WGU D084 Cloud Platform Solutions
2023 – 2024
1.Subscription: A logical unit of Azure services linked to an Azure
account, which is an identity in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
2.User Principal: An identity that is associated with a user, or a group ofusers.
3.Management Groups: Allow you to apply governance consistently
across sub- scriptions, including the application of common RBAC
controls and the application of Azure policy.
4.Spending Quotas: Allow administrators to set alerts within an Azure
subscrip- tion by configuring budgets to inform the business when
their Azure spending has hit a certain threshold.
5.Resource Tags: Allow you to apply custom metadata to your Azure
resources to logically organize them and build out custom
taxonomies.
6.Azure Policy: An Azure service that can be used to create, assign,
and manage policies that enforce governance in your Azure
environment.
7.Azure Monitor: Helps you track performance, maintain security, and
identify trends, by ingesting metrics and telemetry from multiple
areas, including applica- tions and the operating systems of virtual
machines.
8.Azure Advisor: A free, personalized guide to Azure best practices
which pro- vides recommendations to help you optimize resources for
high availability, secu- rity, performance, and cost.
9.Alerts: Proactively notify you when important conditions are
found in your monitoring data.
10.Metrics: Numerical values provided by resources and services within
Azure.
11.Enterprise Agreement Portal: Available only to customers with an
Enterprise Agreement and is used for managing spend across one or
more subscriptions.
12.Account Portal: Available for all subscriptions and accessible by
Account owners. It is used to manage subscriptions, payment methods,
and spending limits.
13.Azure Portal: Available for all subscriptions and includes Azure Cost
Manage- ment.
14.Cloudyn: An Azure service that is related to Cost Management,
which can track resource cost for Azure resources.
15.Resource: A single service instance, which can be a virtual
machine, a virtual network, a storage account, or any other Azure
service.