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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

Implementing name resolution in Azure

This section will look at the name resolution options available in Azure; we will also cover the topic of cross-premises/hybrid name resolution.

Azure DNS is the first skill area we will look at in this section.

Azure DNS

Azure DNS is a Microsoft-managed DNS-as-a-service solution for name resolution of Azure resources. You do not need to provide your own DNS servers for name resolution.

The Azure DNS service provides hosting for both your public DNS zones and private DNS zones, for which Azure can be authoritative, as detailed here:

  • Public DNS: Hosts your DNS domains and provides name resolution for DNS domains that are internet-facing
  • Private DNS: Allows hostname resolution within a VNet and between VNets

Once your DNS zones are migrated to Azure DNS, Microsoft’s DNS name servers will respond to queries for resources in these zones. Anycast DNS is used by the DNS service, meaning the query will be responded...