Describe Core Solutions and Management Tools on Azure (10-15%)

Question 1

Describe the benefits and usage of Internet of Things (IoT) Hub, IoT Central, and Azure Sphere

Answer 1

Devices like watches or toasters that communicate with the cloud, IoT Hub and Central are places to manage them. Azure sphere is a security chip to be added to the devices.

Question 2

Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, and Azure Databricks

Answer 2

BigData, Database analytics, queries and reporting.

Question 3

Describe the benefits and usage of Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services and Azure Bot Service

Answer 3

Machine learning APIs offered in Azure that can analyze voice, text, images, videos, natural language processing, and do various intelligent actions based on that; can do chatbots, real time transcription, translation, etc.

Question 4

Describe the benefits and usage of serverless computing solutions that include Azure Functions and Logic Apps

Answer 4

Small pieces of code running from triggers in the cloud. Automation and connectors between various services inside and outside of azure. Serverless. Consumption based.

Question 5

Describe the benefits and usage of Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevTest Labs

Answer 5

Hybrid. Tying Dev into Operations. GitHub code repository. GitHub actions updates a web app automatically when new code is checked in.

Question 6

Describe the functionality and usage of the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, Cloud Shell, and Azure Mobile App

Answer 6

All tools or ways to manage Azure cloud. The mobile app can Start, Stop and Restart servers.

Question 7

Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Advisor

Answer 7

How to improve your usage of Azure, cost, security, reliability, performance etc

Question 8

Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

Answer 8

Azure Resource Manager, management layer that allows you to create “deployments”. Templates are just the JSON code allowing automation of deployments.

Question 9

Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Monitor

Answer 9

Alerts and error messages for your OWN resources in a centralised location

Question 10

Describe the functionality and usage of Azure Service Health

Answer 10

Azure tells you known service issues that may effect your resources.