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

(blank) describes how BCBSMN will access resources and services

What is Cloud Deployment

100

Email, calendars and Microsoft 365 are examples of ....

What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?

100

Azure cost is affected by ....

What is resource location and resource usage?

100

High availability and geo distribution to data centers around the globe are two ......

What are common advantages of Cloud Computing?

100

(Blank) can be used to completely replace or supplement traditional on-premises file servers

What is Azure Blob Storage.  Blob offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol or Network File System (NFS) protocol. 

200

To ensure systems meet security requirements, use this 

What is Private Cloud

200

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

What is Infrastructure as a Service?

200

Common reasons resource tags are used include

 What is determining costs by department and environments?
200

(Blank) refers to upfront costs incurred one time, such as hardware purchases 

What is Capital expenditures ?

200

(Blank)  is an agreement with Microsoft to use one or more Microsoft cloud platforms or services 

What is a Subscription?  Charges accrue based on either a per-user license fee or on cloud-based resource consumption. 

300

To share storage, memory and networking capacity, use 

What is Public Cloud

300

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

What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)

300

To prevent accidental deletion, apply a (blank) 

What is a Resource Lock?

300

We can increase compute capacity by (blank)

What is Horizontal Scaling?  Or adding virtual machines to the configuration. 

300

(Blank) is helpful to deal with spikes in demand of resources

What is Serverless Computing? enables developers to build applications faster by eliminating the need for them to manage infrastructure. With serverless applications, the cloud service provider automatically provisions, scales, and manages the infrastructure required to run the code. 

400

Network connectivity is essential to  this (blank) model

What is Hybrid Cloud?

400

Highly scaleable, event driven with functions and triggers defines (blank)

What is Serverless Computing?

400

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

Azure Service Health

400

Just like on your favorite sweat pants, (Blank) is scaling an application to meet customer demands

What is Elasticity? Elasticity refers to the ability to scale resources as needed, such as during business hours, to ensure that an application can keep up with demand, and then reducing the available resources during off-peak hours. 

400

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

What is Azure Advisor? 

500

Test and build applications along with data back up are examples of 

What are the benefits of using cloud / Azure?

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

Not in gymnastics, but in Azure, (blank) is the ability to deploy applications and services quickly

What is Agility?

500

Use (blank) to enforce governance and compliance with org standards and regulations. Hint, it is not Wild player Ryan Reaves!

What is Azure Policy?