Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Study
Guide
- Get proactive, actionable and personalized best practice recommendations from
Azure Advisor
- Improve the performance, security and high availability of your resources through
recommended actions.
- Find ideal opportunities to reduce cost of your current environments -
------------ANS: Azure Advisor Features
A collection of notification preferences defined by the owner of an Azure
subscription. Azure Monitor and Service Health alerts use these to notify users that
an alert has been triggered, it can also be configured to take subsequent actions to
help correct the problem that the alert has detected. - ------------ANS: Action Group
A collection of policy definitions that are tailored towards achieving a singular
overarching goal. Initiative definitions simplify managing and assigning policy
definitions. They simplify by grouping a set of policies as one single item. For
example, you could create an initiative titled Enable Monitoring in Azure Security
Center, with a goal to monitor all the available security recommendations in your
Azure Security Center. - ------------ANS: Initiative Definition
A distributed network of servers that can efficiently delivered to uses. They will store
cached content on edge servers that are close to end-users. They are typically used
to deliver static content such as images, stylesheets, documents, client-side scripts
and HTML files. - ------------ANS: Azure Content Delivery Network
A feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management
(APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. Use it to monitor your live
web application. It will automatically detect performance anomalies. It includes
powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users
actually do with your app. It's designed to help you continuously improve
performance and usability. - ------------ANS: Application Insights
A feature that contains a list of security rules allowing or denying inbound or
outbound network traffic, it can be associated either with a Network Subnet or a
Network Interface. - ------------ANS: Network Security Groups
, A good way to keep track of your resources is through tagging them. Each "Tag"
consists of a Name and a Key Value Pair, such as
"Environment" : "Production" where you could tag all your resources that are in
production. Tags applied to the resource group are not inherited by the resources in
that resource group. - ------------ANS: Tagging Resources
A logical container used to group different Azure services within it. Some things to
consider when creating a resource group is:
- Grouping resources based on lifecycle and security, could be considered a best
practice.
- A resource can only belong to one resource group.
- Resource Groups can't be renamed.
- Resource Groups can contain many different types of resources or services.
- Resources that are inside of a resource group can be located in a different region.
- Resource Groups cost nothing, you can have as many or as little of them as you
wish. - ------------ANS: Resource Group
a low-cost option for protecting your data from local hardware failure. However if a
disaster occurs to the entire data center all replicas might be unrecoverable -
------------ANS: Local Redundant Storage
A management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and
development infrastructure with configuration as code. - ------------ANS: PowerShell
DSC
A personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your
Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and
then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness,
performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources. - ------------ANS:
Azure Advisor
A policy definition that has been assigned to take place within a specific scope. This
scope could range from a management group to a resource group. The term scope
refers to all the resource groups, subscriptions, or management groups that the
policy definition is assigned to. Policy assignments are inherited by all child
resources. This design means that a policy applied to a resource group is also
applied to resources in that resource group. However, you can exclude a sub-scope
from the policy assignment. - ------------ANS: Policy Assignment
A query syntax to quickly retrieve and consolidate data in the repository. You can
create and save log searches to directly analyze data in the OMS Portal -
------------ANS: Log Analytics Queries
Guide
- Get proactive, actionable and personalized best practice recommendations from
Azure Advisor
- Improve the performance, security and high availability of your resources through
recommended actions.
- Find ideal opportunities to reduce cost of your current environments -
------------ANS: Azure Advisor Features
A collection of notification preferences defined by the owner of an Azure
subscription. Azure Monitor and Service Health alerts use these to notify users that
an alert has been triggered, it can also be configured to take subsequent actions to
help correct the problem that the alert has detected. - ------------ANS: Action Group
A collection of policy definitions that are tailored towards achieving a singular
overarching goal. Initiative definitions simplify managing and assigning policy
definitions. They simplify by grouping a set of policies as one single item. For
example, you could create an initiative titled Enable Monitoring in Azure Security
Center, with a goal to monitor all the available security recommendations in your
Azure Security Center. - ------------ANS: Initiative Definition
A distributed network of servers that can efficiently delivered to uses. They will store
cached content on edge servers that are close to end-users. They are typically used
to deliver static content such as images, stylesheets, documents, client-side scripts
and HTML files. - ------------ANS: Azure Content Delivery Network
A feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management
(APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. Use it to monitor your live
web application. It will automatically detect performance anomalies. It includes
powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users
actually do with your app. It's designed to help you continuously improve
performance and usability. - ------------ANS: Application Insights
A feature that contains a list of security rules allowing or denying inbound or
outbound network traffic, it can be associated either with a Network Subnet or a
Network Interface. - ------------ANS: Network Security Groups
, A good way to keep track of your resources is through tagging them. Each "Tag"
consists of a Name and a Key Value Pair, such as
"Environment" : "Production" where you could tag all your resources that are in
production. Tags applied to the resource group are not inherited by the resources in
that resource group. - ------------ANS: Tagging Resources
A logical container used to group different Azure services within it. Some things to
consider when creating a resource group is:
- Grouping resources based on lifecycle and security, could be considered a best
practice.
- A resource can only belong to one resource group.
- Resource Groups can't be renamed.
- Resource Groups can contain many different types of resources or services.
- Resources that are inside of a resource group can be located in a different region.
- Resource Groups cost nothing, you can have as many or as little of them as you
wish. - ------------ANS: Resource Group
a low-cost option for protecting your data from local hardware failure. However if a
disaster occurs to the entire data center all replicas might be unrecoverable -
------------ANS: Local Redundant Storage
A management platform in PowerShell that enables you to manage your IT and
development infrastructure with configuration as code. - ------------ANS: PowerShell
DSC
A personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your
Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and
then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness,
performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources. - ------------ANS:
Azure Advisor
A policy definition that has been assigned to take place within a specific scope. This
scope could range from a management group to a resource group. The term scope
refers to all the resource groups, subscriptions, or management groups that the
policy definition is assigned to. Policy assignments are inherited by all child
resources. This design means that a policy applied to a resource group is also
applied to resources in that resource group. However, you can exclude a sub-scope
from the policy assignment. - ------------ANS: Policy Assignment
A query syntax to quickly retrieve and consolidate data in the repository. You can
create and save log searches to directly analyze data in the OMS Portal -
------------ANS: Log Analytics Queries
