Understanding Core Azure Services Flashcards
What are regions?
Regions are specific designated areas within a geography. There are about 7 regions which include Central US, East US 2, West US 2, West Europe, North Europe, Southeast Asia.
What are availability zones?
An availability zone is a sequence of 3 datacenters that are independently cooled, given electricity, and networked separately just in case of emergency.
What is a zonal service?
A zonal service is a 3 set triangular fashion across a similar region.
What is a zone redundant services?
zone redundant services are two sets of zonal services connected between regions creating a triangular prism.
What is a resource group?
A resource group is a group of resources that are supported to a create a virtual environment.
What is Azure Resource Manager?
Azure Resource Manager is an azure featured service that allows you to organize resources, enforce standards, apply policies, and protect critical azure resources with resource locks.
What are the benefits for using core Azure Architectural components?
Cost Effective Scalability Elasticity Current Agile Global Security
What are the computing services?
Computing services include VMs, containers, serverless computing, microservices
What are the cloud storage services?
Azure Blob, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB
What are the networking services?
Allows you to setup private network connections to your on premise environment, configure and control access to a network.
What are AI services?
Allows you to adopt pre-built cognitive services and search/analyze existing data for forecasting future behaviors
What are IoT services?
Services that allow you to integrate IoT hubs; create dashboards over the internet based on integrated devices.
What are App Hosting services?
Services that allow you to build and run your entire application on managed platform based off of software Windows Os/Linux.
What are integration services?
Services that allow you to make sure that all connected resources (VMs) are communicating smoothly with run-times for data sent over.
What are security services?
Services that guarantee a level of trust built in which is backed by security.
What is a Virtual Machine?
A virtual machine is an IaaS platform.
VMs host OS that is independent from your own OS and is dependent on cloud provider OS.
VMs give:
- total control over OS for clients
- allows you to determine which OS runs best with your application
- good for conversion to cloud model
What are VM Scale Sets?
VM Scale Sets are logical groupings of VMs that run on a single OS from the Azure Data center.
- good to keep applications running with good availability
- VM scale sets allow for increased levels of availability by not letting upgrades/updates to one VM affect the application.
VM Scale Sets are used when you want to:
- increase availability
- increase scalability
- increase redundancy
What is an Azure Batch Set?
an Azure Batch Set is a VM set that allows for many different VMs to run from 1 OS. This is on a scale of 10, 100, or 1000 VMs.
What is Azure App Service and its functions?
- An app service uses PaaS.
- allows for hosting enterprise grade web-oriented applications.
- Examples of web-hosting applications include: (Web Apps, API Apps, Web Jobs, Mobile Apps)
What are Azure container instances (ACI)? *
Azure containers use host- OS.
- Azure Container Instance (ACI) RUNS ONE CONTAINER
What is Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) ?
AKS runs multiple containers together in a process called orchestration.
**You can streamline multiple containers at once for an organization running on different applications each with a single OS from one sole network computer.
