Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Study Companion: Hands-on Preparation and Practice for Exam AZ-300 and AZ-303

by Rahul Sahay

Overview

Use this invaluable study companion and hands-on guide to help you prepare for the AZ-300 and AZ-303 certification exam and get well on your way to becoming an Azure Solutions Architect.

The book starts with an overview of public, private, and hybrid clouds and then goes into configuration of virtual machines. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and VM encryption are discussed along with Azure Monitor. You will learn how to work with Azure recommendations and analyze your resource configuration. Storage solutions, connecting to networks, and Azure Active Directory are discussed in depth, with examples. You will be able to migrate servers to Azure and demonstrate server-less computing, load balancing, and app services in Azure. You also will learn about Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes services, and data security in Azure. Cosmos DB and Relational DB are covered and you will know how to connect to cloud databases using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). The book presents exercises, practice questions, and Azure architecture best practices.

What Will You Learn

• Be able to speak with customers, understand their infrastructure, and provide a blueprint to migrate their framework to Azure

• Go beyond moving on-premise frameworks to Azure and design solutions on Azure from the start
• Know Azure architecture best practices to optimize Azure deployments
• Complete practice exercises to prepare for exam lab assignments
• Take a mock exam for practice

Who This Book Is For

Azure developers, Azure Solution Architects, and those aspiring to fill these roles, who possess some familiarity with cloud computing

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484261996
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	09/22/2020
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	792
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rahul Sahay is a Microsoft MVP specializing in web technologies. He is Software Development Engineer at Kongsberg Digital. He has been working in various aspects of the software development life cycle for 11+ years, focusing on web stack development. He is part of software development in different applications, ranging from client applications to web services to websites. Rahul is well versed with C#, ASP.NET, .Net Core, Angular, Microservices, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, Power BI, etc. He is also involved in designing application architecture from scratch. He spends most of his time in writing platform-agnostic and cloud-agnostic code.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Setting the Expectations.- Chapter 2. Virtual Machines.- Chapter 3. ARM Templates.- Chapter 4. Virtual Machine Encryption.- Chapter 5. Azure Monitoring.- Chapter 6. Azure Recommendations.- Chapter 7. Storage Solutions.- Chapter 8. Managing Virtual Networks.- Chapter 9. Connecting Networks.- Chapter 10. Azure Active Directory.- Chapter 11. Implement and Manage Hybrid Identities.- Chapter 12. Migrate Servers to Azure.- Chapter 13. Server-less Computing.- Chapter 14. Load Balancing.- Chapter 15. Multi-factor Authentication.- Chapter 16. App Services.- Chapter 17. Service Fabric.- Chapter 18. Apps with Containers.- Chapter 19. Data Security.- Chapter 20. Cosmos DB.- Chapter 21. Relational DB.- Chapter 22. Exercises - Chapter 23. Practice Questions.- Chapter 24. Azure Architectural Practices.