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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

Understanding ARM templates

Just as other tools are simply wrappers for the Azure REST APIs, everything that is built in Azure is defined as an ARM template. Whether you create a service through the Azure portal, PowerShell, REST APIs, or the CLI, ultimately that service is described within an ARM template.

An ARM template is a JSON-based text file and is broken down into the following sections:

  • A header containing $schema, contentVersion, and metadata: As an evolving platform, Microsoft is continually adding new components and adding new capabilities to existing components. For this reason, an ARM template contains information that states the schema and version.
  • parameters: ARM templates can be built to be re-usable by allowing you to define and pass in parameters. These are then added either as a separate parameters file, as command-line arguments, or, when deploying a template within the Azure portal, a parameters form.
  • variables: The variables section enables you to...