Describe Azure management and governance Flashcards
Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure
Type of resource
Different resource compute levels (or SKUs)
Different tiers
Different sizes
Number of resource instances
Resource location
Prevision time of resource
Work
Licensing
Interactions
Amount of storage
Compare the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
The Pricing calculator helps estimate the cost based on the resources you’ll need for the architecture of your solution.
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator helps you estimate the change in cost in ownership, taking into account more than just Azure resources, such as electricity and IT labor costs.
Describe the Azure Cost Management and Billing tool
Azure Cost Management and Billing is a suite of tools provided by Microsoft that help you analyze, manage, and optimize the costs of your workloads.
Describe the purpose of tags
Tags help you organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy, using key-value pairs that help you identify resources based on settings that are relevant.
Describe the purpose of Azure Blueprints
Azure Blueprints lets you standardize cloud subscription or environment deployments. Instead of having to configure features like Azure Policy for each new subscription, with Azure Blueprints, you can define repeatable settings and policies that are applied as new subscriptions are created.
Describe the purpose of Azure Policy
Azure Policy is a service in Azure that enables you to create, assign, and manage policies that control or audit your resources to enforce different rules across your resource configurations, so those configurations stay compliant with corporate standards.
Describe the purpose of resource locks
A resource lock prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed.
Describe the purpose of the Service Trust Portal
The Microsoft Service Trust Portal is a portal that provides access to various content, tools, and other resources about Microsoft security, privacy, and compliance practices.
Describe the Azure portal
The Azure portal is a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools. With the Azure portal, you can manage your Azure subscription by using a graphical user interface.
Describe Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell; it supports both Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI.
Describe the purpose of Azure Arc
Azure Arc lets you extend your Azure compliance and monitoring services to your hybrid and/or multi-cloud configurations.
Describe Azure Resource Manager
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment/management service for Azure that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. Anytime you do anything with your Azure resources, ARM is involved.
Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that can analyze your resource configuration and usage telemetry then recommend solutions that can help you improve the cost-effectiveness, performance, Reliability (formerly called High availability), and security of your Azure resources.
Describe Azure Service Health
Azure Service Health is a combination of three separate smaller services: Azure Status, Service Health, and Resource Health
Describe Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is a service in the cloud that helps you increase the performance and availability of your services by collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry (metrics and logs) from your environment.
Describe Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) is a part of Azure Cloud Shell that lets you use to create and manage resources using Bash commands.
Describe Azure Powershell
Azure PowerShell is a part of Azure Cloud Shell with which developers, DevOps, and IT professionals can run PowerShell commands called command-lets (cmdlets).
Describe Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM templates)
By using ARM templates, you can describe the resources you want to use in a declarative JSON format.
Describe Azure Status
Azure Status is a part of Azure Service Health that provides a global view of the health of all Azure services and service outages across all Azure regions
Describe Service Health
Service Health is a part of Azure Service Health that provides a personalized view of the health of the Azure services and regions you’re using
Describe Resource Health
Resource Health is a part of Azure Service Health that provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources
Describe Log Analytics
Log Analytics is a tool to edit and run queries from data collected by Azure Monitor logs and interactively analyze their results.
Describe Azure Monitor alerts
Azure Monitor alerts notify you of critical conditions and possibly take corrective action when a predefined rule is met based on metric and log analysis
Describe Application Insights
Application Insights provides extensible application performance management (APM) and monitoring for live web apps
