Azure

Question 1

What is Azure?

Answer 1

Azure is a comprehensive set of cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy, and manage applications through our global network of datacenters. Integrated tools, DevOps, and a marketplace support you in efficiently building anything from simple mobile apps to internet-scale solutions.

Question 2

DevOps

Answer 2

DevOps brings together people, processes, and technology, automating software delivery to provide continuous value to your users. With Azure DevOps solutions, deliver software faster and more reliably

Question 3

Continuous integration (CI)

Answer 3

Take advantage of continuous integration to improve software development quality and speed. When you use Visual Studio Team Services or Jenkins to build apps in the cloud and deploy to Azure, each time you commit code, it’s automatically built and tested—so bugs are detected faster.

Question 4

Continuous delivery (CD)

Answer 4

Ensure that code and infrastructure are always in a production-deployable state, with continuous delivery. By combining continuous integration and infrastructure as code (IaC), you’ll achieve identical deployments and the confidence you need to manually deploy to production at any time.

Question 5

Continuous deployment with CI/CD

Answer 5

With continuous deployment, you can automate the entire process from code commit to production if your CI/CD tests are successful. Using CI/CD practices, paired with monitoring tools, you’ll be able to safely deliver features to your customers as soon as they’re ready.

Question 6

Increase reliability and repeatability

Answer 6

Automate provisioning and configuration of environments using IaC. Capture environment definitions as declarative code, such as JSON or YAML. Then, reliably provision an identical environment with DevOps tools including Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, or Ansible.

Question 7

Get actionable insights

Answer 7

Monitor infrastructure health with Azure Log Analytics and Azure Monitor and integrate into existing dashboards like Grafana or Kibana. Azure Application Insights provides actionable insights through application performance management and instant analytics.

Question 8

Enhance compliance and security

Answer 8

Using DevOps tools such as Chef Automate or Azure Policy, you can manage provisioned infrastructure and applications to ensure compliance. Combined with services like Azure Security Center, you’ll limit your exposure to threats and quickly find and remediate vulnerabilities.

Question 9

(FIPS) 140-2

Answer 9

Federal Information Processing Standard
FIPS 140-2. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2, (FIPS PUB 140-2), is a U.S. government computer security standard used to approve cryptographic modules.

Question 10

Azure Key Vault

Answer 10

Azure Key Vault helps safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets used by cloud applications and services. By using Key Vault, you can encrypt keys and secrets (such as authentication keys, storage account keys, data encryption keys, .PFX files, and passwords) using keys protected by hardware security modules (HSMs). For added assurance, you can import or generate keys in HSMs. If you choose to do this, Microsoft processes your keys in FIPS 140-2 Level 2 validated HSMs (hardware and firmware).

Question 11

Azure Financial Team

Answer 11

What attracted us to Azure, and what differentiated Azure from everyone else, was its financial services compliance team. Azure partners with federal regulators, both domestic and international, to ensure that its environment supports financial services compliance and auditability needs.

Question 12

Azure Active Directory

Answer 12

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a comprehensive identity and access management cloud solution that gives you a robust set of capabilities to manage users and groups. It helps secure access to on-premises and cloud applications, including Microsoft web services like Office 365, and many non-Microsoft software as a service (SaaS) applications. Azure AD comes in three editions: Free, Basic, and Premium.

Question 13

Simplify user access to any cloud app

Answer 13

Enable single sign-on to simplify user access to thousands of cloud applications from Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS devices. Users can launch applications from a personalized web-based access panel or mobile app using their company credentials. Use the Azure AD Application Proxy module to go beyond SaaS applications and publish on-premises web applications to provide highly-secure remote access and single sign-on.

Question 14

Protect sensitive data and applications

Answer 14

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication prevents unauthorized access to on-premises and cloud applications by providing an additional level of authentication. Protect your business and mitigate potential threats with security monitoring, alerts, and machine learning-based reports that identify inconsistent access patterns.

Question 15

Enable self-service for your employees

Answer 15

Delegate important tasks to your employees, such as resetting passwords and creating and managing groups. Provide self-service password change, reset, and self-service group management with Azure AD Premium.

Question 16

Use a rich standards-based platform for cloud authentication and access management

Answer 16

Azure AD gives developers an effective way to integrate identity management into their applications. Industry-standard protocols such as Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0), WS-Federation, and OpenID Connect make sign-on possible on a variety of platforms such as .NET, Java, Node.js, and PHP. The REST-based Graph API enables developers to read and write to the directory from any platform. Through support for OAuth 2.0, developers can build mobile and web applications that integrate with Microsoft and partner web APIs, and build their own highly-secure web APIs. Open-source client libraries are available for .NET, Windows Store, iOS, and Android, with more libraries under development.

Question 17

Azure Active Directory supports thousands of preintegrated SaaS apps for single sign-on

Answer 17

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Question 18

Multi-Factor Authentication

Answer 18

More security for your data and applications—without added hassles for your customers

safeguard access by mobile apps, phone calls, and text messages
Deploy on-premises or on Azure
Reduce risk, meet compliance requirements
Protect Office 365, Salesforce, Dropbox, and other SaaS apps
Use with VPN, Microsoft IIS, RADIUS, and LDAP
Get real-time fraud monitoring and alerts

Question 19

MFA

Answer 19

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication helps safeguard access to data and applications, and helps to meet customer demand for a simple sign-in process. Get strong authentication with a range of easy verification options—phone call, text message, or mobile app notification—and allow customers to choose the method they prefer.

Question 20

MFA

Answer 20

Build it into your applications
Use the SDK, and your application’s existing customer database, to integrate Multi-Factor Authentication into your application’s sign-in or transaction processes.

Question 21

What is Azure Multi-Factor Authentication?

Answer 21

Two-step verification is a method of authentication that requires more than one verification method and adds a critical second layer of security to user sign-ins and transactions. It works by requiring any two or more of the following verification methods:

Something you know (typically a password)
Something you have (a trusted device that is not easily duplicated, like a phone)
Something you are (biometrics)

Question 22

Development and test

Answer 22

You’re delivering more features faster—keep up with a comprehensive set of development and testing tools for your team to collaborate and deliver at cloud speed. Quickly create consistent development and test environments on your terms through a scalable, on-demand infrastructure.

Question 23

Scalable, high-fidelity test environments

Answer 23

Replicate real-world usage scenarios in your test environment—and test at production scale to catch and fix problems before you release. If your production environment also runs on Azure, you can create an exact clone and gain a precise view into how your application will behave in the real world.