Azure Core Architectural Components Flashcards

A company must keep all data within the United States for compliance. Which Azure concept directly addresses this?

Answer: Geography

Azure geographies preserve data residency, ensuring data stays within the required boundary.

Which feature lets you organize resources by lifecycle, such as grouping everything for one application?

Answer: Resource groups

Resource groups let you manage resources that share the same lifecycle as a single unit.

During a regional outage, why does region pairing help recovery?

Answer: Azure prioritizes restoring one region in the pair to minimize downtime

Azure prioritizes recovery of one region in each pair to reduce downtime during broad outages.

Which two requirements are most commonly satisfied by choosing the right Azure region?

Answer: Latency and compliance

Region selection balances proximity (latency) with data residency and compliance needs.

Can a single Azure resource group contain resources from different Azure regions?

Answer: Yes, resources in a group can be in different regions

A resource group can hold resources located in different regions even though the group itself has a location for metadata.

What is the main governance advantage of applying an Azure Policy at the management group level?

Answer: It cascades to all subscriptions and resources beneath it

Policies assigned at a management group inherit down to all subscriptions and resources below it.

Which component would you NOT find directly inside a resource group?

Answer: A subscription

Subscriptions sit above resource groups; they contain resource groups, not the other way around.