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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Exam Guide AZ-300

By : Sjoukje Zaal
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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Exam Guide AZ-300

By: Sjoukje Zaal

Overview of this book

From designing solutions on Azure to configuring and managing virtual networks, AZ-300 certification can help you achieve all this and more. Whether you want to get certified or gain hands-on experience in administering, developing, and architecting Azure solutions, this study guide will help you get started. The book features not only the different exam objectives, but also guides you through configuring, managing, securing, and architecting Azure resources. Divided into five modules, this book will systematically take you through the different concepts and features as you advance through the sections. The first module demonstrates how to deploy and configure infrastructure. You will cover techniques related to implementing workloads and security, before learning how to create and deploy apps in the next module. To build on your knowledge, the final two modules will get you up to speed with implementing authentication, data security, and application and platform monitoring, along with covering Azure storage, alerting, and automation strategies. Finally, you’ll work through exam-based mock tests with answers to boost your confidence in passing the exam. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned the concepts and techniques you need to know in order to prepare for the AZ-300 exam, along with the skills to design effective solutions on Microsoft Azure.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
1
Section 1: Deploying and Configuring Infrastructure
9
Section 2: Implementing Workloads and Security
16
Section 3: Creating and Deploying Apps
19
Section 4: Implementing Authentication and Secure Data
22
Section 5: Developing for the Cloud and for Azure Storage
26
Mock Questions
27
Mock Answers

Configuring an application gateway

You can create an Azure application gateway using the Azure portal, PowerShell, or CLI. In this demo, we are going to create an Azure application gateway from PowerShell.

In this section, we are going to set up the required network resources, virtual machines, backend servers, frontend IP address, and the application gateway itself. It will take a while (30 minutes upwards) to run the full script.

The code for this example has been split into multiple sections. You can download the whole script from GitHub using the link provided in the Technical requirements section at the beginning of this chapter.

First, we need to connect to our Azure account and select the subscription. If you are using Azure Cloud Shell, you don't need to log in to your Azure account using the administrator credentials. Take the following steps:

  1. First, we need to log in to the Azure account, as follows:
Connect-AzAccount
  1. If necessary, select the right subscription, as...