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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

Implementing Windows-integrated authentication

By configuring the authentication and authorization feature of the web app, Windows-integrated authentication is enabled. In this demonstration, we are going to enable this for a web app. First, we will deploy a web app to an Azure App Service.

Deploying the web app

In this first part of the demonstration, we are going to deploy a sample web app. We are using a sample application and will deploy this in Azure using a PowerShell script. Therefore, we have to perform the following steps:

  1. First, we need to log in to the Azure account, as follows:
Connect-AzAccount
  1. If necessary, select the right subscription, as follows:
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId "********-****-****-****-***********"
  1. Specify the URL for the GitHub sample application and specify the web app name:
$gitrepo="https://github.com/Azure-Samples/app-service-web-dotnet-get-started.git"
$webappname="PacktWebApp"
  1. Create a web app:
New-AzWebApp...