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The document provides an overview of Azure concepts essential for the AZ-900 certification exam, detailing various service categories, infrastructure highlights, and hierarchy within Azure. It explains the structure of Azure geographies, regions, and availability zones, as well as the significance of subscriptions, resources, and resource groups. Additionally, it mentions the benefits of the Azure free account, including free products and credits for new users.

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AZ+900+Azure+Concepts+Power+Notes r1

The document provides an overview of Azure concepts essential for the AZ-900 certification exam, detailing various service categories, infrastructure highlights, and hierarchy within Azure. It explains the structure of Azure geographies, regions, and availability zones, as well as the significance of subscriptions, resources, and resource groups. Additionally, it mentions the benefits of the Azure free account, including free products and credits for new users.

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LIKE A BOSS AZ 900 TEST PREP

AZURE CONCEPTS NOTES

Use these notes to help review testable material for the AZ-900 certification exam.

Azure provides over 100 services that enable you to do everything from running
existing applications on VMs to exploring new software paradigms like AI and
Serverless.

Here are the most commonly used categories of services in Azure:


• Compute
• Networking
• Storage
• Mobile
• Databases
• Web
• Internet of Things
• Big Data
• Artificial Intelligence
• DevOps

AZURE INFRASTRUCTURE HIGHLIGHTS: GEOGRAPHIES, REGIONS, ZONES.


Azure divides the world into geographies that are defined by geopolitical boundaries or
country borders. An Azure geography is a discrete market typically containing two or more
regions that preserve data residency and compliance boundaries.

Right now there are four geographies:


• Americas
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Middle East and Africa

A region is a geographical area on the planet containing at least one, but potentially
multiple datacenters that are nearby and networked together with a low-latency network.

Some examples of regions:


• Central US • West Europe
• East US 2 • France Central
Each of the regions above also have at least three availability zones. Availability Zones
(AZs) are physically separate datacenters within an Azure region. Each AZ is made up of one
or more datacenters equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.
Interruptions in one availability zone (e.g. a storage device failure) do not impact other AZs.
Each AZ has very low latency with other AZs in the region.

For even further redundancy, Azure offers region pairs, which is when one region is paired
with another region within the same geography (such as US, Europe, or Asia) at least 300
miles away. Region pairs reduce the likelihood of interruptions in case of major disaster.

HIERARCHY WITHIN AZURE


Setting up Azure begins with signing up with an account, which establishes the Azure Active
Directory tenant. All hierarchy items that follow are exist within this Azure tenant…

A subscription is a billing entity. It’s 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 (i.e. tenants) can have
multiple subscriptions.

NOTE - subscriptions can be moved to other Azure Active Directory tenants.


NOTE - quotas for resources are calculated on a per region basis rather than per
subscription.
NOTE - users can be given access to multiple subscriptions

A resource is a manageable item that is available through Azure. It’s the computing stuff you
rent. Examples includes virtual machines, storage accounts, web apps, databases, and virtual
networks.

A resource group (RG) is a logical container that holds related resources for an Azure
solution. You decide which resources belong in a resource group based on what makes the
most sense for your organization.
NOTE - resources can be moved from subscription to subscription and from RG to RG,
but a resource can only belong to one sub and to one RG.

The Azure Resource Manager is the deployment and management service for Azure. It
provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in
your Azure account.

The Azure free account includes access to a number of Azure products that are free for 12
months, $200 credit to spend for the first 30 days of sign up, and access to more than 25
products that are always free.

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