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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

Understanding Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB storage is the premium offering for Azure Table storage. It's a multimodel and globally distributed database service that is designed to horizontally scale and replicate your data to any number of Azure regions. By replicating and scaling the data, Cosmos DB can guarantee low latency, high availability, and high performance anywhere in the world. You can replicate or scale data easily inside the Azure portal by selecting the available regions on the map.

This high availability and low latency makes Cosmos DB most suitable for mobile applications, games, and applications that need to be globally distributed. The Azure portal also uses Cosmos DB for data storage. Cosmos DB is completely schemaless, and you can use a number of existing APIs with available SDKs to communicate with it. So, if you are using a specific API for your data and you want to move your data to Cosmos DB, all you need to do is change the connection string inside your application...