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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

Chapter 15: Designing for Logging and Monitoring

In the previous chapter, we explored the options for enabling solutions to be highly available and implementing automatic redundancy to ensure that our systems are always running and healthy.

In this chapter, we begin Section 5, Operations and Monitoring, by looking at how we ensure we are always aware of what is happening to our platform from a perspective of health, security, and costs.

Azure provides a range of options for collecting logs and metrics that we can continually monitor and alert on so that we can be proactive and also keep the systems running optimally. Some tools are enabled by default; others must be specifically activated. For larger organizations with more complex structures and requirements, how we design those systems can greatly impact the efficiency and scalability of them.

This chapter, therefore, explores the different tools available to us and what the architectural options are when using them. Specifically...