Acronym study
Terms 91–120 of 1222 SK0-005 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 91
Microsoft Entra ID Design is the process of planning how to organize users, groups, permissions, and authentication methods in Microsoft Entra ID to meet security, compliance, and business needs for cloud and hybrid environments.
Term 92
Azure Advisor is a free, personalized cloud consultant that continuously analyzes your Azure resources and provides best practice recommendations to optimize for reliability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost.
Term 93
Azure App Service is a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications and APIs without managing the underlying infrastructure.
Term 94
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 95
Azure Arc is a Microsoft service that lets you manage servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases running outside of Azure as if they were native Azure resources.
Term 96
Azure Backup is a cloud-based service from Microsoft that protects your data by creating and storing backups of files, folders, virtual machines, databases, and entire servers in the Azure cloud.
Term 97
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 98
Azure Data Encryption is the process of scrambling data in Microsoft Azure so that only authorized people or systems can read it.
Term 99
Azure Data Masking is a security feature that hides sensitive data in database query results by replacing it with obscured characters, so unauthorized users see a blurred version instead of the real information.
Term 100
Azure Database for MySQL is a fully managed relational database service in Microsoft Azure that runs the MySQL community edition and handles administration tasks automatically.
Term 101
Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a fully managed, scalable relational database service in Microsoft Azure that runs the open-source PostgreSQL engine, handling backups, patching, and high availability for you.
Term 102
Azure Database Migration is the process of moving databases from on-premises servers or other cloud platforms to Azure’s cloud database services with minimal downtime and data loss.
Term 103
An Azure datacenter is a physical facility that houses Microsoft's cloud computing infrastructure, including servers, storage, and networking equipment, to deliver Azure services globally.
Term 104
Azure DNS is a cloud-based service that lets you host and manage your domain name system (DNS) records using Microsoft's global infrastructure, so your website or app can be reached by people using easy-to-remember names instead of IP addresses.
Term 105
Azure File Sync is a Microsoft service that lets you centralize your file shares in Azure while keeping them accessible, fast, and editable on your local servers by caching frequently used files on-premises.
Term 106
Azure Files Shares are fully managed cloud file shares that you can access from anywhere using standard industry protocols like SMB and NFS.
Term 107
Azure Firewall is a cloud-based network security service that protects your virtual networks in Microsoft Azure by filtering traffic based on rules you define.
Term 108
Azure Firewall Design is the process of planning and configuring a cloud-based network security service that controls and monitors traffic in and out of Azure virtual networks.
Term 109
Azure Front Door is a global cloud load balancer and content delivery network that routes user traffic to the fastest and most available backend application across multiple regions.
Term 110
Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that lets you run event-driven code without managing infrastructure, automatically scaling to meet demand.
Term 111
Azure Functions triggers are events that cause a function (a small piece of code) to run automatically in the cloud.
Term 112
Azure Load Balancer is a cloud service that evenly distributes incoming network traffic across multiple virtual machines or resources to ensure reliability and high availability.
Term 113
Azure Load Balancer Design is the process of planning and configuring a Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) load balancer in Microsoft Azure to distribute incoming network traffic across healthy virtual machines or services for high availability and scalability.
Term 114
Azure Monitor is a cloud service that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from your Azure and on-premises resources to help you understand performance and availability.
Term 115
Azure Pipelines is a cloud-based CI/CD service from Microsoft that automatically builds, tests, and deploys code to any platform or cloud.
Term 116
Azure Policy Design is the practice of creating and organizing rules that enforce compliance and governance across resources in Microsoft Azure.
Term 117
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment and management service for Azure that provides a consistent management layer for creating, updating, and deleting resources in your Azure account.
Term 118
Azure Security Architecture is the structured design of security controls and practices within Microsoft Azure to protect data, applications, and networks.
Term 119
Azure Sentinel is Microsoft's cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) service that uses intelligent analytics to help protect an enterprise's entire digital estate.
Term 120
Azure Site Recovery is a Microsoft Azure service that keeps your business applications and data running by automatically replicating them to a secondary location and failing over if the primary site goes down.