Core Azure Services Flashcards

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What is Azure Advisor

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Analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry

Recommends solutions to help improve the cost effectiveness, performance, security, and availability of your resources

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What are Azure Storage Tables?

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Auto-scaling No-SQL storage, based on key/value pairs

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What is an Azure Load Balancer?

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Enables you to load-balance incoming internet traffic or internal traffic to your VMs

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What is an Internet of Things (IoT)?

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Made up of one or more IoT devices and one or more back-end services running in the cloud that communicate with each other

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What is the Azure CLI?

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Command line experience for managing Azure resources.

You can install it on macOS, Linux, and Windows and run it from the command line.

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What are Resource Groups?

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  • Containers of related Azure services grouped together
  • Resources should share same lifecycle
  • Free
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What is the Azure Machine Learning Studio?

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Collaborative, drag-and-drop visual workspace where you can build, test, and deploy machine learning solutions without the need to write code.

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What is an Azure VM Scale Set?

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Auto-scaling pool of IaaS VMs

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What is Azure App Service?

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On-demand auto-scaling web/mobile/API app hosting

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What are Azure Storage Files?

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Fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Mount file shares concurrently in the cloud or on-premises on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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What is Azure Function?

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Event-driven, serverless compute resources

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What is Azure Data Lake?

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On-demand analytics job service.

Easily develop and run massively parallel data transformation and processing over petabytes of data.

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13
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What are Azure Regions?

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Groups of multiple Azure Data Centers in a geographic space

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What is Azure IoT Central?

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Fully managed SaaS solution.

Easily connect, monitor, and manage your IoT devices/assets at scale.

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What is Azure Powershell?

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Set of PowerShell cmdlets for managing Azure resources.

Uses .NET standard, making it available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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16
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What is Azure HDInsight?

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Open-source framework for distributed processing and analysis of Big Data sets on clusters.

17
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What is Azure Cloud Shell?

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Interactive, browser-accessible shell that runs Bash or PowerShell.

18
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What is Azure Cosmos DB?

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Globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database service.

19
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What is Azure Blob Storage?

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Object store for unstructured data

20
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What is the Azure Portal?

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Build, manage, and monitor every Azure resource in a single, unified console.

https://portal.azure.com

21
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What is an Azure VM?

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On-demand IaaS compute resources - Virtual Machine

22
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What is Azure Event Grid?

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Fully managed event routing service.

23
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What is an Azure Virtual Network (vnet)?

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Enables Azure resources to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks.

24
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What is the Azure Machine Learning Service?

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Provides a cloud-based environment you can use to prep data and train, test, deploy, manage, and track machine learning models.

25
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What is Azure Disk Storage?

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Persistent, highly-secure, cost-effective SSD/HDD options to support Azure Virtual Machines

26
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What is the Azure Logic Apps?

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Visual designer for automating and orchestrating serverless tasks, processes, and workflows.

Connect 100+ Azure and third-party services.

27
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What is the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)?

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Efficiently delivers web content from locations that are close to end users to minimize latency.

28
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What is Azure Storage Queue?

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Message queue to decouple applications

29
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What is Azure IoT Hub?

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Core Azure PaaS messaging service used by Azure IoT Central.

Enables reliable and secure bidirectional communications between millions of IoT devices and a cloud solution.

30
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What is Azure SQL Database?

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Relational database management system
IaaS - SQL server on Azure Virtual Machines
PaaS - Fully managed SQL database engine

31
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What are Azure Initiatives?

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A collection of policy definitions that are tailored towards achieving a singular overarching goal

32
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What is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?

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Cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).

Leverages massively parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data.

33
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What is Azure Database Migration Service?

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Enables seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure data platforms with minimal downtime.

34
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What is Azure Resource Manager (ARM)?

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The Azure deployment and management service

35
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What is Azure Service Health?

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Provides a view of service issues, planned maintenance, and health advisories for Azure services and regions

36
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What is Azure Monitor?

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Collects granular performance and utilization data, activity and diagnostics logs, and notifications from your Azure resources all in one place

37
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What is Azure App Gateway?

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A web traffic load balancer that is even more customizable than Azure Load Balancer.