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Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-533

By : Mélony Qin
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Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-533

By: Mélony Qin

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Azure is a prominent public cloud provider, recording the highest user base growth in the year 2017. Microsoft has prominent certifications that help architects, developers, and administrators gain hands-on knowledge while working on Azure. 70-533 is one such advanced-level certification, which deals with infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.</p> <p>Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions starts with an overview of the certification and an introduction to Microsoft Azure. Next, you will learn how to plan and implement virtual machines and containers, followed by designing and implementing service apps. As you make your way through the chapters, you will learn how to implement and manage virtual networks and Azure identities, as well as the Active Directory infrastructure in a hybrid environment. In the concluding chapters, you will learn how to plan and implement storage and security, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategies. You will also automate and monitor cloud management operations in Azure. By the end of the book, you will have covered all of the modules, along with the practice questions at the end of each chapter, which will be extremely helpful in passing the 70-533 certification exam.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Azure tools


Microsoft Azure provides different command-line tools and development tools to facilitate building, debugging, deploying, diagnosing, and especially managing scalable and elastic apps in Azure. Let's take a look at each of them. 

Two Azure Portals

Microsoft Azure has two portals: the classic portal and new portal. Historically, the classic portal was the first portal that Azure released and before the new Azure Portal came since December 2015, both of them is there from which where you can manage and control cloud resources with a friendly graphic interface.

So, what's the difference? These two portals are not simply ones with an old versus new relation. They have different DNS addresses, which are both using HTTPS protocols for security reasons. We can use https://portal.azure.com to navigate to Azure's new portal as shown as next: 

Azure Portal

Use https://manage.windowsazure.com to reach Azure's classic portal as shown here:

Azure classic portal 

Nowadays, Microsoft Azure is working...