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The skills you learn in this lab map to the following Azure certification objectives:
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Fast lookup for protocols, access tiers, billing, authentication & CLI.
| Account Type | Media | Billing Model |
|---|---|---|
| StorageV2 (GPv2) | HDD | Pay-as-you-go |
| FileStorage (SSD v2) | SSD | Provisioned v2 |
| FileStorage (SSD v1) | SSD | Provisioned v1 |
| FileStorage (HDD v2) | HDD | Provisioned v2 |
| Tier | Type | Latency | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Premium (SSD) | SSD | Single-digit ms | I/O intensive, low latency |
| Standard (HDD) | HDD | Higher | General-purpose, cost-effective |
| Tier | Cost Profile | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Transaction Optimized | Lowest tx cost | High transactions (migrations, backups) |
| Hot | Low storage, moderate tx | General-purpose, frequent access |
| Cool | Lower storage, high tx | Infrequent access, cost savings |
| Protocol | Clients | Use |
|---|---|---|
| SMB 3.x | Windows, Linux, macOS | General-purpose file shares |
| NFS 4.1 | Linux only | High-performance, POSIX compliance |
| REST API | App-driven access | Programmatic file operations |
| Model | How Charged | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Pay-as-you-go | Storage used + transactions | Variable/bursty workloads |
| Provisioned v2 | GiB provisioned (not used) | Predictable capacity, performance guarantees |
| Provisioned v1 | GiB provisioned | Legacy; similar to v2 |
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Fast lookup for subnets, peering, routing, security, DNS & CLI.
| Route Type | Priority |
|---|---|
| System (local) | Highest |
| User-defined (custom) | Medium |
| BGP routes | Low |
| Option | Use Case |
|---|---|
| Azure DNS (168.63.129.16) | Default internal |
| Custom DNS | On-premises or third-party |
| Private DNS Zones | Custom domains in VNet |
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Fast lookup for orchestration modes, autoscaling, load balancing, updates & CLI.
| Mode | Profile | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible | Standard Azure VMs | New workloads (default) |
| Uniform | Identical VMs | Legacy large-scale workloads |
| Feature | Flexible | Uniform |
|---|---|---|
| Standard VM APIs | Yes | No |
| Mix instance types | Yes | No |
| RBAC per VM | Yes | No |
| Azure Backup | Yes | No |
| Site Recovery | Yes | No |
| Fault domains | 1–3 | 1–5 |
| Type | Layer | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Internal LB | L4 | Backend pools |
| Public LB | L4 | External traffic |
| App Gateway | L7 | HTTP/HTTPS + WAF |
| Policy | Rollout | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic | Batch | App can tolerate disruption |
| Rolling | Controlled | Gradual, managed updates |
| Manual | On-demand | Full control; explicit API calls |
Fast lookup for orchestration modes, autoscaling, load balancing, updates & CLI.
| Mode | Profile | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible | Standard Azure VMs | New workloads (default) |
| Uniform | Identical VMs | Legacy large-scale workloads |
| Feature | Flexible | Uniform |
|---|---|---|
| Standard VM APIs | Yes | No |
| Mix instance types | Yes | No |
| RBAC per VM | Yes | No |
| Azure Backup | Yes | No |
| Site Recovery | Yes | No |
| Fault domains | 1–3 | 1–5 |
| Type | Layer | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Internal LB | L4 | Backend pools |
| Public LB | L4 | External traffic |
| App Gateway | L7 | HTTP/HTTPS + WAF |
| Policy | Rollout | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic | Batch | App can tolerate disruption |
| Rolling | Controlled | Gradual, managed updates |
| Manual | On-demand | Full control; explicit API calls |
Fast lookup for orchestration modes, autoscaling, load balancing, updates & CLI.
| Mode | Profile | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible | Standard Azure VMs | New workloads (default) |
| Uniform | Identical VMs | Legacy large-scale workloads |
| Feature | Flexible | Uniform |
|---|---|---|
| Standard VM APIs | Yes | No |
| Mix instance types | Yes | No |
| RBAC per VM | Yes | No |
| Azure Backup | Yes | No |
| Site Recovery | Yes | No |
| Fault domains | 1–3 | 1–5 |
| Type | Layer | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Internal LB | L4 | Backend pools |
| Public LB | L4 | External traffic |
| App Gateway | L7 | HTTP/HTTPS + WAF |
| Policy | Rollout | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic | Batch | App can tolerate disruption |
| Rolling | Controlled | Gradual, managed updates |
| Manual | On-demand | Full control; explicit API calls |
Fast lookup for sizes, storage, networking, HA, pricing & CLI.
| Series | Profile | Use |
|---|---|---|
| B | Burstable | Dev/Test |
| D | General | Web/App |
| E | Memory | DB / Analytics |
| F | Compute | Batch / CPU Heavy |
| Ls | Storage IO | NoSQL / Throughput |
| M | High RAM | SAP HANA |
| N | GPU | AI / ML / Rendering |
| Disk | Perf | When |
|---|---|---|
| Standard HDD | Low | Archive / Rare |
| Standard SSD | Medium | General Workloads |
| Premium SSD | High | Production Apps |
| Premium SSD v2 | High+ | Tunable Perf |
| Ultra Disk | Extreme | Critical DB I/O |
Fast lookup for sizes, storage, networking, HA, pricing & CLI.
| Series | Profile | Use |
|---|---|---|
| B | Burstable | Dev/Test |
| D | General | Web/App |
| E | Memory | DB / Analytics |
| F | Compute | Batch / CPU Heavy |
| Ls | Storage IO | NoSQL / Throughput |
| M | High RAM | SAP HANA |
| N | GPU | AI / ML / Rendering |
| Disk | Perf | When |
|---|---|---|
| Standard HDD | Low | Archive / Rare |
| Standard SSD | Medium | General Workloads |
| Premium SSD | High | Production Apps |
| Premium SSD v2 | High+ | Tunable Perf |
| Ultra Disk | Extreme | Critical DB I/O |
Fast lookup for subnets, peering, routing, security, DNS & CLI.
| Route Type | Priority |
|---|---|
| System (local) | Highest |
| User-defined (custom) | Medium |
| BGP routes | Low |
| Option | Use Case |
|---|---|
| Azure DNS (168.63.129.16) | Default internal |
| Custom DNS | On-premises or third-party |
| Private DNS Zones | Custom domains in VNet |
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