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You're reading from Hands-On Cloud Administration in Azure Implement, monitor, and manage important Azure services and components including IaaS and PaaS

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789134964

Length 390 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Mustafa Toroman

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Key Concepts of Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER

2. Azure Networking - Foundation of Azure IaaS

3. Infrastructure as a Service - the First Layer of Cloud Computing

4. Azure App Service - Hosting Web Applications without a Server

5. The Azure Data Platform

6. Azure Storage, Backup, and Site Recovery - Moving your Data to Azure

7. Hybrid Cloud with Azure - Extending Local Workloads to the Cloud

8. Azure Active Directory - Identity in the Cloud

9. Azure Security and Administration

10. Best Practices

11. Assessments

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 3: Infrastructure as a Service – the First Layer of Cloud Computing

What is the oldest Windows Server version supported for Azure VMs?
Answer: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
What can basic-tier VMs support?
Answer: Lower IOPS
What are low-priority VMs intended to be used for?
Answer: Batch processing
Size setting in the Azure Virtual Machine blade is used to...?
Answer: Both

Runbooks can be used to perform?
Answer: Both
Azure Load Balancer is used...?
Answer: To distribute traffic across VMs in the backend pool
Placing VMs in the same availability set will result in...?
Answer: VMs will be placed in a different rack
Scaling by creating additional instances of VM is called...?
Answer: Scaling out
Scaling out is an example of...?
Answer: Horizontal scaling
For scaling out of Azure VMs we use...?
Answer: Scale set

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Authors (1)

Toroman

Mustafa Toroman is a solution architect focused on cloud-native applications and migrating existing systems to the cloud. He is very interested in DevOps processes and cybersecurity, and he is also an Infrastructure as Code enthusiast and DevOps InstituteAmbassador. Mustafa often speaks at international conferences about cloud technologies. He has been an MVP for Microsoft Azure since 2016 and a C# Corner MVP since 2020. Mustafa has also authored several books about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing, all published by Packt.

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