Learning Flashcards
What must be purchased for a private cloud deployment model?
Hardware must be purchased.
What are two characteristics of the private cloud deployment model?
The company has complete control over physical resources and security.
What are two characteristics of the public cloud deployment model?
Servers and storage are owned and operated by a third-party cloud service provider.
Services are offered over the internet and are available to anyone who wants to purchase them.
What are two characteristics of a consumption-based model?
No upfront costs.
The ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer used.
Which two characteristics are common advantages of cloud computing?
High availability.
Geo-distribution.
What is an advantage of cloud computing compared to on-premises deployments?
You can scale more quickly.
What refers to upfront costs incurred one time, such as hardware purchases?
Capital expenditures.
What is increasing compute capacity for an app by adding RAM or CPUs to a virtual machine called?
Vertical scaling.
What are cloud-based backup service, data replication, and geo-distribution features of?
A disaster recovery plan.
What is increasing the capacity of an application by adding additional virtual machines called?
Horizontal scaling.
What cloud service model is used by Microsoft Office 365?
Software as a service (SaaS).
What cloud service model is used by Azure SQL Database?
Platform as a service (PaaS).
What uses the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud service model?
Azure virtual machines.
What is a logical container used to combine and organize Azure resources?
A resource group.
In a region pair, a region is paired with another region in the same?
Geography.
What is an Azure Storage account named storage001 an example of?
A resource.
For which resource does Azure generate separate billing reports and invoices by default?
Subscriptions.
Which Azure component allows you to replicate resources across a geography to ensure business continuity during a natural disaster at the primary site?
Region pairs.
Which resource can you use to manage access, policies, and compliance across multiple subscriptions?
Management groups.
Which two Azure resources can make use of availability zones?
Azure SQL databases.
Virtual machines.
What can you use to execute code in a serverless environment?
Azure functions.
What do you need to allow resources on two different Azure virtual networks to communicate with each other?
Peering.
What can you use to provide Mac and Android users with access to a Windows environment that will run Windows-based applications?
Azure virtual desktop.
Which storage service should you use to store thousands of files containing text and images?
Azure blob storage.
Which Azure blob storage tier stores data offline and offers the lowest cost?
Archive.
Which storage service fully manages file shares in the cloud that are accessible by using the server message block (SMB) protocol?
Azure files.
Which Azure storage service should you use to store unstructured files, such as images, that will be served on webpages?
Azure blob storage.
Which two protocols can be used to access Azure file shares?
Network file system (NFS).
Server message block (SMB).
What enables a user to sign in one time and use that credential to access multiple resources and applications from different providers?
Single sign-on (SSO).
What can you use to ensure that a user can only access applications from compliant devices?
Conditional access.
Which type of strategy uses a series of mechanisms to slow the advancement of an attack that aims to gain unauthorized access to data?
Defense in depth.
What Microsoft Entra feature can you use to configure security authentication that requires users to use their mobile phone to sign in?
Multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Which two factors affect Azure costs?
Resource location.
Resource usage.
What should you use to compare the costs of running an application in an on-premises datacenter with the costs of running the application in Azure?
Total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator.
What should you use to associate the costs of resources to different groups within an organization without changing the location of the resources?
Resource tags.
What can you use to minimize the costs of virtual machines without reducing their functionality?
Azure reservations.
What can be applied to a resource to prevent accidental deletion?
A resource lock.
What can you use to ensure that new and existing Azure resources stay in compliance with corporate standards?
Azure policy.
What should you include in the recommendation for Azure virtual machine deployments to enforce company standards?
Azure policy.
What should you implement to ensure that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is enabled on accounts with write permissions in an Azure subscription?
Azure policy.
What can you use to restrict the deployment of a virtual machine to a specific location?
Azure policy.
Which two actions can be performed by using the Azure portal?
Create new resources.
Create Microsoft Entra user.
Which management layer accepts requests from any Azure tool or API and enables you to create, update, and delete resources in an Azure account?
Azure resource manager (ARM).
What should you use to access Azure Cloud Shell?
A web browser.
Which Azure service evaluates Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, performance, and cost reduction?
Azure advisor.
Where should you look for the root cause analysis (RCA) report for a service outage that occurred last week?
Azure service health.
What can you use to automatically detect performance anomalies for web apps?
Azure application insights.
What can you apply to an Azure virtual machine to ensure that users cannot change or delete the sources?
A lock.
Which feature in the Microsoft Purview governance portal should you use to manage access to data sources and datasets?
Data policy.
To which object or level is an Azure role-based access control (RBAC) role applied?
Scope.
Which Microsoft Entra feature can you use to ensure that users can only access Microsoft Office 365 applications from approved client applications?
Conditional access.
What can you use to find information about planned maintenance for Azure services that are critical to your organization?
Azure service health.
Which are two common scenarios for using resource tags?
Associating costs with different environments.
Categorizing costs by department.
What should you use to estimate the monthly costs of building a new solution in Azure that will use PaaS products?
Azure pricing calculator.
Which two features are available by using Azure cost management + Billing?
Create and manage budgets.
Generate historical reports and forecast future usage.
What should you do to minimize costs for an Azure virtual machine that is accessed only between 9:00 and 17:00 each day?
Deallocate the virtual machine when it is not needed.
What can you use to manage servers across third-party cloud platforms and on-premises environments?
Azure Arc.
What are physically separate data centers within an Azure region?
Availability zones.
What can you use to allow a user to manage all the resources in a resource group?
Azure role-based access control (RBAC).
