AZ-900 EXAM-MODULE 2 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What is an Azure Region? - Answers - A region is a geographical area on the planet
containing at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are in close proximity
and networked together with a low-latency network.
Azure is available in how many regions? - Answers - Azure is generally available in 58
regions
Azure is available in how many countries? - Answers - Azure is available in 140
countries.
Name some Azure services that do not require selection of a region? - Answers -
Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager, or Azure DNS.
What is Region Pair? - Answers - Each Azure region is paired with another region
within the same geography, together making a region pair.
Which Azure region is the exception to Azure region pair? - Answers - Brazil South
which is paired with a region outside its geography(South Central US)
Azure prefers how many miles between datacenters in a regional pair? - Answers -
300 miles
True of False
Planned Azure system updates are rolled out to paired regions sequentially (not at the
same time) to minimize downtime, the effect of bugs, and logical failures in the rare
event of a bad update. - Answers - True
Why does a region resides within the same geography as its pair? - Answers - - To
meet data residency requirements for tax
- Law enforcement jurisdiction purposes
What is a Azure Geography? - Answers - A geography is a discrete market typically
containing two or more regions that preserves data residency and compliance
boundaries.
What does Geographies ensures? - Answers - Geographies ensure that data
residency, sovereignty, compliance, and resiliency requirements are honored within
geographical boundaries.
Geographies are broken up into ? - Answers - -Americas
-Europe
-Asia Pacific
-Middle East
, -Africa.
You can quickly migrate existing virtual machines to Azure through what is called? -
Answers - lift and shift
what is Lift and Shift? - Answers - Lift and shift is a no-code option where each
application is migrated as-is, providing the benefits of the cloud without the risks or
costs of making code changes.
How can SLA be increased to 99.95%? - Answers - By Placing VMs in an "Availability
Set"
How can SLA be increased to 99.99%? - Answers - Adding VMs to "Availability Zones"
-This is highest level of protection that is provided.
A single virtual machine with premium storage has an SLA of? - Answers - 99.9%
What are Availability Sets? - Answers - A way for you to ensure your application
remains online if a high-impact maintenance event is required, or a hardware a failure
occurs.
Availability Sets are made up of what Domains? - Answers - - Update Domains
- Fault Domains
Yes or No
Fault domains provide for the physical separation of your workload across different
hardware in the datacenter. - Answers - Yes
This includes power, cooling, and network hardware that supports the physical servers
located in server racks.
What are Availability Zones? - Answers - Physically separate locations within an Azure
region that use availability sets to provide additional fault tolerance.
Availability Zones are connected to each other through what? - Answers - Fast, private
fiber-optic networks
There's a minimum of how many Availability Zones in all enabled regions? - Answers -
3 separate zones
What is a resource group? - Answers - - A unit of management for your resources in
Azure.
- A container that allows you to aggregate and manage all the resources required for
your application in a single manageable unit.
What is an Azure Region? - Answers - A region is a geographical area on the planet
containing at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are in close proximity
and networked together with a low-latency network.
Azure is available in how many regions? - Answers - Azure is generally available in 58
regions
Azure is available in how many countries? - Answers - Azure is available in 140
countries.
Name some Azure services that do not require selection of a region? - Answers -
Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager, or Azure DNS.
What is Region Pair? - Answers - Each Azure region is paired with another region
within the same geography, together making a region pair.
Which Azure region is the exception to Azure region pair? - Answers - Brazil South
which is paired with a region outside its geography(South Central US)
Azure prefers how many miles between datacenters in a regional pair? - Answers -
300 miles
True of False
Planned Azure system updates are rolled out to paired regions sequentially (not at the
same time) to minimize downtime, the effect of bugs, and logical failures in the rare
event of a bad update. - Answers - True
Why does a region resides within the same geography as its pair? - Answers - - To
meet data residency requirements for tax
- Law enforcement jurisdiction purposes
What is a Azure Geography? - Answers - A geography is a discrete market typically
containing two or more regions that preserves data residency and compliance
boundaries.
What does Geographies ensures? - Answers - Geographies ensure that data
residency, sovereignty, compliance, and resiliency requirements are honored within
geographical boundaries.
Geographies are broken up into ? - Answers - -Americas
-Europe
-Asia Pacific
-Middle East
, -Africa.
You can quickly migrate existing virtual machines to Azure through what is called? -
Answers - lift and shift
what is Lift and Shift? - Answers - Lift and shift is a no-code option where each
application is migrated as-is, providing the benefits of the cloud without the risks or
costs of making code changes.
How can SLA be increased to 99.95%? - Answers - By Placing VMs in an "Availability
Set"
How can SLA be increased to 99.99%? - Answers - Adding VMs to "Availability Zones"
-This is highest level of protection that is provided.
A single virtual machine with premium storage has an SLA of? - Answers - 99.9%
What are Availability Sets? - Answers - A way for you to ensure your application
remains online if a high-impact maintenance event is required, or a hardware a failure
occurs.
Availability Sets are made up of what Domains? - Answers - - Update Domains
- Fault Domains
Yes or No
Fault domains provide for the physical separation of your workload across different
hardware in the datacenter. - Answers - Yes
This includes power, cooling, and network hardware that supports the physical servers
located in server racks.
What are Availability Zones? - Answers - Physically separate locations within an Azure
region that use availability sets to provide additional fault tolerance.
Availability Zones are connected to each other through what? - Answers - Fast, private
fiber-optic networks
There's a minimum of how many Availability Zones in all enabled regions? - Answers -
3 separate zones
What is a resource group? - Answers - - A unit of management for your resources in
Azure.
- A container that allows you to aggregate and manage all the resources required for
your application in a single manageable unit.
