Describe Azure management and governance Flashcards

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What factors can influence the OpEx costs of using Azure infrastructure? (6)

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  • Resource type
  • Consumption
  • Maintenance
  • Geography
  • Subscription type
  • Azure Marketplace
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How is the bill calculated for Azure resources?

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meters that are created when you provision a resource are used to track the resources’ usage and generate a usage record that is used to calculate your bill

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3
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What two calculators help you understand potential Azure expenses?

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Pricing calculator & Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator

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What is the purpose of the Pricing calculator?

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to give you an estimated cost for provisioning resources in Azure

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What is the purpose of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator?

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to help you compare the costs for running an on-premises infrastructure compared to an Azure Cloud infrastructure

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What type of cost alerts may show up when using the cost management tool?

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  1. Budget alerts
  2. Credit alerts
  3. Department spending quota alerts
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7
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What is Microsoft purview?

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a family of data governance, risk, and compliance solutions that helps you get a single, unified view into your data

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What key features does Microsoft Purview provide? (3)

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  1. Automated data discovery
  2. Sensitive data classification
  3. End-to-end data lineage
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What two main solutions comprise Microsoft Purview?

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Risk & compliance and unified data governance

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10
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What is Azure policy?

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a service in Azure that enables you to create, assign, and manage policies that control or audit your resources

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What is the purpose of a resource lock?

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to prevent resources from being accidentally deleted or changed

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12
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What are the two types of resource lock?

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Delete and ReadOnly

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13
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What is the service trust portal?

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a portal that provides access to various content, tools, and other resources about Microsoft security, privacy, and compliance practices

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14
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Via what mediums can you manage your Azure resources? (4)

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  1. Azure portal
  2. Azure Cloud Shell
  3. Azure PowerShell
  4. Azure CLI
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What is the Azure portal?

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a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools

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16
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What is the Azure Cloud Shell?

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a browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell

17
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What is the Azure PowerShell?

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a shell with which developers, DevOps, and IT professionals can run commands called command-lets (cmdlets)

18
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What is the Azure CLI?

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a shell which is functionally equivalent to Azure PowerShell, with the primary difference being the syntax of commands

19
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What is a benefit of using the Azure Cloud Shell over the PowerShell or CLI?

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It is authenticated to your Azure credentials, so when you log in it inherently knows who you are and what permissions you have.

20
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What is Azure Arc?

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a service that extends the capabilities of Azure, allowing you to manage, govern, and secure your infrastructure and applications across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments

21
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What is Azure Resource Manager?

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the deployment and management service for Azure

22
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What is Bicep?

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a language that uses declarative syntax to deploy Azure resources

23
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What does Azure Advisor do?

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evaluates your Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs

24
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Azure Advisor presents recommendations under which categories? (5)

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  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Performance
  • Operational excellence
  • Cost
25
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What three services does Azure Service Monitor provide?

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  • Azure Status
  • Service Health
  • Resource Health
26
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What is Azure Monitor?

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a platform for collecting data on your resources, analysing that data, visualising the information, and even acting on the results