Tag: #Certification

Azure Certification Question of the Day (QOTD) – AZ-500 Q001

To use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Privileged Identity Management (PIM), your directory must have a valid license.

Which licenses will you require? (Make three selections – each answer is a complete solution).

A) Azure AD Premium P1
B) Azure AD Premium P2
C) Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) E3
D) Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) E5
E) Microsoft 365 F1
F) Microsoft 365 M3
G) Microsoft 365 M5

And here is the updated blog post with the answer – Azure Certification Question of the Day (QOTD) – AZ-500 Q001 – ANSWERED

Azure Certification Question of the Day (QOTD) – AZ-900 001 – ANSWERED

When looking at using a cloud service, what expenditure type are cloud services based on?

A) Capital Expenditure (CapEx)
B) Friendly expenditure
C) Maximum expense
D) Operational Expenditure (OpEx) – CORRECT ANSWER

Explanation

Operational Expenditure (OpEx) is the correct answer. Cloud services operate on an Operational Expenditure model. It is regular, repeated expenditure that you pay for using cloud services.

Capital Expenditure (CapEx) is not the correct answer. Capital Expenditure (CapEx) is not required to be paid upfront when looking to start using a cloud services. There are no up-front costs to use cloud services. You pay for what you consume, under a consumption-based model.

Friendly expenditure and Maximum expense are not defined expenditure types.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/strategy/financial-models

Azure Certification Question of the Day (QOTD) – AZ-103 002

Your enterprise environment is presently using Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

You have been tasked with configuring directory synchronization with your Office 365 E5 subscription.

You need to set up support for Single Sign-on (SSO) and you want to confirm that all of the domain user names in use meet the formatting standard and will not cause any issues with the synchronization.

What should you do? (Choose the best option)

A) Make changes to the default configuration of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Connect sync
B) Confirm the synchronization settings in the Synchronization Rules Editor
C) Run Azure AD Connect sync with the defaults
D) Run the IdFix tool
E) Run the Synchronization Rules Editor and create a custom rule

And here is the updated blog post with the answer – Azure Certification Question of the Day (QOTD) – AZ-103 002 – ANSWERED

Azure Certification Question of the Day (QOTD) – AZ-900 001

When looking at using a cloud service, what expenditure type are cloud services based on?

A) Capital Expenditure (CapEx)
B) Friendly expenditure
C) Maximum expense
D) Operational Expenditure (OpEx)

And here is the updated blog post with the answer – Azure Certification Question of the Day (QOTD) – AZ-900 001 – ANSWERED

Certification QOTD – AZ-103 001 – ANSWERED

QUESTION 1 – ANSWERED

You’re running your environment in Azure and you review the following resources

Resource Group – rgmain001

Storage Account – samain001

Azure File Sync – afs001

samain001 contains a file share called IMAGES that contains 1,000 image files.

You need to synchronize the files in Azure to an on-premises Windows server named IMGSYS001.

Which three actions should you perform? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.

A) Mount the current Blob storage in state as a file system

B) Transfer data with the AzCopy

C) Create a sync group and a cloud endpoint

D) Register IMGSYS001
E) Install the Azure File Sync agent on IMGSYS001

Correct answer:

C, D, E

Step 1 (E): Install the Azure File Sync agent on IMGSYS001 – The Azure File Sync agent is a downloadable package that enables Windows Server to be synced with an Azure file share

Step 2 (D): Register IMGSYS001.

Register Windows Server with Storage Sync Service – establishes a trust relationship between your physical server (or cluster) and the Storage Sync Service.

Step 3 (C): Create a sync group and a cloud endpoint – defines the sync topology for a set of files. Endpoints within a sync group are kept in sync with each other. A sync group must contain one cloud endpoint, which represents an Azure file share and one or more server endpoints. A server endpoint represents a path on registered server.

AzCopy is a command-line utility designed for copying data to/from Microsoft Azure Blob, File, and Table storage, using simple commands designed for optimal performance. You can copy data between a file system and a storage account, or between storage accounts but it is not the best answer to fully synchronize files in Azure to an on-premises server.

You can mount Blob storage as a file system with blobfuse, but this is only available through the Linux file system. Blobfuse is a virtual file system driver for Azure Blob storage.

Certification Question of the Day [QOTD]

As part of getting back into regular blogging, I would like to announce that the Certification Question of the Day is going to be making its return.

I did this in the past for prior MCSE and MCSA certifications on my old blog (from many, many moons ago) and I thought it might be cool to give it another go now under the mantle of Azure certifications and the new role based training that I am involved with.

As I did prior, I will put “QOTD” in the category field for easier searching here on the site as well as the certification it applies to (e.g. “AZ-103” or “AZ-500” – etc.)

A day after a post, I will re-post the question with the accompanying answer.

Learning Azure in 20 Minutes A Day

“If I can teach someone the technology, and they can learn the material, they will pass the exams.”

I’ve been saying that for 22 years now. At the rate I am going, I will probably be saying that for another 22. 

I’ve had a number of jobs in information technology since 1996 (informally, part time) and formally (full time).  Way too many to list here; it’s just easier to point you to my LinkedIn page (and feel free to follow me there too).

Throughout all that time of “doing the job” I was always doing something else – I was learning the next thing and showing someone else what I was studying or working on.

I also decided that I loved what I did so much that I would try, as best I could, to train and skill others. So, back in late 2001, some 19 odd years ago, I earned my Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) certification. 

​So it is with all of this, I’ve decided to get back to blogging a little, too.

I am going to start the site here and see where things take me, how things go, what time permits, how posts take off, and so forth.

For a long time I ran a blog over on BlogSpot but I let it go over the years. Now, it’s probably a good time to take a clean break from that too and leave it dormant.

I’ll have to see how things go here; I am, of course, running it on Azure in my own subscription and it’s not my intention to try to paywall or monetize the site. Having said that, I have four kids so I can’t spend a ton of money here either.

Because my current day job is “all Azure skilling, all the time” it would be my intention to make all my posts focused on that; I might dabble elsewhere in the certification realm (as I do have certifications that span other technologies too, but nothing like the ones at Microsoft.)

I’d like to see too if I can get some other partners in crime (other Azure Technical Trainers or other MCTs) to pitch in on some posts of their own… sort of inviting them along to put up their work as a guest author of some of their own content.

36 hours in a day and all…

So, for now, I re-launch the grand experiment (and no Trek fans… I am not talking about the NX-2000).