Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond: Simplified cloud concepts and core Azure fundamentals for absolute beginners to pass the AZ-900 exam

by Peter De Tender, Steve Miles

Length: 424 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2022-01-07
ISBN-10: 1801073309
ISBN-13: 9781801073301
Sales Rank: #1504292 (See Top 100 Books)

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Gain in-depth knowledge of Azure fundamentals that will make it easy for you to achieve AZ-900 certification

Key Features

Get fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts and the Microsoft Azure platform
Explore practical exercises to gain experience of working with the Microsoft Azure platform in the real world
Prepare to achieve AZ-900 certification on the first go with the help of simplified examples covered in the book

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Explore cloud computing with Azure cloud
Gain an understanding of the core Azure architectural components
Acquire knowledge of core services and management tools on Azure
Get up and running with security concepts, security operations, and protection from threats
Focus on identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features
Understand Azure cost management, SLAs, and service life cycles

Who this book is for

This Azure fundamentals book is both for those with technical backgrounds and non-technical backgrounds who want to learn and explore the field of cloud computing, especially with Azure. This book will also help anyone who wants to develop a good foundation for achieving advanced Azure certifications. There is no prerequisite for this book except a willingness to learn and explore cloud concepts and Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond
Foreword
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
    Who this book is for
    What this book covers
    To get the most out of this book
    Download the color images
    Conventions used
    Get in touch
    Share Your Thoughts
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
    Where has the cloud computing model evolved from?
        Evolution of cloud computing architectures 
    What is the Shared Responsibility model?
    What are the cloud computing delivery models?
        Comparing the cloud computing delivery models
    What are the cloud computing service models?
        A closer look at the cloud computing service models
        What is serverless computing?
        Comparing the cloud computing service models
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skills check 
Chapter 2: Benefits of Cloud Computing
    Why cloud computing?
    Cloud computing as a digital transformation enabler
        Digital transformation triggers
        Migration approach 
    Cloud computing's target audience
        Cloud computing mindset
        What is a traditional computing model mindset?
        What is a cloud computing mindset?
    Cloud computing hierarchy of needs
    Cloud computing operations model
        Operational benefits of cloud computing
    The economics of cloud computing
        Consumption-based model?
        Defining the expenditure models
        Applying cost expenditure models to cloud computing
    Thought exercise
        Migration assessment discovery output
        Migration solution proposal
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skills check 
Section 2: Core Azure Services
Chapter 3: Core Azure Architectural Components
    Azure global infrastructure
        Azure regions and geographies
        Availability components
    Azure resource management
        Azure management scopes
        Azure management groups
        Azure subscriptions
        Azure Resource Manager
    Hands-on exercises
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – Azure management groups
        Exercise 2 – Azure access assignment
        Exercise 3 – resource groups
        Exercise 4 – proximity placement groups
        Exercise 5 – availability sets
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skills check
Chapter 4: Core Azure Resources
    Technical requirements
    Azure resources
    Azure Marketplace
    Azure compute services
        Virtual machines
        Container services
        Azure Container Instances
        Azure Kubernetes Service
        Azure App Service
        The Azure Virtual Desktop service
    Azure network services
        Azure VNets
        Virtual network peering
        Virtual private network gateways
        ExpressRoute
    Azure storage services
        Storage accounts
        Storage tiers
        Storage replication
        Data stores
        Disk Storage
        File storage
        Container (Blob) storage
    Azure database services
        Azure SQL Managed Instance
        Azure SQL Database
        Azure Database for MySQL
        Azure Database for PostgreSQL
        Cosmos DB
    Hands-on exercises
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – creating a VNet
        Exercise 2 – creating a storage account
        Exercise 3 – creating a VM
        Exercise 4 – creating an Azure container instance
        Exercise 5 – creating an Azure web app
    Summary
    Additional information and study references
    Skill check
Section 3: Core Solutions and Management Tools
Chapter 5: Core Azure Solutions
    Technical requirements
    Serverless computing solutions
        Azure Functions
        Azure Logic Apps
    Artificial intelligence solutions
        Azure Machine Learning
        Azure Cognitive Services
        Azure Bot Service
    Internet of Things solutions
        Azure IoT solutions
    Big data and analytics solutions
        Azure Synapse Analytics
        Azure HDInsight
        Azure Databricks
    DevOps solutions
        The history of DevOps
        What is DevOps?
        Azure DevOps
        GitHub and GitHub Actions
        Azure DevTest Labs
    Thought exercise
    Hands-on exercises
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – Creating a serverless solution using an Azure Function
        Exercise 2 – Creating a serverless solution using an Azure Logic App
        Exercise 3 – Creating an IoT solution using an Azure IoT Hub
        Exercise 4 – Creating an AI solution using a Bot Service
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skills check
Chapter 6: Azure Management Tools
    Technical requirements
    Azure portal
    Azure PowerShell
    The Azure CLI
    Azure Cloud Shell
    Terraform on Azure
    Azure mobile app
    Azure Advisor
    Azure Monitor
    Azure Service Health
    Thought exercise
    Hands-on exercise
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – installing Azure PowerShell
        Exercise 2 – installing the Azure CLI
        Exercise 3 – creating resources using PowerShell from Cloud Shell
        Exercise 4 – creating resources using the Azure CLI from Cloud Shell
        Exercise 5 – exploring Azure Service Health
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skill check
Section 4: Security
Chapter 7: Azure Security
    Technical requirements
    Threat modeling
    Zero Trust
    Defense in depth
    Network and application protection
        NSGs
        Azure Firewall
        Azure DDoS protection
    Azure Key Vault
    Azure Dedicated Host
    Azure Sentinel
    Azure Security Center
    Other protection solutions
    Hands-on exercise
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – Create an Azure key vault
        Exercise 2 – Secure network access using an NSG
    Summary
    Additional information and study references
    Skills check
Section 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and Compliance
Chapter 8: Azure Identity Services
    Technical requirements
    Azure AD 
    Authentication and authorization 
    Single sign-on
    MFA and Conditional Access
    Hands-on exercises
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – creating a new tenant instance of Azure AD
        Exercise 2 – creating users and groups in Azure AD
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skills check
Chapter 9: Azure Governance
    Technical requirements
    Resource tags
    Resource locks
    Role-based access control
    Azure Policy
    Azure Blueprints
    The Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
    Hands-on exercises
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – assigning access with RBAC
        Exercise 2 – creating a custom RBAC role
        Exercise 3 – creating resource locks
        Exercise 4 – enabling resource tagging with Azure Policy
        Exercise 5 – limiting the resource creation location with Azure Policy
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skills check
Chapter 10: Azure Privacy and Compliance
    Technical requirements
    Core security, privacy, and compliance tenets
    Trust Center
    Microsoft Privacy Statement
    The Product Terms site
    Data Protection Addendum
    Azure compliance documentation
    Azure Sovereign Regions
    Thought exercise
    Hands-on exercise
        Getting started
        Exercise – exploring Microsoft Trust Center Portal
    Summary
    Additional information and study references
    Skills check
Section 6: Cost Management and Service-Level Agreements
Chapter 11: Azure Cost Planning and Management
    Technical requirements
    Factors that affect costs
    Reducing and controlling costs
    Azure Cost Management
    Azure Pricing calculator
    TCO calculator
    Hands-on exercises 
        Getting started 
        Exercise 1 – using the Azure Pricing calculator
        Exercise 2 – using the TCO calculator
    Summary
    Further reading
    Skills check
Chapter 12: Azure Service-Level Agreements
    Technical requirements
    Azure SLAs
    Azure service life cycle 
    Thought exercise
    Hands-on exercise
        Getting started
        Exercise 1 – exploring the SLA for a service
        Exercise 2 – exploring Azure Preview features
    Summary
    Additional information and study references
    Skills check
Chapter 13: Exam Preparation Practice Tests
    Test questions
        Practice test 1 – cloud concepts
        Practice test 2 – core Azure services
        Practice test 3 – core solutions and management tools
        Practice test 4 – security features
        Practice test 5 – identity, governance, privacy, compliance
        Practice test 6 – cost management, SLA, and service life cycle
    Test answers
        Practice test 1 – cloud concepts
        Practice test 2 – core Azure services
        Practice test 3 – core solutions and management tools
        Practice test 4 – security features
        Practice test 5 – identity, governance, privacy, compliance
        Practice test 6 – cost management, SLA, and service life cycle
    Summary
    Additional information and study references
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