AZ-900

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The ability to recover from a cloud service outage. Should happen quickly through automation.

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Disaster Recovery

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The ability to keep services up and running for long periods of time, while experiencing little to no downtime.

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High Availability

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The ability to increase or decrease resources for a given workload. You can add resources to service a workload (scale out), or add additional capabilities to handle increases in demand (scale up).

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Scalability

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The ability to automatically or dynamically increase or decrease resources as necessary.

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Elasticity

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The ability to react quickly. Cloud services can allocate and deallocate resources quickly.

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Agility

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The ability to remain up and running if a component or service is no longer functioning

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Fault Tolerance

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The ability to react quickly. Cloud services can allocate and deallocate resources quickly.

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Predictive Cost

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Best when you need more control over the computing environment than what other compute choices offer.

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Azure Virtual Machines

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Offers the fastest and simplest way to run a container in Azure, without having to manage any virtual machines.

A great solution for any scenario that can operate in isolated containers, including simple applications, task automation,

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Azure Container Instances

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An HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends

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Azure App Service

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A managed Kubernetes offering that simplifies container-based application deployment and management

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Azure Kubernetes Services

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Allows you to implement your system’s logic into readily available blocks of code. These code blocks are called “functions”. Different functions can run anytime you need to respond to critical events.

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Azure Functions

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A collection of Microsoft-managed cloud services that connect, monitor, and control billions of IoT assets. In simpler terms, an IoT solution is made up of one or more IoT devices that communicate with one or more back-end services hosted in the cloud.

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Internet of Things

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Provides added security for user authentications by requiring two or more elements for authentication.

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Multi-Factor Authentication

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Allows you to configure network security as an extension of an application’s structure and reuse your security policies at scale.

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Azure handles the complexity of explicit IP addresses and multiple rule sets.

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Filters network traffic to and from Azure resources connected to Azure Virtual Networks.

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Network Security Group

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Provides developer services for support teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications

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DevOps

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Designed for serving images or documents directly to a browser, storing files for distributed access, streaming video and audio, and for writing to log files.

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Azure Blob Storage

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Fully managed file shares in the cloud are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol or Network File System (NFS) protocol.

Can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments

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Azure Files

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Microsoft’s managed network security service in Azure that protects Azure Virtual Network resources. Uses a static public IP address to represent the virtual network resources behind it.

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Azure Firewall

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A scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution that delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response.

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Azure Sentinel

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Used to provide threat protection for services in Azure and on-premises. Continuously monitors all services, performs automatic security assessments, and uses machine learning to detect and block malware.

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Azure Security Center

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Stores application secrets in a centralized cloud location, to securely control access permissions, and access logging

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Azure Key Vault

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Microsoft’s security solution that is used to identify, detect, and investigate advanced threats and compromised identities. Available as part of the Enterprise Mobility + Security 5 suite and as a standalone license.

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Azure Advanced Threat Protection

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Used to create, assign, and, manage policies that enforce different rules and effects over your resources. Performs evaluations of resources and scans for those that are not compliant

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Azure Policy

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Provides fine-grained access management for Azure resources. Used to segregate duties within your team, granting only the specific access that your users need to perform their jobs.

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Role-Based Access Control

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Used to prevent accidental deletion or modification of Azure resources. Managed from within the Azure portal.

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Resource Locks

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Used to define repeatable sets of Azure resources that implement and adhere to standards, patterns, and requirements. A declarative way to manage the deployment of many different resource templates and other artifacts, like role assignments, policy assignments, Azure Resource Manager templates and resource groups.

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Azure Blueprints

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Used to logically organize your Azure resources. Consist of name-value pairs and help organize resources for billing.

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Azure Tags

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Allows you to collect, analyze, and act upon telemetry from both cloud and on-prem environments.

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Azure Monitor

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Provides personalized guidance and support whenever issues with Azure services affect you.

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Azure Service Health

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Provides information and details that outline how Microsoft implements and supports security, privacy, compliance, and transparency in all Microsoft cloud products and services.

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Trust Center

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It hosts the Compliance Manager service. It's where microsoft publishes audit reportsand other compliance-related information.

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Service Trust Portal

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A workflow-based risk assessment dashboard within the Trust Portal used to track, assign and verify regulatory compliance activities

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Compliance Manager

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Addresses the security and compliance needs of many federal agencies in the US, state and local governments, and their solution providers.

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Azure Government Services

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A physically separate instance of Azure that's located in China and operated by a separate organization called 21Vianet

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Azure China 21Vianet

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Discrete markets that preserve data residency and compliance boundaries that typically contain two or more regions. Allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications in close proximity. Categorized as Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa.

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Geographies

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Physically separate locations within an Azure Region. Each zone includes one or more datacenters, equipped with independent power, cooling and networking. Act as an isolation boundary, so if one availability zone goes down, the other continues working.

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Availability zones

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Containers for multiple resources that share the same lifecycle

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Resource Groups

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Provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in Azure subscription.

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Azure Resource Manager

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Cloud-based on-demand computing service that provides computing resources such as disks, CPUs, memory, networking and OS

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Azure Compute

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A set of identically-configured virtual machines that supports true auto-scale. Can be scaled manually, automatically, or a combination of the two.

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VM Scale Set

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Allows several types of Azure resources to securely communicate

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Azure Virtual Network

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Supports inbound and outbound scenarios and allows you to scale applications and create high availability solutions. Load balances incoming internet traffic and internal traffic across Azure services.

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Azure Load Balancer

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Send encrypted traffic over the public internet between an Azure Virtual Network and an on-prem network and provides a secure connection from an on-prem environment to Azure.

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Virtual Network Gateway

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Provides for the management of traffic to web applications

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Azure Application Gateway

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Provides a distributed network of servers that efficiently deliver web content in their local region

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Content Delivery Network

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An instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the internet. Helps you avoid the expense and complexity of buying and managing your own physical servers and other datacenter infrastructure.

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IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)

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Includes servers, storage and networking, as well as middleware, development tools, business intelligence (BI) services, database management systems, and more. It is designed to support the complete web application life cycle: building, testing and deploying, managing, and updating.

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PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)

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Provides a complete software solution that you purchase as a pay-as-you-go basis from a cloud service provider. You rent the use of an app for your organization, and your users connect to it over the Internet, usually with a web browser.

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SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)

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Upfront expenditures on physical infrastructure that are deducted come tax time

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CapEx (Capital Expenditures)

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Billed immediately for products or services that are purchased when needed. Expenses are deducted from tax bill on same year.

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OpEx (Operating Expenses)

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The ability to reduce costs while improving efficiency as a result of operating at a larger scale versus operating at a smaller scale.

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Economies of Scale

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Resources do not belong to the organization utilizing them, but rather they are owned and operated by a third-party such as the cloud service provider. Public cloud models may make their resources available to multiple organizations. The most common cloud-type deployment model.

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Public cloud

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Cloud-type deployment owned and operated by the organization that uses the cloud resources. Each organization creates its own cloud environment in its datacenter Organization provides self-service access to compute resources to its user base and is responsible for maintaining and operating the service it provides.

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Private cloud

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Combines both Public and Private cloud-deployment in order to run applications where most appropriate.

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Hybrid cloud

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Ensures cloud workloads are secure and well-managed

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Shared Responsibility Model

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Authenticates & authorizes users so they can Access Azure products An account can have one subscription or multiple subscriptions

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Azure Subscription

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Used to estimate the cost of different Azure proucts

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Pricing Calculator

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Allows you to estimate cost savings that you realize by migrating your workloads to Azure

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TCO Calculator

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A set of tools you use to monitor, allocate, and optimize your Azure costs

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Cost Management

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Basic Support Developer Support Standard Support Professional Direct

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Azure Support Plan Options

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Formal Document that details the performance standards that apply to Azure products and services There are separate SLAs for many individual Azure products and services

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Service Level Agreement

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MTTR : Mean Time To Recovery is the average time it takes to restore a component or service after a failure occurs MTBF : Mean Time Between Failures is the length of time that you can reasonably expect a component to last between outages

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Availability Metrics

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RTO : Recovery Time Objective refers to the maximum acceptable time that an application or service can be unavailable after a failure RPO : Recovery Point Objective defines the maximum duration of data loss that is acceptable during a disaster

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Recovery Metrics

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An Azure feature available to certain Azure customers for evaluation purposes

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Private Preview

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A globally distributed database service that enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage

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Azure Cosmos DB

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An Azure feature available to all Azure customers for evaluation purposes

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Public Preview

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A relational database as a service (DaaS) based on the latest stable version of the Microsoft SQL Server database engine

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Azure SQL Database

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A fully-managed service designed to enable seamless migrations from multiple database sources to Azure data platforms with minimal downtime

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Azure Database Migration

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An integrated analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems. Azure Synapse brings together the best SQL technologies used in enterprise data warehousing, Spark technologies used for big data, Pipelines for data integration and ETL/ELT, and deep integration with other Azure services such as Power BI, Cosmos DB, and AzureML.

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Azure Synapse Analytics