Cloud Concepts
This cloud model allows resources to be shared over the internet and owned by a third-party provider.
What is the public cloud?
This Azure service is used to create and manage VMs
What is Azure Virtual Machines?
This Microsoft service manages users, authentication, and access in Azure.
What is Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)?
This Azure calculator helps estimate monthly cloud costs before deployment.
What is the Azure Pricing Calculator?
This Azure networking component allows Azure resources to communicate privately.
What is a Virtual Network (VNet)?
This cloud benefit allows companies to quickly increase or decrease resources based on demand.
What is scalability or elasticity?
This Azure service allows developers to run code without managing servers.
What is Azure Functions?
This security principle means users should only receive the minimum permissions necessary.
What is the Principle of Least Privilege?
This document explains Microsoft's commitment to uptime and availability.
What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?
This Azure service protects applications from DDoS attacks.
What is Azure DDoS Protection?
In this cloud model, an organization combines on-premises infrastructure with public cloud services.
What is a hybrid cloud?
This Azure storage option is best for unstructured data such as images, videos, and backups.
What is Azure Blob Storage?
This Azure tool provides a secure score and recommendations to improve security posture.
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
A 99.9% SLA allows approximately this much downtime per month.
What is about 43 minutes?
This Azure feature filters inbound and outbound traffic rules at the subnet or NIC level.
What is a Network Security Group (NSG)?
This pricing model allows organizations to pay only for the resources they use.
What is consumption-based pricing?
This Azure service helps distribute traffic globally and improve application performance.
What is Azure Front Door or Azure Traffic Manager?
This feature requires users to verify identity using two or more authentication methods.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
This Azure feature helps organizations reduce costs by committing to long-term VM usage.
What are Reserved Instances?
This Azure service provides a dedicated private connection from on-premises to Azure.
What is ExpressRoute?
This type of cloud service model provides customers with operating systems, storage, and networking without managing physical hardware.
What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
This Azure service provides containers orchestrated at scale.
What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?
This Azure service stores secrets, certificates, and encryption keys securely.
What is Azure Key Vault?
This tool helps organizations analyze and optimize Azure spending.
What is Azure Cost Management?
This Azure service allows secure remote connectivity for users into Azure networks.
What is Azure VPN Gateway?