Azure Fundamentals Study Notes

Azure Active Directory (Entra ID)

Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service, renamed Microsoft Entra ID, covering tenants, users, groups, app registrations, and conditional…

Azure App Service

Azure App Service is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service for hosting web apps, REST APIs, and mobile backends without managing the underlying VMs or OS.

Azure Blob Storage

Azure's massively scalable object storage service for unstructured data, covering blob types, access tiers, and security controls.

Azure Container Instances

Azure Container Instances (ACI) runs individual containers directly in Azure without provisioning VMs or managing a container orchestrator like Kubernetes.

Azure Disks Explained

How Azure Managed Disks work, including performance tiers, OS/data/temporary disk roles, caching, and snapshotting.

Azure DNS Basics

Learn how Azure DNS hosts and resolves domain records, the standard record types, and how Alias records solve Azure-specific limitations like apex domain routi…

Azure Files Basics

An introduction to Azure Files managed file shares, covering SMB/NFS protocols, Azure File Sync, and share tiers.

Azure Front Door and CDN

Understand how Azure Front Door provides global Layer 7 routing, failover, and WAF protection at the edge, and how it differs from and complements Azure CDN ca…

Azure Functions Basics

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that runs small, event-triggered pieces of code without you provisioning or managing any servers.

Azure Global Infrastructure

How Azure organizes its worldwide data centers into regions, availability zones, and region pairs to deliver performance and resilience.

Azure Interview Questions

A study guide covering the kinds of conceptual, scenario-based, and hands-on questions commonly asked in Azure-focused technical interviews.

Azure Key Vault Basics

Azure's managed service for securely storing and accessing secrets, keys, and certificates, covering access models, managed identities, and rotation.

Azure Load Balancer Basics

Learn how Azure Load Balancer distributes Layer 4 traffic across backend pools using health probes, load balancing rules, and the Standard SKU's secure-by-defa…

Azure Monitor Basics

A practical introduction to Azure Monitor: how it collects metrics and logs, fires alerts, and gives you visibility into application and infrastructure health.

Azure Quick Reference

A condensed cheat sheet of core Azure services, CLI commands, networking basics, and pricing concepts for fast lookup.

Azure RBAC Explained

Azure's role-based access control system for granting fine-grained permissions to resources through role definitions, scopes, and role assignments.

Azure Shared Responsibility Model

How security and operational responsibility is divided between Microsoft and the customer across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Azure SQL Database Basics

A fully managed relational database-as-a-service built on the SQL Server engine, covering deployment models, elastic pools, and built-in high availability and…

Azure Storage Account Types

A guide to choosing between general-purpose and premium Azure storage account kinds, and how performance and redundancy tiers interact.

Azure Storage Redundancy Options

A comparison of Azure Storage's LRS, ZRS, GRS, and GZRS redundancy options and how to choose between them.

Azure Subscriptions and Billing

How Azure subscriptions organize billing and access, and the tools available to monitor, budget, and control cloud spend.

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) provide on-demand, resizable compute as a service, letting you run Windows or Linux workloads in Microsoft's datacenters with full…

Azure Virtual Networks

Learn how Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) provide isolated, private IP address spaces for your cloud resources, and how peering and hybrid connectivity link the…

Cosmos DB Basics

Azure's globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database service, covering APIs, partitioning, consistency levels, and request units.