Management and Governance (30%-35%) Flashcards
What factors affect Azure costs?
Azure costs depend on:
* Resource type
* Consumption
* Region
* Subscription type
* Maintenance
* and the Azure Marketplace.
Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure.
What is the difference between CapEx and OpEx in Azure?
- CapEx: is spending on infrastructure
- OpEx: is paying for resources as you use them in Azure.
What does the Azure Pricing Calculator do?
It estimates costs for Azure resources based on your configuration, such as storage, compute, and network.
Compare the Pricing calculator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator.
What does the TCO Calculator do?
Total Cost of Ownership
It compares the cost of running your infrastructure on-premises versus in Azure.
What is Azure Cost Management?
A tool to monitor Azure costs, set budgets, and create alerts when spending limits are reached.
Describe the Microsoft Cost Management Tool.
What are resource tags in Azure?
Tags are labels for organizing Azure resources by project, cost center, or importance.
Describe the purpose of tags.
Why is tagging resources useful in Azure?
Tags help track costs, organize resources, and ensure compliance with company policies.
Describe the purpose of tags.
What are budget alerts in Azure Cost Management?
Alerts notify you when spending reaches set limits for subscriptions, resource groups, or services.
Describe the Microsoft Cost Management Tool.
How does Azure handle data transfer costs?
Data moving into Azure is free; data leaving Azure is charged based on regions called billing zones.
Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure.
How do reserved instances save money?
By committing to use resources for 1–3 years, you get discounts of up to 72%.
Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure.
What is the Azure Marketplace?
A store where you can buy Azure solutions, often including third-party software or services.
Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure.
What is the purpose of Azure Policy?
It helps you make sure your Azure resources follow the rules and stay organized.
Describe the purpose of Azure Policy.
What are Azure Policy initiatives?
A group of rules (policies) bundled together to meet a bigger goal, like improving security.
Describe the purpose of Azure Policy.
What is a resource lock?
A way to stop resources from being accidentally deleted or changed.
Describe the purpose of resource locks.
What are the types of resource locks?
- Delete: Stops deletion but allows changes.
- ReadOnly: Stops both deletion and changes but allows viewing.
Describe the purpose of resource locks.
What is the Microsoft Service Trust Portal?
A website with info and tools about Microsoft’s security and privacy practices.
Describe the purpose of the Service Trust portal.
What features does the Service Trust Portal offer?
Save documents, get updates, and find security and compliance details.
Describe the purpose of the Service Trust portal.
What is Microsoft Purview?
A tool to manage and protect your data across on-premises, cloud, and apps like Microsoft 365.
Describe the purpose of Microsoft Purview.
What is the Azure portal?
A web-based tool to manage Azure using a graphical interface.
Describe the Azure portal.
What is Azure Cloud Shell?
A browser-based shell to manage Azure resources using PowerShell or CLI.
Describe Azure Cloud Shell, including Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell.
What is Azure PowerShell?
A tool to run commands (cmdlets) for managing Azure, often used for automation.
Describe Azure Cloud Shell, including Azure PowerShell.
What is the Azure CLI?
A command-line tool using Bash commands to manage Azure resources.
Describe Azure Cloud Shell, including Azure CLI.
What is Azure Arc?
A tool to manage non-Azure resources like servers, Kubernetes, and databases from Azure.
Describe the purpose of Azure Arc.
What does Azure Resource Manager (ARM) do?
It handles all Azure resource management, like creating, updating, and deleting resources.
Describe Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and ARM templates.
What are ARM templates?
JSON files that define Azure resources for consistent, repeatable deployments.
Describe Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and ARM templates.
What are the benefits of ARM templates?
Declarative syntax, consistent deployments, faster setups, and modularity.
Describe Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and ARM templates.
What is infrastructure as code (IaC)?
Managing infrastructure using code for repeatable and automated deployments.
ARM Templates, Bicep, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Powershell scripts etc.
Describe infrastructure as code (IaC).
What is Bicep?
A simpler language for writing ARM templates with clean, readable syntax.
Describe Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and ARM templates.
What is Azure Advisor?
A tool that gives tips to improve:
reliability,
security,
performance,
operations,
and save money.
Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor
What is Azure Service Health?
A tool to show problems with Azure with:
* Services
* Regions
* Resources
Describe Azure Service Health
What is Azure Monitor?
A tool that collects, analyzes, and acts on data from your Azure and other cloud resources.
Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
What is Azure Log Analytics?
A tool in Azure Monitor to search and analyze logs for troubleshooting and insights.
Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
What are Azure Monitor Alerts?
Notifications triggered when something crosses a limit, like high CPU usage.
Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
What is an action group in Azure Monitor?
A group that decides who gets notified or what action to take when an alert happens.
Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
What is Application Insights?
A feature of Azure Monitor that tracks how your web app is working.
Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
What can Application Insights monitor?
App performance, errors, user activities, and resource usage.
Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
How can you set up Application Insights?
By adding an SDK to your app or using the Application Insights agent.
Describe Azure Monitor, including Log Analytics, Azure Monitor alerts, and Application Insights
