Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Exam Notes 02

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

• ExamAZ-900

• Azure Virtual Machine    

- Emulation of physical computer

- IaaS

- Scalability

    1. VM scale sets

    2. Azure Batch : pool of compute servers, raw computational power, super computer

 When to use?

        + Testing and Development

        + Running applications on cloud

        + Extending datacenter to Cloud

        + During DR

• Azure App Service

- PaaS

- Types of App Service

        1. Web Apps : Hosting web apps, Languages: ASP.Net/ASP.net Core/ Java/Python/Ruby/PHP/Node js 

        2. API Apps : REST based web APIs

        3. Web Jobs : Run a program or script, can schedule

        4. Mobile Apps : Build backend for android or iOS apps

• Azure Container Instance

- Deploy and Manage containers

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• Azure Kubernetes Service

- Orchestration service

• Azure Functions and Logic Apps

	Azure Functions	Azure Logic Apps
State	Statefull or Stateless	Statefull
Development	Coding (Imparative)	Designer (Declarative)
Connectivity	lot of binding types	lot of connectors
Actions	Coding for activity functions	Ready-made actions
Monitoring	Azure Application insights	Azure portal, Log analytics
Management	REST API, Visual Studio	Azure portal, REST API, Powershell, Visual Studio
Purpose	Execute code	Execute workflows

• Azure Virtual Desktop

- Desktop an application virtualization service

- Works across devices like Windows, Linux, Andriod, Mac and iOS

(Serverless computing)

- It includes,

        1. Abstraction of servers : platform manage the server instances

        2. Event-driven scale; Excellent fit for incoming events such as timers, HTTP, Queues, etc

        3. Micro-Billing ; pay only for time for use

- Azure provides two solution for serversless computing

        1. Azure functions

        2. Azure logic apps