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Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond - Second Edition

By : Riaan Lowe, Donovan Kelly
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Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond - Second Edition

4.5 (2)
By: Riaan Lowe, Donovan Kelly

Overview of this book

Exam Ref AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification and Beyond covers all the exam objectives and will help you to earn the Microsoft Azure Administrator certification with ease. Whether you’re studying to pass the AZ-104 exam or just want hands-on experience in administering Azure, this AZ-104 study guide will help you to achieve your objectives. This book covers the latest Azure features and capabilities around configuring, managing, and securing Azure resources. Adhering to Microsoft's AZ-104 exam syllabus, this guide is divided into five modules. The first module will show you how to manage Azure identities and governance. You'll find out how to configure Azure subscription policies at the Azure subscription level and use Azure policies for resource groups. After that, the book covers techniques related to implementing and managing storage in Azure, enabling you to create and manage Azure Storage, including File and Blob storage. In the second module, you’ll learn how to deploy and manage Azure compute resources. The third and fourth modules will teach you about configuring and managing virtual networks and monitoring and backing up Azure resources. Finally, you'll work through mock tests, with answers provided, to prepare for this exam. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills needed to pass the AZ-104 exam and be able to expertly manage Azure.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
1
Part 1: Managing Azure Identities and Governance
7
Part 2: Implementing and Managing Storage
11
Part 3: Deploying and Managing Azure Compute Resources
17
Part 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networking
24
Part 5: Monitoring and Backing Up Azure Resources

Disk encryption in Azure

Encrypting Azure disks ensures that unattended and unauthorized access to the disks will be prevented by encrypting the data. This can be done at both an infrastructure level, through server-side encryption (SSE), and at an operating system (OS) level too, through Azure disk encryption (ADE).

SSE is the encryption of data stored on Azure managed disks when persisting to the cloud.

ADE provides a mechanism to safeguard and protect your data. It is zone resilient just like Azure VMs. In Windows, the encryption is done through BitLocker in the Windows OS with the option to store the encrypting key in Key Vault. The same is true for Linux with the utility for encryption being DM-Crypt.

In the following exercise, we are going to explore how to encrypt an Azure Windows VM.

Configuring ADE

We will now walk through the steps involved in performing ADE. This will be performed on a Windows VM:

  1. Navigate to your VM in the Azure portal and select...