Azure Key Terms Flashcards
App Registration
An App Registration (Application) is an object in Azure AD that describes the application. It is the definition of the application which includes several elements such as: name, logo, publisher, API dependencies (OAuth), redirect URIs, app roles (RBAC), proxy metadata, SSO metadata, published APIs, etc. The application registration in your tenant enables you and others to authenticate against your Azure Active Directory. Another option is to authentication through an application secret. A default application registration on its own cannot do much more than validating that the user has valid login credentials. This can be your Active Directory or in case of a multi-tenant application the directory where the user is originated from.
Administrative Units
An administrative unit is an Azure AD resource that can be a container for other Azure AD resources. An administrative unit can contain only users, groups, or devices. Administrative units restrict permissions in a role to any portion of your organization that you define. You could, for example, use administrative units to delegate the Helpdesk Administrator role to regional support specialists, so they can manage users only in the region that they support.
Dev Centers
Development teams vary in the way they function and may have different needs. A dev center helps you to manage these different scenarios by enabling you to group similar sets of projects together and apply similar settings.
Azure Active Directory
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s enterprise cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution. Azure AD is the backbone of the Office 365 system, and it can sync with on-premise Active Directory and provide authentication to other cloud-based systems via OAuth.
Virtual Machine
A computer system created using software on one physical computer in order to emulate the functionality of another separate physical computer. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination.
SQL Databases
Part of the Azure SQL family, Azure SQL Database is an always-up-to-date, fully managed relational database service built for the cloud. Build your next app with the simplicity and flexibility of a multi-model database that scales to meet demand.
Cost Management
A Feature in Azure that tracks resource usage and manages costs across all your clouds with a single, unified view, and access rich operational and financial insights to make informed decisions.
Virtual Networks
Azure Virtual Network (VNet) is the fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. VNet enables many types of Azure resources, such as Azure Virtual Machines (VM), to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks. VNet is similar to a traditional network that you’d operate in your own data center but brings with it additional benefits of Azure’s infrastructure such as scale, availability, and isolation.
Resource Group
A resource group is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. The resource group can include all the resources for the solution, or only those resources that you want to manage as a group. You decide how you want to allocate resources to resource groups based on what makes the most sense for your organization.
Management Groups
An Azure Management group is logical containers that allow Azure Administrators to manage access, policy, and compliance across multiple Azure Subscriptions en masse. Management groups allow you to build an Azure Subscription tree that can be used with several other Azure service, including Azure Policy and Azure Role Based Access Control. Azure Management Groups provide flexibility for organizing policy, access control, and compliance across multiple subscriptions. We can nest Azure Management Groups up to six levels deep for efficient management of resources.
Azure Storage Account
A storage account is a container that bands a set of Azure Storage services together. Only data services from Azure Storage can be comprised in a storage account. Integrating data services into a storage account allows the user to manage them as a group. The settings specified while creating the account, or setting that is changed after creation, is applicable everywhere. Once the storage account gets deleted, all the data stored inside gets removed.
Data Lake
A data lake is a system or repository of data stored in its natural/raw format, usually object blobs or files. A data lake is usually a single store of data including raw copies of source system data, sensor data, social data etc., and transformed data used for tasks such as reporting, visualization, advanced analytics and machine learning. A data lake can include structured data from relational databases (rows and columns), semi-structured data (CSV, logs, XML, JSON), unstructured data (emails, documents, PDFs) and binary data (images, audio, video). A data lake can be established “on premises” (within an organization’s data centers) or “in the cloud” (using cloud services from vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, or Google).
Azure Cosmos DB
Develop high-performance applications of any size or scale with a fully managed and serverless distributed database supporting open-source PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Apache Cassandra. Get automatic and instant scalability, with SLA-backed single-digit millisecond reads and writes and 99.999 percent availability for NoSQL data. Deploy and scale applications with distributed PostgreSQL using the latest version, tools, and extensions.
Internet of Things (IOT)
A concept describing physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.
IOT Hub
Azure IoT Hubs enables IoT solutions with reliable and secure communications between millions of IoT devices and a cloud-hosted solution backend. IoT Hub supports multiple messaging patterns such as device-to-cloud telemetry, file upload from devices, and request-reply methods to control your devices from the cloud. IoT Hub monitors and tracks events such as device creation, device failures, and device connections.
Azure Functions
Azure Functions is a cloud service available on-demand that provides all the continually updated infrastructure and resources needed to run your applications. You focus on the code that matters most to you, in the most productive language for you, and Functions handles the rest. Functions provides serverless compute for Azure. You can use Functions to build web APIs, respond to database changes, process IoT streams, manage message queues, and more.
Logic Apps
Azure Logic Apps is a cloud platform where you can create and run automated workflows with little to no code. By using the visual designer and selecting from prebuilt operations, you can quickly build a workflow that integrates and manages your apps, data, services, and systems.
Azure Service Bus
Azure Service Bus is a fully managed enterprise message broker with message queues and publish-subscribe topics (in a namespace). 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, and coordinating transactional work that requires a high-degree of reliability.
