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

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

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

4.4 (9)
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)
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Section 1: Exploring Modern Architecture
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Section 2: Identity and Security
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Section 3: Infrastructure and Storage Components
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Section 4: Applications and Databases
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Section 5: Operations and Monitoring
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Section 6: Beyond the Exam
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Mock Exam
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Understanding SQL database availability

Even when your databases are hosted in Azure, there is still a chance that failures and outages will occur. In the case of an outage (such as a total regional failure, which a natural disaster could cause, an act of terrorism, war, a government action, or a network or device failure external to the data centers of Microsoft), your data still needs to be accessible.

In Chapter 12, Creating Scalable and Secure Databases, we looked at database service tiers chosen when creating a SQL Server database – the General tier, Hyperscale tier, and Business Critical tier.

With the General and Hyperscale tiers, by default, data is replicated within a single region. However, it Is not regionally redundant. This is partly due to how data is protected within them. Essentially, data is stored in Azure storage accounts and therefore uses that underlying technology to spread and replicate data among physical disks. However, there is still only ever one...

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