Core Azure Services

Question 1

set of datacenters. (e.g. East US) latency defined perimeter fibre connection between DCs in the region
Location - closest to your users to minimise latency
Features - not all regions have all features
Prices vary between region

Answer 1

Regions

Question 2

Each region paired with another region - outage failover - only one paired region updated at one time and have replication.

Answer 2

Region Pairs

Question 3

physical location within region

each region has at least 3 zones e.g. LA, San Fran, San Jose in US West

Answer 3

Availability Zones

Question 4

containers to enable structuring of infrastructure.
each resource can only be in 1 but can span multiple regions.
can be controlled via Access Groups
Need location

Answer 4

Resource Groups

Question 5

all requests handled inc. deployment and management services
all resources deployed as a group
access control, tagging, dependencies e.g. NIC, IP for VM
Billing

Answer 5

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

Question 6

Created via blueprints/recommendations
Control over server environment
Integral part of IaaS
Managed via portal tools
disk encrypted automatically 
SSH / public key

Answer 6

VMs

Question 7

Fully managed within Azure.
PaaS offering
1. WebApps, 2. WebApps for Containers, 3. API App,

Answer 7

App Services

Question 8

All dependencies containerised
less overhead than VM
increased portability, efficiency and consistency
Each application placed in 1 container

Answer 8

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Question 9

clusters, nodes and pods
open source orchestration
ensures containers configured correctly
auto deployment / scaling

Answer 9

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Question 10

license re-use
multiple user (same instance)
secure storage - much more than on-prem with desktops
access from anywhere
RBAC and MFA

Answer 10

Windows Virtual Desktop

Question 11

Monitors container images and artifacts

satisifies calls from AKS

Answer 11

Azure Container Registry (ACR)