Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond-second edition

A complete AZ-900 exam guide with online mock exams, flashcards, and hands-on activities

Steve Miles 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2024년 01월 25일 출간

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Advance your career by learning how to apply Azure Fundamentals effectively with this comprehensive guide, accompanied by web-based tools such as mock exams, flashcards, and hands-on activities

▶Book Description
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond, Second Edition, combines the comprehensive cloud fundamentals book with Packt’s powerful exam training platform, offering a holistic learning experience designed to help you not just ace the AZ-900 exam but also apply that knowledge to excel in your career.
Guiding you in building robust foundational knowledge of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, this book helps you prepare for the AZ-900 exam confidently. The online content, included with every purchase, will help you memorize key concepts and assess your exam readiness.
Starting with an introduction to cloud computing and its advantages, the book systematically guides you through Azure architecture and services before progressing to management and governance within Azure. The online platform unlocks unlimited access to mock exams with exam-like timers, detailed solutions for each question, interactive flashcards, exam tips, and interactive activities—all accessible from your computer, tablet, and smartphone.
By the end of this book, you’ll be well prepared to pass the AZ-900 exam and have the foundational knowledge to delve into advanced cloud concepts.

▶ What You Will Learn
⦁ Become proficient in foundational cloud concepts
⦁ Develop a solid understanding of core components of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform
⦁ Get to grips with Azure’s core services, deployment, and management tools
⦁ Implement security concepts, operations, and posture management
⦁ Explore identity, governance, and compliance features
⦁ Gain insights into resource deployment, management, and monitoring

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▶ TABLE of CONTENTS
1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
2. Benefits of Using Cloud Services
3. Azure Core Architectural Components
4. Azure Core Resources
5. Azure Identity and Access
6. Azure Security
7. Azure Cost Management
8. Azure Governance and Compliance
9. Azure Resource Deployment and Management
10. Azure Monitoring Tools

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▶ What this book covers
This book is aligned with the revised syllabus of Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals and comprises the following chapters.
⦁ Chapter 1, Introduction to Cloud Computing, introduces cloud computing, where it has evolved from, why cloud computing is used, and the target audience. It also takes a look at the delivery and service models of cloud computing, how they compare, and the shared responsibility model.
⦁ Chapter 2, Benefits of Using Cloud Services, discusses cloud computing as a digital transformation enabler and the cloud computing mindset, as well as the cloud computing operations model and the economics of cloud computing.
⦁ Chapter 3, Azure Core Architectural Components, outlines the Azure global infrastructure that comprises the Azure regions, geographies, and availability components. In addition, this chapter explores Azure resource management topics.
⦁ Chapter 4, Azure Core Resources, focuses on the Azure platform’s core building block resources of compute, network, and storage.
⦁ Chapter 5, Azure Identity and Access, explains the concepts of authentication and authorization and Identity and Access Management (IAM) and explores Microsoft Entra ID.
⦁ Chapter 6, Azure Security, discusses the threat landscape and explains the principles of security posture, zero trust, and Defense-in-Depth (DiD). In addition, the chapter explores cloud posture management and workload protection with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel security tooling.
⦁ Chapter 7, Azure Cost Management, explores cost management and the factors that influence costs, and it also explains the Azure pricing calculator and the Azure TCO calculator.
⦁ Chapter 8, Azure Governance and Compliance, explores Microsoft’s Purview in Azure, Azure Policy, resources locks, and tags, as well as the Azure service lifecycle, core security, privacy and security tenets, and the Microsoft Trust Center.
⦁ Chapter 9, Azure Resource Deployment and Management, introduces the Azure portal, as well as Azure PowerShell, the Azure CLI, and Azure Cloud Shell. The chapter also explains Azure Resource Manager templates and Azure Arc.
⦁ Chapter 10, Azure Monitoring and Tools, explores actionable insights into Azure environments, using tooling such as Azure Advisor, Azure Monitor, and Azure Service Health.
⦁ Appendix, Assessing AZ-900 Exam Skills, focuses on the skills measured by the certification and the potential topics the exam may cover. As you become competent in each skill area, this can help in tracking progress.

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▶ Preface
The biggest change to the technology landscape in recent times has been triggered by the COVID-19 global pandemic; it has changed so much of what you do and how you do it forever. This has led to redefining the attitudes and approaches to hybrid working and the technology systems you use to adopt and embrace it. Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and provides organizations with on-demand access to computing, storage, networking, and many other resources to meet their needs.The content of this book, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond, Second Edition, is intended to provide complete coverage of the skills measured in the exam to prepare you for the Microsoft certification Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals.
This book will focus on the following key areas for the exam:
• Describing cloud concepts
• Describing Azure architecture and services
• Describing Azure management and governance
This book also aims to go beyond exam objectives. By the end of the book, you will have gained an extra depth of knowledge that will be of value in a day-to-day Azure-focused role.
Second Edition
More than two years have passed since the first edition of this book. There have been a lot of changes to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and the Microsoft cloud ecosystem in that time. The second edition offers updated exam “skills measured” materials to you and provides additional notes, hints, tips, and tricks to help you navigate the exam and certification process, as well as the ever-evolving world of cloud computing. The new edition now gives you unlimited access to our online practice resources platform, letting you practice what you learned in the book from any device. There, you can get access to flashcards and exam tips specially designed to help you memorize key topics and be fully prepared to ace the exam. Furthermore, in the new edition, information is organized in a way that makes it easier to test your knowledge. Some topics have also been updated to align with the revised “skills measured” for the exam and incorporate the latest innovations and advancements in the Microsoft cloud ecosystem.

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저자(글) Steve Miles

Steve Miles, aka smiles or Mr. Analogy, is a Microsoft Azure MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), multi-cloud, and hybrid technologies author, and technical reviewer with over 25 years of experience in data center infrastructure, managed hosting, and cloud solutions. His experience comes from working in end user, reseller channel, and vendor spaces, with global networks, data and app security vendors, global telco hosters, and colocation and data center services providers, as well as in managed hosting and hardware, software, and services distribution. His roles have been varied and have included many engineering and architecture roles, as well as technical project management and most recently as Azure practice technical lead and senior technology leadership function for a multi-billion cloud distributor based in the UK and Dublin.
Most happy in front of a whiteboard, he prefers to speak using illustrations. He is renowned for his analogies for breaking down complex technologies and concepts into everyday, real-world scenarios.
His first Microsoft certifications were MCSE on Windows NT and CCNA. He has over 20 Microsoft certifications—14 of those being Azure, including Microsoft Certified Azure Expert—in addition to many other vendor certifications. He also holds PRINCE2 and ITIL. Finally, as part of the multi-cloud aspect, he has experience with GCP and AWS, is Alibaba-Cloud-certified, and is an Alibaba Cloud MVP.