Cloud
Generally, Azure is considered this.
What is a
Public cloud
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
Azure virtual machines
What is
IaaS
Contains one or more data centers that are connected by using a low-latency network.
What is a
Region
Two characteristics of the public cloud are limited storage and self service management.
False
It should be unlimited storage and self-service management.
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
A big data analysis service for machine learning
What is
Azure Databricks
Used by Office 365
What is
SaaS
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
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
A mixed computing, storage, and services environment made up of on-premises infrastructure, private cloud services, and a public cloud.
What is
Hybrid cloud
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.
Azure Application Insights
Users create and deploy applications quickly without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure.
PaaS
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?
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
Allows the least ownership and control
What is
Public cloud
Provides a platform for Serverless Code
What is
Azure Functions
Azure SQL Databases
What is
PaaS
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
Spending money upfront and then deducting that expense over time
What is
Capital expenditure
Has the highest privacy of infrastructure and data.
What is
Private cloud
Requires the least user management of the cloud services
What is
SaaS
A United States government contractor or United States government entity might use this special Region
What is
Azure Government
Spending money upfront and then deducting that expense over time?
What is
Capital Expenditure