Term 1
API Management
API Management is a service that acts as a front door for application programming interfaces, controlling access, monitoring usage, and enforcing security policies.
Acronym study
Terms 1–30 of 34 AZ-204 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.
Term 1
API Management is a service that acts as a front door for application programming interfaces, controlling access, monitoring usage, and enforcing security policies.
Term 2
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.
Term 3
Azure AD B2C is a cloud identity service that lets you customize and control how your customers sign up, sign in, and manage their profiles when using your applications.
Term 4
Azure App Configuration is a managed Azure service that stores and manages application settings and feature flags separately from your code, allowing you to update them without redeploying or restarting your application.
Term 5
Azure App Service Authentication is a built-in feature that allows web apps, mobile backends, and API apps to authenticate users without requiring custom code from the developer.
Term 6
An Azure App Service Plan defines the compute resources, pricing tier, scaling capabilities, and region for one or more web apps, API apps, mobile app backends, or Azure Functions hosted in Azure App Service.
Term 7
Azure App Service Scaling is the ability to automatically or manually adjust the number of computing resources allocated to a web app hosted on Azure App Service to handle changes in traffic demand.
Term 8
Azure Cache for Redis is a fully managed in-memory data store based on the open-source Redis software that speeds up applications by temporarily storing frequently accessed data.
Term 9
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a PaaS service that lets you run a container directly in Azure without managing any underlying servers or orchestration.
Term 10
Azure Event Grid is a fully managed event routing service that allows applications and services to react to events in real time using a publish-subscribe model.
Term 11
Azure Event Hubs is a cloud-based service that ingests and processes millions of events per second from devices, applications, and services in real time.
Term 12
Azure Files Shares are fully managed cloud file shares that you can access from anywhere using standard industry protocols like SMB and NFS.
Term 13
Azure Functions Bindings are declarative connections that link your serverless function code to Azure services or external resources, handling input and output data automatically without writing extra networking or authentication code.
Term 14
Azure Functions triggers are events that cause a function (a small piece of code) to run automatically in the cloud.
Term 15
Azure Kubernetes Service Development is the practice of designing, building, and deploying containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service, a managed container orchestration platform in Microsoft Azure.
Term 16
Azure Monitor Metrics is a feature of Azure Monitor that collects, stores, and analyzes numerical data from Azure resources to track performance, health, and usage over time.
Term 17
Azure Queue Storage is a cloud service for storing and retrieving large numbers of messages that can be accessed from anywhere, enabling asynchronous communication between application components.
Term 18
Azure Relay is a cloud service that securely exposes on-premises web services to the public internet or other cloud applications without opening firewall ports.
Term 19
Azure Service Bus is a cloud-based message broker that allows applications, services, and devices to send and receive messages reliably, even when they are not all running at the same time.
Term 20
Azure Storage Encryption is the process of protecting data stored in Azure cloud storage by converting it into an unreadable format using encryption keys, ensuring only authorized parties can access it.
Term 21
Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL key-value data store in the cloud that lets you store and query large amounts of structured, non-relational data without needing a traditional database server.
Term 22
The Blob Storage SDK is a set of libraries and tools that lets developers write code to store, access, and manage unstructured data in Microsoft Azure's blob storage service.
Term 23
A container registry is a centralized storage and distribution system for container images, enabling developers to push, pull, and manage versions of application snapshots across environments.
Term 24
A Content Delivery Network is a system of distributed servers that deliver web content to users based on their geographic location, improving speed and reliability.
Term 25
Cosmos DB Partitioning is the process of distributing data across multiple physical servers to ensure fast performance, unlimited storage, and high availability.
Term 26
The Cosmos DB SDK is a set of libraries and tools that let developers write code to connect to, query, and manage a Cosmos DB database from their applications.
Term 27
Distributed tracing is a method used to track and observe requests as they flow through multiple services in a distributed system, helping identify performance bottlenecks and failures.
Term 28
Durable Functions is an extension of Azure Functions that lets you write stateful workflows in code, managing complex sequences of tasks, retries, and delays automatically.
Term 29
Key Vault Secrets are secure containers in Microsoft Azure that store sensitive information like passwords, connection strings, and API keys, keeping them encrypted and accessible only to authorized applications and users.
Term 30
A managed identity is an automatically managed service principal in Azure that allows your code to authenticate to any service that supports Azure AD authentication without storing credentials.