Course 2 –  Microsoft Azure Management Tools and Security Solutions

INTRODUCTION – Monitoring & Managing in Microsoft Azure

KNOWLEDGE CHECK 1

1. Which of Azure’s three primary monitoring offerings are most useful for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and possibly taking actions based on the collected data from your entire Azure and on-premises environment?

2. Which of Azure’s three primary monitoring offerings are most useful for providing a personalized view of the health of the Azure services, regions, and resources?

3. You need to optimize your cloud services for reliability, security, performance, costs, and operations based on expert best practices. Which Azure monitoring tool would you recommend to best satisfy this requirement?

4. You have been tasked with creating alerts that will send notifications to your department when Azure outages occur. Which Azure monitoring tool would you recommend to do this?

5. Your company has recently moved to Azure cloud services. Management are concerned that they may be spending too much and have also highlighted how well their new environment meet security best practices. They would like to analyze their use of the cloud analyzed against industry best practices. Which monitoring tool would you recommend using for this?

KNOWLEDGE CHECK 2

1. Your company has recently moved to Azure cloud services from an on-premises Windows environment and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) wants to gain insights into how Azure resources are being used and costed. He wants to see the data displayed visually and be able to run reports on an ongoing basis in real-time. Which tool would you recommend using in this scenario?

2. Your company runs a successful ecommerce business. Typically, at certain times of the year resource usage spikes and it becomes necessary for some staff members to be onsite to monitor the services and deal with any issues these surges may cause. Having moved to Azure, the IT (Information Technology) manager is now hoping to provide a solution that will allow employees to monitor the services remotely.

Which service Azure Cloud services do you think is best to use in this scenario?

3. True or False

Azure PowerShell is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac,

4. True or False

The Azure CLI (Command Line Interface) is an executable program that allows developers, DevOps, and IT professionals to execute commands using bash.

TEST PREP

1. Which of Azure’s monitoring offerings would be most beneficial for evaluating your Azure resources and making recommendations to help you improve reliability, security, and performance?

2. Tailwind Traders have recently migrated to Azure cloud services. 

Management wants to ensure that their current implementation is optimized for security and performance in line with industry best practices. Which monitoring tool would you recommend using for this?

3. Your company runs a successful eCommerce business. The company has multiple offices which require IT staff to travel between them on a regular basis. Having recently migrated to Azure, the IT (Information Technology) manager is now hoping to provide a solution that will allow employees to monitor the services remotely. Which service Azure Cloud services do you think is best to use in this scenario?

4. Your company has recently moved to Azure cloud services from a Linux based on-premises environment. Which tool would you recommend using in this scenario?

5. You can use Azure Advisor to analyze the configuration and usage of your deployed resources.

Do you think this can help you to reduce costs?

6. Which of the following services can you use to monitor Azure itself, especially the services and regions you depend on?

7. In this scenario, do you think Tailwind Traders needs to analyze its Azure usage for the sake of optimization?

8. Do you think you can use Azure Advisor to set up alerts for outages?

9. In this scenario, does Tailwind Traders want to monitor the health of Azure services that affect all customers or the resources deployed on Azure?

10. Do you think you can use Azure Monitor to set up alerts for outages?

11. Do you feel it would be important for Tailwind Traders to implement alerts for events such as service outages?

12. Which Azure product do you think you should use in this scenario? 

Think about the questions you have just answered using the decision criteria covered to help you make a decision.

13. Do you think there is an Azure service that lets you remotely perform one-off management, administrative, reporting actions?

14. Do you think you can also use Azure PowerShell or the Azure CLI to deploy infrastructure?

CONCLUSION – Monitoring & Managing in Microsoft Azure