D084 WGU Cloud Platform Solutions

Subscription - Answer- A logical unit of Azure services linked to an Azure account, which is an identity in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). User Principal - Answer- An identity that is associated with a user, or a group of users. Management Groups - Answer- Allow you to apply governance consistently across subscriptions, including the application of common RBAC controls and the application of Azure policy. Spending Quotas - Answer- Allow administrators to set alerts within an Azure subscription by configuring budgets to inform the business when their Azure spending has hit a certain threshold. Resource Tags - Answer- Allow you to apply custom metadata to your Azure resources to logically organize them and build out custom taxonomies. Azure Policy - Answer- An Azure service that can be used to create, assign, and manage policies that enforce governance in your Azure environment. Azure Monitor - Answer- Helps you track performance, maintain security, and identify trends, by ingesting metrics and telemetry from multiple areas, including applications and the operating systems of virtual machines. Azure Advisor - Answer- A free, personalized guide to Azure best practices which provides recommendations to help you optimize resources for high availability, security, performance, and cost. Alerts - Answer- Proactively notify you when important conditions are found in your monitoring data. Metrics - Answer- Numerical values provided by resources and services within Azure. Enterprise Agreement Portal - Answer- Available only to customers with an Enterprise Agreement and is used for managing spend across one or more subscriptions. Account Portal - Answer- Available for all subscriptions and accessible by Account owners. It is used to manage subscriptions, payment methods, and spending limits. Azure Portal - Answer- Available for all subscriptions and includes Azure Cost Management.