Describe Core Azure Services (15-20%) Flashcards
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?
Azure Marketplace
Azure ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE that
“act as a logical container into which Azure resources like web apps, databases, and storage accounts are deployed and managed.”
Resource Group
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.
Subscription
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
Management Group
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.
Region
_____ _____ 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
Availability Zones
What is the minimum number of zones within a single region
3
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
Pair
“A ____ is a manageable item that’s available through Azure. Virtual machines (VMs), storage accounts, web apps, databases, and virtual networks are examples “
resource
True or False,
Deleting a resource group will delete all assigned resources
True
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.
Azure Resource Manager
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
scale sets
Which Azure Compute resource allows for
Total control over the operating system (OS).
The ability to run custom software.
To use custom hosting configurations.
Virtual Machine
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
Azure App Services
_____ 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
Webjobs
ACI stands for what?
Azure Container Instances
The two services to manage containers in Azure are ____ and ____
ACI and AKS
AKS stands for
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Functions and Azure Logics apps are two implementations of ______ computing
serverless
Which is the default for Azure functions, stateful or stateless
Stateless
Serverless computer implementation that
executes workflows that are designed to automate business scenarios and are built from predefined logic blocks
Logic App
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 _____ _____.
workflow schema
Azure Logic App workflows are created in ____ ____ in the Azure portal or _____ _____
visual designer
visual studio
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.
Azure Virtual Desktop
Azure Virtual Desktop service allows use of Windows 10 enterprise _____ to allow multiple concurrent users on a single VM.
multi-session
Azure Virtual Desktop local balancing METHOD where users are sequentially allocated across the host pool for your workload.
Breadth
Azure Virtual Desktop local balancing METHOD where users are fully allocated on one VM before moving to the next, saving money
depth
Save money on Azure Virtual Desktop services by purchasing a one or three year Azure ______ Virtual Machine
Reserved
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
Virtual networks
_____ 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.
peering
UDR
User Defined Routing
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
Virtual Networks
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.
Azure VPN Gateway
Azure VPN gateways support which two VPN types?
Policy Based
Route Based
Route based VPN Gateways support both ____ and ____ routing
static
dynamic
By default, Azure VPN gateways are deployed in an _____/_____ instance
Active/Standby
Azure VPN Gateways support _____ _____ for high availability
Availability Zones
________ lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider.
ExpressRoute
Which Dynamic Routing protocol is used with Azure ExpressRoute
BGP
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.
Global Reach
Three ExpressRoute models for connecting to Microsoft Cloud
Colocation and cloud exchange
Point to Point Ethernet
Any-To-Any (private wan like MPLS integration)
____ ____ 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.
Disk Storage
Which type of disk storage can be used for SAP, HANA or top tier databases and transaction-heavy workflows
Ultra Disks
Blobs are stored in what logic structure?
Containers
What type of storage is unstructured and can store up to 8TB of data, such as text and binary data.
Blob Storage
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.
Azure Files
Azure Files ensures the data is encrypted at rest, and the ____ protocol ensures the data is encrypted in transit.
SMB
_____ _____ _____ tokens to allow access to a private File asset for a specific amount of time.
Shared Access Signature (SAS)
True or False Azure Files is only accessible from within Azure
False, Files can be accessed from anywhere using a url
Which Azure Storage tier for Blobs
Optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently
Hot Access tier
Which Azure Storage tier for Blobs
Optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 30 days
Cool Access tier
Which Azure Storage tier for Blobs
Appropriate for data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days, with flexible latency requirements
Archive Access tier
_____ _____ __ is a globally distributed, multi-model database service. You can elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure regions worldwide
Azure Cosmos DB
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.
SQL
Casandra
_____ _____ _____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
Azure SQL Database
Which Azure tool enables you to migrate existing SQL server databases to Azure SQL Database?
Azure Database Migration Service
The ____ ____ _____ can generate assessment reports that provide recommendations to help guide you through required changes prior to performing a migration
Microsoft Migration Assistant
_____ _____ 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
Azure Database
MySQL
MySQL
Azure Database for MySQL allows for point in time restore to recover a server going back how many days?
35 days
Azure Database for Postgre SQL allows for point in time restore to recover a server going back how many days?
35 days
Azure Database for Postgre SQL Single Server deployments offers which three pricing tiers
Basic
General Purpose
Memory Optomized
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
Hyperscale (Citus)
Which Azure Database option allows for “Common Language Runtime, and Collation server/instance”
Azure SQL Managed Instance
