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Technical Glossary

Essential definitions and acronym breakdowns for Cloud, DevOps, and Cybersecurity terms.

CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment)

DevOps

A set of operating principles and practices that enable application development teams to deliver code changes more frequently and reliably through automated pipelines.

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management)

Cybersecurity

A security management subsystem that combines security information management (SIM) and security event management (SEM) to analyze security alerts in real-time.

DP-900

Cloud / Azure

The Microsoft certification exam syllabus mapping the foundational concepts of database workloads, storage types, analytics structures, and security configurations on Azure.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

DevOps

The management and provisioning of infrastructure (networks, virtual machines, load balancers, connection topologies) through machine-readable definition files (like Terraform or Ansible), rather than physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools.

Azure Cosmos DB

Cloud / Azure

Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database service supporting schema-less data structures, designed to manage high-throughput transactional workloads.

SOC (Security Operations Center)

Cybersecurity

A centralized function within an organization employing people, processes, and technologies to continuously monitor and improve cybersecurity posture while preventing, detecting, and responding to incidents.

Definitions are curated to align with curriculum objectives and common interview requirements. For detailed references, visit the official Microsoft Learn documentation hubs.