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AZ-204 Flashcards
Free flashcards for AZ-204 (Azure Developer Associate): flip each card to reveal the definition. Built from the AZ-204 glossary as a study aid, these are concept checks, not real exam questions.
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- Azure Functions
- A serverless, event-driven compute service that runs small pieces of code (triggered by HTTP, timers, queues and more) without managing servers.
- Trigger
- The event that starts an Azure Function, such as an HTTP request, a timer, or a new message on a queue.
- Binding
- A declarative connection between a Function and a service, used to pass data in or out without writing connection code.
- App Service
- A managed platform for hosting web apps and APIs, with features like deployment slots for staged releases.
- Deployment slot
- A live staging environment in App Service that lets you deploy and test, then swap into production with no downtime.
- Container Apps
- A serverless container service for running microservices and containerised apps without managing the underlying cluster.
- Azure Container Instances
- A service for running a single container quickly without orchestration; useful for simple or short-lived workloads.
- Cosmos DB
- A globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database with tunable consistency and low-latency access.
- Consistency level
- A Cosmos DB setting that trades off data freshness against latency and availability, from strong to eventual.
- Partition key
- The property Cosmos DB uses to distribute data across partitions; choosing it well is key to performance and scale.
- Blob storage
- Azure object storage for unstructured data such as files, images and backups, organised into containers.
- Access tier
- A Blob storage setting (hot, cool, archive) that trades storage cost against access cost and retrieval time.
- SAS token
- A Shared Access Signature: a time-limited, scoped token granting access to a storage resource without sharing the account key.
- Microsoft Entra
- Azure's identity service (formerly Azure Active Directory) used to authenticate users and applications.
- Access token
- A credential issued after authentication that an app presents to access a protected API or resource.
- Key Vault
- An Azure service for securely storing and accessing secrets, keys and certificates.
- Managed Identity
- An identity managed by Azure that lets a resource authenticate to other services without storing credentials in code.
- API Management
- A service to publish, secure, throttle and monitor APIs behind a single gateway.
- Event Grid
- A service for routing discrete events (such as a file uploaded) to handlers in an event-driven architecture.
- Event Hubs
- A high-throughput service for ingesting large streams of telemetry or event data.
- Service Bus
- An enterprise messaging service with queues and topics for reliably decoupling components.
- Queue Storage
- A simple, durable message queue for decoupling parts of an application.
- Application Insights
- An Azure Monitor feature that collects telemetry to monitor app performance and diagnose problems.
- Azure Cache for Redis
- An in-memory cache used to speed up applications by storing frequently accessed data.
- CDN
- A Content Delivery Network that caches content at edge locations to reduce latency for users.