2. Introduction to Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft's public cloud computing platform.

1. Compute

2. Storage

3. Databases

4. Networking

5. AI & Machine Learning

6. IoT

What are the six foundational pillars of Azure's core services? (CSDNAI)

Virtual Machines

Which Azure Compute service provides on-demand, virtualized server instances (IaaS)?

Azure Virtual Desktop

What service enables users to securely run Windows environments remotely without hosting the OS locally?

Azure Containers

Which lightweight virtualization method packages application code and dependencies together while sharing the host OS kernel?

Azure Functions

What is Azure's event-driven, serverless compute engine?

Azure AI Services

Which Azure service provides prebuilt APIs for speech, vision, and language without custom training?

Azure App Service

Which Azure service is a managed hosting environment for web applications and APIs (PaaS)?

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What is the naming requirement for an Azure Storage Account?

1. Blobs

2. Files

3. Queues

4. Tables

What are the four primary storage services contained within an Azure Storage Account? (BFQT)

Standard General Purpose v2 (GPv2)

Which storage tier is the recommended cost-effective default for most scenarios?

Azure Files

Which Azure storage service is engineered for massive volumes of unstructured text or binary files?

Azure Queues

Which Azure service acts as a messaging store for asynchronous processing?

Azure Tables.

Which Azure storage service is a NoSQL store for structured, non-relational data?

Azure Disks

Which Azure storage service provides block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs?

Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)

Which redundancy option provides 11 nines of durability by replicating 3 times within one data center?

Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS)

Which redundancy option synchronously replicates data across 3 separate physical Availability Zones?

Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)

Which redundancy option creates 6 total copies and provides 16 nines of durability by replicating asynchronously to a secondary region?

Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)

Which redundancy option combines ZRS in the primary region with LRS in a secondary region?

Azure Migrate

Which online hub is used to assess and migrate on-premises infrastructure to Azure?

Azure Data Box

What physical storage appliance does Azure ship for offline, bulk data migration (up to 80 TB)?

Storage Explorer

What GUI application allows for manual visual browsing and management of blobs and files?

Azure File Sync

Which agent service bi-directionally synchronizes on-premises Windows file servers with Azure Files?

Azure Virtual Network (VNet)

What provides a private, isolated software-defined network boundary for Azure resources?

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

What service connects on-premises networks to Azure through an encrypted tunnel over the public internet?

Azure ExpressRoute

What service provides a private, dedicated physical connection to Azure that bypasses the public internet entirely

Azure DNS

Which Azure service is a hosting service for domains that provides name resolution?

Azure Machine Learning

Which Azure platform is used for training and managing custom machine learning models?

IoT Services

Which Azure service category focuses on connected devices and telemetry?