Azure Services

Question 1

Name the Five (5) most common Azure Compute Services.

Answer 1

• Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure App Service
• Azure Container instances
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Functions

Question 2

Name the Eight (8) most common Azure Storage Services

Answer 2

• Blob Storage: Simple unstructured object storage
• File Storage: NTFS (SMB) File Shares
• Data Lake Storage: Data Analytics driven
• SQL Database: Relational database
• DB for Open Source: for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Synapse Analytics: Data warehouse
• Cosmos DB: NoSQL/Non-relational DB
• Cache for Redis: NoSQL/Non-relational DB (w/ caching)

Question 3

Describe Azure Migrate

Answer 3

This service will scan your on-premise infrastructure such as VMs. It will assess the readiness for migration to Azure, associated costs, and any dependencies.

Azure migrate can also assist with Databases, Web Apps, Data, and Virtual Desktop environments by using other tools.

Question 4

Describe Entra ID

Answer 4

The primary identity services engine for Azure and Microsoft Hybrid infrastructure. Entra ID can synchronize with on-premise Active Directory servers for authentication of existing accounts.

Question 5

What are the four (4) most commons Azure DevOps services.

Answer 5

• DevOps
• Pipelines
• DevTest Labs
• CDN

Question 6

Name the three (3) most common Azure IOT services

Answer 6

• IoT Central
• IoT Hub
• Sphere

Question 7

Name the three (3) most common Azure Analytics services (Big Data)

Answer 7

• HDInsight
• Databricks
• Synapse Analytics

Question 8

Name the three (3) most common Axure AI Services

Answer 8

• AI Services
• AI Studio
• Machine Learning

Question 9

Describe the Azure Architecture Center

Answer 9

Architecture Center is a documents repository which contains hundreds of different designs for different platform deployments and what services are needed to accomplish the design. It can also help to give you pricing based on the designs you select.

Question 10

Name the eight (8) most common Azure Management Tools

Answer 10

• Azure Monitor: Network and Application Monitoring
• Backup:
• Advisor
• MS Defender for Cloud
• Policy
• Advanced Threat Protection
• ARM Template
• Blueprints

Question 11

Describe Azure Blueprints

Answer 11

Using ARM templates and other automation resources, can be used to deploy a whole environment. This is different from ARM Templates that only automate the creation of a single resource.