Technology Overview

Question 1

What is Azure VM?

Answer 1

A Virtual Machine provided by Azure. You can choose either Windows or Linux. You can choose among different computing resources

Question 2

Azure Container Services?

Answer 2

Containers as a service to run docker

Question 3

Azure Kubernetes Services?

Answer 3

Easy to manage and scale several containers

Question 4

Azure Service Fabric?

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For managing, packaging and deploying microservices

Question 5

Azure Functions?

Answer 5

Serverles, your code just runs and shut down. You only pay for the times your code runs

Question 6

Azure Batch?

Answer 6

Jobs in paralel. Spot VMs gives you better price if you don’t care about your service being interrupted

Question 7

Azure Blob Storage?

Answer 7

• Serverless Storage
• Unstrucutured files
• Large files

Question 8

Azure Disk Storage?

Answer 8

• Encryption by default
• Can choose between HDD and SSD
• Attach Volume to VMs

Question 9

Azure File Storage?

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• File server

- Can be shared among serveral VMs

Question 10

Azure Queue Storage?

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• Messaging storage for integrating applications

Question 11

Azure Table Storage?

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• Wide-Column NoSQL database

Question 12

Azure Databox?

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• Designed to move petabytes or terabytes of data

- Instead of transfering over a network is physically moved

Question 13

Azure Archive Storage?

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• Cold Storage

- Might take longer but cheaper

Question 14

Azure Data Lakse Storage?

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• Centralized repository to have data from many sources

- Supports structured or unstructured data

Question 15

Azure Cosmos DB?

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Microsoft database for NoSQL is supposed to have cool features and support big amounts of data

Question 16

Azure SQL Database?

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SQL Server with all the cool features, like auto scale, integral intelligence and robust security

Question 17

Mysql/ PSQL/ MariaDB what features do they have in common in Azure?

Answer 17

Fully managed
Scalable
Secure
Highly Available

Question 18

SQL Server on VMs?

Answer 18

Doesn’t have all cool features of Azure SQL Database but provides lift and shift (easy change from on premises)

Question 19

Azure Synapse Analytics?

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Data warehouse

Question 20

Azure Database Migration Service?

Answer 20

Migrate your databases to cloud with no application changes

Question 21

Azure Cache for Redis?

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Is a cache storage for delivering frequently accessed data faster

Question 22

Azure Notifications Hub?

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Publish/Subscribe. Send push notifications from any backend to your Azure resources

Question 23

Azure API Apps?

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Easily expose your API endpoints

Question 24

Azure Service Bus?

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Is like Kafka but built by Microsoft

Question 25

Azure Stream Analytics?

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Serverless real-time analytics

Question 26

Azure Logic Apps?

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Is like a way to trigger logical things within Azure resources like send emails in Office 365 when an file is uploaded. Drag and drop

Question 27

Azure API Management?

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Is like a proxy for your endpoints to add additional functionality

Question 28

Azure Signal R service?

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Provides real time messaging

Question 29

Azure App Service?

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Deploy java, node js, python applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure. Think of it like Heroku of Azure

Question 30

Xamarin?

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An app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#.

Question 31

Azure Boards?

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Agile tools like Jira

Question 32

Azure pipelines?

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CI/CD compatible with github

Question 33

Azure Repos?

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Github

Question 34

Azure Test Plans?

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Manual and exploratory testing tool like Cypress

Question 35

Azure Artifact?

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Share maven and npm packages

Question 36

Azure Dev-test labs?

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Create dev test environments

Question 37

Azure Resource Manager (ARM)?

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Allows you to programatically create Azure resources with a JSON template

Question 38

Azure QuickStart?

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Pre made ARM templates created by partners or community

Question 39

Azure Virtual Network?

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Is an isolated network within the Azure Network where you can put your resources

Question 40

Subnets?

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logical groups within the Virtual Network

Question 41

Azure Front Door

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Scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global applications

Question 42

Azure Express Route

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- Connection between On Premises and Azure | - 10mbps to 50 gb

Question 43

Azure Connection

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A vpn connection that ensures two azures networks

Question 44

Virtual Network Gateway

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A way of connecting to Azure from your on premises via VPN

Question 45

Azure Traffic Manager

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Distributes load at DNS level

Question 46

Azure DNS

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Allows you to host your domain names on Azure

Question 47

Azure Load Balancer?

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evenly distribute incoming network traffic at Transport Layer. Allows different availability zones. Allows Public or Private Load Balancer

Question 48

Scale Sets?

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Identical VMs and automatically scale based on metrics or schedule

Question 49

IoT Central

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Connect IoT devices to the cloud (SaaS)

Question 50

IoT Hub

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Connect IoT devices tot he cloud securely and at SCALE MILLIONS (PaaS)

Question 51

IoT Edge

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Azure solution for edge computing with IoT

Question 52

Azure Synapse Analytics

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run SQL queries to do reporting

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HDInsight

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open-source analytics software Kafka Hadoop

Question 54

Azure Databricks

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data analysis with Apache Spark

Question 55

Data lake Analytics

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holds raw data on large amounts until it's needed

Question 56

Azure Machine Learning Service

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Run ML/AI workloads with flexible pipelins. Python R, etc

Question 57

Azure Web Portal

Answer 57

Manage Azure resources on chrome

Question 58

Powershell

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command line and scripting language for Azure

Question 59

Azure Powershell

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powershell for azure

Question 60

Cloud Shell

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browser accessible shell for managing Azure Resources. Use bash

Question 61

Azure CLI

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is an executable that you can install on your computer to interact with azure from your local terminal