Technology Overview Flashcards

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What is Azure VM?

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A Virtual Machine provided by Azure. You can choose either Windows or Linux. You can choose among different computing resources

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Azure Container Services?

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Containers as a service to run docker

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Azure Kubernetes Services?

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Easy to manage and scale several containers

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Azure Service Fabric?

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For managing, packaging and deploying microservices

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Azure Functions?

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Serverles, your code just runs and shut down. You only pay for the times your code runs

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Azure Batch?

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Jobs in paralel. Spot VMs gives you better price if you don’t care about your service being interrupted

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Azure Blob Storage?

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  • Serverless Storage
  • Unstrucutured files
  • Large files
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Azure Disk Storage?

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  • Encryption by default
  • Can choose between HDD and SSD
  • Attach Volume to VMs
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Azure File Storage?

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  • File server

- Can be shared among serveral VMs

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Azure Queue Storage?

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  • Messaging storage for integrating applications
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Azure Table Storage?

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  • Wide-Column NoSQL database
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Azure Databox?

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  • Designed to move petabytes or terabytes of data

- Instead of transfering over a network is physically moved

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13
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Azure Archive Storage?

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  • Cold Storage

- Might take longer but cheaper

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Azure Data Lakse Storage?

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  • Centralized repository to have data from many sources

- Supports structured or unstructured data

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Azure Cosmos DB?

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Microsoft database for NoSQL is supposed to have cool features and support big amounts of data

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Azure SQL Database?

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SQL Server with all the cool features, like auto scale, integral intelligence and robust security

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Mysql/ PSQL/ MariaDB what features do they have in common in Azure?

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Fully managed
Scalable
Secure
Highly Available

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SQL Server on VMs?

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Doesn’t have all cool features of Azure SQL Database but provides lift and shift (easy change from on premises)

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Azure Synapse Analytics?

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Data warehouse

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Azure Database Migration Service?

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Migrate your databases to cloud with no application changes

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21
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Azure Cache for Redis?

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Is a cache storage for delivering frequently accessed data faster

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Azure Notifications Hub?

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Publish/Subscribe. Send push notifications from any backend to your Azure resources

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Azure API Apps?

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Easily expose your API endpoints

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Azure Service Bus?

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Is like Kafka but built by Microsoft

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Azure Stream Analytics?

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Serverless real-time analytics

26
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Azure Logic Apps?

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Is like a way to trigger logical things within Azure resources like send emails in Office 365 when an file is uploaded. Drag and drop

27
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Azure API Management?

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Is like a proxy for your endpoints to add additional functionality

28
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Azure Signal R service?

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Provides real time messaging

29
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Azure App Service?

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Deploy java, node js, python applications without worrying about underlying infrastructure. Think of it like Heroku of Azure

30
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Xamarin?

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An app platform for building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#.

31
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Azure Boards?

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Agile tools like Jira

32
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Azure pipelines?

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CI/CD compatible with github

33
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Azure Repos?

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Github

34
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Azure Test Plans?

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Manual and exploratory testing tool like Cypress

35
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Azure Artifact?

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Share maven and npm packages

36
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Azure Dev-test labs?

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Create dev test environments

37
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Azure Resource Manager (ARM)?

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Allows you to programatically create Azure resources with a JSON template

38
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Azure QuickStart?

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Pre made ARM templates created by partners or community

39
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Azure Virtual Network?

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Is an isolated network within the Azure Network where you can put your resources

40
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Subnets?

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logical groups within the Virtual Network

41
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Azure Front Door

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Scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global applications

42
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Azure Express Route

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  • Connection between On Premises and Azure

- 10mbps to 50 gb

43
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Azure Connection

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A vpn connection that ensures two azures networks

44
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Virtual Network Gateway

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A way of connecting to Azure from your on premises via VPN

45
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Azure Traffic Manager

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Distributes load at DNS level

46
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Azure DNS

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Allows you to host your domain names on Azure

47
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Azure Load Balancer?

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evenly distribute incoming network traffic at Transport Layer.
Allows different availability zones.
Allows Public or Private Load Balancer

48
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Scale Sets?

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Identical VMs and automatically scale based on metrics or schedule

49
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IoT Central

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Connect IoT devices to the cloud (SaaS)

50
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IoT Hub

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Connect IoT devices tot he cloud securely and at SCALE MILLIONS (PaaS)

51
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IoT Edge

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Azure solution for edge computing with IoT

52
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Azure Synapse Analytics

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run SQL queries to do reporting

53
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HDInsight

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open-source analytics software Kafka Hadoop

54
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Azure Databricks

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data analysis with Apache Spark

55
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Data lake Analytics

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holds raw data on large amounts until it’s needed

56
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Azure Machine Learning Service

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Run ML/AI workloads with flexible pipelins. Python R, etc

57
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Azure Web Portal

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Manage Azure resources on chrome

58
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Powershell

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command line and scripting language for Azure

59
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Azure Powershell

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powershell for azure

60
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Cloud Shell

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browser accessible shell for managing Azure Resources. Use bash

61
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Azure CLI

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is an executable that you can install on your computer to interact with azure from your local terminal