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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

Working with web applications

Azure web apps, or more generally Azure app services, are the first step in migrating from VM-based solutions toward a more flexible, fully managed offering.

They are essentially a managed Internet Information Services (IIS) offering for hosting web applications built with standard web technologies and programming languages.

App services are split into two types of apps – web apps and API apps. Web apps are UI-driven applications whereby the result of any backend programming language is to produce HTML and JavaScript that can be consumed by an end user through a browser.

API apps use the same technologies and programming language as web apps; however, they send pure data in either JSON or XML, rather than sending HTML to a web browser.

Note

XML and JSON are text-based formats for storing and sending information. Technically, XML is a self-describing markup language – this means you can define the data format of a field in a structured...