Monitor and Maintain Azure Resources

Question 1

What is Application Insights?

Answer 1

This is an Application Performance Management service used to monitor live web applications. The service can detect performance anomalies and can use its insights to improve the performance for applications.

Question 2

Who is most likely to use Application Insights?

Answer 2

Developers and DevOps professionals

Question 3

How dose Application Insights work?

Answer 3

This service works by installing a small instrumentation package in your applicant. This package will work with Java script pages.

Question 4

What are aspects that the Application Insights tool will record?

Answer 4

• Requests rates, response time and failures rates for your web pages.
• Exceptions that occur in your web app
• The page views and load performance for web pages as reported by user’s browsers.
• The users and session counts
• Performance counter information for Windows and Linux servers
• Diagnostic trace logs

Question 5

What is the Azure Backup service?

Answer 5

This is a service that is used to backup data and recover it from Microsoft Azure.

Question 6

What can you backup to Azure Backup Service?

Answer 6

Windows VMs
Linux VMs
On-prem Hyper-V VMs
On-prem VMWare VMs
Azure File Shares
SQL Servers hosted on Azure VMs

Question 7

What are the benefits to using Azure Backup Service?

Answer 7

You don’t need to deploy custom backup solution
No needs to spend on backup storage
Automatically scales service based on demand
Data is kept secure in transit and in rest
You can have both long term and short term backups

Question 8

What is the Azure Recovery Service?

Answer 8

This is a vault that is used to store the backup data.

Question 9

What is a backup policy?

Answer 9

This is used to schedule the backups and setup backup retentions.

Question 10

What two things are necessary to have along side Azure Backup Service?

Answer 10

Azure Recovery Vault Service
Backup Policies

Question 11

How are application consistent snapshots taken for Azure Backups?

Answer 11

Windows based VMs can used Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service to take the app-consistent snapshots for the VMs

Question 12

What are file consistent backups used for?

Answer 12

This is used for Linux VMs since Windows VMs can use application consistent snapshots.

Question 13

What is all the snapshot types?

Answer 13

Application Consistent
File System Consistent
Crash Consistent

Question 14

What is the Application Consistent snapshot?

Answer 14

This captures all memory content and pending I/O operations. Here the consistency of the application data is maintained before the backup is taken.

Question 15

What is the File System Consistent snapshot?

Answer 15

Here the consistency is provided by taking a snapshot of all the files at the same time.

Question 16

What is the Crash Consistent?

Answer 16

This normally occurs when the Azure VM shutdowns at the time of the backup. Here only the data on the disk at the time of the backup is captured.

Question 17

What is Azure Disaster Recovery?

Answer 17

This allows you to replicate your VMs onto another Azure target region. This allows you to use the VM in the target region if the primary region goes down.

Question 18

What is the Azure Monitor Service?

Answer 18

This is a monitoring service that can be used for collecting, analysing and acting on telemetry for cloud and on-prem environments.

Question 19

What are the tools used with Azure Monitor Service?

Answer 19

Application Insights
Log Analytics
Azure dashboards and workbooks

Question 20

What are the two categories of data collected by Azure Monitor?

Answer 20

Metrics and Logs

Question 21

What is metric data is Azure Monitor?

Answer 21

Metrics are point time values.

Question 22

What is log data is Azure Monitor?

Answer 22

Logs are records that can reside in a Log Analytics Workspace.

Question 23

What service dose Azure Monitor use to manage the data?

Answer 23

The Service uses a version of Kusto query language that can be used in Azure Data Explorer to build queries on your data.

Question 24

What are the Azure Monitor data tiers?

Answer 24

Application monitoring data
Guest OS monitoring data
Azure resource monitoring data
Azure subscription monitoring data
Azure tenant monitoring data

Question 25

What is Application monitoring data?

Answer 25

This is data about the performance and functionality of application code.

Question 26

What is Guest OS monitoring data?

Answer 26

This data is about the underlying operating system on which the application is running on.

Question 27

What is Azure resource monitoring data?

Answer 27

This is monitoring data for Azure resources

Question 28

What is Azure subscription monitoring data?

Answer 28

This is data collected about the operation and management of the Azure subscription

Question 29

What is Azure tenant monitoring data?

Answer 29

This is data collected about the tenant such as AAD

Question 30

What is an Log Analytic Workspace?

Answer 30

This is used to store the logs from resources in Azure

Question 31

What is a workbook?

Answer 31

This is used to create visualization of the data in Azure Monitor (dashboard)

Question 32

What is Azure Network Watcher?

Answer 32

Azure Network Watcher provides a suite of tools to monitor, diagnose, view metrics, and enable or disable logs for Azure.

Question 33

What are features of the Azure Network Watcher?

Answer 33

IP flow verify
NSG diagnostics
Next hop
Effective security rules
Connection troubleshoot
Packet capture
VPN troubleshoot

Question 34

Steps to configure connection monitor for monitoring

Answer 34

Create a Connection Monitor
Define the connection endpoint and test configuration
Configure alerting and diagnostic settings
View and analyze connection monitoring results

Question 35

What are the three main components of Azure Monitor Insight for network?

Answer 35

Connectivity
Traffic
Network Hearth and Metrics