Describe Azure Management And Governance Flashcards
What is the TCO Calculator?
used to compare the cost of running an on-prem infrastructure compared to an Azure Cloud environment
With the TCO calculator, you enter your configuration, add in assumptions like power and IT labor costs, and are presented with an estimation of the cost difference to run the same environment in your current datacenter or in Azure.
What is the pricing calculator?
gives you an estimated cost for provisioning resources in Azure to determine which Azure services best fit your budget.
With the pricing calculator, you can estimate the cost of any provisioned resources, including compute, storage, and associated network costs. You can even account for different storage options like storage type, access tier, and redundancy.
What is Azure Advisors
used to monitor your actual costs, make recommendations around unused services and ways to optimise your services
What is Azure Cost Management tool?
What is Azure Cost Management tool?
Cost Management provides the ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on resource spend, and create budgets that can be used to automate management of resources.
Cost analysis is a subset of Cost Management that provides a quick visual for your Azure costs. Using cost analysis, you can quickly view the total cost in a variety of different ways, including by billing cycle, region, resource, and so on.
What are cost alerts?
Cost alerts provide a single location to quickly check on all of the different alert types that may show up in the Cost Management service. The three types of alerts that may show up are:
- Budget alerts
- Credit alerts
- Department spending quota alerts.
Explain budget alerts
Budget alerts notify you when spending, based on usage or cost, reaches or exceeds the amount defined in the alert condition of the budget
Why are tags useful?
Tags can help stay organized and track usage based on metadata associated with resources. Tags allow you to associate metadata with a resource to help keep track of resource management, costs and optimization, security, and so on.
Describe the purpose of Azure Blueprints
Azure Blueprints can help define repeatable settings and policies that are applied as new subscriptions are created. Need a new test/dev environment? Azure Blueprints lets you deploy a new Test/Dev environment with security and compliance settings already configured. In this way, development teams can rapidly build and deploy new environments with the knowledge that they’re building within organizational requirements. Azure blueprints are version-able, allowing you to create an initial configuration and then make updates later on and assign a new version to the update.
Describe the purpose of an Azure Policy
An Azure Policy initiative is a way of grouping related policies together. Azure Policy enables you to define both individual policies and groups of related policies, known as initiatives. Azure Policy evaluates your resources and highlights resources that aren’t compliant with the policies you’ve created
What are resource locks?
A resource lock prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed.
Resource locks can be applied to individual resources, resource groups, or even an entire subscription. Resource locks are inherited, meaning that if you place a resource lock on a resource group, all of the resources within the resource group will also have the resource lock applied.
What are the two types of resource locks?
There are two types of resource locks, one that prevents users from deleting (Delete) and one that prevents users from changing or deleting a resource (ReadOnly).
What is 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.
The Service Trust Portal contains details about Microsoft’s implementation of controls and processes that protect our cloud services and the customer data therein. To access some of the resources on the Service Trust Portal, you must sign in as an authenticated user with your Microsoft cloud services account (Azure Active Directory organization account). You’ll need to review and accept the Microsoft non-disclosure agreement for compliance materials.
Describe 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, including Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell
Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell. Azure Cloud Shell support both Azure PowerShell and the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI), which is a Bash shell.
Azure Cloud Shell supports both Azure PowerShell and the Azure CLI (which uses Bash).
Describe the purpose of Azure Arc
Arc lets you extend your Azure compliance and monitoring to your hybrid and multi-cloud configurations. Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multi-cloud and on-premises management platform.
Currently, Azure Arc allows you to manage the following resource types hosted outside of Azure:
- Servers
- Kubernetes clusters
- Azure data services
- SQL Server
- Virtual machines (preview)
Describe Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. Anytime you do anything with your Azure resources, ARM is involved.
What are ARM templates?
ARM templates are infrastructure as code (IaaC). By using ARM templates, you can describe the resources you want to use in a declarative JSON format. With an ARM template, the deployment code is verified before any code is run. This ensures that the resources will be created and connected correctly. The template then orchestrates the creation of those resources in parallel. That is, if you need 50 instances of the same resource, all 50 instances are created at the same time.
Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor
Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor
Azure Advisor evaluates your Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs. Azure Advisor is designed to help you save time on cloud optimization. The recommendation service includes suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss.
Describe Azure Service Health
By using Azure status, Service health, and Resource health, Azure Service Health gives you a complete view of your Azure environment-all the way from the global status of Azure services and regions down to specific resources.
- Azure Statusis a broad picture of the status of Azure globally. Azure status informs you of service outages in Azure on the Azure Status page. The page is a global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure regions.
- Service Healthprovides a narrower view of Azure services and regions. It focuses on the Azure services and regions you’re using. Service Health will let you know if resources are down in regions where you’ve deployed, but won’t give you details on your specific resources.
- Resource Healthprovides information about the health of your individual cloud resources. It will let you know if any of your resources are down
Describe Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor is a platform for collecting data on your resources, analyzing that data, visualizing the information, and even acting on the results. Azure Monitor can monitor Azure resources, your on-premises resources, and even multi-cloud resources like virtual machines hosted with a different cloud provider.
What is Azure Log Analytics
Azure Log Analytics is the tool in the Azure portal where you’ll write and run log queries on the data gathered by Azure Monitor. Log Analytics is a robust tool that supports both simple, complex queries, and data analysis.
What is Azure Monitor Alerts?
Azure Monitor Alerts are an automated way to stay informed when Azure Monitor detects a threshold being crossed. You set the alert conditions, the notification actions, and then Azure Monitor Alerts notifies when an alert is triggered. Depending on your configuration, Azure Monitor Alerts can also attempt corrective action.
What are Azure Application Insights
Application Insights, an Azure Monitor feature, monitors your web applications. Application Insights is capable of monitoring applications that are running in Azure, on-premises, or in a different cloud environment.
