AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator Full Course - Azure Advisor - Lab Activity

The video tutorial introduces Azure Advisor, a service offering recommendations across five categories: high availability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost. It provides detailed guidance on enabling active-active gateways for redundancy, using availability sets for fault tolerance, and setting up multifactor authentication for security. The tutorial also covers the new operational excellence category, which focuses on efficiency and best practices. Cost optimization strategies are discussed, including managing virtual machine utilization. Azure Advisor acts as a personalized cloud consultant, analyzing resource configurations and providing solutions to enhance Azure deployments.

What is one of the recommendations under the high availability category in Azure Advisor?

• Increase network bandwidth

• Reduce the number of virtual machines

• Use availability sets for improved fault tolerance

• Enable single sign-on

What is a key security recommendation provided by Azure Advisor?

• Increase storage capacity

• Enable multifactor authentication with owner permissions

• Use a single firewall for all applications

• Disable all alerts

What new category was introduced in Azure Advisor after the last Ignite program?

• Security Enhancements

• Cost Management

• Operational Excellence

• Performance Optimization

What is a method to optimize Azure spending according to Azure Advisor?

• Increase the number of virtual machines

• Use only premium services

• Identify and manage idle and underutilized resources

• Disable all security features

According to Azure Advisor, when is a virtual machine considered for shutdown?

• When CPU utilization is above 80%

• When storage usage exceeds 90%

• When CPU utilization is less than 3% and network utilization is less than 2% over seven days

• When network utilization is above 50%