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What is part of Azure Monitor?
Azure Log Analytics
Application Insights
How do Azure Monitor, Service Health and Azure advisor alert you?
Through action groups
T or F
anytime you do anything with your resources ARM is involved
True
Infrastructure as a code
manage your infrastructure as lines of code
what are two examples of using infrastructure as a code?
ARM templates and Bicep
Managing tools for your enviornment
Azure portal
Azure PowerShell
Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)
OpEx
operational expense
impacting factors that affect cost
Resource type
Consumption
Maintenance
Geography
Subscription type
Azure Marketplace
can creating the same storage in another region change the cost?
yes, as well as changing any settings
are some data inbound transfers free? (data going into Azure datacenter)
yes
what is the pricing for outbound data transfers? (data leaving Azure datacenter)
pricing is based on the zone
what is a zone?
geographical grouping of Azure regions for billing purposes
What is the cost management tool?
quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on resource spend, and create budgets that can be used to automate management of resources.
What are the 3 types of cost alerts?
Budget alerts
Credit alerts
Department spending quota alerts.
what can you set budgets for?
You can set budgets based on a subscription, resource group, service type, or other criteria
how are tags beneficial?
they provide extra information about resources such as
resource management
cost management and optimization
operations management
security
Governance and regulatory compliance
Workload optimization and automation
how can you manage tags?
You can add, modify, or delete resource tags through Windows PowerShell, the Azure CLI, Azure Resource Manager templates, the REST API, or the Azure portal.
what is an action group?
a collection of notification preferences
CapEx - Capital expenditure
one time up front cost.
ex - buy a car
pave a parking lot
build a datacenter
OpEx - operational expenditure
spending money on products or services over time.
renting
leasing a vehicle
what is scailability
the ability to adjust resources to meet demand
what is reliability?
the ability for the system to recover from failures and continue to function
what is performance predictability?
focuses on predicting the resources needed to deliver a positive experience for your customers
what is cost predictability?
focused on predicting or forecasting the cost of the cloud spend
management IN the cloud
Through a web portal.
Using a command line interface.
Using APIs.
Using PowerShell.
management of the cloud
managing your resources
who uses Sovereign regions?
US DoD Central, US Gov Virginia, US Gov Iowa and more
and china??????
What are Azure Reservations?
help you save money by committing to one-year or three-year plans for multiple products.
Reservations provide a billing discount and don’t affect the runtime state of your resource
t or f
Reservations provide a billing discount and don’t affect the runtime state of your resource
true
Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, and Cosmos DB are examples of which cloud computing service?
PaaS
Can an Azure resource have multiple delete locks?
yes
can an azure resource inherit locks from its resource group?
yes
if an azure resource has a read only lock, can you add a delete lock to the resource?
yes
what is a resource?
anything you create, provision, deploy, etc. - VMs, virtual networks, databases, cognitive services, etc
t or f
a resource can only be in one resource group at a time
true
how many management groups can be supported in a single directory?
10,000
t or f
each management group and subscription can support multiple parents
fales.
each can support only one
azure management groups
organize subscriptions into management groups and apply governance conditions to the management groups.
what is azure storage redundancy?
ensures your storage account meets it availability and durability targets even in the face of failures
storage tiers
hot - accessed frequently
cool - 30 days
cold - 90 days
archive - 180 days
Azure Queues
stores large number of messages
Azure Disks
block level storage volumes for use with VMs
Azure Tables
store large amounts of structured data. NoSQL datastore
what is Azure Data Box?
a physical migration service that helps transfer large amounts of data in a quick inexpensive reliable way
what is AzCopy?
a command line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files
What is Azure Storage Explorer?
a standalone app that manages files and blobs
which tool automatically keeps files between an on premises windows server and azure cloud environment updated?
azure file sync
what is Microsoft Purview?
a family of data governance, risk, and compliance solutions that helps you get a single unified view into your data
what are the two main solution areas that comprise Microsoft Purview?
risk and compliance
unified data governance
t or f
Microsoft Purview helps to manage and monitor your data
true
t or f
Microsoft Purview provides a unified data governance solution to help manage and govern your on premises, multi cloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data
true
Is microsoft purview a pay for what you use?
yes,
it helps reduce the need for manual and custom data discovery
plus scan SQL servers and Power BI tenants at no extra cost
what’s an availability set?
logical groupings of VMs that reduce the chance of correlated failures bringing down related VMs at the same time
how many fault domains and update domains can availability sets have?
fault - 3
update domains - 20
public endpoints
have public IP addresses and can be accessed from anywhere in the world
private endpoints
exist within a virtual network and have a private IP address from within the address space of that virtual network
Economies of scale
do things more efficiently or at a lower cost per unit when operating at a large scale
fixed price model
provision resources and pay for the instances whether you use them or not
Azure Functions
an event-driven, serverless compute platform that helps you develop more efficiently using the programming language of your choice.
Azure Functions are triggered by what?
triggered by events. means they don’t have to pull remote systems to see if an event has occurred
Serverless and push =
event grid