orchestration platform

Platform as a Service PaaS

Highly scalable and customizable

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What are AKS designed for?

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High scale container deployments (anything really!)

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Name 3 key characteristics of App Service

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Designed as enterprise grade web application service

Platform as a Service PaaS

Supports multiple programming languages and containers

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Name 3 key characteristics of Azure Functions

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Platform as a Service PaaS

Serverless

Designed for micro/nano-services

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Which are the two pricing models of Azure Functions?

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Consumption-based plan

Dedicated plan

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Summary of Virtual Machines

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(IaaS) - Custom software, custom requirements, very specialized, high degree of control

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Summary of VM Scale Sets

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(IaaS) - Auto-scaled workloads for VMs

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Summary of Azure Container Instances

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(PaaS) - Simple container hosting, easy to start

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Summary of Azure Kubernetes Service

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(PaaS) - Highly scalable and customizable * container hosting platform

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Summary of App Service

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(PaaS) - Web applications, a lot of enterprise web * hosting features, easy to start

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Summary of Azure Functions

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(PaaS) (Function as a Service) (Serverless) - micro/nano-services, excellent consumption-based pricing, easy to start

21
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… enables your team members to run Windows in the cloud, with access to the required applications for your company’s needs.

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Azure Virtual Desktop

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What is Azure Networking?

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Connect cloud and on-premises

On-premise networking functionality

23
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TRUE / FALSE

An Azure Virtual Network is scoped to a single region.

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Isolation, segmentation, communication, filtering and routing…

These are some characteristics of:

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Azure Virtual Network

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Name 3 key characteristics of Azure Virtual Network
Logically isolated networking components Segmented into one or more subnets Enable communication of resources with each-other, internet and on-premises
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What is a subnet?
Subnets are discrete sections of an Azure Virtual Network
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...allows cross region communication
VNet peering
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Name 3 characteristics of Azure Load Balancer
Even non-web traffic distribution Supports both inbound and outbound scenarios High-availability scenarios
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Both TCP (transmission control protocol) and UDP (user datagram protocol) applications Internal and External traffic Port Forwarding High scale with up to millions of flows ...these are characteristics of:
Azure Load Balancer
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What is VPN Gateway?
Specific type of virtual network gateway for on-premises to azure traffic over the public internet
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What's Application Gatway?
Web traffic load balancer
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Name 3 characteristics of Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network)
# Define content Minimize latency POP (points of presence) with many locations
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What is Azure ExpressRoute?
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider.
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Which are the four ExpressRoute connectivity models?
CloudExchange colocation Point-to-point Ethernet connection Any-to-any connection Directly from ExpressRoute sites
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TRUE / FALSE Subnets can be nested for a more granular infrastructure
FALSE