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learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/1-introduction.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Introduction"
 metadata:
   title: "Introduction"
   description: "Introduction"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/2-operational-awareness.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Operational awareness"
 metadata:
   title: "Operational awareness"
   description: "Operational awareness"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -19,17 +19,17 @@ quiz:
 
   - content: 'What is operational awareness?'
     choices:
-    - content: 'An understanding of the systems we have in production and how they are functioning'
+    - content: "An understanding of the systems we have in production and how they're functioning"
       isCorrect: true
       explanation: "Correct, we can't begin to work on reliability if we don\\'t know what is actually running in production."
-    - content: 'a comprehensive accounting for how much we are paying for our infrastructure'
+    - content: "A comprehensive accounting for how much we're paying for our infrastructure"
       isCorrect: false
       explanation: 'Cost management is definitely important, but first we need to know what is running in production.'
     - content: 'The process of training your staff to be able to operate your systems'
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Your staff definitely needs to understand your systems, but awareness is not just about the training process.'
+      explanation: "Your staff definitely needs to understand your systems, but awareness isn't just about the training process."
 
-  - content: 'When we are gaining operational awareness for an application, which of these questions do we need to ask?'
+  - content: "When we're gaining operational awareness for an application, which of these questions do we need to ask?"
     choices:
     - content: 'What are the component parts?'
       isCorrect: false
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ quiz:
       explanation: 'Dashboards can help display information that assists with gaining operational awareness.'
     - content: 'Azure Cosmos DB'
       isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct, Cosmos DB is an excellent place to store data, but it is not directly useful for operational awareness.'
+      explanation: "Correct, Cosmos DB is an excellent place to store data, but it isn't directly useful for operational awareness."
     - content: 'Azure Resource Graph Explorer'
       isCorrect: false
       explanation: 'Resource Graph Explorer provides a query environment that can show us exactly what resources we have in play.'

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/3-expanding-understanding.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Expanding our understanding of reliability"
 metadata:
   title: "Expanding our understanding of reliability"
   description: "Expanding our understanding of reliability"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/4-change-frame.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Changing the frame"
 metadata:
   title: "Changing the frame"
   description: "Changing the frame"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -42,4 +42,4 @@ quiz:
       explanation: 'It depends on the noticeable impact to the customers of the service. If they are experiencing a severe problem and the service does not work for them, we may need to fix them immediately.'
     - content: 'It depends'
       isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct, the severity level depends on the noticeable impact to their customer.'
+      explanation: 'Correct, the severity level depends on the noticeable impact to the customer.'

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/5-tools.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Azure monitoring tools"
 metadata:
   title: "Azure monitoring tools"
   description: "Azure monitoring tools"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@ quiz:
   title: Check your knowledge
   questions:
 
-  - content: 'Which of the following are the two major data types used in Azure Monitor?'
+  - content: 'Which of the following best describes the common observability data types emphasized in Azure Monitor?'
     choices:
-    - content: 'Charts and tables'
+    - content: 'Charts, tables, and dashboards'
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Azure monitor can display both charts and tables, but they are not data types.'
-    - content: 'Metrics and logs'
+      explanation: 'Azure Monitor can display charts and tables on dashboards, but those are visualizations rather than observability data types.'
+    - content: 'Metrics, logs, and distributed traces'
       isCorrect: true 
-      explanation: 'Correct, Azure Monitor works with metrics and logs.'
-    - content: 'Counters and gauges'
+      explanation: 'Correct, Azure Monitor emphasizes metrics, logs, and distributed traces as core observability data types.'
+    - content: 'Counters, gauges, and alerts'
       isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'Azure monitor can ingest metrics from counters and gauges, but they are not the two major data types.'
+      explanation: "Counters and gauges can produce metrics, and alerts act on data, but these aren't the observability data types emphasized by Azure Monitor."

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/6-log-analytics.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Log analytics and KQL queries"
 metadata:
   title: "Log analytics and KQL queries"
   description: "Log analytics and KQL queries"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/7-sli-slo.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs)"
 metadata:
   title: "Service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs)"
   description: "Service level indicators (SLIs) and service level objectives (SLOs)"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit
@@ -13,33 +13,3 @@ metadata:
 durationInMinutes: 9
 content: |
   [!include[](includes/7-sli-slo.md)]
-quiz:
-  title: Check your knowledge
-  questions:
-
-  - content: 'What does SLO stand for?'
-    choices:
-    - content: 'Service Level Observation'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'SLO stands for "Service Level Objective".'
-    - content: 'System Level Objective'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'SLO stands for "Service Level Objective".'
-    - content: 'Service Level Objective'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct, SLO stands for "Service Level Objective".'
-    
-  - content: 'Which of these could be a workable SLO for a web service?'
-    choices:
-    - content: '90% of HTTP requests succeeded in the last 30-day window.'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'This SLO is missing where the data will be measured.'
-    - content: '90% of HTTP requests as reported by the load balancer succeeded.'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'This SLO is missing the time horizon for the objective.'
-    - content: 'The webserver functioned well in the last 30-day window as reported by the load balancer'
-      isCorrect: false
-      explanation: 'This SLO is missing the actual service level indicator for the objective.'
-    - content: '90% of HTTP requests as reported by the load balancer succeeded in the last 30-day window.'
-      isCorrect: true
-      explanation: 'Correct, this is a workable SLO with all of the necessary parts.'

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/8-actionable-alerts.yml

@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ title: "Actionable alerts"
 metadata:
   title: "Actionable alerts"
   description: "Actionable alerts"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit
   ms.custom: team=cloud_advocates
   ms.contributors: dnb-05162021
-durationInMinutes: 3
+durationInMinutes: 5
 content: |
   [!include[](includes/8-actionable-alerts.md)]
 quiz:
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ quiz:
       isCorrect: false
       explanation: 'Log entries are much better at serving as a record of an event, an alert should not be used for this purpose.'
 
-  - content: 'Which of these options might be the best text to including in an actionable alert?'
+  - content: 'Which of these options might be the best text to include in an actionable alert?'
     choices:
     - content: 'The database server has a high error rate'
       isCorrect: false

learn-pr/advocates/improve-reliability-monitoring/9-summary.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title: "Summary"
 metadata:
   title: "Summary"
   description: "Summary"
-  ms.date: 08/18/2023
+  ms.date: 04/15/2026
   author: dnblankedelman
   ms.author: dnb
   ms.topic: unit