Describe Core Azure Services Flashcards
What are the 4 levels of organizing structure for resources in Azure?
management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources.
What is the top down hierarchy of organization structure for resources in Azure?
____________ are instances of services that you create, like virtual machines, storage, or SQL databases.
Resources
Resources are combined into ____________, which act as a logical container into which Azure resources like web apps, databases, and storage accounts are deployed and managed.
resource groups
A _____________ groups together user accounts and the resources that have been created by those user accounts. For each, there are limits or quotas on the amount of resources that you can create and use. Organizations can use these to manage costs and the resources that are created by users, teams, or projects.
subscriptions
These groups help you manage access, policy, and compliance for multiple subscriptions. All subscriptions in it automatically inherit the conditions applied.
management group
Resources are created in _____________, which are different geographical locations around the globe that contain Azure datacenters.
regions
A ___________ is a geographical area on the planet that contains at least one but potentially multiple datacenters that are nearby and networked together with a low-latency network. Azure intelligently assigns and controls the resources within each to ensure workloads are appropriately balanced.
region
Name 2 benefits of regions
- Provide flexibility and scale to reduce customer latency
- Preserve data residency with a comprehensive compliance offering
True or False: Some services or VM features are only available in certain regions, such as specific VM sizes or storage types.
True
Name the 2 Azure special regions
- US DoD Central, US Gov Virginia, US Gov Iowa and more: These regions are physical and logical network-isolated instances of Azure for U.S. government agencies and partners. These datacenters are operated by screened U.S. personnel and include additional compliance certifications.
- China East, China North, and more: These regions are available through a unique partnership between Microsoft and 21Vianet, whereby Microsoft doesn’t directly maintain the datacenters.
______________ are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region. Each is made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking. Each is set up to be an isolation boundary. If one zone goes down, the other continues working. Each is connected through high-speed, private fiber-optic networks.
Availability zones
True or False: Every region has support for availability zones.
False. For an updated list, see Regions that support availability zones in Azure Regions that support availability zones in Azure
You can use ________ to run mission-critical applications and build high-availability into your application architecture by co-locating your compute, storage, networking, and data resources within a zone and replicating in other zones.
availability zones
______________ are primarily for VMs, managed disks, load balancers, and SQL databases.
Availability zones
Azure services that support availability zones fall into three categories. What are those?
- Zonal services: You pin the resource to a specific zone (for example, VMs, managed disks, IP addresses).
- Zone-redundant services: The platform replicates automatically across zones (for example, zone-redundant storage, SQL Database).
- Non-regional services: Services are always available from Azure geographies and are resilient to zone-wide outages as well as region-wide outages.
What is the term for this?
- At least 300 miles of separation between region pairs.
- Automatic replication for some services.
- Prioritized recovery in the event of an outage.
- Updates are rolled out sequentially to minimize downtime.
Azure region pairs
These are advantages of ______________:
- If an extensive Azure outage occurs, one region out of every pair is prioritized to make sure at least one is restored as quickly as possible for applications hosted in that region pair.
- Planned Azure updates are rolled out to paired regions one region at a time to minimize downtime and risk of application outage.
- Data continues to reside within the same geography as its pair (except for Brazil South) for tax- and law-enforcement jurisdiction purposes.
region pairs
What is the SLA for a single VM?
99.9%
What is the SLA for a VM replicated across availability zones?
99.99%
__________ is a manageable item that’s available through Azure. Virtual machines (VMs), storage accounts, web apps, databases, and virtual networks are examples.
Resource
_________ is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution allowing you to manage resources as a common collection. You decide which resources belong to it based on what makes the most sense for your organization.
Resource group
True or false: All resources must be in a resource group, and a resource can only be a member of a single resource group.
True
True or false: Resource groups can be nested.
False