Azure Solutions

Question 1

What are the main Azure Solutions

Answer 1

IoT
Big Data
Machine Learning
Serverless
DevOps

Question 2

What is the basis of IoT ?

Answer 2

series of interrelated devices all sending data with no human intervention (e.g. traffic delay analogy)

Question 3

What is the IoT Hub ?

Answer 3

PaaS offering - collecting data autonomously (self-controlled)
managed and secure with scaling
ease of deployment

Question 4

What is IoT Central ?

Answer 4

Saas offering - no code required
built on rules/metrics
pre-defined connections and dashboards

Question 5

What is Azure Sphere ?

Answer 5

all in one IoT
works on specific hardware (chipsets)
specialist security with customised OS connects

Question 6

What is Big Data ?

Answer 6

data from millions of devices within IoT
excellent business value -> better products / service
speed / efficient
cost reduction
better decision making
new products / services
uses parallel processing and data lake analytics

Question 7

What is HD Insights ?

Answer 7

Used to build applications that make most of Big Data
Has Open source framework
similar to Data Lake Analytics
Apache Hadoop, Spark and Kafka

Question 8

What is Azure DataBricks ?

Answer 8

utilises Apache Spark
distributed cluster compute components
provide all compute power
Integrates with storage

Question 9

What are Azure Synapse Analytics ?

Answer 9

DW solution - reporting and data analysis

Synapse SQL language

Question 10

What is Machine Learning ?

Answer 10

also known as AI

imitates human behaviour - needs definition

Question 11

What are the components of Machine Learning ?

Answer 11

Models - set of rules, what to learn ?
Knowledge Mining - use existing insights, relationships
Built in Apps
Uses Machine Learning Studio - contains real-world scenarios

Question 12

What is the Azure Bot Service ?

Answer 12

enrich customer experience via bot design
can build for virtual assistants
pre-defined questions via visual editor or code
natural language / speech
Integration with social media
can have own branding

Question 13

What are Azure Cognitive Services ?

Answer 13

decision making based on speech, search, vision

Question 14

What are Serverless services ?

Answer 14

Major utiliser of cloud

extreme PaaS where Azure manages all services

Question 15

What are the features of “Serverless” technology

Answer 15

Azure Functions - carry out single task then dies, basic compute function
Logic Apps - connect systems and apps, automation, workflow, quick start
Event Grid - e.g. order placed = event raised
events passed to ?
provides routing service for apps, easy to use

Question 16

What is DevOps ?

Answer 16

all about people working as a team

CD/CI between dev and prod

Question 17

What are the DevOps tools ?

Answer 17

Azure Boards - similar to Jira
Pipelines - produce & test s/w
Repos - store source code
Test Plans
Artifacts - shared code libraries

Question 18

What are Azure Dev Test Labs ?

Answer 18

used for environment and cost management
can automate environment creation
utilise templates

Question 19

How is GitHub / GH Actions used ?

Answer 19

similar to pipelines - available for a number of platforms

open-source code repo service