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Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

By : Brett Hargreaves
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Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

By: Brett Hargreaves

Overview of this book

The AZ-304 exam tests an architect's ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure solutions in Azure based on customer requirements. Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the AZ-304 exam content to help you prepare for it confidently, pass the exam first time, and get ready for real-world challenges. This book will help you to investigate the need for good architectural practices and discover how they address common concerns for cloud-based solutions. You will work through the CloudStack, from identity and access through to infrastructure (IaaS), data, applications, and serverless (PaaS). As you make progress, you will delve into operations including monitoring, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery. Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of how these operations fit into the real world with the help of full scenario-based examples throughout the book. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the AZ-304 certification exam and have a handy desktop reference guide.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring Modern Architecture
4
Section 2: Identity and Security
9
Section 3: Infrastructure and Storage Components
14
Section 4: Applications and Databases
19
Section 5: Operations and Monitoring
23
Section 6: Beyond the Exam
26
Mock Exam
27
Mock Answers

Summary

This chapter has looked at many different options and configurations for ensuring connectivity across Azure and hybrid scenarios. We examined how to use public and private DNS in Azure and how we can then control inbound and outbound access using a combination of NSGs, ASGs, and Azure Firewalls.

We have seen how user-defined routes can help us strictly manage traffic flow to support different requirements. Finally, we looked at how to use other Azure services such as Azure Load Balancer, Traffic Manager, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door to spread traffic over services for better resilience and performance.

In the next chapter, we will look in detail at the different storage options available for use in Azure, including the types of storage, how we can secure our data on it, and what tools we can use to manage it.