Skill 3.5 Create and Configure Azure App Service

Question 1

What is Azure App Service

Answer 1

PaaS offering that makes it easy to host a web app in the cloud. Any app that is designed to process HTTP requests can benefit from using an app service

Question 2

What is Azure App service composed of

Answer 2

consists of a front-end load balancer that uses a round robin algorithm to distribute requests to web servers. These web servers are called workers, and they are responsible for processing HTTP requests.

Question 3

What are the types of workers offered with Azure services

Answer 3

Shared and Dedicated

Question 4

What is required to create a web app in App SErvice

Answer 4

An app service plan must be created either by yourself or by Azure

Question 5

What algorithm is going to be used when an app service plan runs on more than one instance

Answer 5

round robin

Question 6

What should you check if you don’t ee an existing App Service Plan when creating a new app

Answer 6

make sure you have selected the OS that matches the app service plan’s OS. You also need to ensure the region you select if the region where the app service plan is located

Question 7

What should you do when you configure an autoscale rule to scale out for a specific metric

Answer 7

you should also create another rule to scale in when that metric drops below your thresehold

Question 8

Using App Service what can you use to secure your apps

Answer 8

You can use Azure Active Directory, along with easily implementing security using Facebook, Google, and Twitter so that users can authenticate to your app using their existing logins on-premises

Question 9

What does AppService use for authentication for third-party identity provider

Answer 9

OAUTH and secrets that you provide to configure are securely stored in Azure Key Vault

Question 10

How can you browse you app service app

Answer 10

By using the provided Azure domain name or using your own domain name

Question 11

What is a TXT DNS record

Answer 11

Verify ownership of your root domain, create a TXT record named asuid with a value of the custom domain verification ID shown in the Azure Portal

Question 12

What is a CNAME record

Answer 12

Used to map a subdomain

Question 12

Where are App Service Backups stored

Answer 12

Azure Storage and each backup is a complete copy of the app and configuration. Backups are not incremental and can be kept for an indefinite amount of time

Question 13

What is the maximum size App Service Backups

Answer 13

10 GB

Question 14

Describe the App Services Networking features

Answer 14

VNet Integration
Private Endpoint Connections
Hybrid Connection

Question 15

Describe Deployment Slots

Answer 15

Allow you to create another app with its own hostname in your app service Plan. These can be to test a new version of an app, and once you are statisfied with the new version you can easily swap them out

Question 16

What is the publish profile

Answer 16

A configuration file that lists all the methods available for deployment as well as the credentials necessary for connective