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Describe Core Azure Services Flashcards

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Describe Regions

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datacenters are organized and made available to end users by region.

A region is a geographical area on the planet containing at least one, but potentially multiple datacenters that are in close proximity and networked together with a low-latency network.

Azure intelligently assigns and controls the resources within each region to ensure workloads are appropriately balanced.

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Describe Availability Zones

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Availability zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region that use availability sets to provide additional fault tolerance.

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Describe a resource group

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A unit of management for your resources in Azure.

Everything gets deleted together

Can apply that to a resource group and all the contents are updated.

Create using 
Portal
Power shell
Cli
Templates
Sdks
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Describe azure resource manager

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Provides consistent management layer which allows you to automate the deployment of configured resources.

Apply tags
Control access
Json templates

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5
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Define azure compute

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An on demand computing service for running cloud based applications.

Available on demand only pay for use

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Describe virtual

Machines

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Software emulations of physical computers
Have an operating system.
Required maintenance and patching

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Describe virtual

Machine a scale set

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Used to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs.

Easy to build
Large scale deployments

Scales up and down

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Describe app services

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App services is a paas offering.

Fully
Managed platform to run web mobile and api apps on any platform.

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Describe azure container instances (ACI)

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ACI. Fastest and simplest way to run a container in azure without having to
Manage any vms or additional services.

Paas offering

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Describe azure Kubernetes service

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Complete orchestration services for containers with distributed architectures and large volume of containers

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Describe azure virtual network

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Virtual network scooped to a single region.
Enables resources to communicate securely

Virtual networking peering connects different regions together

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Describe load balancer

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Supports inbound and outbound scenarios.
Low latency and high throughput.

Across a number of resources

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Describe vpn gateway

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Sens encrypted traffic between azure network and an on prem network over internet.

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Describe application gateway

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Web traffic load balancer

Layer 7

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Describe content delivery network

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Distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users

Minimise latency

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Describe azure storage

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Service to store files messages tables and other information

Used by iaas and paas

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Describe disk storage

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Disks for virtual

Machines to stores fats or temp files on

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Describe azure blob storage

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Object storage solution for the cloud.
Optimised for storing massive amounts
of unstructured data such as text or binary

Tiers
Hot - optimised for storing data that is frequently accessed
Cool - infrequently accesses. Stored for at least 30 days
Archive. - rarely accessed, stored for at least 180 days

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19
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Describe file storage

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Set up network file shares. Smb protocol

20
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Describe azure database services

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Fully managed paas database services. High availability

21
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Describe azure cosmos dB

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Globally
Distributed database service
Across any number of regions
Schema less data

22
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Describe sql database

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Relational database as a services daas

Without needing infrastructure managed

23
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Describe azure migration service

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Fully managed service enable seem less migrations from

Multiple databases to azure data platforms

24
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Describe azure database for MySql

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Azure MySQL database 99.99 ska

25
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Describe azure database for Postgres

A

Build
Massively scalable postgresSql applications

Fully
Managed

26
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Describe azure marketplace

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Connects user with partners offering solutions and services optimised
To run on azure

27
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Describe Internet of Things IoT

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The IoT is the ability for devices to garner and then relay information for data analysis

28
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Describe IoT Central

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Fully managed global IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT assets at scale.

29
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Describe IoT Hub

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Is a managed service hosted in the cloud that acts as a central message hub for bidirectional communications between your IoT applications and devices it manages.

30
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Explain big data and analytics

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Large volumes of data.
Traditional forms of processing are no longer appropriate

Open source
Cluster technologies try to deal with these
Large sets

31
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Describe azure synapse analytics

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Limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big day analytics

32
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Describe HDInsight

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Fully managed open source analytics service for enterprises. Allows you to run popular open source frameworks
And crew  the e cluster types 
Spark
Hadoop
Kafka
Hanse
Storm
Machine learning services

Supports ETL , data warehousing, machine learning, IoT

33
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Describe databricks

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A fully Managed fast easy and collaborative apache spark based analytics platform optimised for Azure

34
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Describe artificial intelligence

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Machine learning
Forecast future behaviours, outcomes
And trends
Without being explicitly programmmed

35
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Describe azure machine learning service

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Cloud based environment you can use to develop, train, test, deploy, manage and track machine learning models
Automate generation and tuning models
Python environment

36
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Describe serverless computing

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Cloud hosted execution environment runs code but abstracts underlying hosting environment

Responds to events
Only
Runs when triggered by an event
Scaling and performance handled automatically

37
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Describe azure functions

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Commonly
Used to perform work in response
To an event

No concern for infrastructure
Pay as you
Use model
Stateless

38
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Describe azure logic apps

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Automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes and workflows

Integrate apps , data, systems
No code to write

39
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Describe azure event grid

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Build applications with event based architecture
Fully Managed
Intelligent event routing uses a publish subscribe model

40
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Describe azure devils

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Allows you to create, build, and release pipelines that provide
Continuous integration delivery and deployment for applications

41
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Describe Azure devops

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Development collaboration tools

Formerly visual studio team studios vsts

42
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Describe devtest labs

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Create environments quickly. Minimising waste and controlling costs.
Test latest applications quickly
Providing windows
And Linux environments

43
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Describe Azure portal

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Website where you can create,manage and monitor services.

Does not provide automation of repetitive tasks

44
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Describe Azure Powershell

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Module added to windows powershell or powershell core

Runs on Windows Linux or macOS

45
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Describe azure CLI

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Cross platform command line program executed administrative command on azure resources

Cross platform. Windows Linux macOS

46
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Describe Azure cloud shell

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Browser based scripting environment

Linux Nash or Windows powershell
Storage account required

47
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Describe Azure advisor

A

Free service
Provides recommendations on

high availability,
security,
performance
cost.

Access through portal

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