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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Exam Guide AZ-300

By : Sjoukje Zaal
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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Exam Guide AZ-300

By: Sjoukje Zaal

Overview of this book

From designing solutions on Azure to configuring and managing virtual networks, AZ-300 certification can help you achieve all this and more. Whether you want to get certified or gain hands-on experience in administering, developing, and architecting Azure solutions, this study guide will help you get started. The book features not only the different exam objectives, but also guides you through configuring, managing, securing, and architecting Azure resources. Divided into five modules, this book will systematically take you through the different concepts and features as you advance through the sections. The first module demonstrates how to deploy and configure infrastructure. You will cover techniques related to implementing workloads and security, before learning how to create and deploy apps in the next module. To build on your knowledge, the final two modules will get you up to speed with implementing authentication, data security, and application and platform monitoring, along with covering Azure storage, alerting, and automation strategies. Finally, you’ll work through exam-based mock tests with answers to boost your confidence in passing the exam. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned the concepts and techniques you need to know in order to prepare for the AZ-300 exam, along with the skills to design effective solutions on Microsoft Azure.
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
1
Section 1: Deploying and Configuring Infrastructure
9
Section 2: Implementing Workloads and Security
16
Section 3: Creating and Deploying Apps
19
Section 4: Implementing Authentication and Secure Data
22
Section 5: Developing for the Cloud and for Azure Storage
26
Mock Questions
27
Mock Answers

Creating and managing objects

Azure offers a variety of services that we can use to build applications. One of the possibilities it offers is to create serverless applications. Serverless computing is the abstraction of servers, infrastructure, and operating systems. Serverless is consumption-based, which means that you don't need to anticipate any capacity. This is different from using PaaS services. With PaaS services, you still pay for the reserved compute.

In the upcoming sections, we are going to cover serverless services in Azure such as Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Event Grid, and Azure Service Bus. Then, we are going to create an Azure Function, deploy some applications with ARM templates, and learn how to manage these services from the Azure portal.

Azure Functions

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that's used to run small pieces of code in the cloud. You can simply write the code you need in order to execute a certain task, without the need...