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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 10

One of the first points to consider when planning any migration are the business drivers, and in this case, the main requirement is that you must be able to migrate workloads in a short space of time with a hard deadline. Therefore, opting for a lift-and-shift approach is possibly the safest route.

As there are many inter-dependencies between systems, the as-is architecture needs to be fully understood. Using Azure Migrate, combined with business owners' discussions and collating existing documentation, will help in this task.

Enabling the Service Map feature of an Azure Log Analytics workspace will involve some work upfront to install the necessary agents on VMs. However, the end report will provide greater clarity on interdependent services and substantially reduce risk when the migration occurs.

The DMA tool will also help you understand any potential problems of moving databases, which will help you define the database migration strategy.

Finally, once the...