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Q) Differences between Microsoft Azure and Amazon ? AWS

Microsoft Azure Vs Amazon
Amazon Web Services
Features Microsoft Azure
(AWS)
Analytics Azure Stream Analytics Amazon Kinesis
Backup Options Azure Backup Amazon Glacier
Compliance Azure Trust Center AWS CLoudHSM
Content Delivery Network
Azure CDN Amazon CloudFront
(CDN )
Data Orchestration Azure Data Factory AWS Data Pipeline
Hybrid Cloud Storage StorSimple AWS Storage Gateway
Monitoring Azure Operational InsightsAmazon CloudTrail
NoSQL Database Options Azure DocumentDB Amazon Dynamo DB
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Q1) What is Azure Cloud Service?

By creating a cloud service, you can deploy a multi-tier web application in Azure, defining multiple roles to distribute
processing and allow flexible scaling of your application. A cloud service consists of one or more web roles and/or
worker roles, each with its own application files and configuration. Azure Websites and Virtual Machines also enable
web applications on Azure. The main advantage of cloud services is the ability to support more complex multi-tier
architectures

Q2) What is a cloud service role?

A cloud service role is comprised of application files and a configuration. A cloud service can have two types of roles.

Q3) What is link a resource?

To show your cloud service’s dependencies on other resources, such as an Azure SQL Database instance, you can
“link” the resource to the cloud service. In the Preview Management Portal, you can view linked resources on the
Linked Resources page, view their status on the dashboard, and scale a linked SQL Database instance along with
the service roles on the Scale page. Linking a resource in this sense does not connect the resource to the
application; you must configure the connections in the application code.

Q4) What is scale a cloud service?

A cloud service is scaled out by increasing the number of role instances (virtual machines) deployed for a role. A
cloud service is scaled in by decreasing role instances. In the Preview Management Portal, you can also scale a
linked SQL Database instance, by changing the SQL Database edition and the maximum database size, when you
scale your service roles.

Q5) What is a web role?

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A web role provides a dedicated Internet Information Services (IIS) web-server used for hosting front-end web
applications.

Q6) What is a worker role?

Applications hosted within worker roles can run asynchronous, long-running or perpetual tasks independent of user
interaction or input.

Q7) What is a role instance?

A role instance is a virtual machine on which the application code and role configuration run. A role can have multiple
instances, defined in the service configuration file.

Q8) What is a guest operating system?

The guest operating system for a cloud service is the operating system installed on the role instances (virtual
machines) on which your application code runs.

Q9) What is a cloud service component?

Three components are required in order to deploy an application as a cloud service in Azure:

Q10) What is deployment environments?

Azure offers two deployment environments for cloud services: a staging environment in which you can test your
deployment before you promote it to the production environment. The two environments are distinguished only by
the virtual IP addresses (VIPs) by which the cloud service is accessed. In the staging environment, the cloud
service’s globally unique identifier (GUID) identifies it in URLs (GUID.cloudapp.net). In the production environment,
the URL is based on the friendlier DNS prefix assigned to the cloud service (for example, myservice.cloudapp.net).

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Q11) What is swap deployments?

To promote a deployment in the Azure staging environment to the production environment, you can “swap” the
deployments by switching the VIPs by which the two deployments are accessed. After the deployment, the DNS
name for the cloud service points to the deployment that had been in the staging environment.

Q12) What is minimal vs. verbose monitoring?

Minimal monitoring, which is configured by default for a cloud service, uses performance counters gathered from the
host operating systems for role instances (virtual machines). Verbose monitoring gathers additional metrics based on
performance data within the role instances to enable closer analysis of issues that occur during application
processing. For more information

Q13) What is a service definition file?

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The cloud service definition file (.csdef) defines the service model, including the number of roles.

Q14) What is a service configuration file?

The cloud service configuration file (.cscfg) provides configuration settings for the cloud service and individual roles,
including the number of role instances.

Q15) What is a service package?

The service package (.cspkg) contains the application code and the service definition file.

Q16) What is a cloud service deployment?

A cloud service deployment is an instance of a cloud service deployed to the Azure staging or production
environment. You can maintain deployments in both staging and production.

Q17) What is Azure Diagnostics?

Azure Diagnostics is the API that enables you to collect diagnostic data from applications running in Azure. Azure
Diagnostics must be enabled for cloud service roles in order for verbose monitoring to be turned on.

Q18) What is Azure Service Level Agreement (SLA)?

The Azure Compute SLA guarantees that, when you deploy two or more role instances for every role, access to your
cloud service will be maintained at least 99.95 percent of the time. Also, detection and corrective action will be
initiated 99.9 percent of the time when a role instance’s process is not running.

Q19) What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered
as a service over a network (typically the Internet).

Q20) What are the Service Model in Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing providers offer their services according to three fundamental models: Infrastructure as a service
(IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) where IaaS is the most basic and each higher
model abstracts from the details of the lower models.
Examples of IaaS include: Amazon CloudFormation (and underlying services such as Amazon EC2), Rackspace
Cloud, Terremark, Windows Azure Virtual Machines, Google Compute Engine. and Joyent.
Examples of PaaS include: Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Force.com, EngineYard, Mendix,
Google App Engine, Windows Azure Compute and OrangeScape.
Examples of SaaS include: Google Apps, Microsoft Office 365, and Onlive. Source from
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Q21) How many types of deployment models are used in cloud?

There are 4 types of deployment models used in cloud:

Public cloud
Private cloud

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Hybrid cloud
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Q22) What is Windows Azure Platform?

A collective name of Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering which provides a programming platform, a
deployment vehicle, and a runtime environment of cloud computing hosted in Microsoft data centers.

Q23) What are the roles available in Windows Azure?

All three roles (web, worker, VM) are essentially Windows Server 2008. Web and Worker roles are nearly identical:
With Web and Worker roles, the OS and related patches are taken care for you; you build your app’s components
without having to manage a VM

Q24) What is the difference between Windows Azure Platform and Windows Azure?

The former is Microsoft’s PaaS offering including Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and Appfabric; while the latter is part
of the offering and the Microsoft’s cloud OS.

Q25) What are the three main components of Windows Azure Platform?

Compute
Storage
AppFabric
Q26) What is Windows Azure compute emulator?

The compute emulator is a local emulator of Windows Azure that you can use to build and test your application
before deploying it to Windows Azure.

Q27) What is fabric?

In the Windows Azure cloud fabric is nothing but a combination of many virtualized instances which run the client
application

Q28) How many instances of a Role should be deployed to satisfy Azure SLA (service level agreement)? And
what’s the benefit of Azure SLA?

TWO. And if we do so, the role would have external connectivity at least 99.95% of the time.

Q29) What are the options to manage session state in Windows Azure?

Windows Azure Caching SQL Azure Azure Table

Q30) What is cspack?

It is a command-line tool that generates a service package file (.cspkg) and prepares an application for deployment,
either to Windows Azure or to the compute emulator.

Q31) What is csrun?

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It is a command-line tool that deploys a packaged application to the Windows Azure compute emulator and manages
the running service.

Q32) What is guest OS?

It is the operating system that runs on the virtual machine that hosts an instance of a role.

Q33) How to programmatically scale out Azure Worker Role instances?

Using AutoScaling Application Block

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Q34) What is the difference between Public Cloud and Private Cloud?

Public cloud is used as a service via Internet by the users, whereas a private cloud, as the name conveys is
deployed within certain boundaries like firewall settings and is completely managed and monitored by the users
working on it in an organization.

Q35) How to design applications to handle connection failure in windows Azure?

The Transient Fault Handling Application Block supports various standard ways of generating the retry delay time
interval, including fixed interval, incremental interval (the interval increases by a standard amount), and exponential
back-off (the interval doubles with some random variation).
static RetryPolicy policy = new RetryPolicy(5, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2));
policy.ExecuteAction(() => { try { string federationCmdText = @”USE FEDERATION Customer_Federation(ShardId
=” + shardId + “) WITH RESET, FILTERING=ON”; customerEntity.Connection.Open();
customerEntity.ExecuteStoreCommand(federationCmdText); } catch (Exception e) {
customerEntity.Connection.Close(); SqlConnection.ClearAllPools(); } });

Q36) What is windows Azure Diagnostics?

Windows Azure Diagnostics enables you to collect diagnostic data from an application running in Windows Azure.
You can use diagnostic data for debugging and troubleshooting, measuring performance, monitoring resource
usage, traffic analysis and capacity planning, and auditing. HTTP://WWW.WINDOWSAZURE.COM/EN-
US/DEVELOP/NET/COMMON-TASKS/DIAGNOSTICS/

Q37) What is Blob?

BLOB stands for Binary Large Object. Blob is file of any type and size.
The Azure Blob Storage offers two types of blobs –

Block Blob
Page Blob
URL format: Blobs are addressable using the following URL format:

Q38) What is the difference between Block Blob vs Page Blob?

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Block blobs are comprised of blocks, each of which is identified by a block ID.
You create or modify a block blob by uploading a set of blocks and committing them by their block IDs.
If you are uploading a block blob that is no more than 64 MB in size, you can also upload it in its entirety with a single
Put Blob operation. -Each block can be a maximum of 4 MB in size. The maximum size for a block blob in version
2009-09-19 is 200 GB, or up to 50,000 blocks.
Page blobs are a collection of pages. A page is a range of data that is identified by its offset from the start of the
blob. To create a page blob, you initialize the page blob by calling Put Blob and specifying its maximum size.
-The maximum size for a page blob is 1 TB. A page written to a page blob may be up to 1 TB in size.
what to use block blobs for: streaming video. “The application must provide random read/write access” which is
supported by Page Blobs

Q39) What is the difference between Windows Azure Queues and Windows Azure Service Bus Queues?

Windows Azure supports two types of queue mechanisms: Windows Azure Queues and Service Bus Queues.
Windows Azure Queues, which are part of the Windows Azure storage infrastructure, feature a simple REST-based
Get/Put/Peek interface, providing reliable, persistent messaging within and between services.
Service Bus Queues are part of a broader Windows Azure messaging infrastructure dead-letterrts queuing as well as
publish/subscribe, Web service remoting, and integration patterns.
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Q40) What is DeadLetter queue?

Messages are placed on the dead-letter sub-queue by the messaging system in the following scenarios.
When a message expires and dead-lettering for expired messages is set to true in a queue or subscription.
When the max delivery count for a message is exceeded on a queue or subscription.
When a filter evaluation exception occurs in a subscription and dead-lettering is enabled on filter evaluation
exceptions.
Q41) What are instance sizes of Azure?

Windows Azure will handle the load balancing for all of the instances that are created. The VM sizes are as follows:
Compute Instance Size CPU Memory Instance Storage I/O Performance
Extra Small 1.0 Ghz 768 MB 20 GB Low
Small 1.6 GHz 1.75 GB 225 GB Moderate
Medium 2 x 1.6 GHz 3.5 GB 490 GB High
Large 4 x 1.6 GHz 7 GB 1,000 GB High
Extra large 8 x 1.6 GHz 14 GB 2,040 GB High

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Q42) What is table storage in Windows Azure?

The Windows Azure Table storage service stores large amounts of structured data.
The service is a NoSQL datastore which accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Windows Azure
cloud.

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Windows Azure tables are ideal for storing structured, non-relational data
Table: A table is a collection of entities. Tables don’t enforce a schema on entities, which means a single table can
contain entities that have different sets of properties. An account can contain many tables
Entity: An entity is a set of properties, similar to a database row. An entity can be up to 1MB in size.
Properties: A property is a name-value pair. Each entity can include up to 252 properties to store data. Each entity
also has 3 system properties that specify a partition key, a row key, and a timestamp.
Entities with the same partition key can be queried more quickly, and inserted/updated in atomic operations. An
entity’s row key is its unique identifier within a partition.
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