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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

Deploying WAC within the Azure portal

We can target the management of Azure and hybrid resources using WAC and its integration with Azure services and the Azure portal. The following are the three resources that can be currently targeted for management by WAC using the Azure portal:

  • Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) VMs
  • Azure Stack HCI
  • Azure Arc-enabled servers

For the exam objectives, we will focus the content of this section on how to target Azure IaaS VMs.

Requirements for WAC

To use the capability of WAC in the Azure portal, WAC is installed on each Azure VM to be managed by it. The Azure VMs to be managed by WAC in the Azure portal must meet the following requirements:

  • Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022.
  • Minimum of 3 GB memory.
  • Must be in an Azure public cloud region; Azure China, Azure Government, and other non-public clouds are not supported.
  • Outbound internet access allowing HTTPS traffic to...