Fundamentals Flashcards
What are the 3 cloud platform models
IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service
PaaS - Platform as a Service
SaaS - Software as a Service
What are the 3 cloud ownership models?
Private - Cloud services provided by company owned resources
Hybrid - Combination of privately owned infrastructure and public cloud infrastructure
Public - Cloud services provided by 3rd party external provider. Available publicly
Multi-Cloud
Leveraging multiple 3rd party clouds as part of your infrastructure
CapEx
Capital Expenditure - One time, initial purchase. Depreciates over time
OpEx
Operational Expenditure - Recurring expenses e.g. Cloud services
What are the two types of scalability?
Horizontal - Adding additional resources
Vertical - Adding more capability to existing resources (more CPU or Ram, for example)
What is reliability?
Ability of a system to recover from failure and still function
What are tools for managing Azure and Azure Resources?
- Web portal
- Command line
- APIs
- Powershell
What does multi-tenant mean?
Access to a resource is not exclusive to
What types of Azure environments are there?
Public - Global availability
Sovereign - China, US Gov
How many availability zones to Subscriptions expose?
3
AZ1, AZ2, AZ3
What is one useful billing boundary?
Subscription
What is a Region?
Geographical area with at least one Azure data center
Availability Zone
Physically separate data center with isolated power, cooling, and networking
What is a Zonal service?
A service that is “pinned” to a specific availability zone. Cannot simultaneously exist in multiple availability zones