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Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

By : Brett Hargreaves
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Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

By: Brett Hargreaves

Overview of this book

The AZ-304 exam tests an architect's ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure solutions in Azure based on customer requirements. Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the AZ-304 exam content to help you prepare for it confidently, pass the exam first time, and get ready for real-world challenges. This book will help you to investigate the need for good architectural practices and discover how they address common concerns for cloud-based solutions. You will work through the CloudStack, from identity and access through to infrastructure (IaaS), data, applications, and serverless (PaaS). As you make progress, you will delve into operations including monitoring, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery. Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of how these operations fit into the real world with the help of full scenario-based examples throughout the book. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the AZ-304 certification exam and have a handy desktop reference guide.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exploring Modern Architecture
4
Section 2: Identity and Security
9
Section 3: Infrastructure and Storage Components
14
Section 4: Applications and Databases
19
Section 5: Operations and Monitoring
23
Section 6: Beyond the Exam
26
Mock Exam
27
Mock Answers

Chapter 11: Comparing Application Components

In the previous chapter, we concluded Section 3, Infrastructure and Storage Components, by looking at how to migrate existing on-premises workloads into Azure and what different options were available from an architectural and strategic perspective. With this chapter, we begin Section 4, Applications and Databases, by looking at the different options and architectural patterns for building apps in Azure – from essential web apps to microservices and messaging.

In Chapter 7, Designing Compute Solutions, we looked at the different compute technologies in Azure that can be used to run our applications. This chapter will examine some of these again; however, we will see how they affect our overall solution's architectural choices.

By understanding how to combine web apps, API apps, microservices, and messaging patterns, we will learn how to structure our environment to enable secure, flexible, and cost-efficient solutions.

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