Specific Azure Services

Question 1

Azure Virtual Machines

Answer 1

Virtual Windows or Linux Server with ability to use “Lift and Shift” migration

Question 2

Azure App Service

Answer 2

Host web and mobile apps without using a VM

Question 3

Azure Container Instance

Answer 3

Host applications and it dependencies without a VM, but it does run from a VM

Question 4

Azure Kubernetes Service

Answer 4

A container of multiple Azure Container Instances

Question 5

Azure Functions

Answer 5

Executes an apps function, which only cost when the function is ran.

Question 6

Azure Blog Storage

Answer 6

Object storage with no hierarchical structure, it has a flat structure, its typically used for unstructured data like images, videos and log files

Question 7

Azure File Storage

Answer 7

Hierarchical structure, a typical file server

Question 8

Azure Data Lake Storage

Answer 8

Hierarchical structure, Hadoop-compatible storage for use with data analytics apps

Question 9

Azure SQL Database

Answer 9

Standard SQL database

Question 10

Azure DB for Open Source

Answer 10

SQL such as MySQL

Question 11

Azure Synapse Analytics

Answer 11

A database warehouse

Question 12

Azure Cosmos DB

Answer 12

Microsofts main NoSQL Database offering, which can scale rapidly.

Question 13

Azure Cache for Redis

Answer 13

Used to speed up apps by caching frequently used data

Question 14

VNet

Answer 14

A virtual network, just like you may have a network on-prem. To host a VM, its required to be in a VNet

Question 15

Subnets

Answer 15

Just like a physical network, you can split a VNet up into Subnets.

Question 16

VNet Peering

Answer 16

VNet Peering allows you to connect two or more VNets together which allows them to communicate with each other.

Question 17

Azure VPN

Answer 17

Send encrypted data over the public internet

Question 18

Azure ExpressRoute

Answer 18

A dedicated high speed connection between your site and Azure datacenter.

Question 19

Azure Migrate

Answer 19

Discovers your on-prem servers, assesses them, and tell you if its ready fro migration, how big the VM will be, how much it will cost, and any dependencies that will need to be migrated.

Question 20

Azure Active Directory

Answer 20

Like on-prem AD for identity management.

Question 21

Azure Pipelines

Answer 21

Lets you create automated workflows to continuously build, test and deploy code.

Question 22

Azure DevTest Labs

Answer 22

Makes it easy to spin up none production environment.,

Question 23

Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Answer 23

Speeds up applications, caches your most frequently used content and caches it around the world

Question 24

Azure IoT Central

Answer 24

Lets you create IoT applications without writing any code.

Question 25

Azure IoT Hub

Answer 25

More customizable of IoT central

Question 26

Azure IoT Sphere

Answer 26

Offers security for your IoT devices.

Question 27

Azure HDInsight

Answer 27

Supports open-source big data frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive and Storm

Question 28

Azure Databricks

Answer 28

More user friendly than HDInsight and runs Spark

Question 29

Azure Synapes Analytics

Answer 29

Combines Data Warehouse functionality with support for Spark.

Question 30

Azure Cognitive Services

Answer 30

A collection of pre-built AI tools, allows you to add AI even if you dont know anything about machine learning.

Question 31

Azure Bot Service

Answer 31

A tool to allow you to create a chat bot

Question 32

Azure Machine Learning Studio

Answer 32

Allows you to build and deploy machine learning models without knowing the code, using drag and drop interface.

Question 33

Azure Machine Learning Service

Answer 33

Used when you need to build your own machine learning model from scratch with code.

Question 34

Azure Logic Apps

Answer 34

A tool that can monitor when things have changed, for example, when a customer uploads a document to blob storage.

Question 35

Azure Event Grid

Answer 35

A tool that allows you to build a notification system when events happen, like an event in Logic Apps.