Questions

Question 1

Explain IaaS Infrastructure as a Service

Answer 1

Renting server resources (CPU, Mem, Disk) from a Cloud provider. Eg; Azure Virtual Machines and Container Services, allows access to underlying OS

Question 2

Expain PaaS Platform as a Service

Answer 2

Renting server platforms to run code on. Eg: Azure SQL Databases, App Services, CDN. No access to underlying OS

Question 3

Explain FaaS Function as a Service

Answer 3

PaaS for event-driven serverless computing. Eg: Azure Functions

Question 4

What is Azure App Services?

Answer 4

Fully Managed service for running Web, API, Mobile, Logic, and Function apps

Question 5

What is a Site-to-Site VPN used for?

Answer 5

Connecting on-prem environments to Azure services

Question 6

What is a P2S Point-to-Site VPN used for?

Answer 6

Connecting a single device to Azure services securely

Question 7

What is a VNet Peering Connection used for?

Answer 7

Connecting services in separate virtual networks together

Question 8

What is Azure Monitor used for?

Answer 8

Collecting, Analyzing, and Acting on status events for Azure and on-prem services. Basically Zabbix.

Question 9

What is Azure Resource Manager Templates?

Answer 9

Infrastructure as Code for Azure. Similar to Terraform.

Question 10

What is Azure Resource Manager?

Answer 10

The API Layer used for all interactions with Azure services, used for creating/deleting/modifying/managing Azure services via console, cli, or script

Question 11

What is Azure Events Hub?

Answer 11

PaaS for ingesting and processing streaming data, compatible with Kafka

Question 12

What is Azure Advisor used for?

Answer 12

Checking Azure environment for best practices, advises on optimising cost, performance, reliability, and security

Question 13

What’s the difference between Availability Sets and Scale Sets?

Answer 13

Availability sets define hardware redundancy (across physical networks, AZ’s, etc). Scale Sets are groups of autoscaling VM’s

Question 14

What platforms is Azure Powershell available on?

Answer 14

Windows, Mac, and Linux

Question 15

What is Azure Blob?

Answer 15

Object cloud storage, similar to Amazon S3

Question 16

What is Azure Disks?

Answer 16

Block level storage volumes that can be attached to VM’s

Question 17

What is Azure Tables?

Answer 17

Structured NoSQL datastore

Question 18

What is Azure Files?

Answer 18

NFS stores that can be accessed via SMB

Question 19

What are VNet Service Endpoints used for?

Answer 19

Connecting Azure services in the same region via private/backend networking

Question 20

What’s the difference between a Site-to-Site VPN and ExpressRoute?

Answer 20

Site-to-Site goes over public internet, ExpressRoute uses private connections

Question 21

What is a Network Security Group and what resources can be attached to it?

Answer 21

A list of Allow/Deny rules for traffic going in/out of Azure Resources. Can be attached to a Subnet or a Network Interface

Question 22

Does Azure charge for Inbound or Outbound Traffic?

Answer 22

Inbound is free. Outbound is charged per GB

Question 23

What tool can be used to identify idle and underutilized resources?

Answer 23

Azure Cost Management + Billing

Question 24

What is a Azure Blueprint?

Answer 24

A set of Groups, Policies, ARM Templates, and Roles, used to set up an Azure infrastructure, iterate over it, maintain relationships and versioning

Question 25

What is Azure vnTAP (Virtual Network Terminal Access Point)?

Answer 25

A Service that allows vm network traffic to be streamed to an analytics tool or packet collector

Question 26

What's the difference between Azure Files and Managed Disks?

Answer 26

Files can be mounted on-prem as an NFS share using SMB. Managed Disks can only be mounted onto Azure VM's

Question 27

What is Azure Service Fabric?

Answer 27

Fully managed service for deploying microservice based apps

Question 28

What is Azure Application Insights used for?

Answer 28

Application monitoring for performance and usage data

Question 29

What does Azure AD Connect Health do?

Answer 29

Monitors on-prem AD and connection health to Microsoft & o365 services

Question 30

What is an Azure Subscription?

Answer 30

A sub account that sits under your root/main account, AD, Management Groups, and above Resource Groups. Can be used, eg: to separate departments and the resources they directly control. Resources and Resource Groups must belong to a specific Subscription.

Question 31

What tool can be used for Regulatory / Security compliance?

Answer 31

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Question 32

What is Azure Traffic Manager?

Answer 32

A DNS Based load balancer

Question 33

Do Private and Public Service Previews have Support and SLA's

Answer 33

Public has support, neither have SLA's

Question 34

What is Azure Logic Apps?

Answer 34

A way to to run/schedule/orchestrate tasks between different apps and services.

Question 35

What Service allows you to quickly create custom VM's and Azure PaaS for dev purposes?

Answer 35

Azure DevTest Labs

Question 36

Which regions is Azure Government available in?

Answer 36

USA Only

Question 37

What does Azure Site Recovery do?

Answer 37

Replicates VM's to secondary location, helps with Disaster Recovery

Question 38

What data does a Resource Group contain?

Answer 38

Meta-data about resources, nothing else

Question 39

How do availability sets work?

Answer 39

When you configure the range of VM's to provision, the Availability Set specifies and automates which Regions and AZ's those VM's are provisioned in to ensure High Availability

Question 40

What services does Microsoft Sentinel provide?

Answer 40

SIEM (Security Information & Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration Automation Response)

Question 41

What service do you use for Data Analytics and Big Data Warehousing?

Answer 41

Azure Synapse

Question 42

What is Azure Event Grid?

Answer 42

Pub/Sub service that can ingest and notify other services of specific events (condition/state changes)

Question 43

What's the lowest support plan that includes tickets and billing/subscription management? What's the lowest that includes phone support?

Answer 43

Basic/free includes ticket support. Phone support requires at least Standard.

Question 44

What service ensures your Azure env adheres to regional compliance requirements?

Answer 44

Azure Trust Centre

Question 45

What does Azure Information Protection AIP protect?

Answer 45

Emails and Documents

Question 46

What service allows JiT VM Access

Answer 46

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Question 47

Explain Storage Archive Rehydration

Answer 47

Moving data from the Archive tier to the Hot or Cold tier so it can be read and modified. This process takes a few hours

Question 48

What are Azure Management Groups?

Answer 48

A collection of 1 or more subscriptions. Sits between AD and Subscriptions. Allows easily managing Azure usage permissions for multiple Subscriptions.

Question 49

Which Management Tool is used to access CloudShell and Azure Powershell?

Answer 49

Azure Portal