Deploy and manage Azure compute resources — Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Official references for this objective

• Microsoft — Microsoft.Compute/galleries/images - Bicep, ARM template & Terraform AzAPI reference | Microsoft Learn

  osState This property allows the user to specify whether the virtual machines created under this image are 'Generalized' or 'Specialized'. 'Generalized' 'Specialized' (required)

• Microsoft — Best practices and considerations - Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Learn

  Common scenarios that run on ACI include burst workloads, task automation, and build jobs.

• Microsoft — Create a Linux environment with the Azure CLI - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

  --protocol tcp \ --priority 1000 \ --destination-port-range 22 \ --access allow

• Microsoft — Create and upload a SUSE Linux VHD in Azure - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

  Azure doesn't support Windows Hard Disk Image (.vhdx) files. Only VHD (.vhd) files are supported outside virtual machines. You can convert the disk to VHD

• Microsoft — Tutorial: Create & manage a Virtual Machine Scale Set – Azure CLI - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft Learn

  Stopped VM instances remain allocated and continue to incur compute charges. If you instead wish the VM instances to be deallocated and only incur storage

• Microsoft — Create zonal VMs with the Azure portal - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

  If you select all three zones, then three VMs are created. The VM names are the original name you entered, with -1 , -2 ,

• Microsoft — Deploy an application to an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft Learn

  The Custom Script Extension downloads and executes scripts on Azure VMs. This extension is useful for post deployment configuration, software installation

• Microsoft — Tutorial: Create and manage a Virtual Machine Scale Set with Azure PowerShell - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft Learn

  VM scale sets created using PowerShell and Azure CLI will default to Flexible Orchestration Mode if no orchestration mode is specified.