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Azure Services Flashcards

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Azure Policy

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  • Create, assign, and manage policies.
  • Policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so resources stay compliant with corporate standards and service level agreements.
  • Azure Policy evaluates resources for non- compliance with assigned policies.
  • Used to define requirements for resource properties during deployment and for already existing resources
  • Azure Policy controls properties such as the types or locations of resources
  • Several built-in policies that are available by default.
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Azure Cloud Shell

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  • An interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources
  • Provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell
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Azure Virtual Machines

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A compute service that allows you to run virtual machines in the Cloud

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Azure SQL Database

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  • A fully managed offering which provides the option of either a hosted service (PaaS) or hosted infrastructure (IaaS).
  • A platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering for relational database management and is a common solution for the migration of SQL.
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Azure Cosmos DB

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  • A fully managed Platform-as-a-Service database offering
  • A globally distributed multi-model database service designed to guarantee low latency and high availability.
  • It is compatible with Cassandra, MongoDB and other NoSQL workloads.
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Azure HDInsight

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  • An open-source, managed, analytics service in the cloud. You can use open-source frameworks like: Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, LLAP, Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, R, and others.
  • Analytics service for enterprises that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data.
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Azure Blueprints

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Templates for creating compliant Azure infrastructure projects. You can use them to comply with standards and regulations that apply to your company. You can get architecture help using a support plan too, but it is much more laborious.

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Azure Security Center

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Constantly reviews your active recommendations and calculates your secure score based on them.

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Azure Key Vault

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  • Can be used to securely store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets.
  • Stores your connection credentials securely, and allow third-party applications to use it through a token. The token access can be revoked without changing the credentials.
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Azure Activity Log

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A logging service that provides insight into subscription-level events that have occurred in Azure. This includes a range of data, from Azure Resource Manager operational data to updates on Service Health events. Events such as starting and stopping of virtual machines can be found here.

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Azure Information Protection

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Helps control and secure information (including emails and documents) that is shared outside of your organization.

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Azure Service Trust Portal

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Central location for all published audit reports of the Azure platform as well as risk assessments and security best practices.

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Azure Advisor

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Helps you optimize and reduce your overall Azure spending by identifying idle and underutilized resources.

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Azure Monitor

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  • Allows you to monitor your applications, and infrastructure, which could be leveraged to eventually work out problems to save costs, but it by itself is not able to identify and highlight cost-saving suggestions.
  • Correlates metrics and logs from multiple Azure resources into a centralized repository
  • Log data is collected and stored in a Log Analytics workspace, which is based on Azure Data Explorer. It collects telemetry from a variety of sources and uses the Kusto query language used by Data Explorer to retrieve and analyze data.
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Azure ExpressRoute

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Creates private connections between Azure datacenters and infrastructure on your premises or in a colocation environment.

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Azure Cognitive Services

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  • Azure tool that can help you build artificial intelligence (AI) applications
  • APIs, SDKs, and services available to help developers build intelligent applications without having direct AI or data science skills or knowledge.
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Azure Machine Learning Studio

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A web portal in Azure Machine Learning that contains low-code and no-code options for project authoring and asset management, but it does not provide the full suite of ML services required here. Azure Machine Learning is the correct answer - it is a separate and modernized service that delivers a complete data science platform. It supports both code-first and low-code experiences. Microsoft recommends that new users choose Azure Machine Learning, instead of ML Studio (classic), for the latest range of data science tools.

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Azure Databricks

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  • Provides big data analysis for machine learning
  • Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform. Databricks enables collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts.
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Azure App Service

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  • A platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering for web services and is a common solution for the migration of IIS.
  • Enables you to build and host web apps, mobile back-ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure.
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Azure Functions

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  • Serverless compute service that enables you to run code-on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Use Azure Functions to run a script or piece of code in response to a variety of events.
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Azure Machine Learning

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A separate and modernized service that delivers a complete data science platform. It supports both code-first and low-code experiences.

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Azure Data Lake Analytics

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Can run massively parallel data transformation and processing programs across petabytes of data

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Azure SQL Data Warehouse

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A cloud-based service that leverages massively parallel processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data in a relational database. However it is not an on-demand service, as you will typically load the warehouse with data (and be charged to do so) whether you are running your analytics or not.

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Azure IoT Central

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  • A Software-as-a-Service solution that can help ease the costs and effort of developing a whole IoT solution from scratch
  • Fully managed SaaS solution that provides all parts of your IoT solution. You only have to manage dashboards and data connections. No code is needed.
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Azure Files

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Provides highly available network file shares using the SMB protocol. This allows multiple VMs to read and write the files, and files may be accessed remotely using a URL.

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Azure Queue Storage

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A service for storing large numbers of messages that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS.

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Azure Service Health

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A free service available to all Azure users which provides a personalized dashboard highlighting both planned and unplanned service issues affecting your resources.

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Azure Firewall

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Blocks any incoming or outgoing traffic that isn’t specifically allowed on a network. A Network Security Group manages the traffic to specific services, Azure DDoS Protection Service protects against attacks and a load balancer distributes traffic to specific VMs.

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Azure Government

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A cloud platform available to US federal, state, local, and tribal government entities and their solution providers.

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Azure Application Gateway

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  • A web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications.
  • Aware of the much more abstract high-level layer 7 in the OSI model, meaning the load balancer understands HTTP headers and can do things such as routing requests to different places based on the URL of a web request.
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Azure Sentinel

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  • The cloud-native security information event management (SIEM) that empowers defenders
  • 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 API Management Service

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Creates and manages customer APIs for existing backend services

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