Public or Private
Cloud
Azure Services
... as a Service
Geography
Grab Bag
200

Generally, Azure is considered this.

What is a 

Public cloud

200

Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, which helps your employees sign in and access: External resources, the Azure portal, and other SaaS applications

What is

Azure Active Directory

200

Azure virtual machines

What is

IaaS

200

Contains one or more data centers that are connected by using a low-latency network.

What is a

Region

200

Two characteristics of the public cloud are limited storage and self service management.

False

It should be unlimited storage and self-service management.

400

This cloud cloud is generally contained within a company's on-premise resources but can be extended to Azure or another cloud provider. 

What is

Private Cloud

400

A big data analysis service for machine learning

What is

Azure Databricks

400

Used by Office 365

What is

SaaS

400

Unique physical locations within an Azure region made up of one or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking, protecting your applications and data from datacenter failures.

What is an

Availability Zone

400

You plan to store 20 TB of data in Azure. The data will be accessed infrequently and visualized by using Microsoft Power BI. Which storage solution should you recommend for the data? 

What is:

Azure Cosmos DB

or 

Azure Data Lake

600

A mixed computing, storage, and services environment made up of on-premises infrastructure, private cloud services, and a public cloud.

What is

Hybrid cloud

600

A feature of Azure Monitor, this service is used to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies, and includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do with your app.

What is 

Azure Application Insights

600

Users create and deploy applications quickly without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure.

What is

PaaS

600

A relationship between 2 Azure Regions within the same geographic region for disaster recovery purposes. If one of the regions were to experience a disaster or failure, then the services in that region will automatically failover to the other region.

What are 

Paired Regions?

600

Cloud is a shared pool of machines and services. As the number of customer grows, the cloud providers can lower the cost or increase quality of the services.

What is

Economies of Scale

800

Allows the least ownership and control

What is 

Public cloud

800

Provides a platform for Serverless Code

What is

Azure Functions 

800

Azure SQL Databases

What is

PaaS

800

This configuration within a datacenter ensures that during either a planned or unplanned maintenance event, at least one virtual machine is available and meets the 99.95% Azure SLA .

What is an

Availability Set

800

Spending money upfront and then deducting that expense over time

What is

Capital expenditure

  

1000

Has the highest privacy of infrastructure and data.

What is

Private cloud

1000
Designed to help organizations deliver Azure services from their own data center. It combines infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services in a software stack that spans on-premises datacenter environments as well as Microsoft's Azure cloud.


What is 
Azure Stack 



1000

Requires the least user management of the cloud services

What is

SaaS

1000

A United States government contractor or United States government entity might use this special Region


What is

Azure Government

1000

Spending money upfront and then deducting that expense over time?

  

What is 

Capital Expenditure

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