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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

Azure storage services

Azure provides a range of storage services to cater to many differing storage solution needs, each providing different capabilities and features to best match their intended purpose and usage pattern.

You must understand the following Azure storage services since they are outlined in the Describe Core Azure Services exam:

  • Storage accounts, tiers, and replication
  • Data stores
  • Disk, file, and container (Blob) storage

The content in this section will take your knowledge beyond the exam's objectives so that you are prepared for a real-world, day-to-day Azure-focused role. In the next section, we will look at storage accounts.

Storage accounts

Storage accounts are resources that need to be created to store your data objects; they can be thought of as control panels for your data stores and provide management pane resources.

From a storage account, you can view all your different storage objects, configure security and network...