1. Azure portal - PowerShell - Azure CLI (az) - REST clients

2. A personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources. Its cost recommendations page helps you optimize and reduce your overall Azure spend by identifying idle and underutilized resources.

3. Allows password changes in the cloud to be written back to an existing on-premises directory in real time.

4. You can evaluate the state of compliance for all your resources. Individual resources, resource groups, and subscriptions within a scope can be exempted from having __________ rules affect it. Exclusions are handled individually for each assignment.

5. Is optimized for storing large amounts of data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 30 days. Is more cost-effective, but accessing that data may be somewhat more expensive than accessing data in the __________ tier.

6. N family. Specialized virtual machines targeted for heavy graphics rendering and video editing. These VMs are ideal options for model training and inferencing with deep learning.

7. General-purpose v2 accounts (StorageV2); General-purpose v1 accounts (Storage); Block blob storage accounts (BlockBlobStorage); FileStorage storage accounts (FileStorage); Blob storage accounts (BlobStorage)

8. Data about the operation of __________-level Azure services, such as Azure Active Directory.

9. Performance tier; Data access costs; Transaction costs; Geo-Replication data transfer costs; Changing the storage tier.

10. A service that supplies the resources you can deploy and manage through Resource Manager. Each resource provider offers operations for working with the resources that are deployed. Some common resource providers are Microsoft.Compute, which supplies the virtual machine resource, Microsoft.Storage, which supplies the storage account resource, and Microsoft.Web, which supplies resources related to web apps.

11. What kind(s)) of interface can you use to access Azure Blobs?

12. A set of Policy Definitions to help track your compliance state for a larger goal. For example, ensuring a branch office is compliant.

13. You can create an __________ from your custom virtual hard drive (VHD) (i.e. not from the Azure Marketplace, i.e. one that you uploaded) in a storage account or directly from a generalized (sysprepped) VM. This process captures a single __________. This contains all __________ disks associated with a VM, including both the OS and data disks. This ____________________ enables creating hundreds of VMs using your ____________________ without the need to copy or manage any storage accounts.

14. Allows a user to authenticate a single time without performing two-step verification. The __________ is temporary and expires after a specified number of seconds.

15. A __________ that contains only __________ VMs. Contains the IP addresses that are used by the virtual network __________. Must be named ____________________. Do not associate a Network Security Group with a ____________________.

16. Storage Optimized VM types.

17. Helps safeguard access to data and applications while maintaining simplicity for users. It provides additional security by requiring a second form of __________ and delivers strong __________ through a range of easy to use __________ methods.

18. Replicated across Availability Zone. Synchronously replicates your data across three (3) storage clusters in a single region. Each storage cluster is physically separated from the others and resides in its own Availability Zone. Each Availability Zone, and the ____________________ cluster within it, is autonomous, with separate utilities and networking capabilities. Storing your data in a ____________________ account ensures that you will be able access and manage your data if a zone becomes unavailable. Provides excellent performance and extremely low latency.

19. What kind of certificate or token could you use to connect to Azure Storage, or manage a specific service, in a different subscription?

20. Combines the high availability of __________ with protection from regional outages as provided by geo-redundant storage. Data in a ____________________ storage account is replicated across three Azure availability zones in the primary region and also replicated to a secondary geographic region for protection from regional disasters. Each Azure region is paired with another region within the same geography, together making a regional pair.

21. Enables an organization to simplify __________ lifecycle management with automated workflows, business rules and easy integration with heterogeneous platforms across the datacenter. Enables the organization to have the right users and access rights for Active Directory for on-premises apps, and Azure AD Connect can then make available in Azure AD for Office 365 and cloud-hosted apps. Common scenarios include: Automatic __________ and group provisioning based on business policy and workflow-driven provisioning; Integration of the contents of directories with HR systems and other sources of authority; Synchronizing __________s between directories, databases, and on-premises applications through common APIs and protocols, Microsoft-delivered connectors, and partner-delivered connectors.

22. Is optimized for data that can tolerate several hours of retrieval latency and will remain in the Archive tier for at least 180 days. Is the most cost-effective option for storing data, but accessing that data is more expensive than accessing data in other tiers.

23. Prevent accidental deletion.; You can associate the lock with a subscription, resource group, or resource. Locks are inherited by child resources.

24. In a __________, the edge server caches a file, which remains cached on the edge server until the __________ expires. Azure __________ automatically applies a default __________ of seven days unless you've set up caching rules in the Azure portal.

25. Policy-based and Route-based