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What is TDE in Azure Security ?
Transparent Data Encryption
How does Azure Sql Protect Data in Flight
Always Encrypted feature that keeps data encrypted
even while in storage at rest, during query processing and on network.
What is Azure SQL dynamic data masking
It helps in exposing data to non-privileged users by hiding sensitive data in query
results. This also works transparently without changing the application.
How is Azure SQL users and groups managed?
With Active Directory
To what level does Azure Sql Security got down to?
To the Row level
What is Row level Security?
row level security is wherein users can access only those rows that they are authorized to.
Does Azure SQL Use White listing?
Yes, you can white list IP addresses to give access to those Ip addresses
What are Elastic Pools?
Azure provides elastic pools that help in hosting multiple databases
on the same SQL Server and puts them on the same pool. Each pool has dedicated
DTUs assigned to them known as eDTU.
How Often does Azure SQL perform backups?
It performs
a full weekly backup, hourly differential backups and backup of transaction logs every
five minutes.
How are backups stored ?
The backups are then stored in a geo-redundant storage which keeps
multiple copies across geographies. In case of a disaster, Azure support can help get
these backups and restore them.
What additional Disaster recovery options are there?
Azure SQL also provides geo-replication of databases with up to four readable
secondary databases in different regions. All these primary and secondary databases
are continuously synchronised using asynchronous replication. It also provides
capability for auto-failover to another database in another region.
Azure SQL provides point-in-time recovery and restores databases as well.
How is performance Calculated in Azure SQL?
In DTUs
What are DTUs?
DTUs are Database Transactional Units. They are a
combination of compute, memory and storage resources are calculated together.
What language does Azure Sql Use?
T-Sql
What are the Two components of Azure Sql?
The logical SQL server
The Databases
What are the levels of performance provided by
Basic, Standard, Premium and PremiumRS
What is a SLA?
Service Level Agreement?
What do you need to tie SLAs to for Disaster Recovery?
The companies RPO and RTOs
What is RPO?
Recovery Point Objective
What is RTO?
Recovery Time Objective
Explain RTO and RPO
The RTO, or recovery time objective, is the maximum length of time after an outage that your company is willing to wait for the recovery process to finish.
The RPO, or recovery point objective, is the maximum amount of data loss your company is willing to accept as measured in time.
Are high availability For Azure Sql the Same for DW?
Yes
What are Elastic Pools Dedicated DTUs called
eDTUs
What is Azure SQL?
Its a fully managed instance of SQL Server in Azure Cloud.
Is Sharding a Feature of Azure SQL ?
Yes
What is Azure Stream Analytics?
Stream analytics is a fully managed data and event processing engine that provides Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) functionality for real-time
processes and analytics on the data getting streamed.
What are the inputs for Stream Analytics?
Azure Blob storage, IOT hub, and Event Hub
What types of transformation is done In Stream Analytics?
filtering, augmentation or enrichment. It has a SQL type query language that helps in grouping, aggregation, joining
What is the core component of stream analytics?
The Stream analytics engine
How does the Stream analytics engine do?
It is here that the stream analytics
jobs are executed and every component interacts together to ETL the data. This
engine keeps running and continuously executes jobs over time-series windows
to ensure that real-time insights can be gathered.
What can you do with the Stream Analytics Stream
Send data
to durable storage to Azure blob storage or present data using visualisation tools,
such as Power BI or use it to send notifications.
Name some Stream analytics Destinations
Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data lake, Azure Power BI Event Hub(for another stream), Sql DB and DW
Can Stream Analytics Partition?
Yes on all Outputs except Power BI
What is Data Egress and Why does it matter?
It is the data going out to external sources. It is charged in Azure.
How is Data Egress handled for Stream Analytics?
If the data is not going out of region the cost is not applicable.
What the Stream Job topology?
The Inputs, the Query and the Outputs
Can Stream combine multiple inputs?
Yes
Can a Stream output to multiple outputs
Yes
Names some Tools That Can Access Azure Data Analytics
HDInsight Hadoop, Azure Machine learning, steam analytics, data factory, event hubs
Where is Azure Data Lake Available?
East and Central US and North Europe
What type of Storage is Azure Data lake?
Azure Data Lake is a hierarchical file-based storage just as a Windows,
Linux or Hadoop file-system that has been optimized for efficient querying and
storage for big data workloads.
Does Azure Data Lake have High Availability ?
Yes it is replicated 3 times in different Data centers
Does Azure Data Lake have Security?
Azure Data Lake has Role Based Access Control, Access control Lists, and Whitelisting