Knowledge Check

• 3 minutes

Check your knowledge

1. 

What is Azure?

Microsoft's cloud computing platform, which provides compute power, storage, and services over the Internet using a pay-as-you-go pricing model.

Azure provides raw compute power and storage, as well as services to help you explore new software paradigms such as intelligent bots and mixed reality.

A single data center located in Redmond, Washington.

A hosting environment specifically for virtual machines

2. 

Which of the following is an example of an Azure compute service?

Azure Virtual Machine

Azure Virtual Machines provide compute power and support both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Azure Load Balancer

Azure Table Storage

Azure Cache for Redis

3. 

When should you scale out your deployment?

When your application or service requires a more powerful CPU or more memory to run faster.

When you need additional virtual machines to speed up your application.

Scaling out means adding additional systems, such as virtual machines. For example, you might create many virtual machines configured in the same way and use a load balancer to distribute work across them.

When you're using excess capacity that you don't need.

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