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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 by answering the following questions:

  1. Explain how serverless is different from IaaS and PaaS (the key differentiators).
  2. Explain the benefits of serverless.
  3. Explain what Azure functions are.
  4. Explain what Azure logic apps are and how they are different from Azure functions.
  5. Explain what artificial intelligence is and what value it provides an organization with.
  6. Explain how AI, ML, and DL are connected.
  7. Explain the differences between Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services.
  8. List and explain the three core elements of an IoT solution.
  9. List and explain at least three use case scenarios for IoT solutions.
  10. Explain the difference between Azure IoT Central and IoT Hub.
  11. Explain Azure Sphere.
  12. Explain the term big data.
  13. Explain the Modern Data Warehouse approach and ELT versus ETL.
  14. Explain what is meant by DevOps and what its value is to an organization...