Core Azure Services Flashcards
What is Azure Advisor
Analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry
Recommends solutions to help improve the cost effectiveness, performance, security, and availability of your resources
What are Azure Storage Tables?
Auto-scaling No-SQL storage, based on key/value pairs
What is an Azure Load Balancer?
Enables you to load-balance incoming internet traffic or internal traffic to your VMs
What is an Internet of Things (IoT)?
Made up of one or more IoT devices and one or more back-end services running in the cloud that communicate with each other
What is the Azure CLI?
Command line experience for managing Azure resources.
You can install it on macOS, Linux, and Windows and run it from the command line.
What are Resource Groups?
- Containers of related Azure services grouped together
- Resources should share same lifecycle
- Free
What is the Azure Machine Learning Studio?
Collaborative, drag-and-drop visual workspace where you can build, test, and deploy machine learning solutions without the need to write code.
What is an Azure VM Scale Set?
Auto-scaling pool of IaaS VMs
What is Azure App Service?
On-demand auto-scaling web/mobile/API app hosting
What are Azure Storage Files?
Fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Mount file shares concurrently in the cloud or on-premises on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
What is Azure Function?
Event-driven, serverless compute resources
What is Azure Data Lake?
On-demand analytics job service.
Easily develop and run massively parallel data transformation and processing over petabytes of data.
What are Azure Regions?
Groups of multiple Azure Data Centers in a geographic space
What is Azure IoT Central?
Fully managed SaaS solution.
Easily connect, monitor, and manage your IoT devices/assets at scale.
What is Azure Powershell?
Set of PowerShell cmdlets for managing Azure resources.
Uses .NET standard, making it available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
What is Azure HDInsight?
Open-source framework for distributed processing and analysis of Big Data sets on clusters.
What is Azure Cloud Shell?
Interactive, browser-accessible shell that runs Bash or PowerShell.
What is Azure Cosmos DB?
Globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database service.
What is Azure Blob Storage?
Object store for unstructured data
What is the Azure Portal?
Build, manage, and monitor every Azure resource in a single, unified console.
https://portal.azure.com
What is an Azure VM?
On-demand IaaS compute resources - Virtual Machine
What is Azure Event Grid?
Fully managed event routing service.
What is an Azure Virtual Network (vnet)?
Enables Azure resources to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks.
What is the Azure Machine Learning Service?
Provides a cloud-based environment you can use to prep data and train, test, deploy, manage, and track machine learning models.
