AsCEnD Azure Cloud

AsCEnD Azure Assessment

Q1. The ________ cloud model offers organizations the most ownership and control.

Answer: private

Q2. When should you 'scale up' your deployment?

Answer: When your application or service requires a more powerful CPU or more memory to run faster

Q3. Which of the following Azure services is NOT part of the compute services?

Answer: Virtual Networks

Q4. ________ is owned and operated by the organization that uses the resources from that cloud.

Answer: Private cloud

Q5. __________ refers to the practice of paying up-front for a product or service (ie infrastructure) your tax bill over time.

Answer: Operational expenditure

Q6. What does it mean if a service is in Private Preview mode?

Answer: You have to apply to get selected to use that service

Q7. Which of the following is an example of an Azure application platform?

Answer: Azure App Service

Q8. __________ is used primarily to allow multiple organizations to share its resources and services.

Answer: Public cloud

Q9. What does it mean if a service is in General Availability (GA) mode?

Answer: Anyone can use the service for any reason

Q10. Why is Azure App Services considered Platform as a Service?

Answer: You give Azure the code and the configuration, and you have no access to underlying hardware

Q11. Which of the following ensures data-residency and compliance needs are met for customers who need to keep...

Answer: Geographies

Q12. Azure claims there are approximately 54 regions. But when I create my account, I can only see 30 of 54. So...

Answer: Some regions like Azure Germany, Azure China and Azure Government require separate accounts to access.

Q13. A service or solution that experiences little to no downtime for an extended period of time is considered to be...

Answer: highly available

Q14. Leveraging cloud services allows organizations to take advantage of ________.

Answer: All of the above

Q15. Where do you find virtual machine images provided by third party companies within the Azure Portal?

Answer: In the Azure Marketplace

Q16. Financially speaking, one of the benefits of using cloud computing over hosting applications yourself on services...

Answer: the tax and cash flow benefits of using Operational Expenditure (OpEx) instead of Capital Expenditure (CapEx).

Q17. Which of Azure's architectural components allows you to specify exactly which data center in a region a virtual...

Answer: Availability Zones

Q18. Even without paying for support, you can still open a support ticket if you encounter a problem such as...

Answer: TRUE

Q19. Deploying an app can be done directly to what level of physical granularity?

Answer: Region

Q20. How many minutes per month of downtime is 99.99% availability?

Answer: 4 minutes

Q21. What is the principle of Economies of Scale?

Answer: Scaling (upscaling/downscaling) allows you to save money compared with always having way more resources

Q22. Which cloud computing model does a virtual machine fall into?

Answer: IAAS

Q23. _______ allows an organization to run its application either in the cloud or on-prem.

Answer: Hybnd cloud

Q24. What does the term 'application availability mean?

Answer: The overall time that a system is functional and working

Q25. What are Azure Availability Zones?

Answer: A feature of Azure that lets you to manually specify into which data centre your virtual machines are...

Q26. What is it that makes it public versus private, in terms of public cloud?

Answer: Anyone with a credit card can sign up for the public cloud computing. There is generally no restriction

Q27. Microsoft Office 365 is an example of

Answer: SAAS

Q28. Azure charges for bandwidth used 'inbound' to Azure.

Answer: FALSE

Q29. When you deploy multiple resources that are part of a single solution AND share the same lifecycle...

Answer: Resource Group

Q30. The _________ cloud model offers organizations the most flexibility.

Answer: hybrid