Skill 3.1 Automate Deployment of Virtual Machines (VM) by using Azure Resource Manager Templates

Question 1

Describe VM Scale sets

Answer 1

Provide the unique ability to scale out certain types of workloads to handle large processing problems, and they optimize cost by only running instances when needed

Question 2

Describe Azure REsource manager templates

Answer 2

authored using JSON and provide the ability to define the configuration of resoures, such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and so on in a declarative manner

Question 3

What is required to deploy a virtual machine in Azure

Answer 3

A virtual Network

Question 4

What is modifications are needed to add a public IP address to a virtual machine

Answer 4

define a parameter that the user will use to specify a unique DNS name for the public IP while the second is to add it

Question 5

What are the two different deployment modes supported by ARM

Answer 5

Incremental
Complete

Question 6

Describe the incremental ARM deployment mode

Answer 6

ARM leaves unchanged resources that exist in teh resource group but aren’t in the template. It will update resources in the resource group if the settings in teh template differ from what is deployed

Question 7

Descibe the complete ARM deployment model

Answer 7

ARM will delete resources that exist in the resource group that are not in the template. Helpful if you need to remove a resource from Azure and you want to make sure your template matches deployment.

Question 8

What is the default mode for ARM deployments

Answer 8

Incremental

Question 9

How can templates be deployed

Answer 9

Azure Portal, command line tools, or directly using the rest API