AZ-305 Set 2 Flashcards
Azure service for Semi structured Data (databases)
Cosmos-DB
Azure service for Structured Data (databases)
SQL
SQL Pricing- DTU
Not allowed with elastic pools. It will always be a single database
Also predictable workloads. Typically the cheapest cost. Also no HA options or bring your own licenses
SQL pricing- vCore
Allows you to Bring your own sql licenses–called sql hybrid core benefit, multiple databases
Azure SQL Server Databases- Business Critical/Premium Features
- Designed for OLTP apps
- High Transaction rates
- Highest resilience to failures by using several isolated replicas
- Deploys an always On availability group using multiple synchronously updated replicas
- Uses local SSD storage and RA-GRS (Backup files)
Azure SQL Databases- Hyper-scale
- Designed for very large OLTP databases as large as 100 TB
- Able to auto scale storage and scale compute
- Captures instant backups (snapshots)
- Restores in minutes rather than hours or days
- Scales up and down in real time to accommodate workload changes
Features of Cosmos DB
- Semi structure
- Non rational
- Non sql
- Globally redundant
- SLA Guaranteed sub 10 ms read and write
Azure Queues features
- Requires a client for this
- Azure queue message size 64k
- Can hold up to 80gb of data
- Azure queue is asynchronously not real time
- You can use Azure functions to be triggered when a message is in the queue
Azure Service Bus- Queues and Topics
First in first out
Guarantees delivery
Azure Event Hub features
- Publisher-subscriber–also called producer and consumer
- You need a producer client and a consumer client for this to work
- Uses a pull model allowing multiple reads from consumers
- Receiving real-time streaming data
- Orders events by when they are received
- Scaling is controlled by how many throughput units or processing units you purchase
Azure API Management Features
- Brings multiple APIs under a single admin umbrella-centralized mgmt
- Manage permissions and access
- Standardized API specs
- Ensures compliance across API
- Protects the APIs from malicious usage
Difference between Azure App Registration vs Enterprise Application
Enterprise Apps provide pre-built integrations with Microsoft Entra ID, while App Registrations enable custom-built or third-party applications to use Microsoft Entra ID security features
What is Azure CycleCloud
Azure CycleCloud is an enterprise-friendly tool for orchestrating and managing High Performance Computing (HPC) environments on Azure. With CycleCloud, users can provision infrastructure for HPC systems, deploy familiar HPC schedulers, and automatically scale the infrastructure to run jobs efficiently at any scale
Azure Analysis Services
An enterprise-grade analytics as a service that lets you govern, deploy, test and deliver your business intelligence (Power BI) solution with confidence, basically a PaaS solution that provides enterprise-grade data models in the cloud.
Azure batch to run 2 different jobs on Linux node. First job to run short-running tasks for development environment
User subscription and dedicated vms
User subscriptions does not support low-priority vms, only spot instance vms
