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Azure Functions– Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
An Azure Function is a FaaS, aka serverless cloud service, offering on Azure. This product is useful for event‐driven IT solutions, such as monitoring and processing messages that enter a messaging queue. The code that is executed is typically small, consisting of a single method or snippet of code. This product scales to the capacity…
Read MorePeering – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
This is a relatively easy concept to grasp. It means that you can connect two or more VNets together. Resources in VNet A can have access to resources in VNet B. You can make the access between the two VNets the same, or perhaps you wouldn’t want resources in VNet B to have any or…
Read MoreAzure Sentinel – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
For those responsible for implementing a security solution, Azure Sentinel is the place to start, and it’s helpful to become an expert at it. This product is an industry‐leading security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. In addition to data collections and analysis capabilities, Azure Sentinel has threat intelligence, detection,…
Read MoreAzure Networking – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
The networking capabilities in Azure are in most cases abstracted away from customers. The Azure network capabilities that link the Azure resources within a datacenter and between datacenters is owned, operated, and administrated by Microsoft. However, there are some networking products and features that let customers use and configure virtual aspects of the Azure infrastructure…
Read MoreAzure Bastion – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
It is common practice to make a remote desktop connection to a Windows machine using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The port is 3389. RDP may not be supported in some company scenarios due to security restrictions. Instead, you can use Azure Bastion to connect over port 443 from within the Azure portal. The connection…
Read MoreAzure Purview– Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
Use Azure Purview to help manage and govern your data landscape. You can use this tool with on‐premises, SaaS, Azure, and other cloud service providers. Being able to identify sensitive data and where data has come from, and discovering new data sources are all features of Azure Purview. This tool is focused on your data…
Read MoreThe Brainjammer– CREATE DATABASE dbName; GO
If you think about it, without data there really isn’t a need for a computer. It does somewhat depend on your definition of what data is, but consider why we access websites from a computer or open apps on our mobile devices. It is done to consume data in one form or another, like a…
Read MoreVariety – CREATE DATABASE dbName; GO
Data comes not only in different formats but also from different sources. The kind of data shared and stored on the Usenet was typically text, but as usage progressed, the Internet needed to be able to share many different types of files. For example, Amazon needed to show pictures of their products. Pictures are typically…
Read MoreScope – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
The next concept that is important to RBAC is scope. Notice the hierarchical structure illustrated in Figure 1.25. FIGURE 1.25 Role‐based access control scope A management group is the top level, and it can be used to define different departments within a company—for example, IT, Finance, HR, and Accounting. Each of those may be responsible…
Read MoreMultifactor Authentication – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification
Using only user IDs and passwords to protect a resource is no longer considered secure. People have a habit of using the same set of credentials on numerous locations, so if one location is compromised, then all of them are. This is where multifactor authentication (MFA) can help. User IDs and passwords are something a…
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