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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 containers

In this section, we will introduce the concept of containers and look at their relationship with virtual machines (VMs).

As a concept, containers enable standardized and isolated deployable compute resource units that are lightweight and portable.

Containers are built around encapsulation, which involves packaging the code of an application and its dependencies so that it can be deployed into development or production environments seamlessly with repeatable, predictable, and consistent results.

The benefit and value of containers are that they are self-contained computing units that are portable and lightweight.

In the next section, we will look at the relationship between containers and VMs.

Comparing containers and VMs

To understand the containers model, we will briefly look at it alongside virtualization (VMs).

Like a VM, a container is a compute resource unit; they have the same aim, which is to host and execute code. However, VMs...