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AZ-104/Acronyms/Part 1

Acronym study

AZ-104 Acronyms — Part 1 of 19

Terms 1–30 of 566 AZ-104 acronyms and key terms. Each entry includes a plain-English definition and a link to the full 800-word glossary page with exam context and practice questions.

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Term 1

Acceptable use policy

An acceptable use policy is a set of rules that an organization creates to define how employees and other users may use its computer systems, networks, and data.

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Access control

Access control is the security practice of determining who or what is allowed to view, use, or enter a resource, and under what conditions.

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Access key

An access key is a unique identifier and secret code pair used to authenticate requests to cloud storage services, ensuring only authorized users or applications can access data.

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Access port

An access port is a switch port that connects to a single end device, like a computer or printer, and carries traffic for only one VLAN.

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Access review

An access review is a periodic audit process where administrators check and confirm which users have permissions to what resources, ensuring only authorized people retain access.

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Access token

A digital key that a computer system gives you to prove your identity and grant you permission to access specific resources or perform actions.

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ACL

An Access Control List is a set of rules that determines who or what can access specific network resources or data.

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Action group

An Action group is a collection of notification and automation settings that defines how an Azure Monitor alert responds when triggered, such as who gets emailed, which phone numbers get called, or which automated tasks run.

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Activity log

An activity log is a record of all operations performed on Azure resources, capturing who did what, when, and where, for auditing and troubleshooting purposes.

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Administrative unit

An Administrative unit is a container in Microsoft Entra ID that allows you to delegate administrative permissions over a subset of users, groups, or devices, rather than the entire directory.

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AKS

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed container orchestration service on Microsoft Azure that simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes.

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Term 12

Alert rule

An alert rule is a set of conditions and actions that trigger a notification when a monitored metric or log reaches a predefined threshold.

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Alerting policy

An alerting policy is a set of rules that defines when to send notifications about a system condition that needs attention.

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Anti-malware

Anti-malware is software that detects, prevents, and removes malicious software from computers, networks, and devices.

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Anti-malware policy

An anti-malware policy is a set of rules and procedures that an organization enforces to prevent, detect, and remove malicious software from its computers and networks.

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Anti-phishing policy

An anti-phishing policy is a set of rules and technical controls that organizations use to detect, block, and respond to email or message-based attacks that trick users into revealing sensitive information.

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Anti-spam policy

An anti-spam policy is a set of rules and filters used by email systems to automatically detect and block unwanted, unsolicited, or harmful messages before they reach a user's inbox.

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API security

API security is the practice of protecting application programming interfaces from attacks by ensuring only authorized users and applications can access data and functions.

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App protection policy

An app protection policy is a set of rules that controls how data is handled and secured within mobile applications, ensuring corporate information stays safe even on personal devices.

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App Service plan

An App Service plan is a set of compute resources that defines the infrastructure, pricing tier, and scaling capabilities for one or more Azure App Service applications.

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Application Gateway

An Application Gateway is a network device or cloud service that manages and secures traffic between users and web applications by applying rules, routing requests, and offloading tasks like SSL encryption.

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Application Insights

Application Insights is an Azure monitoring service that helps developers detect, diagnose, and understand issues in live web applications by collecting telemetry data like requests, exceptions, and performance counters.

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Application Security Group

An Application Security Group (ASG) is a cloud networking feature that groups virtual machines logically and allows you to apply security rules based on the application workload, rather than individual IP addresses.

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Archive tier

Archive tier is an ultra-low-cost Azure Blob Storage access tier designed for long-term retention of data that is rarely accessed and can tolerate hours of retrieval latency.

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ARP

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a network protocol used to map a device's IP address to its physical MAC address so data can be delivered correctly on a local network.

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ARP poisoning

ARP poisoning is a network attack where an attacker sends fake Address Resolution Protocol messages to link their MAC address with a legitimate IP address, enabling them to intercept, modify, or stop data on a local network.

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ARP reply

An ARP reply is a network response sent by a device to answer an ARP request, providing its MAC address so the requesting device can map an IP address to a physical hardware address on a local network.

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ARP request

An ARP request is a network broadcast message sent by a device to discover the hardware (MAC) address of another device on the same local network given its IP address.

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ARP table

An ARP table is a data structure stored on a network device that maps IP addresses to their corresponding MAC addresses, enabling communication within a local network.

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ASG

An Availability Set is a logical grouping of virtual machines in Azure that helps ensure high availability by distributing VMs across different physical hardware within a datacenter.

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