Azure Fundamentals part 1: Describe Core Azure Concepts
What can I do with Azure Cloud? #1
#1 Provide over 100 services that enable you to do everything from running your existing applications on VM to exploring new software models. Ex. intelligent bots and mixed reality
What can I do with Azure Cloud? #2
#2 You can start by migrating your existing applications to VMs that run in Azure. You can then use Azure's AI and Machine-Learning services to communicate with your users through vision, hearing, and speech. Azure also provides on-demand storage to accommodate for growth and data increases.
What On-Demand tools does the cloud provide?
- A near limitless supply of raw computer, storage, and networking components - Speech recognition and other cognitive services that make your applications stand out - Provides analytical data from your software and devices
What are Subscriptions in Azure?
- A subscription groups together user accounts and the resources that have been created by those user accounts - For each subscription, there are limits on the amount of resources that you can create and user - Organizations can use subscriptions to manage costs and the resources that are created by users, teams, or projects
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Azure Cloud?
- A.I. in Azure includes Machine Learning and prebuilt cognitive services - These AI services help you search and analyze existing data to predict future behaviors, outcomes, and trends
What is Azure Market place?
- Azure Market Place is a Microsoft platform where users can buy additional software/applications from third party vendors
What is Internet of Things (IoT) in Azure Cloud?
- Azure allows you to integrate sensors and devices and manage them with IoT hubs - This enables users to create dashboards and apps to monitor and control you assets
What is Mobile in Azure Cloud?
- Azure developers can create a mobile back-end services for iOS, Android and Windows.
How does Azure work?
- Azure uses a technology known as Virtualization
What is Security in the Azure Cloud?
- Azure's security features are very secure. - One of Azure's security feature is identify management which gives the user tight control over who has access to each service and data
What are the benefits/offers of using Azure Cloud?
- Be ready for the Future - Build on your terms - Operate hybrid seamlessly - Trust your cloud
What can you do on the Azure portal?
- Build, manage, and monitor everything from simple web apps to complex cloud deployments. - Create custom dashboards for an organized view of resources - Configure accessibility options for an optimal experience
What are the 2 types of expenses that you should consider when using the Cloud?
- Capital Expenditure (CapEx) - Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
What is Cloud Storage in the Azure Cloud?
- Cloud Storage is the volume of storage that is available to the user that can expand and shrink as necessary. - Ex. Disks & vault shares & databases
What are the biggest capabilities of Azure?
- Compute Services - Cloud Storage - Networking - App. Hosting - Artificial Intelligence - Internet of Things - Integration - Security
What is Compute Services in the Azure Cloud?
- Compute services cover VMs, containers, serverless computing including microservices - These compute services are primarily used for performing calculations, executing logic, and running applications
What is the Azure free account?
- Free access to popular Azure products for 12 months - A credit to spend for the first 30 days - Access to more than 25 products that are always free
What are some Cloud Computing advantages?
- High availability - Scalability - Elasticity - Agility - Geo- Distribution - Disaster Recovery
What is a Hybrid Cloud?
- Hybrid Cloud environments combines both public and private cloud by allowing data and application to be shared by them. Ex.) Google, Microsoft, Amazon. Business and people and share information
What is a Hypervisor in Azure?
- Hypervisors emulates all the functions of a real computer and CPU in a virtual machine - Hypervisors can run multiple VMs at the same time, optimize the components, and capacity of the hardware - These Hypervisor VMs can also run Windows and Linux OS.
What are the 3 Cloud Service Models?
- IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) - PaaS (Platform as as Service) - SaaS (Software as a Service)
Why should I move to the Cloud?
- Increased speeds in Applicational features - Improve user experience on their devices and the software they use
What is Integration in the Azure Cloud?
- Integration, logic apps and service bus connects applications and services - Azure can communicate with services that are off the cloud
Why is Cloud Computing typically cheaper to use?
- Lower your Operating - Run your infrastructure more efficiently - Scale as your business needs change
What are some of the benefits of the Consumption based model?
- No upfront cost - No need to purchase and manage costly infrastructure that users might not use to its fullest - The ability to pay for additional resources when they are needed - The ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer needed
What is a Private Cloud?
- Private cloud services are used exclusively by users from one business or organization. - Private clouds can be physically located at your organization's onsite datacenter. - It can also be hosted by a 3rd party service provider. Ex.) On-Site servers
What are 3 different forms of Cloud?
- Public Cloud - Private Cloud - Hybrid Cloud
What is a Public Cloud?
- Public Cloud services are offered over the public internet and available to anyone wanted to buy it. - The are owned and operated by a third party cloud service provider Ex.) Azure and AWS
What is serverless computing?
- Serverless computing overlaps with PaaS Serverless computing is the concept of not needing to manage the actual hardware to build the application Ex.) RAM and CPU and storage
What is App. Hosting in the Azure Cloud?
- The App. Hosting feature allows users to run their entire web application on a managed platform in either Windows or Linux
What is the Learn Sandbox in Azure?
- The Learn Sandbox is an environment filled with learning modules that are available to first time Azure users to teach them how to user the cloud service. -It also gives you a temporary subscription to Azure during the Learn Module
What is Networking in the Azure Cloud?
- The Networking feature allows users to setup their own private network connection on the cloud to effectively and securely control incoming traffic and configure your application's performance and scalability.
What is the Orchestrator?
- The Orchestrator is responsible for managing that happens in Azure - The Orchestrator API is used to response to user request on the Azure Portal
What are Management Groups in Azure?
- These groups help you manage access, policy, and compliance for multiple subscriptions. - All subscriptions in a management group automatically inherit the conditions applied to the management group.
What is Infrastructure as a Service?
- This Cloud service model represents the managing of physical servers. - The Cloud provider keeps the hardware up to date but the operating system maintenance and network configuration is left to the customer - An advantage of IaaS is the rapid deployment of new computing devices Ex.) Azure VMs are fully operational virtual computer devices running on Microsoft data centers
What is Platform as a Service?
- This cloud service model represents a managed hosting environment - The cloud provider manages the VMs and networking resources and the customer deploys the application into the managed hosting environment Ex.) Azure App. Services provides a managed hosting environment where developers can upload their web applications w/o having to deal with the physical hardware and software requires
What is Software as a Service?
- This cloud service model represents the cloud providers managing every aspect of the application environment such as VMs, networking resources, data storage, and application. Ex.) Office 365 provides a fully working version of office on the cloud. All the customers need to do is create the content.
What are 2 basic services that all Cloud Servicers provider?
1. Computer Power: How much processing power your computer can do. With cloud computing you can add and remove computing power as you go 2. Storage: How much volume your computer an store. But with Cloud computer you can add and remove storage are you go.
Can you describe the basic concepts of cloud computing?
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Can you describe the differences between categories of cloud services?
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Can you describe the differences between types of cloud computing?
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Can you determine whether Azure is the right solution for your business needs.
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Can you differentiate between the different methods of creating an Azure subscription.
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What are the benefits and considerations of using cloud services?
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How does Azure allow you to Build on your Terms?
Azure cloud has a wide selection of languages and frameworks that allow customers to build and deploy their application however way they want.
Why should we Trust the Azure Cloud?
Azure cloud is secured from the group up, backed by a team of experts, and follows the guidelines trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups.
What is Azure?
Azure is Cloud service that allows users to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive global network using different tools and frameworks
How does Azure allow users to Operate hybrid seamlessly?
Azure is a hybrid cloud. It allows for public and private usage to accommodate for any environment.
What is Disaster Recovery?
Azure offers backup services like: - Cloud based back-up services - Data replication - Geo-Distribution
What is Capital Expenditure (CapEx)?
CapEx is the up-front spending of money on physical infrastructure and then deducting that up-front expense over time. The up-front cost from CapEx has a value that reduces over time. Think of them as Long Term Investments Ex. Buildings, Software/Computer Upgrade
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computer is where your PC sites in a Cloud Service Providers Data Center
What is Elasticity?
Cloud based applications can be configured to take advantage of auto-scaling, so your applications will automatically scale itself by pulling resources that it needs.
What is Agility?
Cloud based resources can be deployed and configured as soon as your application requires change
What is Geo-Distribution?
Cloud based-applications can be deployed to regional datacenters around the globe, so your customers will always have the best performance in the region.
What is Scalability?
Cloud can be scaled in 2 ways: 1. Vertically: Computer capacity can be increased by adding RAM or CPU to a virtual machine 2. Horizontally: Computing capacity can be increased by adding instances of a resource such as adding more Virtual Machines to your configuration.
Module #3
Describe Core Azure architectural components
Module #2
Discuss Azure Fundamental Concepts
What is High Availability?
High availability allows your cloud-based applications to provider a continuous user experience without any downtime even when things go wrong
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Module #1
Introduction to Azure Fundamentals
Is Azure cloud considered a CapEx or an OpEx?
OpEx Pay as you go
What is Operational Expenditure (OpEx)?
OpEx is spending money on services or products now, and being billed for them now. You can deduct this expense in the same year you spend it. There is no up-front cost, as you pay for a service or product as you Think of them as Short Term Investments Ex. Rent/Utilities, Wages/Salary, Business Travel
What are the Resource Groups in Azure?
Resources are combined into resource groups, which act as a logical container into which Azure resources like web apps, databases, and storage accounts are deployed and managed
What is the Azure portal?
The Azure portal is a web-based unified console that provides a alternative to command line tools
What is a Fabric Controller?
The Fabric Controller is a special piece of software in installed on one server for each rack that connects to another piece of Software called the Orchestrator
What are the Resources in Azure?
The Resources in Azure are instances of services that you create, like VMs, storage, or SQL databases
How is the Azure cloud a consumption-based model?
The cloud consumption-based model means that end users only pay for the resources that they uses
How does Azure help you Prepare for the Future?
There is continuous growth of innovative tools from Microsoft will help support the development of your application today and any future products
What are the 4 levels of organizing resources in Azure?
Top to Bottom: 1. Management Group 2. Subscriptions 3. Resource Groups 4. Resources
What are the different Cloud models?
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How does Azure work? (Illustration)
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How are Azure Azure Accounts and Resources organized?
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How does Virtualization work in Azure?
Virtualization works by separating the hardware component (CPU, RAM, graphics card, etc) and software (OS) of a computer by using an abstraction layer called a Hypervisor
Does each server have a Hypervisor?
Yes, each server in the rack has a Hypervisor