Module 2 – Configure Subscriptions

Question 1

Identify Regions

Answer 1

1. A region represents a collection of data centers

2.provides flexibility and scale

3.Preserves data residency

4. Select regions close to your users
5. You have to be GTPR compliant

6.Be aware of region deployment availability.

7. There are global services that are region-independent
8. Regions are paired for high availability.
9. 60 plus regions representing 140 countries

10.not all the services are available in regions.

Question 2

What is a subscription in Azure?

Answer 2

1.A subscription is a logical unit of azure services that’s linked to an azure account.

2. subscriptions help you organize access to azure cloud service resources and help control how resource usage is billed , reported and paid

Question 3

Implement Azure Subscriptions

Answer 3

1.Only identities in Azure AD, or in a directory that is trusted by azure AD , you can create a subscription.

2. Logical unit of Azure services that is linked to an Azure account. You can.
3. Security and billing boundary. Means that each subscription can have a different billing and payment configuration.

Question 4

Identify Subscription Usage

Answer 4

1. Free - Includes a $200 credit for the first 30 days, free limed access for 12 months
2. Pay as you go - Charges you monthly
3. CSP - Agreement with possible discounts through Microsoft cloud solutions. Provider partner - typically for small to meduim sized businness
4. One agreement , with discpunts for new licenses and software assurance - targeted at enterpise scale organizations.
5. Student - includes a $100 for 12 months - must verify student access

Question 5

Obtain a subscription

Answer 5

Enterprise agreement - Customers make an upfront monetary commitment and consume services throughout the year

Resellers - Provide a simple , flexible way to purchase cloud services

Partners - can design and implement your azure cloud solution

Personal free account - start right away

Question 6

Create resource groups

Answer 6

1. Resources can only exist in one resource group at a time
2. Groups can have resources of many different types( services) and from many different regions
3. groups cannot be renamed or nested
4. You can move resources between groups

Question 7

Determine service limits and quotas

Answer 7

1. Resources have a default limit a subscription quota
2. helpful to track current usage and plan for future use
3. You can open a free support case to increase limts to published maximums

Question 8

Create an azure Resource Hierarchy

Answer 8

1. Azure allows you to create management groups that provide a level of scope above subscriptions
2. Target policies and spend budgets across subscriptions and inheritance down the hierarchies
3. Implement compliance and cot reporting by organization ( Business/teams)
4. to prevent changes/ delete resources , resource locks can be applied at the subscription, resource group, or resource level

Question 9

Apply resource tagging

Answer 9

1. provides metadata for your azure resources
2. logically organizes resources
3. consist of a name-value pair
4. very useful for rolling up billing information

Question 10

Manage costs

Answer 10

1. costs are resource-specific
2. usage costs may vary between locations
3. cost for inbound and outbound data transfers differ
4. pre-pay with Azure reserves instances
5. use your on-premises licenses with azure hybrid benefit
6. Optimize with alerts, budgets, and azure advisor recommendations

Question 11

Manage subscriptions

Answer 11

Know what each subscription.

Enterprise agreement subscriptions

Pay by invoice

CSP subscription