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What does GZRS stand for?

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GEO-ZONE REDUNDANT STORAGE

Copies your data synchronously three times within the primary region using ZRS.

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How does GZRS handle redundancy in the secondary region?

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It copies the data asynchronously to a single physical location in the secondary region.

Recommended by MSFT for apps requiring high availability.

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What is the benefit of using GZRS along with GRS?

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With GRS and GZRS, redundancy is extended to the secondary region!

Options within

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LRS

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Locally Redundant Storage

Copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region.

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ZRS

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Zone Redundant Storage

Copies your data synchronously across three Azure availability zones in the primary region.

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What does GRS stand for?

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Geo-Redundant Storage

Copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region using LRS. It then copies it asynchronously to a single physical location in the secondary region. 3 copies using LRS

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How does GRS store data?

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It copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region using LRS. It then copies it asynchronously to a single physical location in the secondary region. 3 copies using LRS

Copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region using LRS. It then copies it asynchronously to a single physical location in the secondary region. 3 copies using LRS

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What is AzCopy?

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A command-line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files to or from your storage account.

1:33:10 / 2:30:51 • DOMAIN 2.3 Describe Azure Storage Services

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What is Azure Storage Explorer?

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A standalone app that provides a graphical interface to manage files and blobs in your Azure Storage Account. Supports file and blob upload, download, or move between accounts.

1:33:10 / 2:30:51 • DOMAIN 2.3 Describe Azure Storage Services

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What is Azure File Sync?

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A tool that lets you centralize your file shares in Azure Files and keep the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of a Windows file server.

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What happens once Azure File Sync is installed on a local Windows server?

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It will automatically stay bi-directionally synced with your files in Azure.

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What does B2B collaboration support?

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Entra ID and social identities

Example sentence: Enable external users to use their preferred identity to sign into your Microsoft or other enterprise applications (SaaS apps, custom-developed apps, etc.)

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What does B2B direct connect support?

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Multiple two-way trusts

Example sentence: Establish a mutual, two-way trust with another Entra ID organization for seamless collaboration. Useful for heavy, daily collaboration with close business partners.

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What does Business-to-Consumer (B2C) support?

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Entra & social identities

Example sentence: Publish modern SaaS apps or custom-developed apps to consumers and customers, while using Entra ID B2C for identity and access management.

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What is an Entra ID multi-tenant organization?

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Collaborate with multiple tenants in a single Entra ID organization via cross-tenant synchronization.

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What does LL stand for in Entra ID?

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LL stands for language options.

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What are some features within Entra ID?

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Features within Entra ID include language options.

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What is Conditional Access used for?

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Used by Entra ID to bring signals together, to make decisions, and enforce organizational policies

Conditional Access is used by Entra ID for these purposes.

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What does Azure RBAC help you manage?

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who has access to Azure resources,
what they can do with those resources,
which resources/areas they have access to

RBAC = Role Based Access Control

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What is Azure RBAC?

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Built on Azure Resource Manager and provides fine-grained access management of Azure resources.

Azure RBAC is one element of implementing ‘least privilege’.

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What does Azure RBAC stand for?

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Azure RBAC stands for Azure Role-Based Access Control.

Example sentence: Azure RBAC allows you to assign specific roles to users, granting them access only to the resources they need.

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What are the three principles of Zero Trust?

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Verify explicitly
Always authenticate and authorize based on all available data points.
Use least privilege access
Limit user access with Just-In-Time and Just-Enough-Access (JIT/JEA), risk-based adaptive policies, and data protection.
Assume breach
Segment access to minimize blast radius

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What does ‘Verify explicitly’ mean in Zero Trust?

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Always authenticate and authorize based on all available data points.

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What does ‘Use least privilege access’ mean in Zero Trust?

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Limit user access with Just-In-Time and Just-Enough-Access (JIT/JEA), risk-based adaptive policies, and data protection.

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What does 'Assume breach' mean in Zero Trust?
Segment access to minimize blast radius
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Traditional Architecture
Older model of network security ## Footnote First footnote
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Zero Trust Architecture
Security model where nothing is trusted by default ## Footnote Second footnote
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Trusted
Considered reliable or secure ## Footnote Seventh footnote
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Trusted by default
Assumed to be secure without verification ## Footnote Eighth footnote
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Trust but verify
Concept of trusting but confirming the trustworthiness ## Footnote Tenth footnote
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Security based on identity, not on network perimeter
Approach to security that focuses on user identity ## Footnote Eleventh footnote
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What is Zero Trust Security?
Unlike the 'trust but verify' approach, in Zero Trust, no entity is trusted by default.
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What are the three principles of Zero Trust Security?
It is based on three principles: assume breach, verify explicitly, and least privilege access.
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What is defense in depth?
A layered (defense in depth) approach that does not rely on one method to completely protect your environment. ## Footnote Example sentence: Implementing firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption mechanisms are all part of a defense in depth strategy.
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What is Defender for Cloud?
A unified infrastructure security management system that strengthens the security posture of your cloud and on-premises data centers. Provides security guidance for compute, data, network, storage, app, and other services. Includes support for both Azure and on-premises workloads, as well as other public clouds (AWS, GCP). Multi-cloud support.
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What are factors that can affect Azure resource costs?
Resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic ## Footnote Example sentence: The cost of running a virtual machine in the West US region may differ from running the same virtual machine in the East US region.
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What are factors that can reduce costs?
reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, spot pricing ## Footnote Example sentence: Using reserved instances can help reduce overall cloud computing costs.
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What is Reserved?
Reserve virtual machines in advance
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What is Reserved Instances?
Reserve virtual machines in advance and save up to 72 percent compared to PAYG pricing with 1-yr or 3-yr commitment ## Footnote Example: By committing to a 3-year Reserved Instance, you can significantly reduce your cloud computing costs.
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Reserved
Capacity ## Footnote Reserved capacity enables you to more easily manage costs across predictable and variable workloads and help optimize budgeting and forecasting.
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What is Azure Service?
Notifies you about Azure service incidents and planned maintenance so you can take action to mitigate downtime. ## Footnote Example sentence: Azure Service Health sends alerts to notify users of any service incidents.
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What is Application Insights?
An extension of Azure Monitor and provides application performance monitoring (APM) features.
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What does Application Insights monitor?
Monitors the availability, performance, and usage of your web applications.
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What does Application Insights enable?
Enables proactive understanding of app performance and reactive review of app execution to determine root cause.
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What is Azure Monitor?
Alerts ## Footnote Azure Monitor is a proactive way to detect and address issues before they become critical.
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What can you create alerts on in Azure Monitor?
You can create alerts on any metric or log data source in the Azure Monitor data platform. ## Footnote Types include metric, log, activity, service health, resource health, smart detection, and Prometheus.
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What is Azure Monitor?
A service that collects monitoring telemetry from a variety of on-premises and Azure sources.
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What can Azure Monitor monitor?
Resources like app, VMs, guest OS, containers, DBs, security, and network events.
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Where does Azure Monitor store the telemetry it collects?
In an Azure Log Analytics instance backend data store ## Footnote Azure Monitor aggregates and stores this telemetry in an Azure Log Analytics instance backend data store.
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What is Azure Advisor?
Scans your Azure configuration and recommends changes to optimize deployments, increase security, and save you money. ## Footnote Analyzes the configuration of the resource deployed in the Azure subscriptions for high availability, security, performance, costs
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What does laC stand for?
Infrastructure as Code ## Footnote laC is the management of infrastructure (networks, VMs, load balancers, and connection topology) described in code.
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What does code in the laC model result in?
The same environment every time it is applied. ## Footnote Just as the same source code generates the same binary, code in the laC model results in the same environment every time it is applied.
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What is laC used in conjunction with?
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) ## Footnote laC is a key DevOps practice and is used in conjunction with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
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What is Azure Arc?
A platform that extends Azure services to run applications across datacenters, edge, and multi-cloud environments. ## Footnote Azure Arc provides a consistent development, operations, and security model to run applications on new and existing hardware.
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What does Azure Arc simplify?
Governance and management by delivering a consistent multi-cloud and on-premises management platform. ## Footnote Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent multi-cloud and on-premises management platform.
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What is the purpose of Azure Arc?
A platform that extends Azure services to run applications across datacenters, edge, and multi-cloud environments. ## Footnote Example sentence: Azure Arc allows organizations to manage resources centrally across different environments.
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What is a ARM template?
A JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file that defines the infrastructure and configuration for your project. ## Footnote Templates use declarative syntax and are idempotent, which means you can deploy many times and get same resources and state.
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What is Azure Resource Manager?
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment and management service for Azure.
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What does Azure Resource Manager provide?
It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account.
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What is Azure CLI?
The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a set of commands used to create and manage Azure resources.
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Where is Azure CLI available?
Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, Docker, and Azure Cloud Shell.
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What is Azure Mobile?
App for iOS and Android that enables managing, tracking health and status, and troubleshooting your Azure resources ## Footnote Example: Azure Mobile is a useful tool for monitoring the performance of your cloud services.
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What is a set of cdlets for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line?
Azure ## Footnote A set of cdlets for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line.
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What technology allows for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line?
PowerShell ## Footnote Technology that allows for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line.
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What does MSFT provide for managing Azure resources?
Azure-specific modules and cmalets ## Footnote MSFT provides Azure-specific modules and cmalets
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What is Azure Cloud Shell?
An interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. ## Footnote It includes both Bash and PowerShell options
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What is Azure?
A web-based, unified console where you can manage your Azure subscription using a graphical user interface. ## Footnote - Example: I accessed Azure through the portal to deploy a new virtual machine.
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What do resource locks prevent?
Prevent other users in your organization from accidentally deleting or modifying critical resources. ## Footnote The lock overrides any permissions the user might have.
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What is a Blueprint in Azure?
A container for composing sets of standards, patterns, and requirements for implementation of Azure cloud services, security, and design
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What does a Blueprint in Azure help with?
Composing sets of standards, patterns, and requirements for implementation of Azure cloud services, security, and design
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What is FUNDA in Azure?
A collection of Azure policy definitions that are grouped together towards a specific goal ## Footnote For more exam prep and Azure tutorials, follow us on Youtube at https://bit.ly/azure
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What is Microsoft Purview?
A unified data governance service that helps organizations manage and govern their on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS data.
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What does Microsoft Purview automate?
Data discovery by providing data scanning and classification for assets across the organization's data estate.
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What can tags be the basis for?
Applying business policies or tracking costs ## Footnote Tags can be the basis for applying business policies or tracking costs
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How can you enforce tagging rules with Azure policies?
You can enforce tagging rules with Azure policies ## Footnote You can also enforce tagging rules with Azure policies
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What are some examples of common tags?
Owner, cost center, app/service, and environment ## Footnote Examples of common tags include owner, cost center, app/service, and environment
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What is Azure Cost Management?
A suite of tools provided by Microsoft that help you analyze, manage, and optimize costs of your workloads. ## Footnote Example: Azure Cost Management helps businesses track their cloud spending and identify cost-saving opportunities.
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When should you use Azure Cost Management?
AFTER you deploy. ## Footnote Utilizing Azure Cost Management after deployment allows you to monitor and adjust costs as needed.
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What is a TCO Calculator?
A tool that helps estimate cost savings you can achieve by migrating application workloads to Azure.
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What does a TCO Calculator allow you to do?
Allows you to compare the TCO of different Azure services and regions and provides a detailed breakdown of cost of components and potential savings.
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What is the purpose of the Pricing Calculator?
Interactive calculator that allows you to estimate the expected monthly Azure costs.
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What can you choose using the Pricing Calculator?
Regions, services, options, and SKUs.
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What type of Azure resources does Spot Pricing apply to?
Azure VMs only ## Footnote applies to Azure VMs only!
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What is Spot Pricing?
Access unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts—up to 90 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices ## Footnote Pricing
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When should Spot Pricing be used?
Use for workloads that can be interrupted without harm ## Footnote Use for workloads that can be interrupted without harm
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What is Hybrid Use?
Hybrid Use lets you use your on-premises Software Assurance-enabled Windows Server and SQL Server licenses on Azure. ## Footnote Example: You can run your existing Windows Server workloads in Azure with Hybrid Use benefit.
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Reserved
Capacity ## Footnote Reserved capacity enables you to more easily manage costs across predictable and variable workloads and help optimize budgeting and forecasting.
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also includes
-year and 3-year options ## Footnote This option includes -year and 3-year options.
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What does Azux Table Storage service store?
Service stores structured NoSQL data. ## Footnote Example sentence: Azux Table Storage service stores customer information in a schemaless format.
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What type of attribute store does Azux Table Storage use?
Schemaless key attribute store. ## Footnote Azux Table Storage does not require a predefined schema for storing data.
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What is the benefit of using Azux Table Storage for storing large numbers of messages?
Storing large numbers of messages. ## Footnote Example sentence: Azux Table Storage is ideal for applications that need to store and retrieve a high volume of messages.
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How is Azux Table Storage accessible?
Accessible from anywhere via HTTP or HTTPS. ## Footnote Developers can access Azux Table Storage from any location using standard HTTP or secure HTTPS protocols.
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Service endpoint
To provide a way to lock down access ## Footnote All instances of paass service to use private endpoint for access from public internet.
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Private endpoint
Use for specific instance. ## Footnote Enable access from on-premises without public endpoint.
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What is the hosted Kubernetes service provided by Azure?
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) ## Footnote Azure handles critical tasks like health monitoring and maintenance for you!
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What do you pay for in Azure Kubernetes Service?
Agent Nodes within the cluster ## Footnote Resource Red Por um
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What is a virtual desk in Azure networking?
UNet, virtual NIC ## Footnote Network security group, or public IP

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