Q36-Q40

Q36. What is partition key in CosmosDB?

Q37. What are the benefits of moving to the cloud?

Q38. Give some auto scale rule criteria in azure?

Q39. Input and output parameter in azure functions?

Q40. How azure marketplace subscription priced?

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Q36. What is partition key in CosmosDB?

Answer:

We need to partition/shard such datasets into smaller chunks and then each partition can act as a database on its own. Thus, a large dataset can be spread across many smaller partitions/shards and each can independently execute queries or run some programs.

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Q37. What are the benefits of moving to the cloud?

Answer:

1. Cost: Pay only for what you use so its cost effective. 

2. Scaling: Scale up is quite easy. 

3. Disaster recovery

4. Security: Pre decided layout for security in place. 

5. Minimized physical maintenance. 

Features of azure

1. Ask for what you need and when you need. 

2. Scale out/in. scale up/down based on your needs in minutes. 

a. Scale out – adding more resources. 

b. Scale up- improve resource type. 

3. Pay as you consume. 

4. Focus only on your needs not on hardware specs

Every unit is measurable. Means you know where you are spending. 

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Q38. Give some auto scale rule criteria in azure?

Answer:

Percentage CPU

Network In

Network Out

Disk Read Bytes

Disk Write Bytes

Disk Read Operations/Sec

Disk Write Operations/Sec

CPU Credits Remaining

CPU Credits Consumed

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Q39. Input and output parameter in azure functions?

Answer:

Input and output parameters are optional. They are if for particular trigger function needs something as input and if you want something to return as output. Input and output parameters could be various azure resources like Azure storage, Azure SQL DB and Document DB

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Q40. How azure market place subscription priced?

Answer:

There are multiple models on pricing:

1. Usage based per hour: Some services like Virtual machine are charged hourly. 

2. Usage based per unit: services like api are charged per usage. 

3. BYOL: Few are charged as per BYOL Model - Bring your own lincence. 

4. Free: No charge for these services. 

5. Free trail services: Remained free for some time. 

6. Monthly Fee: You will be charged fixed per month. 

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