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Question 1

Vertical scaling

Answer 1

Scaling up - Upgrade to a bigger server

Question 2

Horizontal scaling

Answer 2

Scaling out - add more servers of the same size

Question 3

Serverless Compute

Answer 3

Managed Vms running Managed containers - you just write apps

Question 4

Region

Answer 4

A grouping of multiple datacenters

Question 5

Geography

Answer 5

A market of 2 or more regions that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries

Question 6

Paired region

Answer 6

Each region is paired with another 300 miles away to ensure no outages (for disaster recovery)

Question 7

Azure Geo-redundant storage (GRS)

Answer 7

replicates data to a secondary region automatically

Question 8

Availability Zone (AZ)

Answer 8

Physical location made up of one or more datacenter (generally 3 per region)

Question 9

Fault domain

Answer 9

Logical grouping of hardware to avoid a single point of failure within an AZ

Question 10

Update domain

Answer 10

Ensure resources dont go offline (updates happen at different time for different UDs)

Question 11

Availability Set

Answer 11

Grouping to ensure the VMs are in different Fault or Update domains to avoid downtime

Question 12

Azure VMs

Answer 12

Windows or Linux, you choose OS memory, CPU, storage. Share hardware

Question 13

Azure Container instances

Answer 13

Docker as a Service

Question 14

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Answer 14

Kubernetes as a service (Containerization of apps, easy scaling)

Question 15

Azure service fabric

Answer 15

Tier 1 Enterprise containers as a service (For deployment of microservices)

Question 16

Azure functions

Answer 16

Serverless compute to run code without servers. Only pay for the time the function is running

Question 17

Azure batch

Answer 17

Plans, schedules and executes batch workloads up to 100+ jobs in paralell

Question 18

Azure blob storage

Answer 18

object serverless storage (Pay for what you store - for large files, or unstructed files)

Question 19

Azure disk storage

Answer 19

a virtual HDD or SSD

Question 20

Azure file storage

Answer 20

a shared volume that you access like a file server

Question 21

azure queue storage

Answer 21

a data store for queing and delivering messages between apps

Question 22

azure table storage

Answer 22

wide-column noSQL database (unstructured data w/out schema)

Question 23

azure data box (or ADB heavy)

Answer 23

A briefcase computer to move terabytes or petabytes of data

Question 24

Azure achrive storage

Answer 24

long-term cold storage (cheapest)

Question 25

azure data lake storage

Answer 25

centralized repo to store structured and unstructured data at any scale

Question 26

Azure cosmos db

Answer 26

fully managed nosql databases. 5 nines availability

Question 27

Azure sql db

Answer 27

fully managed Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) database with auto-scale, etc…

Question 28

Azure DB for MySQL/PSQL/MariaDB

Answer 28

fully managed and scalable MySQL/PostgreSQL/MariaDB database with high availability

Question 29

SQL server on VMs

Answer 29

Host enterprise SQL Server apps

Question 30

Azure synapse Analytics (Azure SQL data warehouse)

Answer 30

fully managed data warehouse with integral security at every level of scale

Question 31

Azure DB migration service

Answer 31

migrates your DBs to the cloud without changing application code

Question 32

Azure cache for redis

Answer 32

caches frequently used and static data (reduce latency)

Question 33

azure notificiations hub

Answer 33

Pub/sub - Send push notifications to any platform from any back end

Question 34

Azure API apps

Answer 34

quickly build and consume apis in the cloud

Question 35

Azure service bus

Answer 35

cloud messaging as a service (MaaS)

Question 36

Azure stream analytics

Answer 36

Serverless real-time analytics

Question 37

Azure logic Apps

Answer 37

Schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks, workflows, etc.