Azure Core Architectural Components Flashcards

To protect an application against a single datacenter failure within a region, which feature should you use?

Answer: Availability zones

Deploying across availability zones protects against the failure of a single datacenter in a region.

What is the correct top-to-bottom order of the Azure management hierarchy?

Answer: Management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, resources

Governance flows from management groups down to subscriptions, then resource groups, then individual resources.

Which is NOT a benefit of Azure regions?

Answer: Eliminating the need for any redundancy

Regions reduce latency and support residency, but you still design redundancy with zones or pairs.

When you delete a resource group, what happens to the resources inside it?

Answer: All resources in the group are deleted

Deleting a resource group deletes all resources contained within it.

Which scenario best justifies using multiple management groups?

Answer: A large enterprise needing different policies for production and development subscriptions

Management groups let large organizations apply distinct governance to groups of subscriptions.

How many availability zones does an enabled Azure region typically provide?

Answer: At least three

Regions that support availability zones offer a minimum of three physically separate zones.

Which best describes the relationship between a region and a geography?

Answer: A geography contains one or more regions

A geography is a discrete market that contains at least one region, often two for residency.