Azure Compute and Networking Flashcards

Which Azure compute choice provides the greatest level of customer control over the environment?

Answer: Azure Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines give the most control because the customer manages the entire OS and software stack.

A company wants automatic scaling and reduced management for its container-based microservices. Which service is most suitable?

Answer: Azure Kubernetes Service

AKS manages Kubernetes orchestration, enabling automatic scaling and simplified operations for microservices.

What is the purpose of a subnet within an Azure virtual network?

Answer: Segmenting the VNet address space to organize and secure resources

Subnets divide a virtual network's address space, allowing you to organize and apply security to grouped resources.

Which networking service helps protect a virtual network with a stateful, managed firewall offering threat intelligence?

Answer: Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall with built-in high availability and threat intelligence filtering.

How are Azure Functions typically billed in the consumption plan?

Answer: By number of executions and resource consumption

In the consumption plan, Azure Functions charges based on executions and the resources used during each run.

What is a key advantage of deploying VMs across multiple availability zones?

Answer: Higher availability through datacenter-level fault isolation

Spreading VMs across availability zones isolates them in separate datacenters, increasing resilience to local failures.

Which statement accurately describes Azure App Service scaling?

Answer: It supports both scaling up (larger instances) and scaling out (more instances)

Azure App Service supports scaling up to more powerful instances and scaling out to add more instances, including autoscale.