Which term from the list below would be viewed as benefits of using cloud services?
Unpredictable costs
Elasticity
Local reach only
Suppose you have two types of applications: legacy application that requires specialized mainframe hardware and newer application that can run on commodity hardware. Which cloud deployment would be best for you?
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
You're developing an application and want to focus on building, testing, and deploying. You don't want to worry about managing the underlying hardware or software. Which cloud service type is best for you?
IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
What is Azure?
Microsoft's cloud computing platform, which provides compute power, storage, and services over the internet using a pay-as-you-go pricing model
A single datacenter located in Redmond, Washington
A hosting environment specifically for VMs
Which of the following is an example of an Azure computer service?
Azure VM
Azure Load Balancer
Azure Table Storage
Azure Cache for Redis
When should you scale out your deployment?
When your application or service requires a more powerful CPU or more memory to run faster
When you need additional VMs to speed up your application
When you're using excess capacity that you don’t need
You can select the specific datacenter you want to deploy your app into.
Every region has an availability zone.
Application availability refers to what
The service level agreement of the associated resource
Whether the application supports an availability zone
The overall time that a system is functional and working
Which of the following defines an Azure subscription correctly?
Using Azure does not require a subscription
All Azure subscriptions are always free
An Azure subscription is a logical unit of Azure services that is linked to an Azure account
An account cannot have more than one subscription
Azure has free services you can use once you have an Azure subscription.
Bill in Azure is _________ .
Annually for each Azure account based on usage
Monthly for each Azure subscription based on usage
Monthly for each Azure account based on usage
Daily for each Azure subscription based on usage
An Azure dashboard is stored as which type of file?
XML
JSON
PNG
Azure Advisor provides advice on:
Creating an Azure account
Best practices and Security for your services
Using the Azure portal effectively
Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources
Suppose you have an existing application running locally on your own server. You need additional capacity but prefer to move to Azure instead of buying upgraded on-premises hardware. Which compute option would likely give you the quickest route to getting your application running in Azure?
Serverless computing
Containers
Virtual machines
Imagine that you work on a photo-sharing application that runs on millions of mobile devices. Demand is unpredictable because you see a spike in usage whenever a locally or nationally significant event occurs. Which Azure compute resource is the best match for this workload?
The compute options give you different levels of control over the configuration of the environment in which your application runs. Which of the following lists the compute options in order from "most control" to "least control"?
Serverless computing, containers, virtual machines
Containers, serverless computing, virtual machines
Virtual machines, containers, serverless computing
Suppose you work at a startup with limited funding. Why might you prefer Azure data storage over an on-premises solution?
To ensure you run on a specific brand of hardware which will let you form a marketing partnership with that hardware vendor.
The Azure pay-as-you-go billing model lets you avoid buying expensive hardware.
To get exact control over the location of your data store.
Which of the following situations would yield the most benefits from relocating an on-premises data store to Azure?
Unpredictable storage demand that increases and decreases multiple times throughout the year.
Long-term, steady growth in storage demand.
Consistent, unchanging storage demand.
What is an Azure region?
One or more Azure data centers within a specific geographical location
A way of breaking networks into smaller networks
Firewall rules which define the flow of traffic in and out of Azure
Which of the following is true about virtual networks?
You configure virtual networks through software
A virtual network accepts network traffic on all ports. You configure the firewall through virtual machines
Virtual networks are always reachable from the internet
Which is true about Azure Load Balancer?
You must use Azure Load Balancer if you want to distribute traffic among your virtual machines running in Azure
Azure Load Balancer works with internet-facing traffic only
Azure Load Balancer distributes traffic among similar systems, making your services more highly available
What is network latency?
The amount of data that can fit on the connection
The distance data must travel to reach its destination
The time it takes for data to travel over the network
How does Azure Traffic Manager reduce latency?
It chooses only the fastest networks between endpoints
It chooses the endpoint that's closest to the user's DNS server
It caches content, similar to how content delivery networks work
Cloud security is a shared responsibility between you and your cloud provider. Which category of cloud services requires the greatest security effort on your part?
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
Platform as a service (PaaS)
Software as a service (SaaS)
Which of these helps you most easily disable an account when an employee leaves your company?
Enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA)
Monitor sign-on attempts
Use single sign-on (SSO)
Which of these is the strongest way to protect sensitive customer data?
Encrypt data as it sits in your database
Encrypt data as it travels over the network
Encrypt data both as it sits in your database and as it travels over the network
There has been an attack on your public-facing website, and the application's resources have been overwhelmed and exhausted, and are now unavailable to users. What service should you use to prevent this type of attack?
DDoS protection
Azure Firewall
Network security group
Application gateway
You want to store certificates in Azure to centrally manage them for your services. Which Azure services should you use?
MSIP
Azure AD
Azure Key Vault
Azure ATP
You can download published audit reports and other compliance-related information related to Microsoft’s cloud service from the Service Trust Portal.
Which Azure service allows you to configure fine-grained access management for Azure resources, enabling you to grant users only the rights they need to perform their jobs?
Locks
Policy
Initiatives
Role-based Access Control
Which Azure service allows you to create, assign, and, manage policies to enforce different rules and effects over your resources and stay compliant with your corporate standards and service-level agreements (SLAs)?
Azure Policy
Azure Blueprints
Azure Security Center
Which of the following services provides up-to-date status information about the health of Azure services?
Compliance Manager
Azure Monitor
Service Trust portal
Azure Service Health
Where can you obtain details about the personal data Microsoft processes, how Microsoft processes it, and for what purposes?
Microsoft Privacy Statement
Trust Center
Tags can be applied to any type of resource in Azure
Tags applied at a resource group level are propagated to resources within the resource group
Which of the following is not a feature of resource groups?
Resources can be in only one resource group
Resources can be moved from one resource group to another
Resource groups can be nested
Role-based access control can be applied to the resource group
Which of the following might be a good usage of tags?
Using tags to associate a cost center with resources for internal chargeback
Using tags in conjunction with Azure Automation to schedule maintenance windows
Using tags to store environment and department association
All of the above are good ways to use tags
Which of the following would be the most efficient way to ensure a naming convention was followed across your subscription?
Send out an email with the details of your naming conventions and hope it is followed
Create a policy with your naming requirements and assign it to the scope of your subscription
Give all other users except for yourself read-only access to the subscription. Have all requests to create resources sent to you so you can review the names being assigned to resources, and then create them
Which of the following would be good to put a resource lock on?
An ExpressRoute circuit with connectivity back to your on-premises network
A non-production virtual machine used to test occasional application builds
A storage account used to temporarily store images processed in a development environment
Which tab of the Azure pricing calculator will you use to put together your estimate?
Estimate
Products
You can share your estimate through an Excel spreadsheet or through a URL.
Azure Cost Management allow you to __________ .
See historical breakdowns of what services you are spending your money on
See estimates of what your services might cost if you make a change
Which one of these is not a cost-saving solution?
Deallocate VMs during off hours
Use Azure Reserved VM instances
Load balance your VMs for incoming messages
Right-size underutilized VMs
PaaS is generally less expensive than Iaas
If you already have Windows Server licenses, you have to pay for them again on Azure
Azure has money-saving options for test and development servers
Which of the following are used to determine Azure costs for each billing period?
The Azure website
Number of created VMs
The Azure pricing calculator
Usage meters
Which of the following is a factor affecting costs?
Global infrastructure
Location
Availability zone
Complete the following sentence. As an Azure customer, Azure Reservations offer discounted prices if you ___________.
Pay in advance
Provision many resources
Have a free account
Set spending limits
An organization that hosts its infrastructure in A PRIVATE CLOUD can decommission its data center.
No change is needed
In a hybrid cloud
In the public cloud
On a Hyper-V host
When planning to migrate a public website to Azure, you must plan to PAY MONTHLY USAGE COSTS.
Deploy a VPN
Pay to transfer all the website data to Azure
Reduce the number of connections to the website
An Azure administrator plans to run a PowerShell script that creates Azure resources. You need to recommend which computer configuration to use to run the script. Solution: Run the script from a computer that runs Linux and has the Azure CLI tools installed Does this meet the goal?
Yes
No
An Azure administrator plans to run a PowerShell script that creates Azure resources. You need to recommend which computer configuration to use to run the script.
Solution: Run the script from a computer that runs Chrome OS and use Azure Cloud Shell.
Does this meet the goal?
Solution: Run the script from a computer that runs macOS and has PowerShell Core 6.0 installed
You have an Azure environment that contains 10 Vnets and 100 VMs. You need to limit the amount of inbound traffic to all the Azure Vnets. What should you create?
One network security group (NSG)
10 virtual network gateways
10 Azure ExpressRoute circuits
One Azure Firewall
You plan to map a network drive from several computers that run Windows 10 to Azure storage. You need to create a storage solution in Azure for the planned mapped drive. What should you create?
An Azure SQL database
A virtual machine data disk
A Files service in a storage account
A blobs service in a storage account
Your company plans to deploy an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution in Azure. What should the company use to build, test, and deploy predictive analytics solutions?
Azure Logic Apps
Azure Machine Learning Studio
Azure Batch
Azure Cosmos DB
AZURE POLICIES provide a common platform for deploying objects to a cloud infrastructure and for implementing consistency across the Azure environment
Resource groups provide
Azure Resource Manager provides
Management groups provide
Your company has several business units. Each business requires 20 different Azure resources for daily operation. All the business units require the same type of Azure resources. You need to recommend a solution to automate the creation of the Azure resources. What should include in the recommendations?
Azure Resource Manager templates
VM scale sets
The Azure API Management service
Management group
Which Azure service should you use to correlate events from multiple resources into a centralized repository?
Azure Event Hubs
Azure Analysis Service
Azure Log Analytics
Your Azure environment contains multiple Azure VMs. You need to ensure that a VM named VM1 is accessible from the Internet over HTTP. Solution: You modify an Azure Firewall Does this meet the goal?
Your Azure environment contains multiple Azure VMs. You need to ensure that a VM named VM1 is accessible from the Internet over HTTP.
Solution: You modify an Azure Traffic Manager profile
You need to ensure that when Azure Active Directory users connect to Azure AD from the Internet by using an anonymous IP address, the users are prompted automatically to change their password. Which Azure service should you use?
Azure AD Connect Health
Azure Ad Privileged Identity Management
Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
Azure AD Identity Protection
Your company plans to deploy several web servers and several database servers to Azure. You need to recommend an Azure solution to limit the types of connections from the web servers to the database server. What should you include in the recommendation?
Network security groups (NSGs)
Azure Service Bus
A local network gateway
A route filter
RESOURCE GROUPS provide organizations with the ability to manage the compliance of Azure resources across multiple subscriptions
Management groups
Azure policies
Azure app service plans
Your network contains an Active Directory forest. The forest contains 5000 user accounts. Your company plans to migrate all network resources to Azure and to decommission the on-premises data center. You need to recommend a solution to minimize the impact of users after the planned migration. What should you recommend?
Implement Azure MFA
Sync all the Active Directory users accounts to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
Instruct all users to change their password
Create a guest user account in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for each user
Your company plans to purchase Azure. The company's support policy states that the Azure environment must provide an option to access support engineers by phone or email. You need to recommend which support plan meets the support policy requirement. Solution: Recommend a Standard support plan Does this meet the goal?
Your company plans to request an architectural review of an Azure environment from Microsoft. The company currently has a Basic support plan. You need to recommend a new support plan for the company. The solution must minimize costs. Which support plan should you recommend?
Premier
Developer
Professional Direct
Standard
Which of the following describes a benefit of cloud services?
Economies of scale
Fixed workloads
Which of the following refers to spending money upfront and then deducting that expense over time?
Capital expenditure
Operational expenditures
Supply and demand
Which of the following refers to making a service available with no downtime for an extended period of time?
Agility
Fault Tolerance
High Availability
Performance
Microsoft Office 365 is an example of?
Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service
Software as a Service
Which cloud model provides the greatest degree of ownership and control?
Hybrid
Private
Public
Which cloud model provides the greatest degree of flexibility?
Which of the following describes a public cloud?
Is owned and operated by the organization that uses the resources from that cloud.
Lets organizations run applications in the cloud or on-premises.
Provides resources and services to multiple organizations and users, who connect through a secure network connection.
Which of the following describes Platform as a Service (PaaS)?
Users are responsible for purchasing, installing, configuring, and managing their own software—operating systems, middleware, and applications.
Users create and deploy applications quickly without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure.
Users pay an annual or monthly subscription.
You have legacy applications that require specialized mainframe hardware and you have newer shared applications. Which cloud deployment model would be best for you?
Which of the following requires the most user management of the cloud services?
Which of the following ensures data-residency and compliance needs are met for customers who need to keep their data and applications close?
Geographies
Regions
Zones
As a best practice, all resources that are part of an application and share the same lifecycle should exist in the same?
Availability Set
Region
Resource Group
Which Azure compute resource can you use to deploy to manage a set of identical virtual machines?
Virtual machine availability sets
Virtual machine availability zones
Virtual machine scale sets
Which of the following should you use when you are concerned only about the code running your service and not the underlying platform or infrastructure?
Azure App Service
Azure Container Instances
Azure Functions
Azure Resource Manager templates use which format?
HTML
Which of the following services is a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users?
Azure App Services
Azure Content Delivery Network
Which of the following is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as videos and images?
Blobs
Files
Queues
Which of the following is part of the Azure Artificial Intelligence service?
HDInsight
Azure Machine Learning service
Azure DevTest Labs
Which of the following cloud services provides development collaboration tools including high-performance pipelines, free private Git repositories, and configurable Kanban boards?
Azure DevOps Services
Azure Event Grid
Microsoft Azure datacenters are organized and made available by?
Which of the following could grant or deny access based on the originating IP address?
Azure Active Directory
VPN Gateway
Which of the following could require both a password and a security question for full authentication?
Application Gateway
Multi-Factor Authentication
Which of the following services would you use to filter internet traffic in your Azure virtual network?
Network Security Group
Which of the following lets you store passwords in Azure so you can centrally manage them for your services and applications?
Azure Advanced Threat Protection
Which of the following should you use to download published audit reports and how Microsoft builds and operates its cloud services?
Service Trust Portal
Which of the following provides information about planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources?
Which of the following can be used to help you enforce resource tagging so you can manage billing?
Which of the following can be used to define a repeatable set of Azure resources that implement organizational requirements?
Azure Blueprint
Azure Resource Groups
Which of the following lets you grant users only the rights they need to perform their jobs?
Role-Based Access Control
Which of the following provides a set of tools for monitoring, allocating, and optimizing your Azure costs?
Azure Cost Management
Azure Pricing Calculator
Total Cost of Ownership Calculator
Which of the following can be used to manage governance across multiple Azure subscriptions?
Azure Initiatives
Management Groups
Resource Groups
Which of the following defines performance targets, like uptime, for an Azure product or service?
Service Level Agreements
Support Plans
Usage Meters
Which of the following is a logical unit of Azure services that links to an Azure account?
Azure Subscription
Management Group
Which of the following support plans does not offer 24x7 access to Support Engineers by email and phone?
An Azure Reservations offers discounted prices if you?
pay in advance.
provision a certain number of resources.
use spending limits.
Which of the following give all Azure customers a chance to test beta and other pre-release features?
General Availability
Private Preview
Public Preview
You have two services with different SLAs. The composite SLA is determined by?
Adding the SLAs percentages together
Multiplying the SLAs percentages together
Taking the lowest SLA percentage
Releasing a feature to all Azure customers is called?
General Preview