In this post, I am going to share some quick tips including Q/As and useful links from Day 2 of our previously launched Azure Fundamentals [AZ-900] training covering: Module 3: Core Solutions And Management Tools On Azure where we covered topics like Internet-of-Things, Azure IoT, Azure Big Data and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Azure AI, Serverless Computing, Azure App Service, Management Services Tools in Azure, ARM Templates, Azure Monitor, Azure Service Health.
We also covered hands-on, Lab 8, and Lab 9, out of our extensive 20+ hands-on labs.
So, here are some of the Q/As asked during the Live session.
Core Solutions in Azure
Core solutions encompass a wide array of tools and services from Microsoft Azure.
- Azure Internet-of-Things – Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Sphere
- Azure Big Data and Analytics – Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure HDInsight, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Databricks.
- Azure Artificial Intelligence – Azure Machine Learning Services, Azure Machine Learning Studio, Cognitive Services, Azure Bot Services.
- Serverless Computing – Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Event Grid.
Internet-of-Things (IoT)
IoT stands for Internet of Things, which means accessing and controlling daily usable equipments and devices using Internet.
The term “Things” in the Internet of Things refers to anything and everything in day-to-day life which is accessed or connected through the internet.
IoT is an advanced automation and analytics system that deals with artificial intelligence, sensor, networking, electronic, cloud messaging etc. to deliver complete systems for the product or services.
Example – Our mobile device which contains GPS Tracking, Mobile Gyroscope, Adaptive brightness, Voice detection, Face detection etc.
Azure IoT
Azure IoT refers to a collection of managed and platform services across edge and cloud that connect, monitor and control billions of IoT assets. It also includes security and operating systems for devices and equipment, along with data and analytics that help businesses to build, deploy, and manage IoT applications.
Read more on Azure IoT
Q1. What are Azure IoT Managed Services?
Ans. Azure IoT Managed Services are –
Azure IoT Central – Azure IoT Central is a SaaS service. Easy to connect, monitor, and manage your IoT assets in scales.
Azure IoT Central is your app platform one location that connects you with devices, partners, app templates, and problem solvers. Connect IoT devices to the cloud faster than any other platform.
- Azure IoT Hub- Azure IoT Hub is a PaaS service. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device.
- IoT Hub is a managed service hosted in the cloud that acts as a central message hub for communications in both directions between an IoT application and its attached devices. You can connect millions of devices and their backend solutions reliably and securely.
- Azure Sphere- Azure Sphere is an IaaS Service. Azure Sphere incorporates components of hardware, operating system, and cloud technologies to achieve greater security.
Azure Big Data and Analytics
Big data analytics is the use of advanced analytic techniques against very large, diverse data sets that include structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, from different sources, and in different sizes from terabytes to zettabytes.
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse – A cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse.
- Azure HDInsight – A fully managed, open-source analytics service for enterprises.
- Azure Data Lake Analytics – An on-demand analytics job service that simplifies big data.
- Azure Data Databricks – An Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform.
Read more about Big data architecture style
Q2. How does Azure handle big data?
Ans. Azure Data Lake (A data lake is capable to Store and analyzes petabyte-size files and trillions of objects.) is a big data solution based on multiple cloud services in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
It allows organizations to ingest multiple data sets, including structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data, into an infinitely scalable data lake enabling storage, processing, and analytics.
Read more about Azure Data Lake Overview For Beginners
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence is composed of two words Artificial and Intelligence, where Artificial defines “man-made,” and intelligence defines “thinking power”, hence AI means “a man-made thinking power.”
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of a computer to imitate intelligent human behavior. Through AI, machines can analyze images, comprehend speech, interact in natural ways, and make predictions using data.
Q3. What are the Application and Major goals of AI?
Ans. Applications of AI:
Gaming, Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Vision Systems, Speech Recognition, Handwriting Recognition, Intelligent Robots, etc.
Major Goals:
- Machine learning– This is often the foundation for an AI system, and is the way we “teach” a computer model to make predictions and draw conclusions from data.
- Anomaly detection– The capability to automatically detect errors or unusual activity in a system.
- Computer vision– The capability of software to interpret the world visually through cameras, video, and images.
- Natural language processing– The capability for a computer to interpret written or spoken language, and respond in kind.
- Conversational AI– The capability of a software “agent” to participate in a conversation.
Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Microsoft AI is a robust framework for developing AI solutions in conversational AI, machine learning, data sciences, robotics, IoT, and more.
Read more about Azure AI
Q4. What are Azure AI Services?
Ans. Azure AI Services are:
Azure Machine Learning Services provides a cloud-based environment used to develop, train, test, deploy, manage, and track machine learning models.
Azure Machine Learning Studio is a collaborative, drag-and-drop visual workspace where you can build, test, and deploy machine learning solutions without needing to write code.
Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer – without requiring machine learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand and accelerate decision-making into your apps.
Azure Bot Service provides a scalable, integrated connectivity and development service for intelligent bots which can be used to reach customers across multiple channels.
Q5. What can you do with Azure AI?
Ans. Five examples of how Azure AI is driving innovation
- Facial recognition
- Handwriting analysis
- Text analysis
- Translate languages
- AI for Good
Serverless Computing
Serverless computing is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables developers to build applications faster by eliminating the need for them to manage infrastructure.
With Serverless applications, the cloud service provider automatically provisions, scales and manages the infrastructure required to run the code.
Read more on Serverless Computing
Q6. What are the Serverless components in Azure?
Ans. Serverless Components in Azure are –
Azure Functions is code running your service and not the underlying platform or infrastructure. Creates infrastructure based on an event.
Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that helps you automate and orchestrate tasks, business processes, and workflows when you need to integrate apps, data, systems, and services.
Azure Event Grid is a fully managed, intelligent event routing service that uses a publish-subscribe model for uniform event consumption.
Q7. What exactly is Serverless?
Ans. Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on-demand, taking care of the servers on behalf of their customers.
Serverless computing does not hold resources in volatile memory; computing is rather done in short bursts with the results persisted to storage.
Q8. Which programming languages do Functions support?
Ans. Functions provide varying levels of support for languages including C#, JavaScript, F#, Java, and Python.
Azure App Service
Quickly and easily build web and mobile apps for any platform or device.
Azure App Service is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends. You can develop in your favorite language, be it .NET, .NET Core, Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, or Python. Applications run and scale with ease on both Windows and Linux-based environments.
Read more about Azure App Service
Q9. Which apps can I run in App Service?
Ans. App Service runs web and API apps at scale while integrating seamlessly with other first- or third-party solutions to meet the requirements of the app solution you envision.
Q10. Where is App Service available?
Ans. App Service is available in most Azure regions.
Know more about Products available by region
Management Services Tool in Azure
Management refers to the tasks and processes required to maintain your business applications and the resources that support them. Azure has many services and tools that work together to provide complete management.
These services aren’t only for resources in Azure, but also in other clouds and on-premises. Understanding the different tools and how they work together is the first step in designing a complete management environment.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
ARM templates are JSON files where you define what you want to deploy to Azure and are what really gives us the ability to roll out Azure “Infrastructure as code”
Read more about Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
Q11. Why should we use ARM Templates?
Ans. Templates help you implement an infrastructure-as-code solution for Azure. Your organization can repeatedly and reliably deploy the required infrastructure to different environments.
Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services. It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
This information helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identify issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.
Read more about Azure Monitor
Q12. What data is collected by Azure Monitor?
Ans. Azure Monitor collects data from a variety of sources into logs or metrics. Each type of data has its own relative advantages, and each supports a particular set of features in Azure Monitor.
Azure Service Health
Microsoft Azure Service Health is your personalized dashboard in the Azure portal for receiving notifications, guidance, and technical support when Azure service issues, updates, or planned maintenance affect your Azure resources.
Read more about Azure Service Health
Q13. What does each of the health status mean?
Ans. There are three different health statuses:
- Available: There aren’t any known problems in the Azure platform that could be impacting this resource
- Unavailable: Resource health has detected issues that are impacting the resource
- Unknown: Resource health can not determine the health of a resource because it has stopped receiving information about it.
Q14. Is Resource Health available for all Azure regions?
Ans. Resource health is available in all Azure geographies.
Quiz Time (Sample Exam Questions)!
With our Microsoft Azure Administrator training program, we cover 250+ sample exam questions to help you prepare for the certification AZ-900.
Check out one of the questions and see if you can crack this…
Ques: What is the different type of services offered in the Azure cloud?
a. Platform as a Service
b. Infrastructure as a Service
c. Software as a service
d. All of these
Comment the right answer down below or the right answer will be revealed in my next week’s blog.
Here is the answer to the question shared last week (Scroll down at the end of this post for the question).
Ques: Your company plans to migrate all its network resources to Azure. You need to start the planning process by exploring Azure. What should you create first?
a. A subscription
b. A resource group
c. A virtual network
d. A management group
Answer: A
The first thing you create in Azure is a subscription. You get billed per subscription. A subscription is an agreement with Microsoft to use one or more Microsoft cloud platforms or services, for which charges accrue based on either a per-user license fee or on cloud-based resource consumption.
Organizations can have multiple subscriptions for Microsoft’s cloud offerings.
Feedback
We always work on improving and being the best version of ourselves from the previous sessions hence constantly ask feedback from our attendees.
Here’s the feedback that we received from our trainees who had attended the session…
Related/References
- Learn how to create a Free Microsoft Azure Trial Account
- What are Resources and How to Create a Resource Group
- [AZ-900] Microsoft Azure Certification Fundamental Exam: Everything You Must Know
- How to Register For [AZ-900] Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification Exam
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