Mod 6 - Describe Azure Storage Services

Question 1

ExpressRoute

Answer 1

A private connection from your on-premises infrastructure to your Azure infrastructure.
Azure DNS is a hosting service for DNS domains that provides name resolution by using Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

Question 2

Availability Sets

Answer 2

Azure Virtual Machine feature staggers updates across VMs based on their update domain and fault domain

Question 3

Azure Virtual Desktop

Answer 3

Azure service allows users to use a cloud hosted version of Windows from any location and connect from most modern browsers

Question 4

Locally redundant storage (LRS)

Answer 4

replicates your data three times within a single data center in the primary region.

Question 5

zone-redundant storage (ZRS)

Answer 5

replicates your Azure Storage data synchronously across three Azure availability zones in the primary region

Question 6

Geo-redundant storage (GRS)

Answer 6

copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region using LRS. It then copies your data asynchronously to a single physical location in the secondary region (the region pair) using LRS.

Question 7

Geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS)

Answer 7

data is copied across three Azure availability zones in the primary region (similar to ZRS) and is also replicated to a secondary geographic region, using LRS, for protection from regional disasters.

Question 8

Azure Blobs

Answer 8

A massively scalable object store for text and binary data. Also includes support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2

Question 9

Azure Files

Answer 9

Managed file shares for cloud or on-premises deployments.

Question 10

Azure Queues

Answer 10

A messaging store for reliable messaging between application components.

Question 11

Azure Disks

Answer 11

Block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs

Question 12

Azure Tables

Answer 12

NoSQL table option for structured, non-relational data

Question 13

Azure Data Box

Answer 13

a physical migration service that helps transfer large amounts of data in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable way

Question 14

AzCopy

Answer 14

command-line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files to or from your storage account.

Question 15

Azure File Sync

Answer 15

tool that lets you centralize your file shares in Azure Files and keep the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of a Windows file server.