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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

By : Steve Miles
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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

This is the digital and cloud era, and Microsoft Azure is one of the top cloud computing platforms. It’s now more important than ever to understand how the cloud functions and the different services that can be leveraged across the cloud. This book will give you a solid understanding of cloud concepts and Microsoft Azure, starting by taking you through cloud concepts in depth, then focusing on the core Azure architectural components, solutions, and management tools. Next, you will understand security concepts, defense-in-depth, and key security services such as Network Security Groups and Azure Firewall, as well as security operations tooling such as Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel. As you progress, you will understand how identity, governance, privacy, and compliance are managed in Azure. Finally, you will get to grips with cost management, service-level agreements, and service life cycles. Throughout, the book features a number of hands-on exercises to support the concepts, services, and solutions discussed. This provides you with a glimpse of real-world scenarios, before finally concluding with practice questions for AZ-900 exam preparation. By the end of this Azure book, you will have a thorough understanding of cloud concepts and Azure fundamentals, enabling you to pass the AZ-900 certification exam easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
4
Section 2: Core Azure Services
7
Section 3: Core Solutions and Management Tools
10
Section 4: Security
12
Section 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and Compliance
16
Section 6: Cost Management and Service-Level Agreements

Skills check

Challenge yourself with what you have learned in this chapter (Note down the answers that you believe are correct; go back and review the content of this chapter for any you are unsure of):

  1. List three public cloud computing platforms and their providers.
  2. List three private cloud computing platforms and their providers.
  3. Explain a hybrid cloud approach.
  4. Explain the definition of cloud computing and Microsoft Azure.
  5. What cost expenditure model is used for public, private, and hybrid cloud models?
  6. Does adopting a public cloud platform mean you no longer need an on-premises data center?
  7. List these architectures in order of evolution: containers, serverless, bare metal, virtual machines.
  8. Explain how containers compare to virtual machines.
  9. Explain how PaaS compares to serverless (FaaS).
  10. What are the three levels to be considered for the Shared Responsibility Model?
  11. List three cloud computing delivery models.
  12. List a minimum of three characteristics of public cloud computing resources.
  13. List a minimum of three characteristics of private cloud computing resources.
  14. List a minimum of three characteristics of the hybrid cloud computing approach.
  15. List four cloud computing service models.
  16. Explain serverless computing.
  17. List a minimum of two characteristics of IaaS.
  18. List a minimum of two examples of IaaS resources.
  19. List a minimum of three characteristics of PaaS.
  20. List a minimum of two examples of PaaS resources.
  21. List a minimum of three characteristics of serverless (FaaS).
  22. List two examples of serverless/FaaS resources.
  23. List a minimum of three characteristics of SaaS.
  24. List a minimum of two examples of SaaS resources.
  25. List a minimum of two non-Microsoft SaaS solutions.