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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

Introduction to Azure Storage services

This section looks at the available Storage services in Azure. We will start this chapter by looking at various definitions and concepts to help set a baseline and foundation of knowledge that you can build from.

Storage types

The following storage types are available in Azure:

  • Files: This provides the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which provides fully managed, highly available serverless network file shares. These traditional mapped drives can be communicated using port 445 and the SMB 3.x protocol.
  • Binary large object (Blob): This provides cost-effective massive scale-out unstructured data storage. The following three blob types are available:
    • Page Blob: Used to store random access data objects, such as VM disks
    • Block Blob: Used to store ordered data objects, such as backups
    • Append Blob: Used to store consecutively added data objects, such as log files
  • Table: This provides a data store for non-relational (NoSQL) structured...