Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-304—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including key aspects such as compute, network, storage, and security. Designed for modern IT professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: • Design monitoring • Design identity and security • Design data storage • Design business continuity • Design infrastructure This Microsoft Exam Ref: • Organizes its coverage by exam objectives • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you • Assumes you are an IT professional with significant experience and knowledge of IT operations, and expert-level Azure administration skills, and experience with Azure development and DevOps processes About the Exam Exam AZ-304 focuses on knowledge needed to design for cost optimization; design logging and monitoring solutions; design authentication, authorization, governance, and application security; design database solutions and data integrations; select storage accounts; design for backup/recovery and high availability; design compute and network infrastructure; design application architectures, and design migrations. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential, demonstrating your expertise in compute, network, storage, and security for designing and implementing modern cloud-based solutions that run on Microsoft Azure. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Master the Microsoft Azure platform and prepare for the AZ-304 certification exam by learning the key concepts needed to identify key stakeholder requirements and translate these into robust solutions Key FeaturesBuild secure and scalable solutions on the Microsoft Azure platformLearn how to design solutions that are compliant with customer requirementsWork with real-world scenarios to become a successful Azure architect, and prepare for the AZ-304 examBook Description The AZ-304 exam tests an architect's ability to design scalable, reliable, and secure solutions in Azure based on customer requirements. Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the AZ-304 exam content to help you prepare for it confidently, pass the exam first time, and get ready for real-world challenges. This book will help you to investigate the need for good architectural practices and discover how they address common concerns for cloud-based solutions. You will work through the CloudStack, from identity and access through to infrastructure (IaaS), data, applications, and serverless (PaaS). As you make progress, you will delve into operations including monitoring, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery. Finally, you'll gain a clear understanding of how these operations fit into the real world with the help of full scenario-based examples throughout the book. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the AZ-304 certification exam and have a handy desktop reference guide. What you will learnUnderstand the role of architecture in the cloudEnsure security through identity, authorization, and governanceFind out how to use infrastructure components such as compute, containerization, networking, and storage accountsDesign scalable applications and databases using web apps, functions, messaging, SQL, and Cosmos DBMaintain operational health through monitoring, alerting, and backupsDiscover how to create repeatable and reliable automated deploymentsUnderstand customer requirements and respond to their changing needsWho this book is for This book is for Azure Solution Architects who advise stakeholders and help translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Junior architects looking to advance their skills in the Cloud will also benefit from this book. Experience with the Azure platform is expected, and a general understanding of development patterns will be advantageous.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-303—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of architecting high-value Microsoft Azure solutions for your organization or customers. Designed for modern IT professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: • Implement and monitor an Azure infrastructure • Implement management and security solutions • Implement solutions for apps • Implement and manage data platforms This Microsoft Exam Ref: • Organizes its coverage by exam objectives • Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you • Assumes you are an IT professional who wants to demonstrate your ability to design modern Microsoft Azure solutions involving compute, network, storage, and security About the Exam Exam AZ-303 focuses on knowledge needed to implement cloud infrastructure monitoring, storage accounts, and VMs (Windows and Linux); automate resource deployment and configuration; implement virtual networking and Azure Active Directory; implement and manage hybrid identities; manage Azure workloads; implement Azure Site Recovery; implement application infrastructure; manage application security; implement load balancing and network security; integrate Azure virtual networks with on-premises networks; implement and manage Azure governance solutions; manage Role-Based Access Control; implement application infrastructure and container-based apps; implement NoSQL and Azure SQL databases; and implement Azure SQL database managed instances. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential, demonstrating your expertise in compute, network, storage, and security for designing and implementing modern cloudbased solutions that run on Microsoft Azure. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Become a proficient Microsoft Azure solutions architect Azure certifications are critical to the millions of IT professionals Microsoft has certified as MCSE and MCSA in Windows Server in the last 20 years. All of these professionals need to certify in key Azure exams to stay current and advance in their careers. Exams AZ-303 and AZ-304 are the key solutions architect exams that experienced Windows professionals will find most useful at the intermediate and advanced points of their careers. Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and Design Complete Study Guide Exams AZ-303 and AZ-304 covers the two critical Microsoft Azure exams that intermediate and advanced Microsoft IT professionals will need to show proficiency as their organizations move to the Azure cloud. Understand Azure Set up your Microsoft Cloud network Solve real-world problems Get the confidence to pass the exam By learning all of these things plus using the Study Guide review questions and practice exams, the reader will be ready to take the exam and perform the job with confidence.

Deliver microservices architecture, step-by-step: from defining business problems through development, deployment, and monitoring Increasingly, organizations are modernizing application development by integrating open source technologies into a holistic architecture for delivering high-quality workloads to the cloud. This is a complete, step-by-step guide to building flexible microservices architecture by leveraging Microsoft Azure cloud services, together with key open source technologies such as Java, Node.JS, .NET Core and Angular. Through a realistic case study project, expert Microsoft engineers Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan and Arvind Chandaka guide you through every step of technical implementation required to achieve value: establishing end-to-end infrastructure, developing cloud-native applications, automating deployments, monitoring operations, and more. Microsoft engineers Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan and Arvind Chandaka show how to: Define application features and business requirements, and map them onto microservices using modeling techniques Design microservices solution architecture that enables high-quality workloads Develop an application front-end, and build microservices with open source technologies Leverage Azure Kubernetes Services for Docker container orchestration Use various patterns to build reliable and resilient microservices Enforce microservices app security, and use Azure AD B2C for user authentication/authorization Establish an API gateway that provides a unified “front door” to back-end microservices Set up continuous integration and deployment with Azure DevOps Monitor microservices with Azure Monitor and Azure Application Insights About This Book For everyone interested in developing microservices, including architects, engineers, and consultants Will help IT professionals build new applications, modernize existing systems, migrate workloads, improve app management, and more.

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-534--and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft Azure solution design and architecture. Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Specialist level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: Describe Microsoft Azure infrastructure and networking Help secure resources Design an application storage and data access strategy Design an advanced application Design websites Design a management, monitoring, and business continuity strategy This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam objectives Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Assumes you have experience designing Microsoft Azure cloud or hybrid solutions and supporting application life cycle management

Quickly preps technical and non-technical readers to pass the Microsoft AZ-900 certification exam Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Study Guide: Exam AZ-900 is your complete resource for preparing for the AZ-900 exam. Microsoft Azure is a major component of Microsoft’s cloud computing model, enabling organizations to host their applications and related services in Microsoft’s data centers, eliminating the need for those organizations to purchase and manage their own computer hardware. In addition, serverless computing enables organizations to quickly and easily deploy data services without the need for servers, operating systems, and supporting systems. This book is targeted at anyone who is seeking AZ-900 certification or simply wants to understand the fundamentals of Microsoft Azure. Whatever your role in business or education, you will benefit from an understanding of Microsoft Azure fundamentals. Readers will also get one year of FREE access to Sybex’s superior online interactive learning environment and test bank, including hundreds of questions, a practice exam, electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms. This book will help you master the following topics covered in the AZ-900 certification exam: Cloud concepts Cloud types (Public, Private, Hybrid) Azure service types (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) Core Azure services Security, compliance, privacy, and trust Azure pricing levels Legacy and modern lifecycles Growth in the cloud market continues to be very strong, and Microsoft is poised to see rapid and sustained growth in its cloud share. Written by a long-time Microsoft insider who helps customers move their workloads to and manage them in Azure on a daily basis, this book will help you break into the growing Azure space to take advantage of cloud technologies.