AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (IaaS)

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A separate physical location within an Azure region. Known as an AZ, it is made up of one or more data centres, aligning to the Uptime Institute for data centre tier certifications. They are used to provide high availability and disaster recovery. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/global-infrastructure/regions/

Resource Groups

A logical construct that helps group multiple resources together. Resources will include specific objects that align to an Azure service. For example, a virtual machine, a virtual network and a key vault are all objects that align to Azure Virtual Machine service, Azure Virtual Network service and Azure Key Vault service respectively. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-overview

Azure Resource Manager

Allows you to manage your Azure tenancy, deploy services and deploy and manage resources. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-overview

Availability Sets

A logical group for isolating virtual machine resources, so that they run across multiple physical servers, compute racks, storage units and network switches. They eliminate single point of failure in your infrastructure architecture. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/tutorial-availability-sets

Azure Monitor

Provides telemetry data from your Azure and on-premise cloud environments. This includes activity logs, diagnostic logs, alerts and metrics. Alerts are driven by alert rules. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/overview

Azure Service Health

Provides real-time information on the health status of your Azure services. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-health/overview

Azure Costs Management

Allows you to predict, monitor and track your Azure spending. Use in combination with the Pricing Calculator. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management/

Azure Pricing Calculator

Allows you to estimate your Azure costs, based on your assumptions. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/calculator/

Azure Virtual Machines

Create Linux and Windows virtual machines in seconds. You can choose from a variety of hardware configurations, tailored to your needs. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/quick-create-portal

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Create and manage a group of identical, load balanced and autoscaling virtual machines, with minimal effort. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/