Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform-as-a-service relational database. AZ-305 covers recommending it, its service and compute tiers, and scalability when designing relational data storage.
All AZ-305 Terms
Azure Well-Architected Framework
The Azure Well-Architected Framework is a set of guiding tenets — reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency — for designing quality Azure workloads.
Cloud Adoption Framework
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is guidance covering strategy, planning, migration, and governance for adopting Azure.
Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud identity and access management service, formerly Azure Active Directory.
Managed identity
A managed identity is a Microsoft Entra identity automatically managed by Azure that lets a resource authenticate to services without storing credentials.
Azure Policy
Azure Policy is a governance service that enforces organizational rules and evaluates resources for compliance.
Management group
A management group is an Azure container above subscriptions used to apply governance such as policy and access across many subscriptions.
Availability zone
An availability zone is a physically separate location within an Azure region with independent power, cooling, and networking, used to build highly available solutions.
Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery is a disaster-recovery service that replicates workloads to a secondary region and orchestrates failover.
Recovery objectives
Recovery objectives are the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) that quantify acceptable downtime and data loss.
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model NoSQL database with tunable consistency and low-latency access.
Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform-as-a-service relational database.
Storage account
A storage account is an Azure resource that provides a namespace for blob, file, queue, and table data with configurable redundancy.
Azure Migrate
Azure Migrate is a hub of tools for discovering, assessing, and migrating on-premises servers, databases, and applications to Azure.
Azure Key Vault
Azure Key Vault is a service for securely storing and controlling access to secrets, keys, and certificates.