Describe Core Azure Services (15-20%) Flashcards

1
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Azure Portal service that helps connect users with Microsoft partners, independent software vendors, and startups that are offering their solutions and services, which are optimized to run on Azure?

A

Azure Marketplace

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Azure ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE that

“act as a logical container into which Azure resources like web apps, databases, and storage accounts are deployed and managed.”

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Resource Group

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Azure ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE that

“groups together user accounts and the resources that have been created by those user accounts. For each _____, there are limits or quotas on the amount of resources that you can create and use.

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Subscription

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Azure ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE that

“groups help you manage access, policy, and compliance for multiple subscriptions. All subscriptions in a ____ ____ automatically inherit the conditions applied to the management group

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Management Group

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A _____ is 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.

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Region

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_____ _____ are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region. Each ____ _____ is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking. They are set up to be an isolation boundary. If one goes down, the other continues working

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Availability Zones

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7
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What is the minimum number of zones within a single region

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3

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A region ____ , is a term used to describe the relationship between two regions to provide redundancy.

1) One region in the ____ is prioritized for recovery should both regions have an outage
2) Azure updates are deployed in one region in the ____ to avoid outages related to upgrades
3) Each region ____ is in the same geography for data governance and law enforcement requirements

A

Pair

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9
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“A ____ is a manageable item that’s available through Azure. Virtual machines (VMs), storage accounts, web apps, databases, and virtual networks are examples “

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resource

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10
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True or False,

Deleting a resource group will delete all assigned resources

A

True

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11
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What Azure Management service

“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. You use management features like access control, locks, and tags to secure and organize your resources after deployment.

A

Azure Resource Manager

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12
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VM _____ _____ allow you to centrally manage, configure, and update a large number of VMs in minutes to provide highly available applications. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or a defined schedule

A

scale sets

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13
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Which Azure Compute resource allows for

Total control over the operating system (OS).
The ability to run custom software.
To use custom hosting configurations.

A

Virtual Machine

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14
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Which core Azure resource

“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. It offers automatic scaling and high availability

A

Azure App Services

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_____ are an Azure App service style that

is a feature to run a program (.exe, Java, PHP, Python, or Node.js) or script (.cmd, .bat, PowerShell, or Bash) in the same context as a web app, API app, or mobile app.

Often used to run background tasks of web application

A

Webjobs

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16
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ACI stands for what?

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Azure Container Instances

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17
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The two services to manage containers in Azure are ____ and ____

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ACI and AKS

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18
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AKS stands for

A

Azure Kubernetes Service

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19
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Azure Functions and Azure Logics apps are two implementations of ______ computing

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serverless

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20
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Which is the default for Azure functions, stateful or stateless

A

Stateless

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21
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Serverless computer implementation that

executes workflows that are designed to automate business scenarios and are built from predefined logic blocks

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Logic App

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22
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You create logic app workflows by using a visual designer on the Azure portal or in Visual Studio. The workflows are persisted as a JSON file with a known _____ _____.

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workflow schema

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23
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Azure Logic App workflows are created in ____ ____ in the Azure portal or _____ _____

A

visual designer

visual studio

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24
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Service that

is a desktop and application virtualization service that runs on the cloud. It enables your users to use a cloud-hosted version of Windows from any location.

A

Azure Virtual Desktop

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25
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Azure Virtual Desktop service allows use of Windows 10 enterprise _____ to allow multiple concurrent users on a single VM.

A

multi-session

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26
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Azure Virtual Desktop local balancing METHOD where users are sequentially allocated across the host pool for your workload.

A

Breadth

27
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Azure Virtual Desktop local balancing METHOD where users are fully allocated on one VM before moving to the next, saving money

A

depth

28
Q

Save money on Azure Virtual Desktop services by purchasing a one or three year Azure ______ Virtual Machine

A

Reserved

29
Q

Azure _____ _____ enable Azure resources, such as VMs, web apps, and databases, to communicate with each other, with users on the internet, and with your on-premises client computers

A

Virtual networks

30
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_____ enables resources in each virtual network to communicate with each other. These virtual networks can be in separate regions, which allows you to create a global interconnected network through Azure.

A

peering

31
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UDR

A

User Defined Routing

32
Q

The following are key benefits of Azure feature

Isolation and segmentation
Internet communications
Communicate between Azure resources
Communicate with on-premises resources
Route network traffic
Filter network traffic
Connect virtual networks
A

Virtual Networks

33
Q

Which type of Azure virtual network gateway enables the following connectivity

Connect on-premises datacenters to virtual networks through a site-to-site connection.
Connect individual devices to virtual networks through a point-to-site connection.
Connect virtual networks to other virtual networks through a network-to-network connection.

A

Azure VPN Gateway

34
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Azure VPN gateways support which two VPN types?

A

Policy Based

Route Based

35
Q

Route based VPN Gateways support both ____ and ____ routing

A

static

dynamic

36
Q

By default, Azure VPN gateways are deployed in an _____/_____ instance

A

Active/Standby

37
Q

Azure VPN Gateways support _____ _____ for high availability

A

Availability Zones

38
Q

________ lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider.

A

ExpressRoute

39
Q

Which Dynamic Routing protocol is used with Azure ExpressRoute

A

BGP

40
Q

You can enable ExpressRoute _____ _____ to exchange data across your on-premises sites by connecting your ExpressRoute circuits. For example, assume that you have a private datacenter in California connected to ExpressRoute in Silicon Valley. You have another private datacenter in Texas connected to ExpressRoute in Dallas. With ExpressRoute Global Reach, you can connect your private datacenters through two ExpressRoute circuits. Your cross-datacenter traffic will travel through the Microsoft network.

A

Global Reach

41
Q

Three ExpressRoute models for connecting to Microsoft Cloud

A

Colocation and cloud exchange
Point to Point Ethernet
Any-To-Any (private wan like MPLS integration)

42
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____ ____ provides disks for Azure virtual machines. Applications and other services can access and use these disks as needed, similar to how they would in on-premises scenarios.

A

Disk Storage

43
Q

Which type of disk storage can be used for SAP, HANA or top tier databases and transaction-heavy workflows

A

Ultra Disks

44
Q

Blobs are stored in what logic structure?

A

Containers

45
Q

What type of storage is unstructured and can store up to 8TB of data, such as text and binary data.

A

Blob Storage

46
Q

Which storage type is

fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (preview) protocols.

A

Azure Files

47
Q

Azure Files ensures the data is encrypted at rest, and the ____ protocol ensures the data is encrypted in transit.

A

SMB

48
Q

_____ _____ _____ tokens to allow access to a private File asset for a specific amount of time.

A

Shared Access Signature (SAS)

49
Q

True or False Azure Files is only accessible from within Azure

A

False, Files can be accessed from anywhere using a url

50
Q

Which Azure Storage tier for Blobs

Optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently

A

Hot Access tier

51
Q

Which Azure Storage tier for Blobs

Optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 30 days

A

Cool Access tier

52
Q

Which Azure Storage tier for Blobs

Appropriate for data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days, with flexible latency requirements

A

Archive Access tier

53
Q

_____ _____ __ is a globally distributed, multi-model database service. You can elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure regions worldwide

A

Azure Cosmos DB

54
Q

At the lowest level, Azure Cosmos DB stores data in atom-record-sequence (ARS) format. The data is then abstracted and projected as an API, which you specify when you’re creating your database. Your choices include ____, MongoDB, ______, Tables, and Gremlin.

A

SQL

Casandra

55
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_____ _____ _____is a platform as a service (PaaS) database engine. It handles most of the database management functions, such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring, without user involvement and provides 99.99 percent availability

A

Azure SQL Database

56
Q

Which Azure tool enables you to migrate existing SQL server databases to Azure SQL Database?

A

Azure Database Migration Service

57
Q

The ____ ____ _____ can generate assessment reports that provide recommendations to help guide you through required changes prior to performing a migration

A

Microsoft Migration Assistant

58
Q

_____ _____ for _____ is a relational database service in the cloud, and it’s based on the _____ Community Edition database engine, versions 5.6, 5.7, and 8.0. With it, you have a 99.99 percent availability service level agreement from Azure, powered by a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters

A

Azure Database
MySQL
MySQL

59
Q

Azure Database for MySQL allows for point in time restore to recover a server going back how many days?

A

35 days

60
Q

Azure Database for Postgre SQL allows for point in time restore to recover a server going back how many days?

A

35 days

61
Q

Azure Database for Postgre SQL Single Server deployments offers which three pricing tiers

A

Basic
General Purpose
Memory Optomized

62
Q

Which Azure Database for Progres SQL deployment model

horizontally scales queries across multiple machines by using sharding. Its query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers for faster responses on large datasets. It serves applications that require greater scale and performance, generally workloads that are approaching, or already exceed, 100 GB of data

A

Hyperscale (Citus)

63
Q

Which Azure Database option allows for “Common Language Runtime, and Collation server/instance”

A

Azure SQL Managed Instance