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AI and Machine Learning premium Azure AI Foundry Create a governed project boundary where AI teams can build agents, evaluations, files, and model deployments without unmanaged sprawl.; Compare, evaluate, and approve model deployments before a generative AI feature is AI platform fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: AI Foundry, Microsoft Foundry, Foundry resource, Foundry project, Azure AI Foundry, azure ai foundry Quick peek Open full term page

Mobile field-manual-ready Mobile app A mobile app is a phone or tablet application often backed by Azure APIs, identity, data services, notifications, and monitoring. Application development intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Azure mobile backend, mobile API, mobile application, mobile backend Quick peek Open full term page

Networking premium Web Application Firewall Azure Web Application Firewall is a centralized protection service for HTTP applications. It can run with Application Gateway, Front Door, Application Gateway for Containers, or Azure CDN, using managed and custom rules to detect and block common exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Application security fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: WAF, Azure WAF, Application Gateway WAF, Front Door WAF Quick peek Open full term page

Networking premium Application Gateway Application Gateway is an Azure web traffic load balancer for HTTP and HTTPS applications. It routes requests by host name, path, listener, rule, backend pool, and health status, and can add TLS termination and Web Application Firewall controls when those features are configured. Application delivery fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Azure Application Gateway, App Gateway, regional layer 7 load balancer, HTTP application load balancer Quick peek Open full term page

Networking premium Application Gateway backend pool the group of backend targets that an Application Gateway can forward matched requests to after a listener and routing rule select them. Application delivery and API edge intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Application Gateway backend pool, application gateway backend pool Quick peek Open full term page

Networking premium Application Gateway HTTP setting the Application Gateway backend configuration that controls how the gateway connects to backend servers for HTTP or HTTPS requests. Application delivery and API edge intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Application Gateway HTTP setting, application gateway http setting Quick peek Open full term page

Networking premium Application Gateway listener the Application Gateway component that waits for client requests on a frontend IP address, port, protocol, and optional hostname or certificate. Application delivery and API edge intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Application Gateway listener, application gateway listener Quick peek Open full term page

Networking premium Application Gateway routing rule the Application Gateway component that connects a listener to a backend pool, backend settings, redirect, or path-based routing decision. Application delivery and API edge intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Application Gateway routing rule, application gateway routing rule Quick peek Open full term page

Security premium Application Gateway WAF policy An Application Gateway WAF policy stores Web Application Firewall configuration for Application Gateway v2. It includes managed rules, custom rules, exclusions, and policy settings, and can be associated globally, with a listener, or with a path-based rule for targeted web request inspection. Web application firewall intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Application Gateway WAF policy, WAF policy for Application Gateway, Azure WAF policy, regional WAF policy Quick peek Open full term page

Monitoring premium Application Insights Application Insights is the application performance monitoring capability in Azure Monitor. It collects OpenTelemetry or SDK telemetry such as requests, dependencies, exceptions, traces, metrics, and availability results so teams can continuously understand live application health, performance, failures, and user-impacting behavior. Application observability fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Azure Application Insights, App Insights, Azure Monitor Application Insights, application performance monitoring, APM Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance premium Application landing zone An application landing zone is one or more governed Azure subscriptions for a workload environment, placed under management groups so it inherits platform policies and shared services. Landing zones fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: application landing zone Quick peek Open full term page

Identity premium Application permission An application permission is an app-only permission, also exposed as an app role, that lets a client application access a resource without a signed-in user after consent is granted. Identity operations fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: application permission Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance premium Application tag An application tag is a resource tag key-value pair that identifies the application, product, workload, or service associated with an Azure resource. Tags and naming fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: application tag Quick peek Open full term page

Identity premium Enterprise application Enterprise application properties in Microsoft Entra ID configure the organization-specific service principal settings for an application, including user assignment, single sign-on, provisioning, and ownership. Microsoft Entra applications intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Entra enterprise application, service principal application, enterprise app Quick peek Open full term page

Monitoring and Observability premium Application Insights connection string An Application Insights connection string specifies the Application Insights resource and endpoints that an instrumented application uses to send telemetry. Application Insights fundamentals 3 commands Aliases: APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING, application insights connection string Quick peek Open full term page

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure premium Application group An Azure Virtual Desktop application group controls access to a full desktop or a logical grouping of RemoteApp applications from a host pool. Virtual desktops fundamentals 2 commands Aliases: application group Quick peek Open full term page

Monitoring and Observability premium Application map Application Map is an Application Insights view that visualizes application components and dependencies using telemetry, helping teams identify bottlenecks and failure hotspots. Application Insights fundamentals 2 commands Aliases: application map Quick peek Open full term page

Networking premium Application security group An application security group lets you group virtual machine network interfaces so network security group rules can target application roles instead of explicit IP addresses. Network security fundamentals 2 commands Aliases: ASG, application security group Quick peek Open full term page

Web verified Requests in application queue Requests In Application Queue is an Azure Monitor metric for Microsoft.Web/sites that reports how many Web App or Function App requests are waiting in the application request queue. It helps diagnose saturation, slow handlers, cold starts, thread exhaustion, or delayed scale-out. Web App metric intermediate 6 commands Aliases: RequestsInApplicationQueue, App Service application queue, HTTP requests in application queue, Web App request queue metric, Function App request queue metric Quick peek Open full term page

Databases learning-path-anchor Cosmos DB emulator The Azure Cosmos DB emulator provides a local environment that emulates Azure Cosmos DB for development and testing without requiring a cloud account. Azure Cosmos DB fundamentals 3 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Storage learning-path-anchor Data Lake storage account A storage feature or access model in Data Lake Storage Gen2 that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context. Data Lake Storage Gen2 advanced 19 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning premium Azure OpenAI Azure OpenAI provides OpenAI model capabilities through Azure resources, deployments, identity, networking, quota, and monitoring controls. Azure OpenAI intermediate 8 commands Aliases: Azure OpenAI Service Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning verified Prompt flow Prompt flow is a way to build and test an AI application as a flow instead of a single prompt. A flow can connect prompts, Python logic, tools, inputs, outputs, variants, and evaluation steps. In Microsoft Foundry classic and Azure Machine Learning, it helped teams prototype, debug, compare, deploy, and monitor LLM-based applications. In 2026, it is also a migration topic because Microsoft announced that feature development ended and full retirement is planned for April 20, 2027. Azure Machine Learning advanced 18 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Integration premium Event Hubs emulator The Event Hubs emulator is a local development tool that simulates Azure Event Hubs so developers can test producers and consumers without connecting to the cloud. Teams use it to prototype and test Event Hubs applications locally before connecting code to a real Azure namespace. It is not a production Event Hubs namespace, a substitute for scale testing, or a guarantee that cloud networking, identity, quota, or geo-recovery behavior works. In production, confirm the namespace, event hub, partitions, identity, network path, consumer groups, checkpoints, metrics, owner, and rollback plan before treating the stream design as healthy. Event Hubs intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Azure Event Hubs emulator, local Event Hubs emulator, Event Hubs local emulator Quick peek Open full term page

Web premium local.settings.json Microsoft Learn describes local.settings.json as the Azure Functions local settings file that stores app settings and tool settings for local development. Values in this file are used only locally and must be added separately to the function app in Azure. Azure Functions intermediate 5 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

DevOps premium Pipeline in Azure DevOps A pipeline in Azure DevOps is an automated build, test, and deployment workflow. Microsoft Learn describes Azure Pipelines as CI/CD for many languages, platforms, and targets, with YAML or classic definitions that connect source changes to repeatable delivery stages. CI/CD fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: Azure Pipelines, ADO pipeline, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline, YAML pipeline, Azure Pipeline, DevOps pipeline Quick peek Open full term page

Databases premium PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database engine. In Azure, Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a managed Flexible Server service with compute, storage, backup, security, networking, monitoring, and high-availability capabilities for application and analytical workloads. across development, production, and migration scenarios. Database advanced 5 commands Aliases: Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL flexible server, managed PostgreSQL Quick peek Open full term page

Databases premium PostgreSQL burstable compute PostgreSQL burstable compute is the Burstable pricing tier for Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server. It uses B-series virtual machine sizes for workloads with modest average CPU demand that may need occasional bursts instead of continuously provisioned high performance. safely. PostgreSQL flexible server fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: Azure PostgreSQL B-series, Flexible Server burstable compute, PostgreSQL Burstable tier Quick peek Open full term page

Web premium Zip deploy Zip deploy is an App Service deployment method that pushes a ZIP package to a web app and has Kudu extract or run the package. Microsoft Learn documents ZIP, WAR, JAR, EAR, and individual-file deployment, including the requirement that the deployment archive contain project files at its root. App Service intermediate 5 commands Aliases: ZIP deployment, Kudu ZIP deployment, package deployment, zip push deployment Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Synapse Studio Synapse Studio is the browser-based workspace experience for Azure Synapse Analytics. It exposes hubs for data, development, integration, monitoring, and management, letting users author notebooks and SQL scripts, build pipelines, configure connections, review access, and work with Git-backed or live artifacts. Synapse Analytics fundamentals 6 commands Aliases: Azure Synapse Studio, Synapse web workspace, Synapse workspace UI, Synapse authoring experience Quick peek Open full term page

Storage premium Azure Storage Explorer Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app for Windows, macOS, and Linux that helps users connect to and manage Azure Storage data and resources through a graphical interface. Storage tooling fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning premium Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Foundry is the Microsoft AI platform experience used to build, evaluate, deploy, and manage AI applications, models, agents, and related project assets. Teams should manage it with clear ownership, monitoring, rollback evidence, and production change discipline. AI platform intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Azure AI Foundry, Foundry, AI Foundry Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning premium Model deployment Model deployment is the step where a trained or selected model becomes something an application can actually call. The model may have performed well in experiments, but deployment decides how it is hosted, secured, scaled, monitored, and routed. Generative AI fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Databases premium MySQL server compute tier MySQL server compute tier means the capacity family that determines the compute and memory shape for an Azure Database for MySQL server. You see it when teams size production databases, development systems, migrations, reporting workloads, and seasonal applications. Think of it as a capacity and cost decision that should match measured workload demand. It matters because the setting changes how teams design, secure, operate, and troubleshoot the workload. Before changing it in production, know the owner, dependency, evidence, expected result, and rollback path. Azure Database for MySQL fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning learning-path-anchor Synonym map A synonym map helps Azure AI Search understand that different words can mean the same thing for search. Users may type laptop, notebook, ultrabook, or a product nickname, while the indexed document uses only one of those terms. The synonym map teaches the search service to expand or rewrite the query so relevant documents... Azure AI Search intermediate 5 commands Aliases: AI Search synonym map, search synonyms, synonymMaps, equivalent terms map Quick peek Open full term page

AI and Machine Learning learning-path-anchor System message A system message is the instruction layer that tells an Azure OpenAI chat model how it should behave before it answers the user's request. It can define the assistant's role, tone, allowed sources, formatting rules, safety boundaries, and refusal behavior. It is stronger than an ordinary user message, but it is not magic and... Azure OpenAI fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: system prompt, metaprompt, developer instruction, assistant instruction Quick peek Open full term page

Storage learning-path-anchor Table service endpoint A Table service endpoint is the address your application uses when it talks to Azure Table Storage. For a normal Azure Storage account, it looks like an account-specific table URL. That address is not just a string in a connection setting; it determines DNS resolution, firewall evaluation, private endpoint routing, TLS, SDK configuration, and what operators test during an outage. If the endpoint is wrong, the table might exist and credentials might be valid, but clients still fail to connect. Table Storage intermediate 5 commands Aliases: Azure Table endpoint, Table Storage endpoint, storage table endpoint, Table data-plane endpoint Quick peek Open full term page

Governance learning-path-anchor Tag name A tag name is the label key in an Azure tag. In Environment=Prod, Environment is the tag name and Prod is the value. The name tells people and tools what question the tag answers: who owns this, what cost center pays for it, what environment is it, or what application does it support? Good tag names are short, consistent, boring, and governed. Bad tag names create duplicate categories like CostCenter, cost-center, CostCentre, and BillingCode that fracture reports. Resource tagging fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: tag key, Azure tag key, resource tag name, metadata tag name Quick peek Open full term page

Containers learning-path-anchor Target port A target port tells Azure Container Apps where to deliver traffic inside your container. Public or internal ingress may expose an endpoint, but the app still has to listen on a specific port. If the container listens on 8080 and ingress targets 80, users may see timeouts, failed probes, or gateway errors. The setting is small, but it is often the difference between the app being deployed and the app being reachable. It should match the application startup command, Dockerfile, framework port, and health probes. Azure Container Apps intermediate 5 commands Aliases: container target port, Container Apps target port, ingress targetPort, container ingress port Quick peek Open full term page

Monitoring and Observability learning-path-anchor Telemetry events Telemetry events are breadcrumbs that say something meaningful happened in an application. They are different from raw logs because they usually have a clear event name and structured properties. A checkout completed, a document uploaded, a feature flag changed, or a device registered can all be telemetry events. In Azure Monitor Application Insights, these events help teams understand behavior, investigate incidents, and measure product outcomes. Good events are intentional, consistently named, and tied to the que Application data advanced 5 commands Aliases: event telemetry, custom events, Application Insights events, Azure Monitor events Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance learning-path-anchor Template expression A template expression computes values during ARM template deployment. ARM deployments fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: Template expression, template expression, Azure Template expression, ARM Template expression, ARM expressions, deployment expressions Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance learning-path-anchor Template function A template function is a built-in helper used by ARM templates or Bicep to calculate values. ARM deployments fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: Template function, template function, Azure Template function, ARM Template function, ARM functions, deployment functions Quick peek Open full term page

Management and Governance learning-path-anchor Template spec version A template spec version is a specific immutable version of a template spec. ARM deployments fundamentals 5 commands Aliases: Template spec version, template spec version, Azure Template spec version, ARM Template spec version, template spec versions, Microsoft.Resources/templateSpecs/versions Quick peek Open full term page

Databases learning-path-anchor Cosmos DB continuous backup Azure Cosmos DB continuous backup is the backup mode that supports point-in-time restore for supported Cosmos DB resources within a configured retention tier. Azure Cosmos DB fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: No aliases yet Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks model serving A managed serving endpoint pattern for exposing Databricks models or AI workloads for online inference with operational controls. Databricks intermediate 4 commands Aliases: Databricks Model Serving, serving endpoint, model serving endpoint Quick peek Open full term page

Analytics learning-path-anchor Databricks repo A workspace Git integration, now called Git folders, for versioning notebooks and files used in Databricks development and CI/CD. Databricks fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: Databricks Repos, Databricks Git folder, Azure Databricks Git folders, workspace Git folder Quick peek Open full term page

Containers learning-path-anchor System node pool A system node pool is the AKS worker pool that keeps the cluster itself functioning. It hosts core Kubernetes and AKS add-on pods such as DNS, networking agents, metrics, and connectivity components. You can technically run application pods there, but experienced teams avoid that because noisy workloads can starve the services that make the... Azure Kubernetes Service intermediate 4 commands Aliases: AKS system pool, system mode node pool, AKS platform node pool, kube-system node pool Quick peek Open full term page

Identity learning-path-anchor System-assigned managed identity A system-assigned managed identity lets one Azure resource authenticate without a stored password, client secret, or certificate managed by your app team. You turn it on for a resource such as a web app, function, virtual machine, data factory, or automation account. Azure creates an identity for that resource, and the resource can request... Managed identities intermediate 4 commands Aliases: system assigned identity, resource managed identity, SystemAssigned identity, managed service identity Quick peek Open full term page

Storage learning-path-anchor Table batch operation A Table batch operation lets an application change several Azure Table entities together instead of sending separate requests and hoping they all succeed. It is useful when records belong to the same partition and must stay consistent, such as a header row plus related detail rows. The important limitation is strict: the entities must... Table Storage intermediate 4 commands Aliases: entity group transaction, Table Storage batch, batch transaction, partition-scoped batch Quick peek Open full term page

Storage learning-path-anchor Table schema-less design Table schema-less design means the table gives you a consistent place to store entities, but it does not force every entity to have the same application fields. One record can have Status and ExpirationUtc while another has RetryCount and Region. The required identity fields still matter, especially PartitionKey and RowKey. The design freedom is helpful, but it is not permission to ignore data contracts. Teams still need naming rules, versioning, validation, and reader behavior for missing or older properties. Table Storage fundamentals 4 commands Aliases: schema-less Table design, schemaless table design, Azure Table sparse schema, Table Storage flexible properties Quick peek Open full term page