Mod 2 - Understand the Physical and Logical Layout of Azure

Question 1

How far are Secondary Regions placed from Primary?

Answer 1

more than 300 miles away from primary regions

Question 2

Regions

Answer 2

is a geographical area on the planet that contains at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are nearby and networked together with a low-latency network

Question 3

What do Regions contain?

Answer 3

Contains availability zones or a buddy region/sub region of a geography ex. US has US West and US East

Question 4

Geography

Answer 4

Refers to a geographical area, Example U.S, E.U, Asia

Question 5

Availability Zone

Answer 5

physical zone containing three datacenters connected together by high speed fiber connections

Question 6

Can you choose which datacenter to use in AZs?

Answer 6

Yes, EX. South central US has three datacenters in texas that are connected

Question 7

Disks

Answer 7

a storage resource, can be in a different datacenter and be synced with VMs on DC1 and DC2

Question 8

Zonal Services

Answer 8

means you pick the zone, ex. I want server in AV1 and another in AV2

Question 9

Zone redundant by default

Answer 9

means when using PaaS, Microsoft has deployed resources in a way with redundancy in mind

Question 10

Non-regional services

Answer 10

resource/service MS provides in Azure that isn’t dependent on uptime of a AV ex. Azure AD

Question 11

What is the High level hierarchy of Azure Logical layout of resources

Answer 11

Management Groups»Subs»RGs

Question 12

Resource Groups

Answer 12

a container that you logically assign resources together. First way of organizing our stuff, required to deploy resources. Ex. Assign several VMs to Front end group for website

Question 13

• Governance policy

Answer 13

: policy set on RGs that defines requirements resources need to have to be in that group, ex. VMs have Ubuntu OS

Question 14

• Security policy

Answer 14

policy set on RG to determine access

Question 15

What are three Examples of how to use RGs

Answer 15

• Project based: organize resources by a project ex. LB, VMs, and storage for a website. Can run metrics on it
• Business Unit based: organize resources by BU or department ex. IT or HR
• Team Based: organize by team ex. Systems eng and Net eng should have different access to resources.

Question 16

Subscriptions

Answer 16

: a logical container that organizes RGs under specific budget categories and sets policies that apply to those RGs. Ex. IT sub or HR sub.

Question 17

Do you need a credit card to create a new sub?

Answer 17

No

Question 18

How can you setup a sub to show in default sub lists?

Answer 18

• Can go to account settings and select what subs show in your default sub list

Question 19

Management group

Answer 19

a logical grouping of subscriptions. Useful for medium-large orgs where users in different depts Need access to resources in multiple subs. Ex. IT mngmt group Ops and Dev mngmt group&raquo_space;>Dev group has Test env group»Test env group has a subscription»Test env sub has RGs

Question 20

Root Management group

Answer 20

The top tier mngmt group. By default, all subs and resources fall under this root group when you create an Azure account