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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By : Mustafa Toroman
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Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure

By: Mustafa Toroman

Overview of this book

Azure continues to dominate the public cloud market and grow rapidly thanks to a number of recent innovations. Azure's wide range of services and support has led to a large number of customers switching to Azure cloud. Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure starts with the basics of Azure cloud fundamentals and key concepts of the cloud computing ecosystem and services. Then, you will gradually get acquainted with core services provided by Azure, including Azure VNet, types and assignments of IP addresses, and network security groups. You will also work on creating and administering Azure Virtual Machines, types of virtual machines (VMs), and design VM solutions based on computing workloads. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore Azure App Service, discover how to host your web apps in Azure, and monitor and troubleshoot them. In the concluding chapters, you will learn more complex and abstract services, such as Azure Storage, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. You will also get to grips with Azure SQL Databases and the SQL on Azure VM concept. By the end of this book, you will have obtained practical experience of working with Azure services and Azure administration, along with maintaining, monitoring, and securing your Azure resources.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Questions

  1. What is the oldest Windows Server version supported for Azure VMs?
    1. Windows Server 2003
    2. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
    3. Windows Server 2012 R2
  2. What do basic-tier VMs support?
    1. Lower IOPS
    2. Load Balancers
    3. Auto-scaling
  3. What are low-priority VMs intended to be used for?
    1. High availability
    2. Batch processing
    3. Balanced workloads
  4. Size setting in the Azure Virtual Machine blade is used to...?
    1. Scale up
    2. Scale down
    3. Both
  5. Runbooks can be used to perform?
    1. Maintenance tasks
    2. Scaling up and down VMs
    3. Both
  6. Azure Load Balancer is used...?
    1. To distribute traffic across VMs in the backend pool
    2. To isolate traffic and stop attacks on the VM
    3. Both
  7. Placing VMs in the same availability set will result in...?
    1. VMs will be created in different Azure Datacenters
    2. VMs will be placed in a different rack
    3. VMs will be placed in the same rack
  8. Scaling by creating additional instances of VM is called...