Azure Essentials............................................................................................................................

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Introduction to Azure...............................................................................................................1
What is Microsoft Azure?.....................................................................................................1
Overview of Azure Services..................................................................................................1
Azure Cloud Services............................................................................................................2
Azure as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)........................................................................2

Azure Essentials
Introduction to Azure
Welcome to the course, Azure Essentials!
In this course, we will explore the broad range of services
offered by Azure and deep dive into few of services that you
can use for your applications.
Azure Essentials is the first of the series of courses on Azure.
Have a great learning!
Please note that this course has been curated using the
materials/resources received through our partnership with
Microsoft. Hence, you could see that the content for this course
has been taken from Microsoft official sites.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a set of unified cloud services, which help IT
professionals and developers to build, deploy and manage
applications through the global network of Azure data
centers.video to get a big picture of Window Azure!

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Overview of Azure Services

Azure provides cloud services that can be used to design and
implement your customized cloud solution and infrastructure.
They allow you to:
 Migrate on-premises datacenter to Azure cloud
 Deploy cloud-based applications
 Host workload in the Azure cloud
 Integrate Azure cloud services with an on-premises
infrastructure
Azure cloud services can be categorized
as Compute, Network, Data and Storage, App Services, etc.
These are few to name and there are much more to help
with Identity and Access
Management, Automation, Security, Availability, etc.
Azure Cloud Services
Azure as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
Allows the user to access, manage and monitor the data
centers. Thus, giving complete control of the OS and the
application platform stack to the developers.
 The virtual machine can be completely modified to meet
business requirements.
 IaaS facilitates efficient design time portability. Hence an
application can be migrated to Microsoft Azure without
rework.
 IaaS allows a quick transition of services to cloud, which
helps the vendors to offer services to their clients easily.
IaaS is perfect for the applications where complete control is
required.
Azure as PaaS (Platform as a Service)
The client is provided with the platform to develop and deploy
software, without having to think about hardware and
infrastructure. It takes cares of most of the OS, servers and
networking issues.
PaaS is fast with less hassle for developers; applications can go
from idea to availability more quickly.
PaaS is cost-effective with lower upfront investment and less
admin / management work for organizations.
PaaS lowers risk as platform is upto date with latest technology
stack and tools for automation.
Azure as SaaS (Software as a Service)
Software as a service (SaaS) allows users to connect to and
use cloud-based apps over the Internet, such as Office365.
SaaS customers use the software running on the provider’s
infrastructure. SaaS is also referred as software delivered over
the web.
Advantages:

 Gained access to sophisticated enterprise applications

 Pay only for what you use
 Use free client software
 Mobilise your workforce easily
  Access app data from anywhere

Azure Datacenters

Azure is backed by a global network of data centers that aims to

meet global customer needs, ensure high application performance
and maintain availability.

Azure Management Tools

Accessing Azure
Azure can be accessed and managed through:
 Azure Classic Portal
 Azure ARM portal
 Azure Resource Manager
 Client Tools like
o PowerShell
o Azure CLI
o Visual Studio with Azure SDK for .NET

Azure Classic Portal

This was the first portal in Azure that was being used before the
launch of Azure Resource Manager (ARM). It was based on
the Service Management model and provides limited Role-Based
Access Control (RBAC) support.
 Azure Resources Manager

Azure Resources manager (ARM portal) is now the default

portal for Azure cloud services management. It supports new
features like:

 Templates based deployments

 Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
 Customized dashboards to view key resources

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Client Tools
While Azure portals provide a GUI for managing your Azure
subscriptions and services, in some scenarios, these portals
may not offer the most optimal management capabilities.
For teams that want to perform service management in an
automated fashion by using REST API and creating scripts for
repetitive or cumbersome administrative tasks, Azure offers
options like:
 Azure PowerShell modules - to run scripts from Windows.
 Azure command-line interface (CLI) - to run scripts on all
operating systems like Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Microsoft Azure Powershell
Microsoft Azure Powershell

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Quiz on Introduction to Azure

Q: When using Azure Resource Manager, you can use
a _______________ for deployment, which can build
identical environments for different work scenarios such
as testing, staging, and production.

A: Template
Q: In which operating system can we use Azure
PowerShell?

A: All the options

Which of the following statements are correct?

A: all the options

Q: The new Azure Portal is accessed using ___________.

A: https://portal.azure.com

Which cloud offering targets the consumption of

services?
SaaS

You can view the latest data center map and Pay as You
Go subscription information in (the) ________?

Azure Dash Board

Which one of the following option serves is a NoSQL

datastore?
Tables

Quiz on Azure Networking Services

1. ExpressRoute connections enable access to
the _________.
 A: All the options.

2. Default Private IP address allocation method is

_________.
A: Dynamic

3. _______________ is used to route the traffic between

virtual machines inside your private virtual network.
A: Azure Internal Load Balancers

4. A subnet is a range of IP addresses in a __________.

A: VNET
Which Azure networking component is the core unit
from which administrators can have full control over
IP address assignments, name resolution, security
settings, and routing rules?

Virtual Networks (VNETs)

Microsoft uses industry

standard _______________ dynamic routing protocol to
exchange routes between your on-premises
network, your instances in Azure, and Microsoft
public addresses.

BGP
 Quiz on Compute Services
1. To how many resource groups can a resource be
added?
A: 1
2. Which of the following Windows Server roles is not
supported on Azure Virtual Machines?

A: Hyper-V

3. Azure Virtual Machines only support VMs running

the Microsoft Windows operating system.

A: False

4. You can estimate the costs you will incur on Azure

by using which tool?
A: Pricing Calculator
 Quiz on Azure Storage Services
1. Premium storage disks for virtual machines support
up to 64 TBs of storage.
A: True

2. You add a data disk to an Azure virtual machine.

What drive type is created?
A: SCSI

3. In which type of Storage replication, data is not

replicated across multiple datacenters?
A: Locally redundant storage(LRS)
4. If you choose this redundancy strategy, you cannot
convert to another redundancy strategy without
creating a new storage account and copying the
data to the account.
A: ZRS
 Final Assessment
1. In which type of Storage replication, data is not
replicated across multiple data centers?
 A: Locally redundant storage (LRS)

2. Which of the following are a worldwide content

caching and delivery system for Windows Azure blob
content?

A: CDN

3. A VM can have multiple associated IP addresses.

Which of the following options are possible IP
addresses associated with a VM?
 A: All the Options

4. What VM series should you consider if you want to

host applications that require high-performance IO
for persisted data?

A: D-Series - ERRADA

5. Geo-replication is enabled by default in Windows

Azure Storage.

A: Yes
6. Which of the following is a non-relational storage
system for large-scale storage?

A: Data Lake Store

7. You need to deploy a virtual machine on Azure with

a low memory entry level requirement. Which virtual
machine sizes should you consider choosing?

A: Basis_A0- Basic_A4

8. In which operating system, can we use Azure

PowerShell?
 A: All the Options- errada

9. Which of the following option helps Azure maintain a

high availability and fault tolerance when deploying
and upgrading applications?

A: Availability Set

10. What VPN types are supported by Azure?

A: All the Options

11. What is the format of an Azure Resource Template?

A: JSON

12. Which of the following services allow the creation

and management of virtual machines that serve
either in a Web role and a Worker role?

A: Compute

13. What’s the maximum bandwidth provided by

ExpressRoute?

A: 10 Gbps
14. The smallest recommended virtual machine size in
Azure for a production environment is _________.

A: A1

15. Geo Redundancy is to provide high availability in

________.

A: Geographically

16. SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database

service that relies on _________.
 A: SQL Server

17. A subnet is a range of IP addresses in a __________.

A: VNET

18. The VM size determines the number of __________.

A:Nic

19. Which type of storage offering uses SSDs and is

intended for use with Virtual machines?
 A: Standard

20. The connection between storage and Microsoft’s

CDN (Content Delivery Network) is stated to be at
least _______ percent available.
A: 99.9

Erradas
 Não Sei.

Certa: Windows 7

Your Azure storage account is always replicated to

ensure durability and high availability. By default,
which of the following replications schemes is
used?

GRS- errada

ZRS

The maximum size for a file share is 5 TBs.

False
Which connection configuration offers faster
speeds, higher security, lower latencies, and higher
reliability?

ExpressRoute

Azure Storage plays the same role in Azure that

______ plays in Amazon Web Services.
S3

Which of the following VM configurations qualifies

for SLA availability?
Two single-instance VMs- errada

Microsoft and Hortonworks joined their forces to

make Hadoop available on ___________ for on-premise
deployments

Windows Server

Which of the following specific components are

incorporated on HDInsight clusters?
All the options

Azure data is replicated ________ times for data

protection and writes are checked for consistency.

Three

Which of the following is also called Compute?

Set of virtual machine instances
Which of the following statements is correct?

All the options

Which of the following options are the methods that

Traffic Manager uses to pick endpoints?

Round-robin- errada

If you have to replace your current on-premise

services in the form of virtual machines, then you
can use Microsoft Azure cloud categorized as
____________.
IAAS

High-availability aplications are

all the options

Most types of resources can be moved to a different

resource group at _______.

Anytime

Azure supports both .vhd and .vhdx file formats for

Virtual Machines.
True

In which operating system, we can use Azure CLI?

All the options

Microsoft Azure Active Directory can be integrated

with on-premises Active Directory to allow single
sign-on.
True

To delegate administrative tasks for specific

resource groups in Azure which functionality should
be used?
Role based access control