This post focuses on Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux within Deploy and configure infrastructure (40-45%) 

Topics covered –

• configure high availability
• configure monitoring
• configure networking
• configure storage
• configure virtual machine size
• implement dedicated hosts
• deploy and configure scale sets

Configure high availability

Step 1 – Start creating a VM

Step 2.a – Configure availability options and availability zone.
Availability zones – resources are spread across different data centers within a same region. Note – not all regions have availability zones. SLA – 99.99%

Step 2.b – Configure availability options and set availability set.
Availability set – resources are spread across different update and fault domains within the same data center.

Create an availability set – Create a VM in an availability set – Check available VM sizes