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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 your customer

Each organization can be very different, not just in terms of goals, but also the levels of risk, security, and resilience they are prepared to accept.

To highlight such differences, it is helpful to compare two very different types of company – a well-established, multi-national corporation with thousands of employees around the world, versus a newly formed start-up, with just a handful of staff.

Looking at process differences

A multi-national company will have existing processes and ways of working that have been built up over many years. The IT department will more than likely follow industry patterns such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), which is itself a framework and set of practices for Information Technology System Management (ITSM), which defines how an organization manages their IT services. In other words, larger companies generally have a set of processes that everyone must follow for managing the companies...