Describe Azure management and governance

Question 1

Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure

Answer 1

Type of resource
Different resource compute levels (or SKUs)
Different tiers
Different sizes
Number of resource instances
Resource location
Prevision time of resource
Work
Licensing
Interactions
Amount of storage

Question 2

Compare the Pricing calculator and the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator

Answer 2

The Pricing calculator helps estimate the cost based on the resources you’ll need for the architecture of your solution.
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator helps you estimate the change in cost in ownership, taking into account more than just Azure resources, such as electricity and IT labor costs.

Question 3

Describe the Azure Cost Management and Billing tool

Answer 3

Azure Cost Management and Billing is a suite of tools provided by Microsoft that help you analyze, manage, and optimize the costs of your workloads.

Question 4

Describe the purpose of tags

Answer 4

Tags help you organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy, using key-value pairs that help you identify resources based on settings that are relevant.

Question 5

Describe the purpose of Azure Blueprints

Answer 5

Azure Blueprints lets you standardize cloud subscription or environment deployments. Instead of having to configure features like Azure Policy for each new subscription, with Azure Blueprints, you can define repeatable settings and policies that are applied as new subscriptions are created.

Question 6

Describe the purpose of Azure Policy

Answer 6

Azure Policy is a service in Azure that enables you to create, assign, and manage policies that control or audit your resources to enforce different rules across your resource configurations, so those configurations stay compliant with corporate standards.

Question 7

Describe the purpose of resource locks

Answer 7

A resource lock prevents resources from being accidentally deleted or changed.

Question 8

Describe the purpose of the Service Trust Portal

Answer 8

The Microsoft Service Trust Portal is a portal that provides access to various content, tools, and other resources about Microsoft security, privacy, and compliance practices.

Question 9

Describe the Azure portal

Answer 9

The Azure portal is a web-based, unified console that provides an alternative to command-line tools. With the Azure portal, you can manage your Azure subscription by using a graphical user interface.

Question 10

Describe Azure Cloud Shell

Answer 10

Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-based shell tool that allows you to create, configure, and manage Azure resources using a shell; it supports both Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI.

Question 11

Describe the purpose of Azure Arc

Answer 11

Azure Arc lets you extend your Azure compliance and monitoring services to your hybrid and/or multi-cloud configurations.

Question 12

Describe Azure Resource Manager

Answer 12

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment/management service for Azure that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. Anytime you do anything with your Azure resources, ARM is involved.

Question 13

Describe the purpose of Azure Advisor

Answer 13

Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that can analyze your resource configuration and usage telemetry then recommend solutions that can help you improve the cost-effectiveness, performance, Reliability (formerly called High availability), and security of your Azure resources.

Question 14

Describe Azure Service Health

Answer 14

Azure Service Health is a combination of three separate smaller services: Azure Status, Service Health, and Resource Health

Question 15

Describe Azure Monitor

Answer 15

Azure Monitor is a service in the cloud that helps you increase the performance and availability of your services by collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry (metrics and logs) from your environment.

Question 16

Describe Azure Command Line Interface (CLI)

Answer 16

Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) is a part of Azure Cloud Shell that lets you use to create and manage resources using Bash commands.

Question 17

Describe Azure Powershell

Answer 17

Azure PowerShell is a part of Azure Cloud Shell with which developers, DevOps, and IT professionals can run PowerShell commands called command-lets (cmdlets).

Question 18

Describe Azure Resource Manager Templates (ARM templates)

Answer 18

By using ARM templates, you can describe the resources you want to use in a declarative JSON format.

Question 19

Describe Azure Status

Answer 19

Azure Status is a part of Azure Service Health that provides a global view of the health of all Azure services and service outages across all Azure regions

Question 20

Describe Service Health

Answer 20

Service Health is a part of Azure Service Health that provides a personalized view of the health of the Azure services and regions you’re using

Question 21

Describe Resource Health

Answer 21

Resource Health is a part of Azure Service Health that provides information about the health of your individual cloud resources

Question 22

Describe Log Analytics

Answer 22

Log Analytics is a tool to edit and run queries from data collected by Azure Monitor logs and interactively analyze their results.

Question 23

Describe Azure Monitor alerts

Answer 23

Azure Monitor alerts notify you of critical conditions and possibly take corrective action when a predefined rule is met based on metric and log analysis

Question 24

Describe Application Insights

Answer 24

Application Insights provides extensible application performance management (APM) and monitoring for live web apps