Describe Core Azure Services Flashcards
Describe Regions
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.
Describe Availability Zones
Availability zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region that use availability sets to provide additional fault tolerance.
Describe a resource group
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
Describe azure resource manager
Provides consistent management layer which allows you to automate the deployment of configured resources.
Apply tags
Control access
Json templates
Define azure compute
An on demand computing service for running cloud based applications.
Available on demand only pay for use
Describe virtual
Machines
Software emulations of physical computers
Have an operating system.
Required maintenance and patching
Describe virtual
Machine a scale set
Used to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs.
Easy to build
Large scale deployments
Scales up and down
Describe app services
App services is a paas offering.
Fully
Managed platform to run web mobile and api apps on any platform.
Describe azure container instances (ACI)
ACI. Fastest and simplest way to run a container in azure without having to
Manage any vms or additional services.
Paas offering
Describe azure Kubernetes service
Complete orchestration services for containers with distributed architectures and large volume of containers
Describe azure virtual network
Virtual network scooped to a single region.
Enables resources to communicate securely
Virtual networking peering connects different regions together
Describe load balancer
Supports inbound and outbound scenarios.
Low latency and high throughput.
Across a number of resources
Describe vpn gateway
Sens encrypted traffic between azure network and an on prem network over internet.
Describe application gateway
Web traffic load balancer
Layer 7
Describe content delivery network
Distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users
Minimise latency
Describe azure storage
Service to store files messages tables and other information
Used by iaas and paas
Describe disk storage
Disks for virtual
Machines to stores fats or temp files on
Describe azure blob storage
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
Describe file storage
Set up network file shares. Smb protocol
Describe azure database services
Fully managed paas database services. High availability
Describe azure cosmos dB
Globally
Distributed database service
Across any number of regions
Schema less data
Describe sql database
Relational database as a services daas
Without needing infrastructure managed
Describe azure migration service
Fully managed service enable seem less migrations from
Multiple databases to azure data platforms
Describe azure database for MySql
Azure MySQL database 99.99 ska
Describe azure database for Postgres
Build
Massively scalable postgresSql applications
Fully
Managed
Describe azure marketplace
Connects user with partners offering solutions and services optimised
To run on azure
Describe Internet of Things IoT
The IoT is the ability for devices to garner and then relay information for data analysis
Describe IoT Central
Fully managed global IoT software as a service (SaaS) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT assets at scale.
Describe IoT Hub
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.
Explain big data and analytics
Large volumes of data.
Traditional forms of processing are no longer appropriate
Open source
Cluster technologies try to deal with these
Large sets
Describe azure synapse analytics
Limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and big day analytics
Describe HDInsight
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
Describe databricks
A fully Managed fast easy and collaborative apache spark based analytics platform optimised for Azure
Describe artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Forecast future behaviours, outcomes
And trends
Without being explicitly programmmed
Describe azure machine learning service
Cloud based environment you can use to develop, train, test, deploy, manage and track machine learning models
Automate generation and tuning models
Python environment
Describe serverless computing
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
Describe azure functions
Commonly
Used to perform work in response
To an event
No concern for infrastructure
Pay as you
Use model
Stateless
Describe azure logic apps
Automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes and workflows
Integrate apps , data, systems
No code to write
Describe azure event grid
Build applications with event based architecture
Fully Managed
Intelligent event routing uses a publish subscribe model
Describe azure devils
Allows you to create, build, and release pipelines that provide
Continuous integration delivery and deployment for applications
Describe Azure devops
Development collaboration tools
Formerly visual studio team studios vsts
Describe devtest labs
Create environments quickly. Minimising waste and controlling costs.
Test latest applications quickly
Providing windows
And Linux environments
Describe Azure portal
Website where you can create,manage and monitor services.
Does not provide automation of repetitive tasks
Describe Azure Powershell
Module added to windows powershell or powershell core
Runs on Windows Linux or macOS
Describe azure CLI
Cross platform command line program executed administrative command on azure resources
Cross platform. Windows Linux macOS
Describe Azure cloud shell
Browser based scripting environment
Linux Nash or Windows powershell
Storage account required
Describe Azure advisor
Free service
Provides recommendations on
high availability,
security,
performance
cost.
Access through portal
