2021 Paid Flashcards
What is Azure AD?
Microsoft’s modern, cloud based identity solution which supports users, devices and applications. Once given access by an IT Admin, It allows employees to sign in and access the resources available to them. This includes External resources, such as Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications. Also includes internal resources such as apps on your corporate network and intranet, along with any cloud apps developed by your own organization. Azure AD allows Admins to add users, delete/remove users, deploy apps and different services to specific users and more.
Name a unique security feature.
Azure includes information protection. Protects users from password spray attacks and includes intrusion detection.
What two things must a domain name be?
Must be available and must end in a “.”.
What is RBAC?
Role based access control is the practice of restricting system access to authorized users. Comes with three primary rules: Role assignment & authorization, and permission authorization.
What does the user creation process consist of?
New User, create user, user name, first & last name, auto generate passwords, create.
Why would the “New User” button be disabled?
If the user isn’t an Admin, then the new user button is disabled. Only Administrators can add & manage Users.
What is meant by “Single Tenant” in Azure?
Single Tenant means that the specified app is only available for use within the organization.
What is meant by multi-tenant?
This means that People outside of the organization can use the app.
What is a public client?
This means that the Machine is not in Admin’s control, and the app is deployed to the User’s machine.
What are Confidential Clients?
Apps that run on servers, such as web apps, web API apps, or even Daemon apps. They’re considered difficult to access so they’re capable of keeping applications a secret.
What is OAuth?
A modern authentication standard. Basically this works by saying, I am allowing A to do B on my behalf. At no point does A get my password. B is a set of permissions. (Think Face Book allowing Tinder to access a User’s profile).
Name a few issues with OAuth.
Overshares information such as sharing a game score to Facebook wall, also OAuth doesn’t know User for sure.
What does OpenID Connect do?
Adds strict standards so that OAuth can be used as an authentication protocol. Builds an identity layer on top of OAuth.
What is cloud computing?
A style of computing in which IT enabled capabilities are delivered as a service using internet technologies.
What is IAAS?
Infrastructure as a service. This style of cloud computing consists of virtual machines, hard drive storage, networking, IP Addresses and more.