Azure Core Architecture Match
MediumRace the clock — pair each term with its definition as fast as you can, then try to beat your best time. A quick, replayable warm-up for this set.
Shuffling the deck…
Terms in this set
- Azure Region A set of datacenters deployed within a defined geographic area and connected by a low-latency network.
- Availability Zone A physically separate datacenter within a region, with independent power, cooling, and networking.
- Region Pair Two Azure regions paired at least 300 miles apart for replication and disaster recovery.
- Resource Group A logical container that holds related Azure resources for a solution.
- Azure Subscription A logical unit of Azure services linked to an account, used for billing and access boundaries.
- Management Group A container above subscriptions used to apply governance and policy across many subscriptions at once.
- Azure Resource Manager The deployment and management layer (ARM) that creates, updates, and deletes Azure resources.
- Availability Set A grouping of VMs across fault and update domains within a datacenter to improve uptime.
- Azure Geography A discrete market, often a country, containing one or more regions for data residency and compliance.
- Azure Portal The web-based graphical interface for managing Azure resources.