Module 2 Flashcards
Azure Geography
A discrete market, containing two or more regions that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.
Azure Regions
Set of datacenters. Regions are within Azure geography.
Region Pairs
A relationship between two Azure Regions within the same geographic region for disaster recovery purposes.
Can region pairs be configured?
No they are chosen by microsoft and usually have over 300 miles between them.
Availability zones
unique physical locations within a region with independent power, network and cooling.
1 < datacenters. Tolerant to datacenter failures via redundancy and isolation.
How many subscriptions can a management group contain?
one or more
What is the relationship between subscriptions and resource groups?
A resource group can only belong to one subscription, but a subscription can have multiple resource groups.
What are management groups
A level above subscriptions.
Each directory is given 1 top level management group called the root.
What is a subscription?
A unit of management, billing and scale within Azure. Serves as a management boundary for assigning policies, governance and isolation.
Why would one create multiple subscriptions?
when subscription limits are reached.
to use different payment methods.
isolate resources between departments and projects.
What are resource groups?
A container that holds related resources with a common lifecycle.
What are resources
Any entity managed by Azure.
List the core compute services in azure.
VMs, App service, Azure Container Instance (ACI), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Windows virtual Desktop.
What is a Azure VM?
Server virtualization (compute) on demand
What is App Service
An HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs and mobile backends
