Miscellaneous

Question 1

How can you set limits on the costs you incur with azure resources?

Answer 1

Go to your subscriptions page and choose the subscription you want to enforce a budget limitation on.

Click on budgets and the + sign to add a budget.

You can filter what scope (parts) of the subscription you want to apply the budget to.

The charges do not stop being incurred when the budget has been reached but you can receive a warning.

Can be configured for actual and forecast spending.

Create an action group to trigger azure functions, logic apps etc. on reaching the set budget.

Question 2

What are the 3 core concept of azure?

Answer 2

Virtual machines
Virtual storage
Virtual networking

Question 3

What are app services?

Answer 3

Windows or Linux apps can be installed or developed without thinking about the virtual machine under the hood. Specific version, when updates are made or patches are applied are obfuscated from the developer. Build it integration with other azure features like scale sets and ado. Integrates with visual studio for one click publish.

Question 4

What are the basics of azure storage?

Answer 4

Redundancy (11 9s of durability or 16 9s of global redundancy)

Blobs queues tables files

Storage tiers ( hot cool archive)

Managed or unmanaged

Question 5

What is cosmos db?

Answer 5

Unstructured database

Question 6

What are some examples of microservices?

Answer 6

Service fabric to build
Microservices
Azure functions
Azure logic apps
API management
Azure k8s AKS

Question 7

What are the 4 categories of networking?

Answer 7

Connectivity
Security
Delivery
Monitoring

Question 8

Connectivity?

Answer 8

Vnet
Virtual wan
Express route
VPN gateway
Azure dns
Peering
Bastion

Question 9

Network security

Answer 9

Network security groups
Azure private links
Dos protection
Azure firewall
Web application firewall
Virtual network endpoints

Question 10

Network delivery

Answer 10

CDN
Azure front door
Application gateway
Load balancers

Question 11

Network monitoring?

Answer 11

Network watcher
Express route monitor
Azure monitor
Vnet terminal access point TAP

Question 12

What scripting will be in the test?

Answer 12

Azure portal
Powershell
AzBash/ CLI
Read and understand json (not programming but…)

Question 14

How much free credit does a free tier subscription get you?

Answer 14

200$ no exchange rate published.

Question 15

What is azure CDN?

Answer 15

Azure content delivery network. The Azure Content Delivery Network is designed to send audio, video, apps, photos, and other files to your customers faster and more reliably, using the servers closest to each user. Acceleration Data Transfer provides dynamic site acceleration of non-cacheable, dynamic content generated by your web applications.

Question 16

What is Azure global front door?

Answer 16

Azure Front Door is a modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) service that delivers high performance, scalability, and secure user experiences for your content and applications. Cloud-native and DevOps tools to automate and streamline deployment. Fully customizable rules engine for advanced routing capabilities.

Note that azure CDN is used to deliver static assets over a high bandwidth connection so it’s good for delivering audio , video and photo files but Azure global front door is not used for this purpose. Azure global front door is used for giving a global front door to web applications and global http load balancing and asset delivery for dynamic web sites. So azure CDN could be used by an app which uses azure global front door to deliver the larger assets.

Question 17

What is the difference between Azure front door and amAzure CDN?

Answer 17

Azure CDN focuses on content caching and delivery from edge locations, whereas Azure Front Door provides advanced routing capabilities, global load balancing, enhanced security features, and deeper analytics and monitoring options for dynamic content delivery and application acceleration