Assessment Flashcards

In order to write to an Azure subscription, you must make sure that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is configured on the accounts that have write access. What actions should you take?

Answer: Azure Policy

Azure Policy allows you to enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at scale across your Azure environment. To ensure multi-factor authentication (MFA) is configured for accounts with write access, you would create a policy definition that audits or enforces this security requirement across your subscription.

Which two tasks can be completed through the Azure portal's graphical user interface (GUI)? Each accurate response offers an entire resolution.

Answer: Create new resources.

The Azure portal is a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) that provides a centralized console for managing Azure resources. Through the portal, users can easily create, configure, and manage new resources, as well as review a graphical view of all their existing services and their current status.

To access Azure Cloud Shell, what should you use?

Answer: a web browser

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides a flexible environment with pre-installed tools like Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, accessible directly from the Azure portal or a dedicated URL in any modern web browser.

What offers suggestions for lowering the price of Azure resources?

Answer: Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry, then provides actionable recommendations across five pillars: Cost, Security, Reliability, Operational Excellence, and Performance, including specific suggestions for lowering costs.

Which two factors affect Azure pricing? Each accurate response offers an entire resolution.

Answer: resource usage

Azure pricing is dynamic and influenced by several key factors. Resource usage, such as compute hours, data transfer, and storage capacity, directly impacts costs. Additionally, the resource location (the specific Azure region where services are deployed) affects pricing due to varying electricity costs, local taxes, and market demands.

You must weigh the costs of running an application in Azure against the costs of running the program in an on-premises datacenter. What tool should you employ to help you?

Answer: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

The Azure Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator helps you estimate the cost savings you can realize by migrating your on-premises workloads to Azure. It allows you to input details about your current infrastructure and then generates a detailed comparison of on-premises versus Azure costs, including compute, storage, networking, and labor.

When using Azure Cost Management + Billing, which two features are available? Each accurate response offers an entire resolution.

Answer: Generate historical reports and forecast future usage.

Azure Cost Management + Billing is a comprehensive suite of tools designed to help you analyze, manage, and optimize your Azure spending. It allows users to generate detailed historical cost reports, forecast future usage based on trends, and create and manage budgets to track spending against predefined limits.

What can you do to guarantee that both new and old Azure resources continue to adhere to business standards?

Answer: Azure Policy

Azure Policy enables you to enforce organizational standards and assess compliance across your Azure environment at scale. By defining policies, you can ensure that both new resources being deployed and existing resources continuously adhere to your business rules, such as requiring specific tags, locations, or security configurations.

Which two Azure Cloud Shell-accessible tools let you create Bash scripts to control an Azure environment?

Answer: Azure CLI

Azure Cloud Shell provides a browser-based command-line experience with pre-installed tools for managing Azure resources. Both Azure CLI (Command-Line Interface), which is ideal for Bash scripts, and Azure PowerShell, which uses PowerShell scripts, are available within Cloud Shell for executing commands and automating tasks.

What can you use to construct resources in Azure that also contains a validation phase to guarantee that they are all created concurrently, idempotently, and in a specified order depending on dependencies?

Answer: Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are JSON files that declaratively define the infrastructure and configuration for your Azure solution. They enable consistent and repeatable deployments, ensuring that resources are created concurrently, idempotently, and in a specified order based on dependencies, with a validation phase to check for errors before deployment.

The management of the Azure resources must be done by a group of Linux administrators. The group intends to handle the administration using the Bash shell. What ought you suggest?

Answer: Azure CLI

Azure CLI (Command-Line Interface) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources, specifically designed for use with the Bash shell. It is the recommended tool for Linux administrators who prefer command-line tools and scripting to automate Azure management tasks efficiently.

Which Azure service assesses Azure resources and offers suggestions on how to boost their dependability, security, performance, and affordability?

Answer: Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that continuously assesses your Azure resources and provides actionable recommendations. It offers suggestions across five pillars: Reliability, Security, Performance, Cost, and Operational Excellence, helping you optimize your Azure deployments for better efficiency and compliance.

For a service outage that happened last week, you need to look over the root cause analysis (RCA) report. Where can you find the report?

Answer: Azure Service Health

Azure Service Health provides a personalized view of the health of your Azure services and regions. It informs you about service outages, planned maintenance, and health advisories, and it is the official source where you can find Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports for past service incidents.

To scale an app up or down to accommodate user demand, you must develop a customized solution that makes use of thresholds to initiate autoscaling capability. What should the solution contain?

Answer: Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises environments. It provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities, including metrics and logs, which can be used to set up alerts and trigger autoscaling actions based on predefined thresholds to dynamically adjust application capacity to user demand.

What may be done to an Azure virtual machine to prevent resource modification or deletion?

Answer: a lock

Azure resource locks prevent accidental modification or deletion of critical resources. By applying a 'CanNotDelete' or 'ReadOnly' lock to an Azure virtual machine, you can safeguard it from unintended changes or removal, enhancing the stability and security of your infrastructure.

What two qualities define the deployment model for a private cloud? Each accurate response offers an entire resolution.

Answer: Hardware must be purchased.

In a private cloud deployment model, the infrastructure is dedicated to a single organization. This typically means the company must purchase and own the hardware, and consequently, has complete control over the physical resources, network, and security configurations, managing it either on-premises or in a private datacenter.