Azure Core Architectural Components Flashcards

What is the primary purpose of an Azure region pair?

Answer: To provide disaster recovery with replication and prioritized recovery

Region pairs sit within the same geography and provide resilience through data replication and prioritized region recovery during outages.

Which Azure resource is the smallest deployable unit of compute that you create and manage?

Answer: A resource

A resource is a manageable item such as a VM, database, or storage account that you create in Azure.

What logically groups multiple subscriptions for unified governance and policy?

Answer: Management groups

Management groups sit above subscriptions and let you apply governance and policy across many subscriptions at once.

An availability zone is best described as which of the following?

Answer: A physically separate datacenter within an Azure region

Availability zones are physically separate datacenters within a single region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Which statement about a resource group is correct?

Answer: A resource can only belong to one resource group at a time

Each resource exists in exactly one resource group, though you can move it to another group.

What does an Azure geography primarily ensure?

Answer: Data residency and compliance boundaries

A geography is a discrete market that preserves data residency and compliance requirements.

Which Azure component acts as a billing and access management boundary?

Answer: Subscription

A subscription is a unit of management, billing, and scale that links resources to an account.