Microsoft cloud services Flashcards
What is Microsoft Azure Microsoft?
Microsoft Azure is a cloud-computing platform used for building, deploying, and managing applications
and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.
What are the services that azure provides?
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD), Azure Information Protection, Backup, Content Delivery Network, Key Vault, Machine Learning, Media Services, Mobile Services, Multi-Factor Authentication, Stream Analytics, Virtual Machines, and Virtual Network.
What is active directory?
Provides identity management and access control
capabilities for your cloud applications. It can be synchronized with the on-premises domain controllers. You can also enable Single Sign On (SSO) to simplify user access to cloud applications and to
support conditional access.
What Azure Information Protection?
Protects confidential or sensitive information by using encryption, identity, and authorization policies
What is backup in azure?
Allows you to back up to and restore from the cloud using familiar tools in Windows 2016,
Windows Server 2012/Windows Server 2012 R2, or Microsoft System Center 2012 R2/2016 Data
Protection Manager.
What is content delivery network?
Allows you to deliver high-bandwidth content to users around the world
with low latency and high availability via a robust network of global data centers.
What is key vault?
Offers an easy, cost-effective way to safeguard keys and other secrets in the cloud using
hardware security modules (HSMs).
What is machine learning?
Allows you to easily design, test, operationalize and manage predictive analytics
solutions in the cloud.
What is Media services?
Offers cloud-based media solutions from several existing technologies, including
ingest, encoding, format conversion, content protection, and both on-demand and live-streaming
capabilities.
What is mobile services?
Provides a scalable cloud backend for building Microsoft Store, Windows Phone,
Apple iOS, Android, and HTML/JavaScript applications. It can be used to store data in the cloud,
authenticate users, or send push notifications to your application within minutes.
What is Multi-factor authentication?
By having more than one method of authentication, you can help
prevent unauthorized access to both on-premises and cloud applications.
What is stream analytic?
Provides an event-processing engine that helps uncover insights from devices,
sensors, cloud infrastructure, and existing data properties in real-time.
What are virtual machines?
Enables you to deploy a Windows Server or Linux image in the cloud.
What is a virtual network?
Enables you to create virtual private networks within Azure, and then securely link
those networks with an on-premises network. Microsoft 365 as a cloud service, Microsoft 365 is a pay-as-you-go SaaS offering that includes Office 365, Windows 10, and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security. By combining all these
features into a single subscription model, customers can:
What can customers do By combining all these
features into a single subscription model?
Use all the familiar productivity tools available in Office 365.
- Collaborate using Teams and Skype for Business Online.
- Help increases security and compliance, by:
- Managing mobile device security with Microsoft Intune and Azure AD.
- Providing users with the most productive and secure version of Windows (Windows 10 Enterprise).
- Providing IT professionals with comprehensive deployment, device, and app management capabilities.
- Enforcing data policy with Windows Information Protection.
- Detecting and monitoring sensitive data with Office 365 data loss prevention.
- Simplifying and automating data classification with Azure Information Protection.
- Automating threat protection with Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
Protecting email from phishing attacks with Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection.