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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

Chapter 7

There are many different options available for build services in Azure; however, we can focus on a few key elements from the requirements:

  • This is a new application.
  • The use of smaller services rather than a monolithic application.
  • The development team is used to building websites with .NET but would like to start using containers.
  • The HR team wishes to be able to amend components.

Building the solution as smaller services rather than a single monolithic solution, and the fact that this is an entirely new system, means we can use more modern components. Therefore, we don't need to worry about compatibility. This would suggest either Web Apps or Azure Functions.

However, as the development team wants to move towards containerization but is more used to building traditional .NET websites, Web Apps for containers might be a good solution.

Much of the solution is based on a document approval workflow. Therefore, a workflow creation tool such as Logic...