Solutions Flashcards

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What is the Internet of Things?

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A system of interrelated computing devices that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human to human or human to computer interaction.

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What IoT services does Azure offer?

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1) Azure Hub

2) IoT Central

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What is Azure Hub?

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It is a solution that is designed to ingest data from millions of IoT devices.

  • provides management and Security
  • Platform as a service. (PaaS)
  • Supports scaling and Device Authentication
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What is IoT Central?

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IoT central is 1 of 2 services that Azure provides.

  • This is a SaaS Offering.
  • Designed to get your IoT offering up to speed ASAP.
  • No coding required.
  • Pre-made connections to allow data to transfer to other systems.
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What is Azure Sphere?

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An all in one solution for IoT in Azure.

  • Requires specifically supported hardware.
  • Specialised Security Service that manages the maintenance, updates, and general control.
  • IoT must run a custom Azure Sphere OS.
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What is Big Data?

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The definition continues to change and be refined; essentially, it is a lot of data.

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What is Azure Data Lake Analytics?

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An Analytics service that targets big data.

  • It supports parallel processing - 2 or more processes or computers processing the data at the same time.
  • It is ready to start on day 1.
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What is HD Insights ?

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An Analytics service that targets big data that is open source.
* includes Hadoop, Spark and Kafka. (Apache)

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What is Azure Databricks ?

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It is a cloud service on Azure.

  • based on Apache Spark.
  • A cluster computing framework.
  • Processes datasets on multiple compute resources simultaneously.
  • Integrates with other Azure Storage Services. (inclusive of HD Insights)
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What is Azure Synapse Analytics?

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Azure's Data warehouse offering. 
(Used to be Azure SQL Data warehouse. )
* Used for reporting and Analysis. 
* limited by your scope and budget. 
* Uses Synpase SQL language to manipulate data.
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Big Data Outcomes?

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1) you can find trends in large data.
2) help discover new products and services to meet customer needs.
3) Helps in prediction modelling.

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What is Machine Learning?

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This is a subcategory of AI in Azure.

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What is Artificial Intelligence?

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This is AI.
AI is the capability for a computer to imitate human behaviour.
* It enabled machines to analyse images, comprehend speech, and interact in natural ways.

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Characteristics of ML / AI?

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It requires a model - a data set to learn from.

Knowledge Mining - This allows you to find trends in existing insights.

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What is Azure Bot Service?

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It is an Azure PaaS Service.

* It allows you to answer questions, provides virtual assistants.

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Azure Bot Service Characteristics :

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  1. Bots are created via a visual editor or coding.
  2. Bots use natural language and speech recognition n.
  3. Bots integrate with Facebook messenger, teams and twilio.
  4. Bots can use a customised branding.
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What is Azure Cognitive Services

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A group of services around AI and ML.
1. Vision - The vision service recognised and captions videos and images (automagically)

  1. Decision - Apps can make decisions based on content, (which can include things such as offensive language) as well as anomalies.
  2. Speech = Automatic text to speech transcription.
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What is the Azure machine learning Studio?

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It is the default AI / ML studio on Azure.

  • Supports all azure machine learning tools.
  • Pre-made modules for your projects.
  • Use for real-world scenarios, such as Twitter sentiment analysis.
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What is the Azure machine learning service?

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It is the service that drives Ai / ML.

1) It is an end-to-end service.
2) It is a collection of tools.
3) Azure automatically recognizes trends in your applications and creates models for you.

20
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What is Azure Serverless?

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Yes there are servers. Your functions are running on Azure Servers that you don’t manage - It is PaaS (extreme).

21
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What are Azure Functions?

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This is the original Serverless offering/service.

  • It only performs a single task.
  • Basic Compute Unit - It is a compute action that can be run millions of times per second if need be.
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What are Logic Apps?

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A serverless automation function.

  • It is part of Azure’s serverless offering.
  • It connects to systems inside and outside Azure.
  • It also connects data flows and services.
  • It enables automation and Orchestration (If, then)
  • No coding is required.
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What is the Event Grid?

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A serverless function in Azure.

  • This is a connection/routing service that can alert other services when an event occurs.
  • It is fast and accurate.
  • Ease of use.
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What is DevOps?

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It is a mixture of development and operations.

  • ultimately, it is a philosophy.
  • Azure provides tools to enable this.
25
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What is Azure DevOps?

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Five tools to help enable DevOps.

26
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What are Azure Boards?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool:

* A Kanban-style dashboard to keep track of work tasks, timelines and issues.

27
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What are Azure Pipelines?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool,

It is a CI/CD pipeline to help you continuously produce and develop code.

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What is Azure Repos?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool:

It is a code repository.

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What is Azure Test Plans?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool:

It is designed to perform quality testing of applications.

30
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What is Azure Artefacts?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool:

It allows you to share applications and code libraries with, other teams, inside and outside your organisation.

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What is Azure DevTest Labs?

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This allows developers and engineers to create test environments to test applications.

  • It provides cost management and reduces resource waste.
  • It provides tailorable templates.
  • It is automatable.
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What is Github ?

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A code repository service owned by Microsoft.

  • primarily open-source projects.
  • all open-source Microsoft code is hosted there.
33
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What are Github Actions?

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Github actions are similar to Azure Pipelines.

  • Allow you to test and build your code.
  • Can deploy to any platform. (AWS, GCP, K8s)
34
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What is Azure Pipelines?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool,

It is a CI/CD pipeline to help you continuously produce and develop code.

35
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What is Azure Repos?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool:

It is a code repository.

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What are Azure Test Plans?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool:

It is designed to perform quality testing of applications.

37
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What are Azure Artefacts?

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This is an Azure DevOps Tool:

It allows you to share applications and code libraries with, other teams, inside and outside your organisation.

38
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What is Azure DevTest Labs?

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This allows developers and engineers to create test environments to test applications.

  • It provides cost management and reduces resource waste.
  • It provides tailorable templates.
  • It is automatable.
39
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What is Github ?

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A code repository service owned by Microsoft.

  • primarily open source projects.
  • all open-source Microsoft code is hosted there.
40
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What are Github Actions?

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Github actions are similar to Azure Pipelines.

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