Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

A company wants maximum control over the operating system and installed software of its cloud servers, while letting the cloud provider manage the physical hardware. Which cloud service model fits this need?

Moving from buying and maintaining your own data-center hardware to paying for cloud resources as an ongoing operational cost is best described as a shift from what to what?

An organization runs some workloads in its own on-premises data center and others in Azure, connecting them so they work together. Which cloud deployment model does this describe?

Which cloud benefit allows an application to automatically add resources during a traffic surge and remove them afterward so it stays responsive without over-provisioning?

In the Azure shared responsibility model, which responsibility always remains with the customer regardless of whether they use IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS?

To build a highly available solution within a single Azure region, an architect wants to distribute virtual machines across physically separate datacenters that have independent power, cooling, and networking. Which Azure construct provides this?

Which Azure service provides on-demand, resizable virtual machines where you fully control the guest operating system (an IaaS compute offering)?

A team wants to host a web application without managing the underlying operating system or web servers, letting Azure handle the platform (a PaaS offering). Which service should they use?

Which Azure storage service is designed to store large amounts of unstructured object data such as images, video, and backups?

A company needs a fully managed relational database-as-a-service in Azure so Microsoft handles patching, backups, and high availability. Which service fits?