The Basics
What is consumption-based pricing?
Pay for what you use (Pay-as-you-go)
What is IaaS?
Infrastructure as a service
What is "Serverless" Computing?
A concept of cloud computing that enables developers to build applications faster by eliminating the need for them to manage infrastructure
Name the difference between MS SQL Server and Azure SQL.
Azure SQL is a managed service, meaning Azure takes care of all the infrastructure maintenance.
What is a Application Gateway?
What is OPEX/CAPEX?
Operational Expense and Capital Expense
What is ARM?
Azure Resource Manager
What is an Azure Function?
Smallest compute service on Azure, represents a single compute action
What is the storage limit for any cosmos DB Application (Gbs is fine)
No storage limit.
What is Azure ExpressRoute
Private connection between 2 datacenters
What is Cloud Agility?
Rapidly develop, test, and launch software
What is a region?
Set of datacenters, deployed within a latency defined perimeter, on a dedicated low latency network.
VMs belong to which cloud service model?
IaaS
True or False:
Cosmos DB is classified as a NoSQL Database
True
What storage type is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as videos and images?
Blobs
According to MS Documentation, there are 3 different "Cloud Types". Name them
Private, Public, and Hybrid
What is an availability zone?
Physical location within a region
Which definition best describes compute on Microsoft Azure?
Any service that performs or enables a computation.
What is Azure Database Migration service?
Simplify/guide/autoamt database migration to Azure
Azure Resource Manager templates use which format?
JSON
What is High Availability?
When one resource dies, another resource is almost immediately started to take over the workload.
What is a resource group?
A grouping mechanism for resources, grouped however the user wants.
What are the 3 kinds of app service?
Web Apps, API Apps, Web Apps for containers
What is Azure Table storage?
Store NoSQL Data in Azure.
How is Azure CDN used?
Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses cloud cache technologies to load blob storage or web application components to a users browser