Describe Azure architecture and services

Official references for this objective

• Microsoft — Overview of Azure Disk Storage - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

  This configuration requires a cluster manager, like Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC), or Pacemaker, that handles cluster node communication and write locking.

• Microsoft — Availability options for Azure Virtual Machines - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

  There are three Availability Zones per supported Azure region. Each Availability Zone has a distinct power source, network, and cooling.

• Microsoft — Azure regions - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn

  Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) Replicates your data to a secondary region, as with GRS, but also then provides read-only access to the data in the

• Microsoft — Scenarios to use a virtual network with Azure Container Instances - Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Learn

  To deploy container groups to a subnet, the subnet can't contain other resource types. Remove all existing resources from an existing subnet before deploying container

• Microsoft — What is the Azure SQL Database service? - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn

  Threat detection : This feature detects anomalous activities that indicate unusual and potentially harmful attempts to access or exploit your database.

• Microsoft — Cloud Business Continuity - Disaster Recovery - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn

  Fail over multiple databases simultaneously No Yes Connection string remains unchanged after failover No Yes

• Microsoft — Manage Multiple Databases with Elastic Pools - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Learn

  With a pool, management tasks are simplified by running scripts in elastic jobs . An elastic job eliminates most of the tedium associated with large

• Microsoft — Overview of Service Fabric and containers - Azure Service Fabric | Microsoft Learn

  Containers wrap an application and all of its dependencies, such as libraries and configuration files, into its own isolated 'box'