Azure Resource Manager

Question 1

ARM Templates: $schema element

Answer 1

Required!

Location of the JSON schema file that describes the version of the template language

Question 2

ARM Templates: contentVersion element

Answer 2

Required.

Version of the template (e.g., 1.0.0.0),

Question 3

ARM Templates: parameters element

Answer 3

Not required

Values that are provided when deployment is executed to customize resource deployment

"parameters": {
    "" : {
        "type" : "",
        "defaultValue": "",
        "allowedValues": [ "" ],
        "minValue": ,
        "maxValue": ,
        "minLength": ,
        "maxLength": ,
        "metadata": {
        "description": ""
        }
    }
}

e.g. (parameters for a VMS password and username)
"parameters": {
  "adminUsername": {
    "type": "string",
    "metadata": {
      "description": "Username for the Virtual Machine."
    }
  },
  "adminPassword": {
    "type": "securestring",
    "metadata": {
      "description": "Password for the Virtual Machine."
    }
  }
}

Question 4

ARM Templates: variables (element)

Answer 4

Not Required.

Values that are used as JSON fragments in the template to simplify template language expressions

Question 5

ARM Templates: functions (element)

Answer 5

Not required.

User-defined functions that are available within the template

Question 6

ARM Templates: resources (element)

Answer 6

Required

Resource types that are deployed or updated in a resource group

Question 7

ARM Templates: outputs (element)

Answer 7

Not Required,

Values that are returned after deployment.

Question 8

Using parameters (defined in the parameters element) in the resources element

Answer 8

parameters(‘param_name’)

"resources": [
     {
       ...
       "sku": {
         "name": "[parameters('storageAccountType')]"
       },
       ...
     }
   ]

Question 9

Outputs element example.

Answer 9

"outputs": {
   "": {
       "condition": "",
       "type": "",
       "value": "",
       "copy": {
           "count": ,
           "input": 
       }
   }
}

"outputs": {
       "storageEndpoint": {
           "type": "object",
           "value": "[reference('learntemplatestorage123').primaryEndpoints]"
       }
   }