Mod 16 - Describe features and tools for managing and deploying Azure resources

Question 1

What is the Azure portal?

Answer 1

The Azure portal is a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools

Question 2

3 Attributes of azure portal

Answer 2

• It maintains a presence in every Azure datacenter.
• This configuration makes the Azure portal resilient to individual datacenter failures and avoids network slowdowns by being close to users.
• The Azure portal updates continuously and requires no downtime for maintenance activities.

Question 3

What is Azure PowerShell?

Answer 3

These commands call the Azure REST API to perform management tasks in Azure

Question 4

what type of scripting language does Azure CLI use?

Answer 4

Bash

Question 5

Describe the purpose of Azure Arc

Answer 5

In utilizing Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Arc lets you extend your Azure compliance and monitoring to your hybrid and multi-cloud configurations

Question 6

what are the the 5 things Arc enables doing

Answer 6

• Manage your entire environment together by projecting your existing non-Azure resources into ARM.
• Manage multi-cloud and hybrid virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and databases as if they are running in Azure.
• Use familiar Azure services and management capabilities, regardless of where they live.
• Continue using traditional ITOps while introducing DevOps practices to support new cloud and native patterns in your environment.
• Configure custom locations as an abstraction layer on top of Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters and cluster extensions.

Question 7

What types of resources can Azure Arc interact with outside of Azure?

Answer 7

• Servers
• Kubernetes clusters
• Azure data services
• SQL Server
• Virtual machines (preview)

Question 8

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

Answer 8

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

Question 9

HOW DOES ARM Work

Answer 9

When a user sends a request from any of the Azure tools, APIs, or SDKs, ARM receives the request.

ARM authenticates and authorizes the request.

Then, ARM sends the request to the Azure service, which takes the requested action

Question 10

Infrastructure as code

Answer 10

a concept where you manage your infrastructure as lines of code

Question 11

the 5 benefits of using ARM

Answer 11

• Declarative syntax: ARM templates allow you to create and deploy an entire Azure infrastructure declaratively. Declarative syntax means you declare what you want to deploy but don’t need to write the actual programming commands and sequence to deploy the resources.
• Repeatable results: Repeatedly deploy your infrastructure throughout the development lifecycle and have confidence your resources are deployed in a consistent manner. You can use the same ARM template to deploy multiple dev/test environments, knowing that all the environments are the same.
• Orchestration: You don’t have to worry about the complexities of ordering operations. Azure Resource Manager orchestrates the deployment of interdependent resources, so they’re created in the correct order. When possible, Azure Resource Manager deploys resources in parallel, so your deployments finish faster than serial deployments. You deploy the template through one command, rather than through multiple imperative commands.
• Modular files: You can break your templates into smaller, reusable components and link them together at deployment time. You can also nest one template inside another template. For example, you could create a template for a VM stack, and then nest that template inside of templates that deploy entire environments, and that VM stack will consistently be deployed in each of the environment templates.
• Extensibility: With deployment scripts, you can add PowerShell or Bash scripts to your templates. The deployment scripts extend your ability to set up resources during deployment. A script can be included in the template or stored in an external source and referenced in the template. Deployment scripts give you the ability to complete your end-to-end environment setup in a single ARM template.

Question 12

Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor

Answer 12

evaluates your Azure resources and makes recommendations to help improve reliability, security, and performance, achieve operational excellence, and reduce costs.

Question 13

what is azure advisor designed for

Answer 13

designed to help you save time on cloud optimization

Question 14

where are recommendations are available?

Answer 14

via the Azure portal and the API

Question 15

what are the 5 categories of azure advisor recommendations

Answer 15

• Reliability is used to ensure and improve the continuity of your business-critical applications.
• Security is used to detect threats and vulnerabilities that might lead to security breaches.
• Performance is used to improve the speed of your applications.
• Operational Excellence is used to help you achieve process and workflow efficiency, resource manageability, and deployment best practices.
• Cost is used to optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending

Question 16

Describe what Azure Service Health does

Answer 16

helps you keep track of Azure resource, both your specifically deployed resources and the overall status of Azure

gives you a complete view of your Azure environment-all the way from the global status of Azure services and regions down to specific resources

Question 17

what are the three different Azure services combined by azure service health

Answer 17

• Azure Status is a broad picture of the status of Azure globally. Azure status informs you of service outages in Azure on the Azure Status page. The page is a global view of the health of all Azure services across all Azure regions. It’s a good reference for incidents with widespread impact.
• Service Health provides a narrower view of Azure services and regions. It focuses on the Azure services and regions you’re using. This is the best place to look for service impacting communications about outages, planned maintenance activities, and other health advisories because the authenticated Service Health experience knows which services and resources you currently use. You can even set up Service Health alerts to notify you when service issues, planned maintenance, or other changes may affect the Azure services and regions you use.
• Resource Health is a tailored view of your actual Azure resources. It provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources, such as a specific virtual machine instance. Using Azure Monitor, you can also configure alerts to notify you of availability changes to your cloud resources.

Question 18

action group

Answer 18

a collection of notification and action preferences that you associate with one or multiple alerts in azure monitor alerts