Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) certification preparation – short notes-IV
Thanks for reading our first, second and third posts in this series. Let’s get into the 4th post of the series Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) certification preparation short notes.
The intention of this series is to help your preparation for the AZ900 certification, or for your revision before taking the exam.
So, let’s get into the contents…
IoT Hub – Secure communication between the IoT apps and their managed devices
IoT Edge – allows processing and analysis of IoT devices data. A service built on Azure IoT Hub.
Windows 10 IoT Core Services – A cloud services subscription
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Bigdata services
HDInsight : Run Open-sourced analytics software such as Hadoop,Kafka and Spark
Azure databricks : An apache Spark-based for Azure. Third-part databricks services within Azure.
DataLake analytics : Large storage for Raw data for bigdata. Analytics and reporting
Azure machine learning studio : Older service for AI/ML workloads
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Translator : real-time multi-language translator
Anomaly detector : detect anomalies in data and troubleshoot
Azure bot service : serverless bot service on-demand
Form recognizer : auto extraction of key/value, text, table etc.. from data
Computer vision : Content analysis from images
Language understanding : natural language understanding for apps,chat bots etc…
QnA maker : QnA bot. helps to create a question-answer structure over the data
Text analysis : helps in sentiment analysis. identifying names, phrases etc…
Content moderator : helps to detect potentially offensive content
Face : helps to identify the people and the emotions from images etc…
Ink recognizer : digital ink recognizer, such as handwriting, shapes etc…
Azure blob storage : blob storage service
Logic apps : allows you to build serverless workflows composed of Azure functions, building a state machine for serverless compute
Event grid : Pub/sub type. Allowing to react to events and trigger other services like Functions
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– CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) – has to be compliant to access FBI’s CJIS Database
– Cloud Security Alliance (Star Certification) – Third party
– GDPR – European law, against anyone (org) collects and analyzes data tied to EU residents
– EU Model clause – transfers of data outside of EU.
– HIPPA (Health insurance portability and accountability act) – patient protected health info.
– ISO 27018 – processing of personal info by cloud service providers
free – MFA, SSO, and basic security settings
Office 365 Apps – company branding, two-sync between on-prem and cloud
Premium 1 – Hybrid architecture,
Premium 2 – identity protection and identity governance.
– Secret management – keys,tokens,certificates etc…
– Key management – Encryption key creation and management
– Certificate management – manages SSL certificates
– HSM – Keys and secrets managed by FIPS compliant Hardware-Security-Module (FIPS 140-2 compliance for multi-tenant and FIPS 140-3 for single tenant)
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– Security principal : identities requesting access to an azure resource.
— User, group, Service principal (a security identity used to access azure resources),Managed identity (an identity in Azure AD managed by Azure)- Scope : Defines a scope of a role. Controls at Management,subscription or resource group level.
– Role definition : Set of roles. R/W/Delete etc..