Microsoft Azure Quiz

Microsoft Azure enables your organization to move IT expenditures to:

• Capital expenditures

• Operational expenditures

• A controlled expense model

• None of the above

Which of the following tools can you use to estimate the expense of moving a data center from on-premises to Azure?

• Azure Pricing Calculator

• Azure Cost Management + Billing

• Azure TCO Calculator

• Azure CLI

The term agility in Microsoft Azure refers to:

• The ease with which you can move workloads from on-premises to Azure and back again

• The ability to quickly adjust resources such as memory to adapt to changes in demand

• The ability to add more front-end web servers to a web application to adapt to increased demand

• The ability to quickly create redundancy in a solution

Which of the following describes the benefit economy of scale as it relates to Microsoft Azure?

• The capability to distribute resources across multiple regions to reduce cost

• The ability to place resources in less expensive Azure regions to reduce costs

• The capability to automatically scale down the number of virtual machines in an Azure solution to reduce costs when demand decreases

• The decrease in price per subscriber as more subscribers are added

Which of the following in an example of vertical scaling?

• Adding VMs to a web app as demand increases

• Reducing memory allocated to VMs when demand decreases

• Adding CPU cores to a VM when demand increases

• Both B and C

A service that provides the capability to deploy a SQL database without the need for you to set up a VM or install SQL Server is an example of:

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS)

• Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

• Data-as-a-service (DaaS)

Accessing an application through a web page rather than installing the application on your local device is an example of:

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS)

• Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

• Data-as-a-service (DaaS)

Deploying virtual machines (VMs) in a shared cloud environment is an example of:

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)

• Software-as-a-service (SaaS)

• Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

• Data-as-a-service (DaaS)

Which of the following accurately describes an Azure geography?

• It corresponds to a single country or to a market encompassing multiple countries.

• It always corresponds to a specific country.

• It represents a set of physical data centers.

• None of the above.

An Azure region:

• Describes a specific Azure data center

• Is usually paired with another region to ensure high availability

• Can span across multiple countries

• Encompasses the data centers in which all of your Azure resources reside