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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

Summary

This chapter provided coverage for AZ-800 Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure: Manage storage and file services.

First, we learned about the basics of the Windows Server filesystems and protocols; then, we looked at storage solutions such as Storage Spaces and Storage Spaces Direct and understood how they differ. After that, we looked at storage optimization through Data Deduplication within Windows Server and Storage Replica, which is the high availability and disaster recovery solution for Windows Server.

We completed this chapter with a hands-on exercise to provide you with additional practical skills.

This chapter aimed to take your knowledge beyond the exam objectives; we added new skills and learning with the content provided. This further developed your knowledge and skills for on-premises network infrastructure services and enabled you to be prepared for a real-world, day-to-day hybrid environment-focused role.

In the next chapter, you...