Correct Answer : 2010
Explanation : Azure, announced at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2008, went by the internal project codename "Project Red Dog", and formally released in 1st February 2010, as Windows Azure before being renamed to Microsoft Azure on March 25, 2014.
Correct Answer : Azure Resource Manager
Explanation : Azure Resource Manager is used to “manage” infrastructures which involve a no. of azure services. It can be used to deploy, manage and delete all the resources together using a simple JSON script.
Correct Answer : All of the above
Explanation : Microsoft also has released SDKs for both Java and Ruby to allow applications written in those languages to place calls to the Azure Service Platform API to the AppFabric Service.
Correct Answer : Web
Explanation :
Correct Answer : S3
Correct Answer : IaaS
Correct Answer : Azure Stack
Correct Answer : Worker
Correct Answer : Knowledge, Translation, Audio, Visual, and Speech
Correct Answer : Web Role, Worker Role, VM Role
Correct Answer : Azure Key Vault
Correct Answer : Hybrid Cloud
Explanation : This type of architecture would be a hybrid cloud. Why? Because we are using both, the public cloud, and on premises servers i.e the private cloud. To make this hybrid architecture easy to use, wouldn’t it be better if your private and public cloud were all on the same network (virtually). This is established by including your public cloud servers in a virtual private cloud, and connecting virtual cloud with your on premise servers using a VPN (Virtual Private Network).
Correct Answer : All of the Above
Explanation : Azure supports a number of programming languages like Java, C#, PHP etc,.
Correct Answer : Both (A) and (B)
Correct Answer : 3
Correct Answer : Platform as a Service
Explanation : Platform as a Service(PaaS) which gives developers the tools to build and host web applications. PaaS is designed to give users access to the components they require to quickly develop and operate web or mobile applications over the Internet, without worrying about setting up or managing the underlying infrastructure of servers, storage, networks and databases.
Correct Answer : Database service
Explanation : Azure provides database services also, like SQL DB,Cosmos DB, Radis Cache
Correct Answer : SaaS
Explanation : Office 365 is a Software as a Service provided by Azure.
Explanation : The Azure Windows Services Platform API uses the industry standard REST, HTTP, and XML protocols that are part of any Service Oriented Architecture cloud infrastructure to allow applications to talk to Azure.
Correct Answer : None of the Above
Explanation : Google application can only work within the Google infrastructure, and the application is not easily ported to other environments.
Correct Answer : Internet Protocol Security protocol suite
Explanation : IPsec refers to the Internet Protocol Security Protocol Suite for creating a secure Internet connection between two endpoints.
Explanation : Worker roles can communicate with Azure Storage or through direct connections to clients.
Correct Answer : Compute
Explanation : Compute is the Load-Balanced Windows server computation and policy engine.
Correct Answer : Storage
Explanation : Azure Storage Service lets you create drives, manage queues, and store BLOBs.
Correct Answer : Config
Explanation : Virtual Machines are instances of Windows that run the applications and services that are part of a particular deployment.
Explanation : For relational Database services, SQL Azure may be used.
Explanation : Cortana analytics besides providing provision for storing and performing analytics, it also helps to visualize the data.
Correct Answer : Azure Stream Analytics
Explanation : Azure Stream Analytics is one of the services provided by Cortana Analytics which helps to perform real-time analytics.
Correct Answer : Azure Event Hub
Explanation : Azure Event Hub is one of the services provided by Cortana Analytics which helps to capture streaming data.
Correct Answer : Azure AppFabric
Explanation : AppFabric is a cloud-enabled version of the .NET Framework.
Correct Answer : set of virtual machine instances
Explanation : Azure and its related services were built to allow developers to extend their applications into the cloud.
Correct Answer : Fabric
Explanation : The Windows Azure Platform extends applications running on other platforms to the cloud using Microsoft infrastructure and a set of enterprise services.
Explanation : Azure Stream Analytics has built in recovery mechanism for preventing data loss and it can be easily integrated with Event HUbs.
Correct Answer : Connect and collect, transform, publish
Explanation : First it gets connected to source from where data is to be collected, and then the data gets transformed, after which the final step i.e. publish comes.
Correct Answer : Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Explanation : Azure SQL Data Warehouse is highly scalable and can store huge amount of data, upon which it can perform parallel processing.
Correct Answer : Power BI
Explanation : Power Business intelligence(BI) is a business analytics tool that gives single view of most critical business data and interactive visualizations.
Correct Answer : Control node
Explanation : It is the control node who controls the co-ordination of data movement and computations. Compute node after the processing of data sends the result back to the control node.
Correct Answer : Visualization if data is not possible with it
Explanation : Azure Databricks also helps in visualization of data.
Correct Answer : Kafka
Explanation : Azure Databricks can be connected with sources like Kafka, Event Hubs for the purpose of collecting streaming data.
Correct Answer : Dallas
Explanation : Azure is a virtualized infrastructure to which a set of additional enterprise services has been layered on top.
Correct Answer : Windows
Explanation : Windows Live Services is a collection of services that runs on Windows Live.
Correct Answer : AWS
Explanation : Microsoft has a very different vision for cloud services than either Amazon or Google does.
Correct Answer : Dynamics CRM
Explanation : Dynamics CRM is an xRM (Anything Relations Management) service.
Correct Answer : Sharepoint Services
Explanation : A document and collaboration service based on SharePoint is called SharePoint Service.
Correct Answer : Infrastructure
Explanation : Windows Azure Platform is a competitor to Google’s App Engine.
Correct Answer : It can store as well as perform analytics on data
Explanation : Azure Data Lake provides high storage capacity as well as analytics operation can also be performed on the datas.
Correct Answer : Unlimited
Explanation : Azure Data Lake has unlimited storage capacity.
Correct Answer : structured, unstructured and semi structured
Explanation : Azure Data Lake has an advantage over traditional analytics method that it helps to store structured,semi structured as well as unstructured data.
Correct Answer : service namespace
Explanation : Each namespace is assigned a management key that is part of the security mechanism.
Correct Answer : AppFabric
Explanation : AppFabric manages the transaction to ensure that it is completed and that a response is sent to the client.
Correct Answer : Access Control
Explanation : The Access Control examines the request, and if it finds it to be valid, it grants a security token to the client.
Correct Answer : It can be scaled horizontally.
Explanation : Azure Cosmos DB supports multiple data models and the data can be distributed to any number of Azure regions.
Explanation : As Azure Cosmos DB supports multiple data models, it supports all the three data models.
Correct Answer : 10GB
Explanation : Fixed container in Cosmos DB can store graph database of maximum size of 10 GB. For storing beyond that size, Unlimited container is used.
Explanation : Azure Cosmos DB supports a wide range of APIs including these Three.
Correct Answer : CDN
Explanation : CDN is an edge network service that lowers latency and maximizes bandwidth by delivering content to users who are nearby.
Correct Answer : PHYSICAL
Explanation : Physical partition is a different kind of partition and it does not come under Logical partition.
Explanation : Both Graph and SQL APIs of Azure Cosmos DB supports elastically scalable throughput and storage.
Correct Answer : Graph API, SQL API, Table API
Explanation : In all three above mentioned APIs, indexing is automatic.
Correct Answer : SQL Server
Explanation : SQL Azure Database supports Transact-SQL statements.
Correct Answer : SQL Azure
Explanation : An application that uses SQL Azure Database can run locally on a server, PC, or mobile device, in a datacenter, or on Windows Azure.
Correct Answer : CLR
Explanation : CLR stands for Common Language Runtime.
Correct Answer : Business
Explanation : Web Edition has storage up to 1GB database.
Correct Answer : TCO
Correct Answer : 99.9
Explanation : In the Windows Azure Service Level Agreement, Microsoft states that it guarantees external connectivity between two or more role instances that are located in different Azure domains of at least 99.95 percent uptime.
Correct Answer : No redundant data
Explanation : Data redundancy is there which makes the data more available.
Explanation : Azure Blobs, Azure Tables, Azure Disks, Azure Queues, Azure Files are the data services provided by Azure Storage platform.
Correct Answer : Azure Disks
Explanation : Azure disks provide the block level storage volumes. In case of Azure managed disks, users only need to specify the disk size, disk type and the provision of disk while the rest is taken care of by the Azure.
Correct Answer : Locally redundant storage
Explanation : In Locally redundant storage, copy of data is created in the region where the storage account is created and it is the cheapest one among all the redundant options.
Correct Answer : 64 KB
Explanation : Main function of Queue storage is to store and retrieve messages which can be of size upto 64KB.
Correct Answer : 10ms
Explanation : Azure Cosmos DB Table API has latency for reads and writes of less than 10 ms.
Explanation : Azure Cosmos DB Graph API has automatic indexing,multi-region replication and is fully managed which makes its use quite beneficial.
Correct Answer : Azure Kubernetes.
Explanation : Container packages codes as well as its dependencies which makes the applications more reliable. However scaling of containers is not easy. So, Kubernetes is used for this purpose.
Correct Answer : Pod
Explanation : Pod is a group of containers, which is the basic operational unit of Kubernetes and it scales according to users requirement.
Correct Answer : All of the Above.
Explanation : Use of Azure Kubernetes makes container based application more scalable, portable and extensible.
Correct Answer : VM Scale sets
Explanation : VM Scale sets are the standard scaling option for AKS which helps to set up the cluster autoscaler.
Correct Answer : Admin centre
Explanation : Alerts enables Windows Live Alerts from an RSS feed.
Correct Answer : Windows Live Messenger Connect
Explanation : Developers access the services for Windows Live Services through a collection of APIs and controls called Windows Live Messenger Connect.
Correct Answer : FeedSync
Explanation : Live Framework includes the Live Mesh tools from Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express Edition 2008.
Correct Answer : Spaces
Explanation : Spaces integrates Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Events, Windows Live Photos, and Windows Live Profile into applications.
Correct Answer : Writer
Explanation : Additional capabilities include features for creating and managing blogs, adding more content, and customizing the Windows Live Writer user interface.
Correct Answer : Azure Batch Service
Explanation : Azure Batch Service is a cloud based platform in Azure that enables high performance parallel computing jobs in the cloud.
Correct Answer : Virtual Machines
Explanation : Compute nodes are nothing but Virtual Machines.
Correct Answer : Azure Batch already has built in support for accessing those files.
Correct Answer : multiple nodes
Explanation : Cluster is used by Azure HDInsight.
Correct Answer : etcd
Explanation : etcd can be considered as the primary datastore of Kubernetes, which besides atoring also replicates Kubernetes cluster state.
Correct Answer : Both Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage.
Explanation : In order to fetch data for each task, Azure Batch can integrate with Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake
Explanation : Azure Batch has an advantage that it allows to run any type of nodes.
Correct Answer : Representational State Transfer
Explanation : REST API stands for Representational State Tansfer which determines the look of an API.
Correct Answer : URI host
Explanation : Main function of URI is to identify a resource unambiguously, where domain name or IP address is specified by URI host.
Explanation : Azure REST API supports GET, POST, HEAD, PUT and PATCH Hmethods.
Correct Answer : Windows Live Alerts
Explanation : Windows Live Admin Center is used to provide email hosting for website owners.
Correct Answer : Windows Live Devices
Explanation : Windows Live Family Safety allows you to manage and monitor your children’s Internet activity so they can surf the Web more safely.
Correct Answer : Windows Live Contacts
Explanation : Windows Live Calendar contains calendar service with appointments, meetings, and events shared with others.
Correct Answer : Windows Live Home
Explanation : Windows Live Groups is a group discussion, collaboration, sharing, and coordination tool.
Correct Answer : Databricks File System
Explanation : All the above statements are true. Loading is basically to load the data to SQL Datawarehouse.
Correct Answer : It manages ETL operations of data
Explanation : ETL i.e Extract, Transform and Load operations come under computational management.
Correct Answer : User, Group, Access Control List
Explanation : Azure DataBricks has a benefit that authentication and authorization can be managed for user, group as well as Access Control List.
Correct Answer : Databricks Runtime
Explanation : Databricks Runtime is built on Apache Spark which is a set of components that be used to run in databricks.
Correct Answer : unified
Explanation : U in U-SQL stands for Unified and it is a query language that is a combination of decalarative SQL and C# programming.
Correct Answer : Eliminate
Explanation : There are 3 major steps for data processing in U-SQL which are Extract, Transform and Output.
Correct Answer : Access Control List
Explanation : ACL stands for Access Control List which helps ADL to manage read,write and execute permissions to users or security groups.
Correct Answer : Active Directory Federation Services
Explanation : Access Control allows one application to trust the identity of another application.
Correct Answer : URI scheme
Explanation : URI scheme of request URI determines the protocol used for transmitting the request.
Correct Answer : API Management operations
Explanation : API Management operations list the operations for the API Management provider while API Management service provides operations for managing Azure API Management service instances.
Correct Answer : Strong
Explanation : Among the five consistency levels in Azure Cosmos DB, strong is the strongest one. It guarantees to provide the most recent committed write.
Correct Answer : Strong, Bounded Staleness, Session, Consistent Prefix, Eventual
Explanation : The correct order of consitency level is Strong, Bounded Staleness, Session, Consistent Prefix, Eventual, where Strong is the strongest and Eventusl is the weakest consistency level.
Correct Answer : Consistent Prefix
Explanation : As we move from Strong to Eventual in consistency spectrum, consistency decreases while availability increases.
