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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

Why cloud computing?

Cloud computing adoption is often driven more by the advantages and benefits of its business and operational model than its technology model or location factors.

Cloud computing doesn't have to be a binary decision between a fully public cloud and no public cloud. The benefit of the cloud computing model is that it gives you a choice in how computing resources can be provided and consumed by a business to suit its operating model in the most appropriate way.

Cloud computing-based resources can be in the service provider's facilities or the customer facilities in the case of the Azure Stack portfolio (Edge, HCI, Hub), being a private cloud. Therefore, you can have on-premises cloud computing resources; it doesn't always have to mean resources in a provider's facility that are shared with others and accessible over a network, but that is the most typical deployment model, that is, the public cloud.

The core benefits of the cloud computing...