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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources Flashcards
50 question-and-answer cards covering Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources as it is examined in Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate. 24 of them are printed below, taken from across the deck — no signup, no paywall on the preview.
24 sample cards from the Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources deck
Sampled from the end of the deck, so these are different cards from the ones shown on the syllabus page.
What is required in a virtual network to deploy Azure Bastion?
A dedicated subnet named AzureBastionSubnet with a minimum size of /27 (or larger), within the same VNet as the target VMs (or a peered VNet).
What authentication method is more secure than passwords for SSH access to Linux VMs?
SSH public/private key pairs (key-based authentication); the public key is stored on the VM and the private key stays with the user.
What is a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS)?
An Azure service that lets you create and manage a group of identical, load-balanced VMs that can automatically scale the number of instances up or down based on demand or a schedule.
What are the two orchestration modes of a VM Scale Set?
Uniform orchestration (identical VM instances managed via a scale set model, optimized for large-scale stateless workloads) and Flexible orchestration (manages heterogeneous VMs, gives fault-domain control and more individual VM management).
What is autoscaling in a VM Scale Set?
Automatically increasing (scale out) or decreasing (scale in) the number of VM instances based on metrics (like CPU usage) or a schedule, to match load while controlling cost.
What is the difference between scaling out and scaling up?
Scaling out (horizontal) adds more instances/VMs; scaling up (vertical) increases the size/resources of an existing instance. VM Scale Sets primarily scale out/in.
What is an ARM template?
A JSON file that declaratively defines the infrastructure and configuration for an Azure deployment, enabling repeatable, idempotent infrastructure-as-code deployments.
What does 'declarative' and 'idempotent' mean in the context of ARM templates?
Declarative means you describe the desired end state (what to deploy) rather than the steps; idempotent means deploying the same template repeatedly produces the same result without creating duplicates.
What is Bicep and how does it relate to ARM templates?
Bicep is a domain-specific language (DSL) that provides a cleaner, more concise syntax for authoring infrastructure-as-code. Bicep code transpiles (compiles) down to ARM JSON templates, which Azure ultimately deploys.
Name two advantages of Bicep over raw ARM JSON templates.
Simpler, more readable syntax (less verbose, no complex JSON); modularity and reusability; automatic dependency management; type safety and better tooling/IntelliSense; no state file to manage.
What are the main sections of an ARM template?
$schema, contentVersion, parameters, variables, functions, resources, and outputs.
What command-line tools deploy ARM/Bicep templates to Azure?
Azure CLI (az deployment group create) and Azure PowerShell (New-AzResourceGroupDeployment).
Why use a VM Scale Set or multiple zones/availability sets for availability planning at scale?
To eliminate single points of failure, provide redundancy across hardware and datacenters, enable automatic scaling under load, and meet higher uptime SLAs while distributing traffic via a load balancer.
What is Azure Container Instances (ACI)?
A serverless service that runs containers on-demand in Azure without managing any underlying VMs or orchestrators—the fastest, simplest way to run a single container or container group.
What is a 'container group' in Azure Container Instances?
A collection of containers scheduled on the same host machine that share a lifecycle, resources, local network, and storage volumes (similar to a Kubernetes pod).
For what type of workloads is Azure Container Instances best suited?
Short-lived, simple, burst, or task-based workloads—batch jobs, build agents, simple apps—where you don't need full orchestration, auto-scaling, or complex networking.
What is Azure Container Apps and what does it abstract away?
A serverless container platform for running microservices and containerized apps; it is built on Kubernetes/KEDA/Dapr/Envoy but abstracts away the cluster management, giving auto-scaling (including scale-to-zero) without you managing infrastructure.
What scaling capability distinguishes Azure Container Apps, including a cost-saving feature?
Event-driven autoscaling via KEDA, including scale-to-zero (no instances and no charge when there is no traffic), scaling out based on HTTP traffic, CPU/memory, or event sources.
Compare Azure Container Instances and Azure Container Apps.
ACI runs individual containers/groups with no built-in orchestration or autoscaling (simple, single tasks). Container Apps is a managed, serverless microservices platform with autoscaling (incl. scale-to-zero), traffic splitting, revisions, and Dapr—better for production microservices.
What is an Azure App Service plan?
A definition of the compute resources (region, VM size/SKU, instance count, and pricing tier) that host one or more App Service web apps; apps in the same plan share its resources and cost.
List the main Azure App Service plan pricing tiers/categories.
Free and Shared (F1/D1, dev/test, shared compute), Basic (B), Standard (S), Premium (P/Pv2/Pv3), and Isolated (I/Iv2, dedicated environment/ASE).
Which App Service plan tiers support autoscaling and custom domains with SSL, and which do not?
Standard, Premium, and Isolated tiers support autoscale, staging slots, and custom domains/SSL. Free and Shared tiers run on shared compute and do not support autoscale, custom SSL, or always-on; Basic supports manual scale and custom SSL but not autoscale.
In App Service web app configuration, what are deployment slots used for?
Live app environments (e.g., staging) where you can deploy and validate a new version, then swap it into production with no downtime—and swap back (roll back) if needed. Available in Standard tier and above.
What are App Settings (application settings) in an App Service web app and how are they treated?
Key-value pairs injected as environment variables into the running app at startup; they override settings in config files and (for slots) can be marked as deployment slot settings that stay with the slot during a swap.
What this deck covers
The Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources deck follows the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources syllabus — 3 chapters and 12 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 16.7 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 185 characters, which is long enough to carry the reasoning and short enough to say out loud.
A deck like this earns its keep on the second and third pass. Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then use the cards to find the specific facts that have not stuck.
Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources flashcards FAQ
How many Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources flashcards are in this Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate deck?
50 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
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Yes. The preview here is free to read with no signup, and the full 50-card deck is free inside the Examius app.
What do the Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources cards cover?
They follow the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources syllabus — 3 chapters and 12 topics — so the questions track what is actually examinable.
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