Understanding Azure policies Azure Policy is a mechanism for effecting organizational compliance on the Azure platform. The service allows aggregated views to understand the overall state of an environment, with ... Read MoreRead More
Policy compliance To view policy compliance status against assigned definitions, you can select the Compliance menu on the Policy blade and note the compliance on the right-hand side.Compliance is reflected ... Read MoreRead More
Deploying a resource group In the following section, we are going to run through an exercise of creating a resource group using the Azure portal. Proceed as follows: Figure 4.1 ... Read MoreRead More
PowerShell scripts This section introducesPowerShell scripts that can be used for the automation of resource lock management, as well as for quicker administration times. Please ensure that the Az module ... Read MoreRead More
Cost Management Cost Management contains many facets and should be considered in its entirety; this includes costs analysis, governance, and reporting. For the purpose of the exam, we will investigate ... Read MoreRead More
Advisor recommendations Advisor automatically detects cost optimizations that can be implemented within the tenant. While the recommendations are particularly good and will absolutely lead to cost savings, review each item ... Read MoreRead More
Creating a management group In the following example, we will create a management group named IT and associate our subscription with this group. Here’s what we’ll do: Figure 4.40 – ... Read MoreRead More
Standard blob storage Azure Blob storage offers unstructured data storage in the cloud. It can store all kinds of data, such as documents, VHDs, images, and audio files. There are ... Read MoreRead More
Azure file storage With Azure Files, you can create file shares in the cloud. You can access your files using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which is an industry ... Read MoreRead More
Azure disk storage Disks that are used for VMs are stored in Azure Blob storage as page blobs. Azure stores two disks for each VM: the actual operating system (VHD) ... Read MoreRead More