3. Azure Intro

Microsoft Azure

__________ is a cloud computing platform with an ever-expanding set of services to help you build solutions that meet your technical goals.

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

__________ lets you run virtualized servers in Azure as infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)

Azure VMs are delivered under which cloud service model?

Operating system (OS)

Azure VMs are a good fit when you need total control over the __________.

Image (prebuilt image)

A(n) __________ is a template that already includes an operating system and tools such as web hosting components, used to deploy VMs quickly.

Azure Virtual Desktop

__________ is a desktop and application virtualization service in Azure that lets users securely access Windows desktops and apps from many device types and locations.

Containers (Azure containers)

If you want to run multiple instances of an application on a single host machine, __________ are an excellent choice.

Azure Functions

__________ is an event-driven, serverless compute option that doesn't require maintaining virtual machines or containers.

Event

With Azure Functions, a(n) __________ wakes the function, so resources don't need to stay provisioned when there are no events.

Azure AI services

The Azure service category that provides prebuilt APIs for language, speech, and vision features without requiring custom model training is __________.

Azure Machine Learning

Use __________ when you need custom model development and management.

Azure IoT services

Use __________ when your solution centers on connected devices and telemetry.

Azure App Service

__________ lets you build and host web apps, background jobs, mobile back-ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure.

Virtual Machines

In the application hosting comparison, __________ offers the most control (OS and config control, custom hosting setup, you patch and maintain).

Containers

In the application hosting comparison, __________ offers component isolation, portable deployments, and independent scaling.

App Service

In the application hosting comparison, __________ is a managed platform with autoscale, high availability (HA), and integrated deployment, and requires the least operational effort.

Storage Account

An Azure __________ provides a unique namespace, contains one or more storage services, and is protected by a redundancy option.

3 to 24

An Azure storage account name must be __________ characters long, use lowercase letters and numbers, and be globally unique in Azure.

Standard General Purpose v2 (Standard GP v2)

__________ is the recommended default storage account type for most scenarios (blobs, files, queues, and tables).

Premium Block Blobs

__________ is the storage account type best for high transaction rates, small objects, or low latency requirements; it supports Blob (+ Data Lake) with LRS and ZRS.

Premium File Shares

__________ is the storage account type best for high-scale or high-performance apps, supporting Azure Files with SMB + NFS, and LRS and ZRS redundancy.

Premium Page Blobs

__________ is the storage account type for page blob workloads (e.g., VM disks), with LRS redundancy only.

Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)

The Azure storage redundancy option that synchronously copies data three times within a single physical data center in the primary region is __________.

11

LRS provides __________ nines of durability (99.999999999%).

Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS)

The Azure storage redundancy option that copies data synchronously across three availability zones in the primary region is __________.

12

ZRS provides __________ nines of durability.

Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)

The Azure storage redundancy option that keeps LRS in the primary region and asynchronously replicates to a secondary region (6 total copies across two regions) is __________.

Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)

The Azure storage redundancy option that uses ZRS in the primary region and LRS in the secondary region (6 total copies) is __________.

RA-GRS (Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage)

The variant of GRS that gives optional read-only access to the secondary region is __________.

RA-GZRS (Read-Access Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage)

The variant of GZRS that gives optional read-only access to the secondary region is __________.

16

GRS, GZRS, RA-GRS, and RA-GZRS all provide __________ nines of durability.

15 minutes

For GRS and GZRS, the RPO (recovery point objective) is under __________.

6

GRS and GZRS keep a total of __________ copies of data across two regions.

Azure Blobs

__________ is a massively scalable object store for text and binary data, and includes support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2.

Azure Files

__________ provides managed file shares (via SMB/NFS) for cloud or on-premises deployments.

Azure Queues (Queue Storage)

The Azure storage messaging service designed to store asynchronous messages, for reliable messaging between application components, is __________.

64 KB

Azure Queue messages can be up to __________ each.

Azure Disks

__________ provides block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs and is fully managed by Azure.

Azure Tables

__________ is a NoSQL table option for structured, non-relational data.

Azure Migrate

__________ is the online, real-time migration hub, a single portal to assess and migrate on-premises infrastructure to Azure.

Azure Data Box

__________ is the offline bulk data transfer option where you ship a secure storage device with up to 80 TB capacity.

80 TB

Azure Data Box has a capacity of up to __________.

NIST 800-88r1

Azure Data Box devices are securely wiped using the __________ standard, and shipments have end-to-end tracking in the portal.

AzCopy

__________ is a command-line tool that uploads and downloads files, copies between accounts, does one-way synchronization, and works cross-cloud provider.

Azure Storage Explorer

__________ is a graphical (GUI) app for Windows, macOS, and Linux to manage blobs and files, and uses AzCopy on the backend.

Azure File Sync

__________ is an agent service that provides bi-directional sync, cloud tiering, SMB/NFS/FTPS protocols, and multisite caching.

Virtual network (VNet / Virtual Private Cloud)

In cloud networking, a __________ enables a secure, isolated section of a public cloud where users can run resources in a virtualized network defined by custom IP ranges and subnets.

Virtual private network (VPN)

A(n) __________ uses an encrypted tunnel within another network.

Azure ExpressRoute

__________ lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection, with the help of a connectivity provider.

Azure DNS

__________ is a hosting service for DNS domains that provides name resolution using Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

Azure Functions

__________ is Microsoft's serverless compute service that enables developers to run event-triggered code without explicitly provisioning or managing infrastructure.

Azure App Service

__________ is the Azure compute service that allows you to build and host web applications, RESTful APIs, and mobile back-ends in your choice of programming language without having to manage infrastructure.