Part 1. Describe core Azure concepts

Question 1

What is Azure?

Answer 1

Cloud computing platform that offers services to build solutions and more.

Question 2

What is cloud computing?

Answer 2

Computing services over the internet, using a pay as you go pricing model

Question 3

Why change to cloud computing?

Answer 3

Lower operating costs
Run infrastructure efficiently
Scales business as needed

Question 4

Benefits of cloud computing

Answer 4

• Reliability: Continuous usage
• Scalability: More hardware or more power
• Elasticity: Can always be configured
• Agility: Along side your application requirements
• Geo distribution
• Disaster recovery

Question 5

Cloud service model

Answer 5

IaaS
PaaS
SaaS

Question 6

What is IaaS?

Answer 6

Cloud provides keeps the hardware, but cloud tenant configures software

Question 7

What is PaaS?

Answer 7

Cloud provides platform for clients to develop, cloud tenant deploys applications

Question 8

What is SaaS?

Answer 8

Cloud provider manages all aspects of the application, cloud tenant only provides data

Question 9

What is a public cloud?

Answer 9

Services offered by public internet. Resources are kept by cloud provider

Question 10

What is private cloud?

Answer 10

Services offered by private network. Resources are kept by cloud tenant

Question 11

What is hybrid cloud?

Answer 11

Combination of private and public.

Question 12

What is Azure Portal?

Answer 12

Web based platform where you can manage azure subscriptions, build, monitor and much more.

Question 13

Name Azure Services

Answer 13

Compute(VM)
Networking(VPN, DDoS)
Storage(Blob, File)
Databases(MySQL, MariaDB)
Web
Big Data
ioT
AI
DevOps

Question 14

Capital Expenditure vs Operational Expenditure

Answer 14

CapEx spends money on physical infraestructure while OpEx spends money on services