AZ-900 : Microsoft Azure Fundamentals : Part 12

AZ-900 : Microsoft Azure Fundamentals : Part 12

1. This question requires that you evaluate the underlined text to determine if it is correct.

   The Azure Standard support plan is the lowest cost option to receive 24×7 access to support engineers by phone.

   Instructions: Review the underlined text. If it makes the statement correct, select “No change is needed”. If the statement is incorrect, select the answer choice that makes the statement correct.

   • No change is needed
   • Developer
   • Basic
   • Professional Direct

   Explanation:

   The Basic support plan is free so is therefore the cheapest. The Developer support plan is the cheapest paid-for support plan. The order of support plans in terms of cost ranging from the cheapest to most expensive is: Basic, Developer, Standard, Professional Direct, Premier.

   However, 24/7 access to technical support by email and phone is only available for Standard, Professional Direct, Premier plans.

2. HOTSPOT

   To complete the sentence, select the appropriate option in the answer area.

   

   

   Explanation:

   Preview features are made available to you on the condition that you accept additional terms which supplement the regular Azure terms. The supplemental terms state:

   PREVIEWS ARE PROVIDED “AS-IS,” “WITH ALL FAULTS,” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” AND ARE EXCLUDED FROM THE SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS AND LIMITED WARRANTY.

3. What is guaranteed in an Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA) for virtual machines?

   • uptime
   • feature availability
   • bandwidth
   • performance
   Explanation:

   The SLA for virtual machines guarantees ‘uptime’. The amount of uptime guaranteed depends on factors such as whether the VMs are in an availability set or availability zone if there is more than one VM, the distribution of the VMs if there is more than one or the disk type if it is a single VM.

   The SLA for Virtual Machines states:

   For all Virtual Machines that have two or more instances deployed across two or more Availability Zones in the same Azure region, we guarantee you will have Virtual Machine Connectivity to at least one instance at least 99.99% of the time.
   For all Virtual Machines that have two or more instances deployed in the same Availability Set or in the same Dedicated Host Group, we guarantee you will have Virtual Machine Connectivity to at least one instance at least 99.95% of the time.
   For any Single Instance Virtual Machine using Premium SSD or Ultra Disk for all Operating System Disks and Data Disks, we guarantee you will have Virtual Machine Connectivity of at least 99.9%.

4. HOTSPOT

   To complete the sentence, select the appropriate option in the answer area.

   

   

   Explanation:

   Public Preview means that the service is in public beta and can be tried out by anyone with an Azure subscription. Services in public preview are often offered at a discount price.
   Public previews are excluded from SLAs and in some cases, no support is offered.

   Incorrect Answers:
   – Services in private preview are available only to selected people who has signed up to the private preview program.
   – Services in development are not available to the public.
   – Services provided under an Enterprise Agreement (EA) subscription are available only to the subscription owner.

5. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

   After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

   Your company plans to purchase an Azure subscription.

   The company’s support policy states that the Azure environment must provide an option to access support engineers by phone or email.

   You need to recommend which support plan meets the support policy requirement.

   Solution: Recommend a Basic support plan.

   Does this meet the goal?

   • Yes
   • No
   Explanation:

   The Basic support plan does not have any technical support for engineers.

   Access to Support Engineers via email or phone is available in the following support plans: Premier, Professional Direct and standard.

6. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

   After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

   Your company plans to purchase an Azure subscription.

   The company’s support policy states that the Azure environment must provide an option to access support engineers by phone or email.

   You need to recommend which support plan meets the support policy requirement.

   Solution: Recommend a Standard support plan.

   Does this meet the goal?

   • Yes 
   • No
   Explanation:
   The Standard, Professional Direct, and Premier support plans have technical support for engineers via email and phone.

7. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

   After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

   Your company plans to purchase an Azure subscription.

   The company’s support policy states that the Azure environment must provide an option to access support engineers by phone or email.

   You need to recommend which support plan meets the support policy requirement.

   Solution: Recommend a Premier support plan.

   Does this meet the goal?

   • Yes 
   • No
   Explanation:
   The Standard, Professional Direct, and Premier support plans have technical support for engineers via email and phone.

8. Your company plans to request an architectural review of an Azure environment from Microsoft.

   The company currently has a Basic support plan.

   You need to recommend a new support plan for the company. The solution must minimize costs.

   Which support plan should you recommend?

   • Premier 
   • Developer
   • Professional Direct
   • Standard
   Explanation:
   The Premier support plan provides customer specific architectural support such as design reviews, performance tuning, configuration and implementation assistance delivered by Microsoft Azure technical specialists.

9. HOTSPOT

   For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

   NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

   

   

   Explanation:

   Box 1: Yes
   Most services go to private preview then public preview before being released to general availability.
   The private preview is only available to certain Azure customers for evaluation purposes. The public preview is available to all Azure customers.

   Box 2: No
   Azure services in public preview can be managed using the regular management tools: Azure Portal, Azure CLI and PowerShell.

   Box 3: No
   Services in private or public preview are usually offered at reduced costs. However, the costs increase, not decrease when the services are released to general availability.

10. What is required to use Azure Cost Management?

    • a Dev/Test subscription
    • Software Assurance
    • an Enterprise Agreement (EA) 
    • a pay-as-you-go subscription
    Explanation:

    Azure customers with an Azure Enterprise Agreement (EA), Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), or Microsoft Partner Agreement (MPA) can use Azure Cost Management.

    Cost management is the process of effectively planning and controlling costs involved in your business. Cost management tasks are normally performed by finance, management, and app teams. Azure Cost Management + Billing helps organizations plan with cost in mind. It also helps to analyze costs effectively and take action to optimize cloud spending.

11. HOTSPOT

    To complete the sentence, select the appropriate option in the answer area.

    

    

    Explanation:

    A stopped (deallocated) VM is offline and not mounted on an Azure host server. Starting a VM mounts the VM on a host server before the VM starts. As soon as the VM is mounted, it becomes chargeable. For this reason, you are unable to start a VM after a trial has expired.

    Incorrect Answers:
    – You are not charged for Azure Active Directory user accounts so you can continue to create accounts.
    – You can access data that is already stored in Azure.
    – You can access the Azure Portal. You can also reactivate and upgrade the expired subscription in the portal.

12. Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.

    After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these questions will not appear in the review screen.

    Your company plans to purchase an Azure subscription.

    The company’s support policy states that the Azure environment must provide an option to access support engineers by phone or email.

    You need to recommend which support plan meets the support policy requirement.

    Solution: Recommend a Professional Direct support plan.

    Does this meet the goal?

    • Yes
    • No
    Explanation:
    The Basic support plan does not have any technical support for engineers.
    The Developer support plan has only technical support for engineers via email.
    The Standard, Professional Direct, and Premier support plans have technical support for engineers via email and phone.

13. Your company has a Software Assurance agreement that includes Microsoft SQL Server licenses.

    You plan to deploy SQL Server on Azure virtual machines.

    What should you do to minimize licensing costs for the deployment?

    • Deallocate the virtual machines during off hours.
    • Use Azure Hybrid Benefit. 
    • Configure Azure Cost Management budgets.
    • Use Azure reservations.
    Explanation:
    Azure Hybrid Benefit is a licensing benefit that helps you to significantly reduce the costs of running your workloads in the cloud. It works by letting you use your on-premises Software Assurance-enabled Windows Server and SQL Server licenses on Azure.

14. Your company has 10 departments.

    The company plans to implement an Azure environment.

    You need to ensure that each department can use a different payment option for the Azure services it consumes.

    What should you create for each department?

    • a reservation
    • a subscription
    • a resource group
    • a container instance
    Explanation:

    There are different payment options in Azure including pay-as-you-go (PAYG), Enterprise Agreement (EA), and Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) accounts.

    Your Azure costs are ‘per subscription’. You are charged monthly for all resources in a subscription. Therefore, to use different payment options per department, you will need to create a separate subscription per department. You can create multiple subscriptions in a single Azure Active Directory tenant.

    Incorrect Answers:
    A: A reservation is where you commit to a resource (for example a virtual machine) for one or three years. This gives you a discounted price on the resource for the reservation period. Reservations do not provide a way to use different payment options per department.
    C: A resource group is a logical container for Azure resources. You can view the total cost of all the resources in a resource group. However, resource groups do not provide a way to use different payment options per department.
    D: A container instance is an Azure resource used to run an application. Container instances do not provide a way to use different payment options per department.

15. HOTSPOT

    For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    

    

    Explanation:

    Box 1: Yes
    An Azure free account has a spending limit. This is currently 200 USD or 150 GBP.

    Box 2: No
    Azure free account has a 5 GB blob storage limit and a 5 GB file storage limit.

    Box 3: No
    Azure free account has a limit of 10 web, mobile or API apps

16. HOTSPOT

    For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    

    

    Explanation:

    Box 1: No
    Most services go to private preview then public preview before being released to general availability. The private preview is only available to certain Azure customers for evaluation purposes.

    Box 2: Yes
    Public Preview means that the service is in public beta and can be tried out by anyone with an Azure subscription. Services in public preview are often offered at a discount price.
    Public previews are excluded from SLAs and in some cases, no support is offered.

    Box 3: No
    An Azure service in general availability is available to all Azure customers, not just a subset of the customers.

17. HOTSPOT

    For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    

    

18. HOTSPOT

    For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    

    

19. HOTSPOT

    To complete the sentence, select the appropriate option in the answer area.

    

    

    Explanation:

    Composite SLAs involve multiple services supporting an application, each with differing levels of availability. For example, consider an App Service web app that writes to Azure SQL Database. At the time of this writing, these Azure services have the following SLAs:

    App Service web apps = 99.95%
    SQL Database = 99.99%

    What is the maximum downtime you would expect for this application? If either service fails, the whole application fails. The probability of each service failing is independent, so the composite SLA for this application is 99.95% × 99.99% = 99.94%. That’s lower than the individual SLAs, which isn’t surprising because an application that relies on multiple services has more potential failure points.

20. HOTSPOT

    For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is true. Otherwise, select No.

    NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

    

    

    Explanation:

    Box 1: Yes
    SLA’s vary based on the resource type and the location distribution of the resource. However, the minimum uptime for all Azure services is 99.9 percent.

    Box 2: Yes
    The SLA guaranteed uptime is increased (usually to 99.95 percent) when resources are deployed across multiple regions.

    Box 3: No
    The number of subscriptions is unrelated to uptime SLA’s. You can deploy resources to multiple regions under a single subscription or you can have multiple subscriptions with resources deployed to the same region.