Implement Azure App Service - Web Apps [1/3]

Azure App Service is a fully managed ___ for hosting web applications, API, mobile backend and WebJobs

• SaaS

• PaaS

• IaaS

• FaaS

Answer explanation

Azure App Service is an HTTP-based Platform as a Service for hosting different web applications types

What's the unique default hostname naming convention when creating an App Service?

• <app-name>-<random-hash>.<region>.azurewebsites.net

• <app-name>.<region>.azurewebsites.net

• <random-hash>-<app-name>-<random-hash>.<region>.azurewebsites.net

Answer explanation

App Service allows you to create web apps with unique default hostnames to avoid a high-severity threat of subdomain takeover

The company needs you to run a web app in Ruby, what's the best approach to achieve this?

• Create an Azure App directly in Azure and using Windows OS

• Create a custom container running Ruby and deploy it to the Azure App

• There is no way to achieve this

Answer explanation

Ruby has been deprecated as supported language, a custom container needs to be created to host your application

Select all the advantages you have when running an app in Azure App Service

• Security (e.g. IP blocking and use of TLS/SSL certificates)

• Network capabilities such as load balancing

• Autoscaling

• Continuous deployment features

• Staging environments

Answer explanation

App Service adds the power of Microsoft Azure to your application, such as security, load balancing, autoscaling, automated management, DevOps capabilities, staging environments, custom domain, and TLS/SSL certificates.

When creating an App Service Plan, what compute resources can you define? (select all that apply)

• Operative System

• Connections to other Azure services

• Number of VM instances and their size

• Pricing tier

• Region

Answer explanation

During the creation of an App Service Plan, you need to define the OS, # of VMs, size of the VMs, pricing tier and region

The available features and price that we need to pay for using the App Service is defined by

• Azure Service Plan

• Pricing tier

• Azure Service tier

• Pricing plan

Answer explanation

Pricing tier is the configuration that will enable/disable certain features in the Service Plan and thus determine the cost to pay for those features

An Azure App Service Web App can only contain one app

• No, it can have multiple apps handled by virtual applications

• Yes, it must contain only one app, otherwise we're going to get a 403 HTTP error response

• No, it can have multiple apps handled by virtual directories

• Yes, it must contain only one app, otherwise we're going to get a 500 HTTP error response

Answer explanation

Virtual Applications allows us to map different applications hosted in the same webapp to their corresponding starting folders

You're working on a Bank company, the security is highly valuated, you're on charge of creating a new API and a webapp that consumes it for internal purposes, you are thinking on creating staging environments to prevent direct releases to production, which of the following options is the best to fit the requirements

• Create a Service Plan that contains both apps in the Premium pricing tier

• Create a Service Plan per app in the Isolated pricing tier

• Create a App Service Environment that contains both apps

• Create a Service Plan that contains both apps in the Basic pricing tier

Answer explanation

Since security is absolutely essential for this requirement and because both applications are for internal purposes then an App Service Environment to deploy both apps is the best option as it provides the best security option due to a single tenant runs the apps

The combination of Resource Group, Region and OS when creating the Service plan is called

• Workspace

• Webspace

• Environment

Which of the following commands allows us to create a service plan?

• az appservice plan create --resource-group <resource_group_name> --name <service_plan_name> --sku <pricing_tier_code>

• az serviceplan create --resource-group <resource_group_name> --name <service_plan_name> --sku <pricing_tier_code>

• az service plan create --resource-group <resource_group_name> --name <service_plan_name> --sku <pricing_tier_code>

Answer explanation

az serviceplan create and az serviceplan create are non-existing commands