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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

Getting feedback

Agile projects are run with continual feedback built in. At the end of each period of work, known as a sprint, the customer is given a chance to see what has been built and feed back on what works and what doesn't. The project team also has an opportunity to receive feedback as part of a lesson-learned activity, whereby all the people working on the project can discuss what worked and what didn't and adjust accordingly for the next sprint.

Feedback is incredibly important to the success of a solution as the end goal is to create a solution that addresses the original business need and is usable. History is full of projects that failed simply because the resultant system was too difficult to use.

It can be challenging to accept feedback, but our role as architects is to help steer the business, and this is a two-way process of listening and adjusting.

For longer-running projects, business needs can change through the project. This is an inevitable consequence...