Course 1 – Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

INTRODUCTION – Microsoft Azure Database, Analytics, & Compute Services

KNOWLEDGE CHECK 1

1. Which of the following cloud database solutions provides the capabilities of schema-less data, and lets you build highly responsive and always-on applications to support constantly changing data?

2. True or False?

One major benefit of using Azure Cosmos DB is the flexibility it allows developers to use the APIs they are most familiar with.

3. True or False?

Azure Cosmos DB only supports proprietary APIs.

4. True or False?

Migration of on-premises SQL databases to Azure SQL Databases is not supported. The databases must be recreated from scratch.

5. Azure Database for MySQL is a relational database service in the Microsoft cloud, which is based on the MySQL Community Edition database engine. One feature of the Azure database for MySQL is support for Automatic backups and point-in-time-restore for up to how many days?

6. Microsoft Azure supports a broad range of technologies and services to provide big data and analytic solutions. Some of the most common big data and analytic service types in Azure are Azure Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, Databricks, and Data Lake Analytics. 

Which of the following provides a fully managed, open-source analytics service for enterprises that makes it easier and more cost-effective to process massive amounts of data while running popular open-source frameworks?

KNOWLEDGE CHECK 2

1. Azure supports a wide range of computing solutions for development and testing, running applications, and extending your data center.

When you require lightweight, virtualized application environments that can be quickly created, scaled out, and stopped dynamically, which of the following solutions is most suitable?

2. Azure supports a wide range of computing solutions for development and testing, running applications, and extending your data center.

When the demand for services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads increases, one feature of Azure Compute Services is the ability to quickly deploy identical VMs. What is this feature known as?

3. Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) let you create and use virtual machines in the cloud. They provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the form of a virtualized servers and can be used in many ways. Just like a physical computer, you can customize all the software running on the VM. Who is responsible for maintaining, configuring, and updating Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)?

4. What can you use to enable large-scale parallel and high-performance computing (HPC) jobs with the ability to scale to tens, hundreds, or thousands of VMs?

5. The task of automating, managing, and interacting with a large number of containers is known as orchestration. Which of the following services allows you to manage and interact with a large number of containers?

6. Which cloud service model allows you to run Azure Container Instances (ACI)?

TEST PREP

1. Which of the following cloud database solutions provides developers with the ability to use multiple APIs that they may already be familiar with?

2. Hyperscale (Citus) is a feature of which Cloud based Database solution?

3. Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a relational database service in Microsoft cloud. The server software is based on the community version of the open-source PostgreSQL database engine. One feature of the Azure database for PostgreSQL is support for Automatic backups and point-in-time-restore for up to how many days?

4. Azure Database for MySQL is a relational database service in the Microsoft cloud which is based on the MySQL Community Edition database engine. What level of SLA do you think is implemented?

5. Azure supports a wide range of computing solutions for development and testing, running applications, and extending your data center. When you want to quickly build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API apps running on any platform which of the following solutions is most suitable?

6. With App Services, you can quickly build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API apps running on any platform. Who is responsible for managing the underlying platform?

7. What capabilities are built into the SQL Database that eliminates the need for Tailwind Traders to manage most of the management functions such as monitoring or upgrading?

8. Your team currently uses several on-premises servers running SQL Server, and would like to migrate their existing databases to a SQL database running in the cloud. However, several of their databases use Cyrillic characters for collation. Which service would be the best option in this scenario?

9. Your development team is interested in writing Graph-based applications that take advantage of the Gremlin API. Which option would be ideal for that scenario?

10. Tailwind Traders has millions of log entries that it wants to analyze. Which option would be ideal for analysis?

11. In this scenario, your company want to provision Linux and Windows virtual machines with the configurations of their choice. What Azure compute service will you use for this purpose?

12. Your company wants to be able to manage both Docker and Microsoft-based containers.  What Azure compute services will you be able to use for this purpose? 

Select all options that apply.

13. Tailwind Traders want to accelerate app development using an event-driven, serverless architecture. Which of the following services should be used? 

CONCLUSION – Microsoft Azure Database, Analytics, & Compute Services