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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

By : Steve Miles
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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

This is the digital and cloud era, and Microsoft Azure is one of the top cloud computing platforms. It’s now more important than ever to understand how the cloud functions and the different services that can be leveraged across the cloud. This book will give you a solid understanding of cloud concepts and Microsoft Azure, starting by taking you through cloud concepts in depth, then focusing on the core Azure architectural components, solutions, and management tools. Next, you will understand security concepts, defense-in-depth, and key security services such as Network Security Groups and Azure Firewall, as well as security operations tooling such as Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel. As you progress, you will understand how identity, governance, privacy, and compliance are managed in Azure. Finally, you will get to grips with cost management, service-level agreements, and service life cycles. Throughout, the book features a number of hands-on exercises to support the concepts, services, and solutions discussed. This provides you with a glimpse of real-world scenarios, before finally concluding with practice questions for AZ-900 exam preparation. By the end of this Azure book, you will have a thorough understanding of cloud concepts and Azure fundamentals, enabling you to pass the AZ-900 certification exam easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
4
Section 2: Core Azure Services
7
Section 3: Core Solutions and Management Tools
10
Section 4: Security
12
Section 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and Compliance
16
Section 6: Cost Management and Service-Level Agreements

Summary

This chapter provided complete coverage of the Describe Core Azure Services AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam skills area.

In this chapter, you learned about various skills that will provide you with the confidence to explain and discuss numerous aspects of the core Azure services with a business or technical audience. This includes describing the benefits and usage of Azure Marketplace, as well as Azure resources such as compute, storage, network, and data.

Knowledge beyond the exam's content was also provided to help you prepare for a real-world, day-to-day Azure-focused role.

The chapter concluded by providing some hands-on exercises that brought all the skill areas that were covered in this chapter together. The next chapter will outline the core resources available in Azure, such as compute, network, storage, and data. We will also look at the Azure Marketplace.