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An Availability Set

An Availability Set is a logical grouping capability for isolating VM resources from each other when they're deployed. Azure makes sure that the VMs you place within an Availability Set run across multiple physical servers, compute racks, storage units, and network switches.

Azure CLI

Azure CLI provides a command line and scripting environment for creating and managing Azure resources. The Azure CLI is available for macOS, Linux, and Windows operating systems.

Agility

Agility is the measure of IT's contribution and ability to adapt to day to day business situations.

Availability Zone

An Availability Zone is a high-availability offering that protects your applications and data from data-center failures. Availability Zones are unique physical locations within an Azure region. Each zone is made up of one or more data-centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking

Azure AD Identity Protection

Azure AD Identity Protection because Identity this is a tool that allows organizations to accomplish three key tasks: Automate the detection and remediation of identity-based risks. Investigate risks using data in the portal. Export risk detection data to third-party utilities for further analysis.

Azure Advisor

Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost effectiveness, performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources.

Azure Advisor tool.

Azure Advisor is a personalized cloud consultant that helps you follow best practices to optimize your Azure deployments. It analyzes your resource configuration and usage telemetry and then recommends solutions that can help you improve the cost-effectiveness, performance, high availability, and security of your Azure resources. Advisor does not provide "security" recommendation to Azure AD alone. It integrates with "Security Center" for recommendations.

Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell, accessible via Chrome.

Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is correct because the Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.

Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable public cloud service that allows developers, scientists, business professionals and other Microsoft customers to gain insight from large, complex data sets. As with most data lake offerings, the service is composed of two parts: data storage and data analytics.

Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps because it provides developer services to support teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications. Developers can work in the cloud using Azure DevOps Services or on-premises using Azure DevOps Server. Azure DevOps Server was formerly named Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Azure Identity Protection

Azure Identity Protection is a tool that allows organizations to accomplish three key tasks: Automate the detection and remediation of identity-based risks. Investigate risks using data in the portal. Export risk detection data to third-party utilities for further analysis. Azure Active Directory Identity Protection accomplishes this and offers MFA.

Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a tool for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, or certificates. A vault is logical group of secrets.

Azure Locks

Azure Locks, from an administrator perspective means you may need to lock a subscription, resource group, or resource to prevent other users in your organization from accidentally deleting or modifying critical resources. You can set the lock level to CanNotDelete or ReadOnly. In the portal, the locks are called Delete and Read-only respectively.

Azure Logic Apps

Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that helps you schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations. Logic Apps simplifies how you design and build scalable solutions for app integration, data integration, system integration, enterprise application integration (EAI), and business-to-business (B2B) communication, whether in the cloud, on premises, or both.

Azure Policy

Azure Policy is a service in Azure that you use to create, assign, and manage policies. These policies enforce different rules and effects over your resources, so those resources stay compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements. Azure Policy meets this need by evaluating your resources for non-compliance with assigned policies. All data stored by Azure Policy is encrypted at rest.

Azure PowerShell

Azure PowerShell is basically an extension of Windows PowerShell. It lets Windows PowerShell users control Azure's robust functionality. From the command line, Azure PowerShell programmers use preset scripts called cmdlets to perform complex tasks like provisioning virtual machines (VMs) or creating cloud services.

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs

Disaster recovery

Disaster recovery is the process of restoring application functionality in the wake of a catastrophic loss.

Elasticity or elastic computing

Elasticity or elastic computing is the ability to quickly expand or decrease computer processing, memory, and storage resources to meet changing demands without worrying about capacity planning and engineering for peak usage. Typically controlled by system monitoring tools, elastic computing matches the amount of resources allocated to the amount of resources actually needed without disrupting operations. With cloud elasticity, a company avoids paying for unused capacity or idle resources and doesn't have to worry about investing in the purchase or maintenance of additional resources and equipment.

Microsoft Power Apps

Microsoft Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using PowerApps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your business data stored either in the underlying data platform (Common Data Service) or in various online and on-premises data sources (SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on).

Does the Free and Basic Azure AD plan come with the same standard support from Microsoft?

No because only paid services come with standard support. Basic is a form of paid support tier as shown in the visual below.

Azure Premier

Premier because regular architecture reviews from Microsoft for a company's Azure environment are included in this tier. See the comparisons within the visual below:

Issues? Azure Support

Raise a support ticket with Microsoft because you get easy access to Azure Support by going online to the Azure Portal and submitting a support request. This is the fastest way to hear back from a Support Engineer that will be ready to start helping you. Access to Subscription Management and billing support is included with your Microsoft Azure subscription, and Technical Support is provided through one of the Azure Support Plans.

Scalability

Scalability is the ability of a system to handle increased load, and is one of the pillars of software quality. Use this checklist to review your application architecture from a scalability standpoint.

Does Microsoft provide a separate Azure portal for trying out the services in Public Preview?

Yes, because Microsoft Azure offers preview features to you for evaluation purposes. A preview may include preview, beta, or other pre-release features, services, software, or regions. Previews are subject to reduced or different service terms, as set forth in your service agreement and the preview supplemental terms -https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/preview-supplemental-terms/ . Previews are made available to you on the condition that you agree to these terms of use, which supplement your agreement governing the use of Azure.

Does the Azure Free Account allow you to host production-based resources?

Yes, the Azure Free Account allows the hosting of up to 10 production resources for free.

Azure pricing calculator

the pricing calculator allows you to view the price for different sizes and configurations of your Azure Virtual Machines in terms of the machine's CPU, memory, storage, location and hours in use. Microsoft Azure has monthly releases of new updates and new features as well.