Describe Core Azure Services Flashcards by Douglas Cooper

Describe Regions

datacenters are organized and made available to end users by region.

A region is a geographical area on the planet containing at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are in close proximity and networked together with a low-latency network.

Azure intelligently assigns and controls the resources within each region to ensure workloads are appropriately balanced.

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Describe Availability Zones

Availability zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region that use availability sets to provide additional fault tolerance.

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Describe a resource group

A unit of management for your resources in Azure.

Everything gets deleted together

Can apply that to a resource group and all the contents are updated.

Create using 
Portal
Power shell
Cli
Templates
Sdks

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Describe azure resource manager

Provides consistent management layer which allows you to automate the deployment of configured resources.

Apply tags
Control access
Json templates

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Define azure compute

An on demand computing service for running cloud based applications.

Available on demand only pay for use

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Describe virtual

Machines

Software emulations of physical computers
Have an operating system.
Required maintenance and patching

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Describe virtual

Machine a scale set

Used to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs.

Easy to build
Large scale deployments

Scales up and down

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Describe app services

App services is a paas offering.

Fully
Managed platform to run web mobile and api apps on any platform.

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Describe azure container instances (ACI)

ACI. Fastest and simplest way to run a container in azure without having to
Manage any vms or additional services.

Paas offering

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Describe azure Kubernetes service

Complete orchestration services for containers with distributed architectures and large volume of containers

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Describe azure virtual network

Virtual network scooped to a single region.
Enables resources to communicate securely

Virtual networking peering connects different regions together

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Describe load balancer

Supports inbound and outbound scenarios.
Low latency and high throughput.

Across a number of resources

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Describe vpn gateway

Sens encrypted traffic between azure network and an on prem network over internet.

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Describe application gateway

Web traffic load balancer

Layer 7

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Describe content delivery network

Distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users

Minimise latency

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Describe azure storage

Service to store files messages tables and other information

Used by iaas and paas

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Describe disk storage

Disks for virtual

Machines to stores fats or temp files on

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Describe azure blob storage

Object storage solution for the cloud.
Optimised for storing massive amounts
of unstructured data such as text or binary

Tiers
Hot - optimised for storing data that is frequently accessed
Cool - infrequently accesses. Stored for at least 30 days
Archive. - rarely accessed, stored for at least 180 days

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Describe file storage

Set up network file shares. Smb protocol

Describe azure database services

Fully managed paas database services. High availability

Describe azure cosmos dB

Globally
Distributed database service
Across any number of regions
Schema less data

Describe sql database

Relational database as a services daas

Without needing infrastructure managed

Describe azure migration service

Fully managed service enable seem less migrations from

Multiple databases to azure data platforms

Describe azure database for MySql

Azure MySQL database 99.99 ska

Describe azure database for Postgres

Build Massively scalable postgresSql applications Fully Managed

Describe azure marketplace

Connects user with partners offering solutions and services optimised To run on azure

Describe Internet of Things IoT

The IoT is the ability for devices to garner and then relay information for data analysis

Describe IoT Central

Fully managed global IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT assets at scale.

Describe IoT Hub

Is a managed service hosted in the cloud that acts as a central message hub for bidirectional communications between your IoT applications and devices it manages.

Explain big data and analytics

Large volumes of data. Traditional forms of processing are no longer appropriate Open source Cluster technologies try to deal with these Large sets

Describe azure synapse analytics

Limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big day analytics

Describe HDInsight

``` Fully managed open source analytics service for enterprises. Allows you to run popular open source frameworks And crew the e cluster types Spark Hadoop Kafka Hanse Storm Machine learning services ``` Supports ETL , data warehousing, machine learning, IoT

Describe databricks

A fully Managed fast easy and collaborative apache spark based analytics platform optimised for Azure

Describe artificial intelligence

Machine learning Forecast future behaviours, outcomes And trends Without being explicitly programmmed

Describe azure machine learning service

Cloud based environment you can use to develop, train, test, deploy, manage and track machine learning models Automate generation and tuning models Python environment

Describe serverless computing

Cloud hosted execution environment runs code but abstracts underlying hosting environment Responds to events Only Runs when triggered by an event Scaling and performance handled automatically

Describe azure functions

Commonly Used to perform work in response To an event No concern for infrastructure Pay as you Use model Stateless

Describe azure logic apps

Automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes and workflows Integrate apps , data, systems No code to write

Describe azure event grid

Build applications with event based architecture Fully Managed Intelligent event routing uses a publish subscribe model

Describe azure devils

Allows you to create, build, and release pipelines that provide Continuous integration delivery and deployment for applications

Describe Azure devops

Development collaboration tools | Formerly visual studio team studios vsts

Describe devtest labs

Create environments quickly. Minimising waste and controlling costs. Test latest applications quickly Providing windows And Linux environments

Describe Azure portal

Website where you can create,manage and monitor services. Does not provide automation of repetitive tasks

Describe Azure Powershell

Module added to windows powershell or powershell core Runs on Windows Linux or macOS

Describe azure CLI

Cross platform command line program executed administrative command on azure resources Cross platform. Windows Linux macOS

Describe Azure cloud shell

Browser based scripting environment Linux Nash or Windows powershell Storage account required

Describe Azure advisor

Free service Provides recommendations on high availability, security, performance cost. Access through portal