You work as a senior IT administrator for Contoso Electronics and one of your main responsibilities is to manage the databases within your organization.

You are currently completing a feasibility study looking at the pros and cons of moving your data services to the cloud using Microsoft Azure.

What pros of using the cloud would you include in your report specifically in relation to the fact that your accountancy department experience one very heavy period of data usage each year at the main tax year end?

Select all answers that apply.

Within your organization (CycleShare LLC) you are using a variety of services based around Microsoft Azure, including Azure Virtual Servers and the Microsoft Intune application.

What types of cloud solution types are you using within your organization?

Select all answers that apply.

You are looking to implement cloud services for your organization CycleShare LLC.

There are different types of cloud deployment model available including; public, private and hybrid cloud models.

Some features span all cloud model types, but each cloud model offers individual features.

What are the main distinguishing features of a public cloud?

Select all answers that apply.

You are a senior administrator for CycleShare LLC responsible for Azure services.

Within the next two months a new project will require many additional resources, including data storage and servers.

You need to choose a solution for this project taking into account the following factors:

· Due to the sensitive nature of the data managed by your organization you need to ensure that data is kept as safe and secure as possible at all times

· Depending on the findings of the upcoming project further work may need to be carried out which will require another large increase in resources

· The entire project is only for a temporary period of 4 months at the most

· You need to minimize costs where possible.

Which solution would you choose?

You are working as an administrator for CycleShare LLC.

You are currently training a new apprentice and have been describing the hosting model type associated with virtual servers.

Which hosting model type would you have described?

Your company Contoso Electronics wants to use Azure as an extension of your own on-premises data center.

You will not be using Azure to host anything (such as applications, or virtual machines). You intend to use the cloud for extra storage only.

When using a combination of an on-premises and cloud system what type of hosting module is being used?

You are working as an administrator for Contoso Electronics. You have been asked to create a report for an upcoming meeting listing the pros and cons of migrating your IT services to the cloud using Azure.

One of the benefits of using the cloud is agility. Which of the following explanations would you include in your report to describe the term ‘agility’ in the context of the cloud?

You are the IT lead providing the technical expertise for a new project within your organization, CycleShare LLC.

You have provisioned new Windows 10 devices for the project and now need to ensure that information for the project is stored in the cloud using Azure. Therefore, you will be mapping a network drive from each new device to Azure storage.

Which is the most suitable Azure storage service for you to use when mapping the drives?

As a senior administrator at Contoso Electronics you are responsible for managing business-critical systems which are required to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

What Azure service can you use to ensure that your apps and data are protected from a datacenter failure?

You work as an administrator for Contoso Electronics.

You have been reviewing the Azure Command-Line Interface tool (known as Azure CLI).

The CLI tool allows you to manage many aspects of Azure. For which of the following tasks is it particularly useful?

Azure allows you to use an Allowed region locations function within a policy. This function is often used for compliance purposes.

You would like to use this within your organization Contoso Electronics.

What does the Allowed region locations function allow you to control and restrict?

Select all answers that apply.

You are working as an administrator for Cycle Share LLC and have been reviewing the different types of compute models offered by Azure.

You want to be able to use the Logic Apps and Azure Functions features of Azure.Therefore, which model of compute should you select to use?

You are training a new IT apprentice at your company Contoso Electronics.

They are helping you administer your Azure cloud services. They ask you the question ”How many virtual machines in total can be managed under a single Virtual Machine Scale Set?”

Which answer would you give?

You are working as an administrator for CycleShare LLC setting-up a site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN).

The VPN will allow you to connect your existing on-premises IT system with your new Azure cloud system.

What hardware device is required on your company network in order to set up a site-to-site VPN?

Contoso Electronics have recently migrated their IT services to the cloud using Azure.

They have experienced higher than expected costs and so you have been contracted by the company to analyse where costs can be reduced.

Which Azure tool can you use to analyse and then view recommendations on how to reduce costs?

You are working as an administrator for Contoso Electronics. You have decided to use Azure Resource Manager to manage your Azure service.

You can use several different Azure tools to send a request to Azure Resource Manager. Select all of the tools you can use from the options below.

Select all the apply.

Your organization CycleShare LLC is preparing to move their IT services to the cloud.

You have recently been on a course to learn how to administer Azure cloud services. In order to refresh your memory you are re-reading the course handbook, specifically the section on Azure Availability Zones.

Select the description below which could be included in the handbook to describe Azure Availability Zones.

You have found a reference to an Azure feature called Content Delivery Network (CDN).

You decide to research CDN to find out if it could be a useful feature for your company Contoso Electronics.

After researching the topic which one of the following statements would you deem to be a benefit of Content Delivery Network (CDN)?

As an administrator for CycleShare LLC you have been performing analytics on some of your cloud stored data. You have been using Apache Hadoop to perform the analysis.

What is the name of the Azure analytical service that hosts the Apache Hadoop big data analysis tools?

Your company, Contoso Electronics, need to set-up autoscaling for your Azure virtual machines.

Which Azure product will allow you to auto scale between 1 to 1000 virtual machines instances, whilst also providing load balancing?

You have been working on a project as an Azure administrator for CycleShare LLC.

The project is designed to improve delivery speeds for static data files delivered over the internet. You are going to implement the use of a Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Which types of files can you use securely delivered using a Content Delivery Network?

Select all that apply.

Contoso Electronics are concerned that they may lose data in the event of a disaster.

Therefore, they decide to use a feature of Azure called Azure Geo-redundant Storage which uses Paired Regions.

Which of the descriptions below best describes the of Paired Region feature?

You are in the process of setting-up a new Azure subscription for your company CycleShare LLC.

You have been looking at Azure Regions deciding which Region to select in order to comply with local data laws and compliance standards.

Approximately how many Regions does Azure have around the world from which you need to make the correct choice?

You need to create a database within Azure for your organization CycleShare LLC.

The database needs to have low latency. This means that it needs to be extremely fast when responding to requests for small amounts of data.

Which one of the following database types would be the most suitable?

You work as a cloud administrator for CycleShare LLC.

You need to manage traffic for your web applications by implementing a load balancer which will allow traffic to be split evenly between identical virtual machines. This then enables the virtual machines to share the workload.

Which Azure feature would you chose to implement the load balancer?

You have recently deployed the Azure Application Gateway for your organization Contoso Electronics.

Which additional security feature is provided by Application Gateway in comparison to a regular Load Balancer?

You are working as an administrator for Contoso Electronics.

You are logged into the Azure Portal in order to look for third-party apps which your company may wish to purchase.

Which area of the Azure Portal are you currently browsing?

You need to amend settings for some of the Azure virtual servers used by your company CycleShare LLC.

You can either make the changes using the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI (Azure command-line interface).

What is a benefit of using a command line tool like Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI as opposed to the Azure Portal?

You work as a senior IT administrator at CycleShare LLC.

You are training a new apprentice to work with Azure, currently reviewing Resource Groups and their features.

Which of the following would you select as the best description of a Resource Group?

Working as an administrator for Contoso Electronics you need to make decisions as to which operating systems you will implement on your new Azure Virtual Machines.

Which operating systems does an Azure Virtual Machine support?

You are a contractor working for CycleShare LLC.

You are currently in the process of deploying Azure App Services. Which two components are included with Azure App Services?

Select two answers.

You work as a senior IT administrator at CycleShare LLC.

You are training a new apprentice to work with Azure and have just been asked the question “Are Azure PowerShell scripts and Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) scripts fully compatible with each other?”.

What would be the correct answer?

You are beginning a large migration project to move the IT systems of Contoso Electronics to the cloud using Azure.

You are currently in the initial research phase of the project and have been reviewing the role of Azure Regions.

Which one of the following sentences accurately describes an Azure Region?

You work as an administrator for CycleShare LLC. You are currently implementing a new cloud-based IT system in Azure.

You are just about to implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets.

Which two features does Scale Sets provide as part of the core product?

You have recently completed a review of Azure database services for the company Contoso Electronics.

In your report you have described one database product as ‘offering sub 5 millisecond response times’.

Which database product are you describing?

A new start-up company, called Contoso Electronics, are looking to market Internet of Things (IoT) devices. They will be using Azure to build and deploy applications used by the IoT devices.

Which one of the following descriptions is an example of an IoT device?

You are working as an administrator for Contoso Electronics. You have been asked to create a report for an upcoming meeting reviewing the differences between the computing models of SaaS, FaaS, IaaS and PaaS.

Which one of the following cloud computing models requires the highest level of involvement by your organization in maintaining the operating system and file system?

You are working as an administrator for CycleShare LLC.

You are currently training a new apprentice and have been describing the concept of ‘availability’. The concept is relevant to both on-premises and cloud IT systems, such as Azure.

Which one of the following answers would use to describe the concept of ‘availability’ to your apprentice?

You are currently working on a project to review and advise on the possibility of Contoso Electronics moving their IT systems fully to the cloud using Azure.

At the moment you are creating a basic explanatory guide to cloud services. In the guide you need to explain the term ‘Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)’.

Which of the following is NOT an example of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and so would not be included in your guide?