Question : You administer a Microsoft Azure SQL Database data base in the US Central region named contosodb. Contosodb runs on a Standard tier within the SI performance level. You have multiple business-critical applications that use contosodb. You need to ensure that you can bring contosodb back online in the event of a natural disaster in the US Central region. You want to achieve this goal with the least amount of downtime. Which two actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
Question : You manage two datacenters in different geographic regions and one branch office. You plan to implement a geo-redundant backup solution. You need to ensure that each datacenter is a cold site for the other. You create a recovery vault. What should you do next?
Question : You manage a collection of large video files that is stored in an Azure Storage account. A user wants access to one of your video files within the next seven days. You need to allow the user access only to the video file, and then revoke access once the user no longer needs it. What should you do?
1. Give the user the secondary key for the storage account. Once the user is done with the file, regenerate the secondary key. 2. Create an Ad-Hoc Shared Access Signature for the Blob resource. Set the Shared Access Signature to expire in seven days. 3. Access Mostly Uused Products by 50000+ Subscribers 4. Create an access policy on the blob. Give the external user access by using the policy. Once the user is done with the file, delete the policy.
Explanation: The stored access policy allows manual revocation of the SAS, while the SAS controls access to the specific blob and can be set to expire in 7 days.
1. Allocate additional processors to the virtual machines. 2. Deploy the application as two A3 instances. 3. Deploy the application as two A0 instances. 4. Deploy a third A1 instance of the application.
1. Adding the VMs to an Availability Set. 2. Adding the VMs to separate Availability Sets. 3. Adding the VMs to an Affinity Group. 4. Adding the VMs to separate Affinity Groups.
You should ALWAYS specify an availability set when creating more than one virtual machine for the same purpose.
Examples:
Two or more web servers Two or more SQL servers Two or more AD servers you get the idea Specifying an availability set in these situations gives you multiple advantages.
Highly Available Hardware
Putting two or more VMs in availability sets guarantees that your VMs are spread across multiple racks in the Windows Azure Data Centers. This means redundant power supply, switches and servers.
Rolling Host Updates
Grouping VMs in availability sets also gives the Windows Azure Fabric Controller the information it needs to intelligently update the host OSs that your guest VMs are running on. Without availability sets the FC would have no idea that two machines were serving the same purpose and could reasonable take them both down for host OS updates.
99.95% SLA
If you wish to have the 99.95% SLA guaranteed by Windows Azure for uptime using availability sets is the way to achieve it.
Question : You work for a company named ABC.com. Your role as Cloud Administrator includes the management of the company's public and private cloud infrastructure. You have applications and virtual machines hosted on Windows Azure. All company employees use an application named CorpApp. The CorpApp application runs as a Windows Azure Cloud Service. Two instances of a virtual machine (VM) running in Windows Azure perform back-end functionality for the CorpApp application. The VMs access large amounts of data that is stored in a Windows Azure Storage Account. You want to optimize the performance of the CorpApp application by locating the cloud service and VMs in a data center as close to the storage services as possible. Which of the following actions should you perform?
1. You should add the services to the same availability group. 2. You should add the services to the same affinity group. 3. You should add the services to the same IP address subnet.. 4. You should add the services to the same virtual network.
1. You should configure port forwarding on the corporate firewall.
2. You should add an endpoint to AppVM1. 3. You should add a static route to AppVM1. 4. You should configure Network Address Translation (NAT) on the corporate firewall.