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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

Exam scenario

MegaCorp Inc. is building a new platform in Azure for customers to view details of their own accounts. The solution will be built over time with regular releases and updates; therefore, the management team wishes to embrace agile development methodologies.

The project team will consist of two teams of developers with five developers in each team, and work will be assigned to each team at the start of every two-week sprint.

The project lead is concerned about developers overwriting each other's code or causing other conflicts. They also want to ensure that there is always a working copy of the core code base at any one time.

Each team has a senior developer who must review any code changes prior to a release. Because the deployment mechanism will change regularly as the solution grows, they also need a way to track and manage changes made to it as well.

Advise on how these requirements can be met as part of the solution design.