Azure Key Concepts Flashcards
What is Azure Service Bus
Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics.
Service Bus is used to decouple applications and services from each other, providing the following benefits:
Load-balancing work across competing workers
Safely routing and transferring data and control across service and application boundaries
Coordinating transactional work that requires a high-degree of reliability
Azure Resource Manager
Azure Resource Manager is the deployment and management service for Azure.
It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. You use management features, like access control, locks, and tags, to secure and organize your resources after deployment.
What is Password Hash Sync in Microsoft Entra
Password hash synchronization is one of the sign-in methods used to accomplish hybrid identity. Microsoft Entra Connect synchronizes a hash of a user’s password from an on-premises Active Directory instance to a cloud-based Microsoft Entra instance.
What is Azure PIM?
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is a service in Microsoft Entra ID that enables you to manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization. These resources include resources in Microsoft Entra ID, Azure, and other Microsoft Online Services such as Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Intune.
What is Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Microsoft Entra ID Protection helps organizations detect, investigate, and remediate identity-based risks. These identity-based risks can be further fed into tools like Conditional Access to make access decisions or fed back to a security information and event management (SIEM) tool for further investigation and correlation.
Microsoft Azure AD External Identities
Combines solutions for working with people outside of your organization.
- Customer Identity and access management
Efficient business to business’s solution with customizable dashboard
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that’s always running on the latest stable version of the Microsoft SQL Server database engine and a patched OS with 99.99% built-in high availability, offering close to 100% feature compatibility with SQL Server.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to write less code, maintain less infrastructure, and save on costs. Instead of worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, the cloud infrastructure provides all the up-to-date resources needed to keep your applications running.
Azure Data Factory
Data integration service in Microsoft Azure that enables the creation, scheduling, and management of data workflows. It’s designed to help you move and transform data from diverse sources, such as on-premises databases, cloud storage, and SaaS applications, into Azure data services and analytics platforms.
Azure Private Link
Service - Provides a private connection between virtual network & Azure services
Features
Security: Avoids internet exposure
Performance: Travels over MS backbone (low latency & better performance)
Simple: Decreases complexity of managing NSG & routing rules
Azure Front Door
Modern Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) that provides FAST, RELIABLE, and SECURE access between users and apps static and dynamic web content across the globe.
