Core Azure Services

Question 1

Availability Zones

Answer 1

• Unique physical locations within an Azure region, made up of one or more datacenters.

there is a minimum of three zones in each region

Question 2

Resource Groups

Answer 2

a folder structure in Azure in which you organize resources like databases, virtual machines, virtual networks, or almost any resource

Question 3

Regions

Answer 3

a set of related, interconnected datacenters which are no more than a few miles apart;

there are currently 60+ active or planned worldwide

Question 4

Hypervisor

Answer 4

a layer that runs on top of the physical server Operating System that allows multiple guest operating systems

Question 5

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Answer 5

these are a set of identical virtual machines (from 1 to 1000 instances) that are designed to auto-scale up and down based on user demand

IaaS

Question 6

Azure Functions

Answer 6

small pieces of code that are designed to perform some task quickly

Question 7

Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Answer 7

the quickest way to create a container on Azure.

You can deploy an image to Azure in about a minute

Question 8

Cosmos DB

Answer 8

extremely low latency (fast) storage designed for smaller pieces of data quickly

SaaS

Question 9

Azure Databricks

Answer 9

A central dashboard for managing big data in Azure

Question 10

Network Security Groups

Answer 10

Restrict inbound and outbound traffic