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What is Azure

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Azure is MS Cloud platform with World Wide data centers

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What is cloud computing and what pricing model does it typically use

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Delivering of computing services over the internet.

Using a PAYG pricing model (i.e Rent compute power/storage from someone elses data centre)

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Why Cloud?

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Move faster and innovate in ways that were once impossible

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What in perticular does Azure offer

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  • Over 100 Services to do things - ( fromVMs to run existing apps on TO explore new software paradigms such as intelligent bots and mixed reality)
  • May start by lift and shift of VMs but Azure is more than just a place to host VMs (e.g. Azure provides AI and ML services)
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What are the common catergories of Azure Services

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  • Compute
  • Networking
  • Storage
  • Mobile
  • Databases
  • Web
  • IOT
  • BigData
  • AI
  • DevOps
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What are Azure VMs

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VMs hosted in Azure

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What are VM Scale Sets

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Scaling for VMs in Azure

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What is the Azure Kubernetes Service

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Management of VM Cluster running containerized service

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What is Azure Service Fabric

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Distributed Systems platform - Azure OR on Prem

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What is Azure Batch

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Managed Service with High performance for parrallell compute aplications

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What are Azure Container Instances

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Containerized Apps on Azure without Server provision

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What are Azure Functions

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Event Driven Serverless compute service

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What is Azure vNet

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Connects VMs to incoming VPN connections

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What is Azure Load Balancer

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Balances in/out bound connections to service end points

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What is Azure App Gateway

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Optimizes App server farm delivering increasing app security

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What is Azure VPN Gateway

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Access vNets through VPN gateway

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What is Azure DNS

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Ultrafast DNS responses through ultra high domain availability

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What is Azure CDN

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Content Delivery Network, Deliver high bandwidth content locally

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What is Azure DDOS Protection

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Protects Azure Apps from DDoS attacks

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What is Azure Traffic Manager

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Distributes network traffic across regions world wide

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What is Azure Express Route

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Connects to Azure over dedicated high bandwidth line

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What is Azure Network Watcher

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Monitors/DIagnoses network issues using scenerio based analysis

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What is Azure Fire wall

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High Security, High Availabilty firewall with unlimited scaling

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Whar is Azure vWAN

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Create unified WAN connectivity for local and remote sites

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What are the main types of storage in Azure and what are they used for
- Azure Blob Storage - Service for large objects - video files, bitmaps etc - Azure File Storage - FIle shares, access as an SMB share - Azure Queue Storage - For queuing and delivering messages between apps. - Azure Table Storage - NoSQL store for unstructured data, schema interdependent
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Azure Mobile services enable many features, what are some of them
Enabling developers to create mobile backend services, features that used to take time and increase project risk (such as corporate sign in) now simple to include. Other features include - Offline data sync - Connect to On-Prem data - Broadcast - Push notifications - Autoscale to business needs
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Azure Database Services allow a variety of DB engines to store a variety of database types. What are Non MS SQL, SQL Databases avalable
- Azure DB for MySQL - Fully managed + Scalable with HA and Security - Azyre DB for PostgreSQL - Fully managed and scalable with HA and security - Azure for MariaDB - Fully managed, Scalable, HA and Secure.
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What is Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Cosmos DB - Globally distributed - NoSQL DB
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What is Azure SQL DB
Azure SQL DB - Fully managed relational DB, autoscale, intergration, intelligence + robust security
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What is SQL Server on VMs
- SQL Server on VMs - Host SQL Server on a VM in the cloud
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What is Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure Synapse Analytics - Managed datawarehouse with integral security @ every level at no extra cost
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What is the purpose of the Azure DB Migration Service
- Azure DB Migration Service - Migrates DBs to the cloud with no app changes
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What is the Azure cache for Redis
- Azure Cache for Redis - Caches frequent and static data to reduce DB and APP latency
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What is the purpose of the Azure App Service
- Azure App Service - Quickly create cloud based webapps
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What is Azure Notification Hubs
- Azure Notification Hubs - Push notifications to any platform from any backend
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What is Azure API Management
- Azure API Management - Publish APIs securely at scale
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What is Azure Cognitive Search
- Azure Cognitive Search - Fully managed Search as Service
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What is IOT Central
IOT Central - Managed/Global IOT SaaS, connect, monitor and manage IOT devices at scale
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What is Azure IOT Hub
AZURE IOT HUB - Messaging Hub, secure comms monitoring millions of IOT Devices
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What is IOT Edge
IOT Edge - Push data analysis models to IOT device so they don't need to call home
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Having big data i.e. 100s of GBs where the volume makes it hard to analyze and make desisions, often too big for traditional forms of processing and analysing, what are some of the Azure Services that can help with this
Azure Synapse Analytics Azure HD Insight Azure Data Bricks
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What is the purpose of Azure Synapse Analytics
- Azure Synapse Analytics - Analytics @ scale using Cloud enterprise data warehouse, massive parallel processing runs complex queries over petabytes of data
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What is Azure HD Insight
- Azure HD Insight - Process data with managed Hadoop Clusters in cloud
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What is Azure DataBricks
- Azure Data Bricks = ApacheSpark based analytics, integrate with other Azure Big data services
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What is the core of AI
Core is Machines learning, allows computers to trend and forecast without explicit programming
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What Machine Learning Services does Azure offer
Azure Machine Learning Service | Azure ML Studio
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What is the Azure Machine Learning Service
- Azure Machine Learning Service - Cloud based env to work on ML models, auto generate/tune. Start on local machine then scale out to cloud
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What is Azure Machine Learning Studio
- Azure ML Studio - Drag and Drop workspace for ML solutions using prebuilt algorithms + data handling modules
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What are some of the closely related cognitive services to ML and AI that use Prebuilt APIs
Vision = Image processing algorithms to categorise and index as well as moderate pics/vids Speech = Convert audio to text, voice verification, speaker recognition Knowledge Mapping = Map complex info, solve tasks like intelligent recommendations Bing Search - Add Bing APIs to apps, comb billions of pages, images, videos and news.
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Define DevOps
- Automates software delivery bringing continuous value - Create Build and Release pipelines, provide continuous integration, delivery + deployment, automate infra deployment, intergrate with Jenkins and chef
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What was Azure DevOps Previously known as
Azure DevOps - Previously Visual Studio team services
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What does Azure DevOps provide
- Dev collaboration tools - High Perf Pipelines, private GIT, Kanban boards - Extensible automated cloud based load testing
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What does Azure DevTest Labs allow
Azure DevTest Labs -Quickly create on demand Windows and Linux environments, Test and demo apps directly from deployment pipeline
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What is the Azure Market Place
Online store hosting Apps Certified for Azure
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The elasticity of the cloud can save you money, what is meant by elasticity
Cloud is elastic you can scale down or in if you scaled out or up temporairily - this can save money.

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