Head in the Cloud
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Fundamentally, this is fun!
Astonishing Azure Attributes
Basics are beguiling!
100

Which cloud computing features allow a company to provide services worldwide during a power outage? 

What is Reliability or Global Scalability

100

For full authentication, which of the following might require both a password and a security question?

What is multi-factor authentication

100

(Blank) defines performance targets for an Azure product or service, such as uptime.

What is Service Level Agreements (SLA's)

100

What management tool is a command-line interface that is browser based and machine and OS independent?

Azure Cloud Shell

100

(Blank) is a region of Azure that contains physically distinct data centers.

What is availability zones.  Within an Azure region, availability zones are physically distinct datacenters. One or more datacenters with separate power, cooling, and networking make up each availability zone. 

200

In Azure, a platform as a service (PaaS) solution that hosts web apps gives you complete control over the operating systems that host applications. Is the statement correct?

NO a PaaS does not offer access to the operating system.

200

Hosting and maintenance ownership, including scalability and disaster recovery is provided by (what).

What is Infrastructure as a Service?

200

What is Nikki's favorite color?

 What is green

200

Azure Cloud Advisor can automatically correct issues it discovers without assigned user permission?

False, NO.  You still need to authorize any changes

200

An area is matched with another region in the same (blank) in a region pair.

What is a geography.  Each Azure region is paired with a neighboring region that is at least 300 miles distant and located in the same geographic area, such as the US, Europe, or Asia. 

300

Multiple account administrators can be found in each Azure subscription. Is the statement correct?

NO, you can assign service administrators and co-administrators in the portal, there can only be one account administrator

300

(Blank) is a development and deployment environment that allows the use of pre built assets

What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)

300

You are in charge of (blank) when implementing a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

Configuring the SaaS solution, everything else is managed by the cloud provider

300

(Blank) refers to expanding an application's capacity by adding extra virtual machines.

What is Horizontal Scaling? 

300

What Azure resource includes a virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources and is a software simulation of a computer?

What is a virtual machine.  Virtual machines are computer hardware simulations created by software. A virtual processor, memory, storage, and networking resources are some of them. You can install and run applications on virtual machines just like you would on a conventional computer because they host an operating system. 

400

(blank) refers to a system's capacity to scale dynamically

Elasticity

400

(Blank) refers to a system's ability to run continuously for long periods of time without any interruption.

What is High Availability

400

To find incident reports, including root cause analysis, use (blank) 

Azure Service Health

400

(Blank) is the rapid deployment and configuration of cloud-based resources in response to changing business requirements.

What is Agility.  When your agile you can swiftly deploy and adjust cloud resources.

400

(Blank) provides personalized recommendations to optimize your resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost. 

What is Azure Advisor? 

500

You continue to pay storage expenses associated with an Azure virtual machine even if it is stopped. Is the statement correct?

YES, when an Azure machine is stopped you do not pay for the virtual machine, however you DO still pay for the storage costs associated to the virtual machine.

500

We manage the application and operating system but they manage the storage, servers and network

What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

500

(Blank) is used for collecting, analyzing and alerting based on metrics.

What is Azure Monitor?

500

It's known as (blank) to expand the computing power of an app by adding RAM or CPUs to a virtual machine.

What is vertical scaling.  increasing RAM or CPU is scaling vertically.

500

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?

What is Azure Service Health.

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