Azure Data Services
This term is used to describe data about data
70% of on premise Windows Server runs on the virtualization platform created by this company
What is VMWare?
An open source container orchestration system. Also a greek term for "helmsman" or "pilot"
What is Kubernetes?
She is a prominent character in the first ever Halo game and shares the name of an early Microsoft AI offering.
Who is Cortana?
This is the name of the platform that Microsoft partners use to report a customer's Azure usage that is running out of their tenant
What is Partner Center?
In a relational database, this is the name of the column that uniquely identifies each row in a table
What is a Primary Key
This is the name of the Azure offering that extends Azure's management and governance capabilities to resources and workloads that are running outside of the Azure cloud
What is Azure Arc
Name any one of the FY24 App Innovation Mainstream Solution Plays
Migrate Enterprise Apps, Build Intelligent Apps, Accelerate Developer Productivity
This Azure AI service shares an acronym with the fraud detection departments of many banks
What is AML?
This GSI partner recently announced a $1B investment to expand and scale its AI capabilities in partnership with Microsoft
Who is PwC?
This 3 letter acronym describes the process of collecting data from various sources, putting in a consistent format, and moving it into target system such as a data warehouse.
What is ETL? (Extract, Transform, Load)
Explain the difference between Azure Sentinel and Defender for Cloud
Sentinel is a security information and analytics service. Defender for Cloud is a security solution that helps to protect cloud workloads
This Azure service allows developers to deploy and run Spring Boot applications on Azure Infrastructure
What is Azure Spring Apps?
Cognitive Search, Machine Learning, Form recognizer, custom vision, personalizer, bot services, Azure Open AI, etc.
This is an artificial mechanism created by Microsoft to incentivize Azure sellers to sell with partners
What is IP Co-sell? (or DR)
List 3 ways to run SQL Server in Azure, starting from the lowest to the highest levels of abstraction (ie. roughly from IaaS to PaaS to SaaS)
What are SQL Server on Azure VMs, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL MI?
This is the name of Microsoft's own on-preimse Virtualization technology
What is Hyper-V?
These 4 R's refer to 4 common Application Modernization strategies
What are: Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild?
By what factor is the US AI business larger than Canada's? (calculated based on total AI ACR)
40X
This is the term used to describe the Azure revenue that is running on a Partner's tenant, but is attributed to a Microsoft customer
What is PRACR (Partner reported ACR)?
Data Lake: Can all types of data in their original format (structure, unstructured, audio, video etc.)
Data Warehouse: Stores processed, relational data only.
Configuration Manager (SCCM), Operations Manager (SCOM) and Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) are all components of this now largely irrelevant suite of Microsoft Infrastructure Management Tools
What is Microsoft System Center?
This is the name of Red Hat's Managed Kubernetes platform
What is Red Hat OpenShift?
Name two of top 10 customers in Canada from an Azure AI usage perspective
Manulife, TD, Rogers, PCC, CIBC, Desjardins, Finastra, Scotia, Air Canada, Hydro Quebec
This Microsoft partner's 4 letter acronym program was created to simplify and streamline customers' adoption of their cloud technologies. It runs on Azure to help customers "ascend" to the cloud
Who is SAP?