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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

Planning for Azure Backup

Azure Backup is generally the first solution to consider when planning your backup strategy. Azure Backup uses the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent, which is installed on a VM, to back up files, folders, and system state to a Recovery Services vault, which, in turn, uses a storage account for persisting those backups.

You can back up both Azure and on-premises VMs using the MARS agent, as well as Azure Managed Disks, Azure file shares, SQL Server on Azure VMs, PostgreSQL on Azure VMs, Azure blobs, and SAP HANA on Azure VMs.

Azure Backup can also use System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), which is an enterprise backup system for on-premises servers. Using either DPM or Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) on your existing on-premises infrastructure, you can take local backups and then move them into the cloud.

Exam Tip

When backing up on-premises VMs into Azure, you can use either the MARS agent to directly back up into Azure or the...