TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Robert has created some resources in Azure. How soon can he take advantage of
the Azure Monitoring service? - ✔✔Immediately! He can enable diagnostics on
supported resources, and for compute resources he can even add an agent to begin
collecting data.
✔✔List some use cases and benefits of the Azure Monitor. - ✔✔•A way to *visualize
and present data* to different audiences(e.g. a yearly audit, or report for a technology
committee meeting, or for a customer whose needs demand it).
•*Respond proactively to critical conditions*(e.g. sending a text alert to an administrator
responsible for handling the issue or automating a process that attempts to fix it).
•Overall *visibility into the operations of your cloud* environment.
✔✔What is Azure Service Health? - ✔✔Azure Service Health is a suite of experiences
that provide personalized *guidance and support when issues with Azure services affect
you*. It can notify you, help you understand the impact of issues, and keep you updated
as the issue is resolved.
✔✔List the components of Azure Health? Also what are some use cases of Azure
Service Health? - ✔✔•*Azure Status* provides a global view of the health state of Azure
services
, •*Service Health* offers a customizable dashboard that tracks the state of your Azure
services in the regions where you use them. In this dashboard, you can track active
events such as ongoing service issues, upcoming planned maintenance, or relevant
Health advisories.
•*Resource Health* helps you diagnose and obtain support when an Azure service
issue affects your resources. It provides you with details with about the current and past
state of your resources. It also provides technical support to help you mitigate problems.
✔✔A Cloud Administrator has concerns about resources meeting SLAs(Service Level
Agreements). Which of the Azure Health components is appropriate for this scenario? -
✔✔*Azure Resource Health*. It provides a much more in-depth view than Azure Status,
plus the administrator can opt to have a customized dashboard that provides insights
into how well his resources meet those SLAs.
✔✔Explain the purpose of the Microsoft Privacy Statement. - ✔✔This privacy statement
explains the personal data Microsoft processes, how Microsoft processes it, and for
what purposes.
✔✔Describe the Microsoft Trust Center? - ✔✔It contains information and details about
how Microsoft implements and supports security, privacy, compliance, and transparency
in all Microsoft cloud products and services.
✔✔Describe the Service Trust Portal? - ✔✔It hosts the Compliance Manager service,
and is the Microsoft public site for published downloadable audit reports and other
compliance-related information relevant to how Microsoft builds and operates its cloud
services.
✔✔Microsoft Azure is compliant with several standards, laws and regularitons. List
some of these. - ✔✔ISO, SOC, NIST, FedRAMP, GDPR
✔✔What is GDPR? - ✔✔GDPR stands for *General Data Protection Regulation*. It's
the core of Europe's digital privacy legislation.
✔✔What is ISO? - ✔✔ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, develops
and publishes International Standards.
✔✔What does it mean to be NIST compliant? - ✔✔Generally speaking, *NIST
guidance* provides the set of standards for recommended security controls for
information systems at federal agencies.
✔✔What does it mean to be SOC/SOC2 compliant? - ✔✔SOC stands for "system and
organization controls," and the controls are a series of standards designed to help
measure how well a given service organization conducts and regulates its information.