Azure Advisor for AZ-900 Exam
Azure Advisor makes recommendations on your existing Azure resources, based on:
- Cost – Reduce spending
- Are your VMs to small or under utilized?
- Are your database servers too big?
- Can you save money using reserved instances or reserved capacity?
- Security – detect threats and weaknesses
- Reliability – improve continuity of your services
- What VMs do not have backups or replication?
- Should VMs be grouped into availability sets?
- Do Azure Storage account not have soft delete?
- Can your gateways be improved?
- Operational Excellence – improve efficiency, resource management, and best practices for deployment.
- Enable Inherit a tag from resource groups.
- Performance – improve the speed
- Use Premium Storage for VMs?
- Improve SKU or size?
- Do Cosmos DB accounts have traffic from non-configured regions?
- Includes recommendations from
- Azure Security Center
- Azure Cost Management
- Azure SQL DB Advisor
- Azure App Service
- Access through
- Azure Portal,
- API,
- Add notifications when there are new recommendations.
Question 1 - Is Azure Advisor a service that was designed to?
- Help customers with common issues around their Azure Migrations
- Performance investigation service for Azure SQL
- Personalized consultant service that provides recommendations for Azure services
- Support forum available for enterprise customers
- Proactive feature of Azure where a specialized consultant is available to provide help to the customers
Answer: C
Question 2 - Provides recommendations in many areas, not just the cost. It’s not a primary focus on this service, just one of many.
- True
- False
Answer: A
Question 3 - There are 5 areas that Azure Advisor recommendations are grouped into. Those are
- Cost
- Performance
- Migration
- Retention
- Reliability
- High Availability
- Security
- Operational Performance
- Operational Excellence
Answer: A, B, E, G, I
Question 4 - Contoso company had a security incident and wants to review what happened. To do this they went to Azure Advisor. Will this service help them answer those questions?
- True
- False
Answer: B
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