A company is planning on moving to Microsoft Azure.
Senior management wants to get an idea on the cost that would be incurred when hosting resources within Azure.
You recommend using the Cloudyn service to get the required costing of the resources.
Would this recommendation fit the requirement?
Yes
No
Answer is No. Because Cloudyn, a Microsoft subsidiary, allows you to track cloud usage and expenditures for your Azure resources and other cloud providers including AWS and Google. Easy-to-understand dashboard reports help with cost allocation and showbacks/chargebacks as well. Cloudyn helps optimize your cloud spending by identifying underutilized resources that you can then manage and adjust.
A company is planning on setting up a solution within Microsoft Azure.
The solution would have the following key requirement:
A simplified tool to build intelligent Artificial Intelligence applications
Which of the following would be best suited for this requirement?
Azure Advisor
Azure Cognitive Services
Azure Application Insights
Azure Devops
Answer is Azure Cognitive Services. Because they are APIs, SDKs, and services available to help developers build intelligent applications without having direct AI or data science skills or knowledge. Azure Cognitive Services enable developers to easily add cognitive features into their applications. The goal of Azure Cognitive Services is to help developers create applications that can see, hear, speak, understand, and even begin to reason. The catalog of services within Azure Cognitive Services can be categorized into five main pillars - Vision, Speech, Language, Web Search, and Decision. Simplified, it can be used as a tool to build intelligent AI applications.
A company is planning on moving to Microsoft Azure.
The senior management wants to get an idea on the cost that would be incurred when hosting resources in Azure.
You recommend using the pricing calculator to get the required costing of the resources.
Would this recommendation fit the requirement?
Yes
No
Answer is Yes. The pricing calculator allows you to view the price for different sizes and configurations of your Azure Virtual Machines in terms of the machine's CPU, memory, storage, location and hours in use. Microsoft Azure has monthly releases of new updates and new features as well.
A company wants to host a mission critical application on a set of Virtual Machines within Microsoft Azure.
They want to ensure they can setup the infrastructure in Azure to guarantee the maximum possible up time for the application.
Which of the following can you make use of in Azure to fulfill this requirement?
Choose 2 answers from the options given below:
Resource Groups
Availability Zones
Availability Sets
Resource Tags
Answer is Availability Zones and Availability Sets.
An Availability Zone is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from data-center failures. Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more data-centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking
An Availability Set is a logical grouping capability for isolating VM resources from each other when they're deployed. Azure makes sure that the VMs you place within an Availability Set run across multiple physical servers, compute racks, storage units, and network switches.
A company is planning on hosting an application on a set of Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure.
They want to ensure that the application survives a region wide failure within Azure.
Which of the following concept needs to be considered to fulfill this requirement?
Scalability
Disaster Recovery
Agility
Elasticity
Answer is Disaster Recovery. Disaster recovery is the process of restoring application functionality in the wake of a catastrophic loss.
A company wants to create multiple data stores in Microsoft Azure.
They want to have storage layers that can be used to store data that is infrequently used.
Which of the following storage tiers for Azure BLOB storage would be suitable for this type of requirement?
Choose 2 answers from the options given below.
Premium storage
Hot storage
Cool storage
Archive storage
Answer is Cool Storage & Archive Storage. Azure storage offers different access tiers, which allow you to store blob object data in the most cost-effective manner. The available access tiers include:
Hot - Optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently.
Cool - Optimized for storing data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 30 days.
Archive - Optimized for storing data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days with flexible latency requirements (on the order of hours).
An IT Engineer needs to create a Virtual Machine in Microsoft Azure.
Currently the IT Engineer has an Android OS based workstation.
Which of the following can the IT Engineer use to create the desired Virtual Machine in Azure?
Microsoft PowerApps
Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Powershell
Azure CLI
Answers are Azure Cloud Shell, Azure Powershell. Because the Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.
Whom amongst the following can use the services offered as part of “Azure Germany”?
Only Enterprises in Germany
Only users located in Germany
Both Enterprises and users located in Germany
All customers who intend to do business in Europe
Answer is All customers who intend to do business in Europe. Microsoft Azure Germany is built on the Microsoft "trusted cloud" principles of security, privacy, compliance, and transparency. It brings data residency, in transit and at rest in Germany, and data replication across German datacenters for business continuity.