Microsoft Azure Intro

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Primary Models for Building and Running Apps (Compute Services)

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Virtual Machines

Cloud Services

Web Sites

Mobile Services

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Data Services (7)

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Storage

SQL Database

HDInsight

SQL Data Sync

Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Backup

Cache

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App Services(8)

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Notification Hubs

Service Bus

Visual Studio Online

Media Services

BizTalk Services

Active Directory

Scheduler

CDN - Content Delivery Network

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Network Services

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Virtual Network

Traffic Manager

ExpressRoute

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Add-on(1)

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Store

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What is HDInsight?

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Big Data based on Apache Hadoop

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What does SQL Data Sync sync data between?

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SQL Server instance and/or SQL Database (on-line)

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What does Hyper-V Recovery Manager do?

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Protect services by replicating System Center 2012 private clouds to a secondary location

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Backup Service

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Backs up local data to Azure using PowerShell cmdlets

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Notification Hubs

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Push notifications from applications on-prem or in the cloud

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Service Bus

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Connects cloud applications to on-prem apps services and systems

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Media Services

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Create Manage and distribute on-demand media and live streaming events

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BizTalk Services processing types (2)

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EDI (Ent. Data Integration) services

EAI (Application) solutions

in the cloud

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Scheduler

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Calls services in and outside Azure

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CDN

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Content Delivery Network

For delivering high-bandwidth content by caching blobs and static content of compute instances at physical nodes in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.

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Traffic Manager

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Load balances incoming traffic

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ExpressRoute

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Connects on-prem infrastructure directly to Azure Datacenters. Does not use public internet.

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Cloud Services VM Roles

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Worker and Web

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Worker Role Machines

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Computing and running services

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Web Role Machines

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Worker role machines with IIS already installed

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Web site scaling

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By schedule

By usage

By a quota trigger

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Web Technology Gallery

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DNN Platform

Umbaraco

Drupal

WordPress

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Web Site Frameworks

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ASP.Net

Python

Node.js

PHP

Java

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Web Site Deployment technologies

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FTP

Visual Studio

GitHub

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Mobile Services scenario

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Quickly implement data and authentication.

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Mobile Services Authentication Technologies

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Facebook

Twitter

Microsoft

Google

Active Directory

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Mobile Services Push Notification Types

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WNS & MPNS (MSFT)

APNS(Apple)

GCM(Google)

Notification Hubs

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Main Azure Interface

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Management Portal

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IaaS - Stands for? What is it? How is it charges billed?

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Infrastructure as a Service

Virtual Machine in the cloud

Pay for time VM is running + minimal storage charge

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VHD Storage are stored in?

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Azure Storage Blobs

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Virtual Machine Scenarios

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Dev/Test

Move Applications (Lift-and-shift)

Extend your datacenter

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Azure Website Options

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Shared (runs on VM with other sites) or Standard (on its own VM)

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Azure Websites limited to what type of web site?

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Simple presence websites

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PaaS - Stands for? Advantages? Stored where? How charged?

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Platform as a Service

Scalable - low-administration

storage in Azure data management

Charged for time instance (web or worker) is running

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Number of copies of data stored in Azure Data Services?

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3 minimum - 6 if geo-redundancy is allowed

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Azure SQL Database features? (4)

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HA

Automatic backups

Point-in-time restore

Replication to other geographies

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Azure SQL Database Options? (2)

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Standard (shared hardware) or

Premium (dedicated hardware)

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Azure Tables

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Non-relational

Key/value ("NoSQL") storage

Fast typed data retrieval

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Maximum Storage of Azure Tables?

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Over 1 TB

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Azure Blob Storage stores what? (4)

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Stores unstructured binary data

Videos files

Pictures

VHDs

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Import/Export

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Enables shipping physical hard drives to and from Azure blob storage

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Import/Export drive requirements

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Bitlockered

3.5" SATA Drive

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Azure Files are built on what storage service

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Blob service - It inherits the same availability durability scalability and geo-redundancy built into Azure Storage.

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Azure Files usage Scenarios

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Share data between cloud apps

Holder for configuration files

Storage for diagnostic files

Central location for tools and utilities

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T or F - Active Directory can run in Azure

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True

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How can you makes applications and VMs work as if they were running in the local datacenter.

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Azure Virtual Network

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Azure VPN using private lines insead of the Public Internet for better speed

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ExpressRoute

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ExpressRoute requires a ----- ----- in Azure

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Virtual Network

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Routes traffic intelligently to the best instance of an applicaiton running in multiple datacenters.

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Azure Traffic Manager

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Traffic manager can route traffic to service not running in Azure if?

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Those services are accessable on the internet.

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Traffic Manager uses what protocol to route users to service endpoints

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Domain Name Service (DNS)

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Azure SDKs can be used with what two tools?

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Visual Studio and Eclipse

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Azure SDKs help in 1) creating applicaitons in Azure, 2) applications that use Azure services, or 3) both?

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3) Both - Visual Studio Online connects to Visual Studio, Eclipse, Xcode, and other Git clients to support development for a variety of platforms and languages.

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Visual Studio Online replaces your local Visual Studio

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No

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What is Team Foundation Service?

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A hosted source control system

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Tool that will automatically determine how many agents are needed; spin up the required virtual machines and execute your load tests.

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Visual Studio Online

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What does Application Insights do and what service is it a part of?

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Applicaiton Insights gives you an analysis of your entire application. It provides stats on performance and how your application is being used.

Part of Visual Studio Online

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Runbooks are a part of what Azure service?

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Automation

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Automation is based on what scripting technology?

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PowerShell Workflows

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What is Azure Automation best used for?

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Automate the manual, long-running, error-prone, and frequently repeated tasks in Azure.

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Serivce that provides access to applications, including 3rd party service consumers

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API Management

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Formats used by Azure Active Directory are identical or are not identical with those used in Windows Server Active Directory

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Are not - though the functions it performs are quite similar

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Azure Active Directory Service is used to extend your datacenter into the cloud?

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No. that requires Windows Server AD

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What makes it easier for an application to accept identity information from Facebook/Google/Windows Live ID/and other popular identity providers?

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Azure Active Directory Access Control

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Azure Active Directory supports which authentication methods for user sign-ins?

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Passwords - Other methods are with Azure AD or with custom applicaitons using MFA SDK.

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User Authentication available for Azure Mobile (5)

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Facebook

Twitter

Microsoft

Google

Active Directory

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Azure Mobile native client libraries (5)

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Android

iOS

HTML/JavaScript

Windows Phone

Windows Store

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What should you use when you need to broadcast millions of highly personalized push notifications within minutes.

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Azure Notification Hubs

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Azure Backup can backup and restore applicaitons and data in the cloud/on-prem/or both?

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Both

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Tools that can manage backups with Azure Backup (3)

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tools in Windows Server 2012 - Windows Server 2012 Essentials or System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager

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Queues allow for Synchronous or Asynchronous communications between applicaitons?

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Asynchronous

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What queuing services are available in Azure?

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Azure Storage Queues and Service Bus Queues

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Service Bus Relay endpoints are hosted where?

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In the cloud to allow secure communications through firewalls.

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Service Bus provides a Publish-and-subscribe mechanism is called

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Topics and Subscriptions

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What Azure service can transform XML messages into different formats between users (like Biz-to-Biz)

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Azure BizTalk Services

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How does Azure Scheduler save money?

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Buy running applicaitons only when needed.

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What API is used to manage Scheduler Actions?

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Scheduler REST API

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Azure Schedule can send messages in XML;HTTP;HTTPS (Pick which one(s)) to Endpoints;Messages Queues;Email Addresses.(Pick which one(s))

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HTTP and HTTPS - Endpoints and Messages Queues

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Service that allows the fastest possible access to data in the cloud by keeping it in memory?

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Azure Cache

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Of Azure SQL Database, Tables, Blobs, which does Azure Cache work with?

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All 3

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List the Azure Cache technologies (4) and which is recommended for new implementations?

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Shared

In-role

Managed

Redis - Redis is recommended for new implementations as it has the most features.

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Azure CDN

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Content Delivery Network

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Azure CDN stores and delivers what type of data (relational;cached;blob;XML or all 4)

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Blob

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(T or F) Azure CDN data is copied to all data centers around the world for immediate consumption.

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No - a copy is made when a blob is requested and reused for other requests in that same region.

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What is Azure's big data (Hadoop-based) service?

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HDInsight

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Hadoop is and open source project by whom?

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Apache

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The file system used by HDInsight?

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HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System

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What does ASV stand for and what is the advantage to putting data into ASV?

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Azure Storage Vault

By storing data in the ASV, the HDInsight cluster VMs can be deleted when not in use but the data can remain accessable in the cloud.

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What connector and tool allow the use of Excel with HDInsight?

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HiveODBC adapter and Data Explorer

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What free "pack" allows Azure to perform Big Compute operations?

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The free HPC Pack

High Performance Computing (HPC)

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What does MPI stand for?

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Message Passing Interface (an industry standard)

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What is Media Services "Media Ingest" component's function?

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Upload videos into Azure Media Services.

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What Azure Media Services supports DRM?

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The Encoding component

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What is the difference between Azure Marketplace and Azure Store

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Azure Marketplace is outside of the Azure Management Portal and Azure Store can be accessed inside the portal.

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Define EDI and EAI

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EDI - Enterprise Data Integration

EAI - Enterprise Application Integration