Implementing Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ-303 Exam Prep and Beyond: A guide to preparing for the AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam

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Preface
Section 1: Implement and Monitor Azure Infrastructure
Chapter 1: Implementing Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Azure Monitor
	Creating and analyzing metrics and alerts
		Metrics
		Multi-dimensional metrics
	Creating a baseline for resources
	Configuring diagnostic settings on resources
		Enabling diagnostic settings
	Viewing alerts in Log Analytics
	Utilizing log search query functions
		Querying logs in Azure Monitor
	Using Network Watcher
		Connection Monitor
		Diagnostics
	Monitoring security
		Activity log
	Managing costs
		Cost Analysis
		Budgets
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 2: Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Azure Storage accounts
		Storage account types
		Storage replication types
		Azure Blob storage
		Azure file storage
		Azure disk storage
	Creating and configuring a storage account
	Installing and using Azure Storage Explorer
	Configuring network access to the storage account
	SAS tokens and access keys
		Managing access keys
		Generating an SAS
	Implementing Azure Storage replication and failover
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 3: Implementing and Managing Virtual Machines
	Technical requirements
	Understanding VMs
		VM series and sizes
		Managed disks
	Understanding Availability Sets
		Fault domains and update domains
	Understanding how to provision VMs
		Deploying a Windows VM from the Azure portal
		Deploying a Windows VM from PowerShell
	Understanding VM scale sets
		Deploying and configuring scale sets
	Modifying and deploying ARM templates
		Modifying an ARM template
		Saving a deployment as an ARM template
	Deploying resources with Azure DevOps
		Setting up your first DevOps project
		Creating a service connection
		Creating the pipeline
	Configuring Azure Disk Encryption for VMs
		Creating an Azure Key Vault
		Encrypting the disk
	Azure Dedicated Host
		Implementing a dedicated host
		Creating VMs on a dedicated host
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 4: Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Azure VNets
	Understanding IP addresses
		Public IP addresses
		Private IP addresses
	Configuring VNets and subnets
	Configuring private and public IP addresses
	User-defined routes
		Creating UDRs
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Creating Connectivity between Virtual Networks
	Technical requirements
	Understanding VNet peering
	Creating and configuring VNet peering
	Understanding VNet-to-VNet
		Creating and configuring VNet-to-VNet
	Verifying your virtual network's connectivity
	VNet peering versus VNet-to-VNet connections
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Managing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
	Understanding Azure AD
	Creating and managing users and groups
		Creating users in Azure AD
		Creating groups in Azure AD
		Adding and managing guest accounts
		Performing bulk user updates
	Configuring a self-service password reset
	Understanding Conditional Access policies and security defaults
		Security defaults
		Using Conditional Access policies
	Working with Azure AD join
		Managing device settings
	Adding custom domains
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 7: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
	Understanding Azure MFA
		Enabling MFA for an Azure AD tenant
	Configuring user accounts for MFA
	Configuring verification methods
	Configuring trusted IPs
	Configuring fraud alerts
	Configuring bypass options
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Implementing and Managing Hybrid Identities
	Understanding Azure AD Connect
		Azure AD password hash synchronization
		Azure AD pass-through authentication
	Installing Azure AD Connect
	Managing Azure AD Connect
	Managing password synchronization and password writeback
		Managing password writeback
		Enabling password writeback in Azure AD Connect
		Enabling password writeback in the Azure portal
		Password synchronization
	Using Azure AD Connect Health
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 2: Implement Management and Security Solutions
Chapter 9: Managing Workloads in Azure
	Understanding Azure Migrate
	Selecting Azure Migrate tools
		Azure Migrate Server Assessment tool
		Azure Migrate Server Migration tool
		Database Migration Assistant
		Database Migration Service
		Web App Migration Assistant
		Offline data migration
	Migrating on-premises servers to Azure
		Creating an Azure Migrate project
		Downloading and installing the appliance
		Configuring the appliance and starting continuous discovery
		Creating and viewing an assessment
		Preparing the Hyper-V host
		Replicating the Hyper-V VMs
		Migrating Hyper-V VMs to Azure
	Using Azure Update Management
	Protecting VMs with Azure Backup
	Implementing disaster recovery
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Implementing Load Balancing and Networking Security
	Technical requirements
	Understanding load balancing options
	Implementing Azure Load Balancer
	Implementing Azure Traffic Manager
	Understanding Azure Application Gateway
		Implementing the gateway
		Health probes
		Monitoring
		Turning on the web application firewall
	Understanding Azure Front Door
	Choosing the right options
	Implementing network security and application security groups
	Understanding Azure Firewall
	Using Azure Bastion
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Implementing Azure Governance Solutions
	Technical requirements
	Understanding governance and compliance
	Understanding RBAC
		Built-in roles
		Custom roles
	Configuring access to Azure resources by assigning roles
	Configuring management access to Azure
	Creating a custom role
	Azure Policy
		Implementing and assigning Azure policies
	Implementing and configuring Azure Blueprints
		Creating a blueprint definition
		Publishing and assigning a blueprint
	Using hierarchical management
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 3: Implement Solutions for Apps
Chapter 12: Creating Web Apps Using PaaS and Serverless
	Technical requirements
	Understanding App Service
	Understanding App Service plans
		Creating an Azure App Service Web App
		Creating documentation for the API
	Using deployment slots
	Setting up automatic scaling
	Understanding WebJobs
		Creating an App Service background task using WebJobs
		Deploying the WebJob to Azure App Service
	Understanding diagnostic logging
		Web server diagnostics
		Application diagnostics
		Enabling diagnostic logging
	Using Azure Functions
		Creating an Azure Function
	Building Azure Logic Apps
		Deploying the Logic App ARM template
		Managing a Logic Apps resource
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Designing and Developing Apps for Containers
	Technical requirements
	Understanding ACI
		Implementing an application that runs on ACI
	Understanding Web App for Containers
	Understanding AKS
		Creating an AKS cluster
		Connecting to the cluster
		Deploying the application
		Testing the application
		Monitoring the health and logs of the application
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 14: Implementing Authentication
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Azure App Service authentication
	Implementing Active Directory authentication
		Deploying the Web App
		Enabling authentication and authorization
	Implementing authentication using certificates
	Understanding and implementing OAuth2 authentication in Azure AD
		Implementing OAuth2 authentication
	Understanding and implementing managed identities
		Implementing managed identities for Azure resources service principal authentication
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 4: Implement and Manage Data Platforms
Chapter 15: Developing Solutions that Use Cosmos DB Storage
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the differences between NoSQL and SQL
	Understanding Cosmos DB
	Creating, reading, updating, and deleting data using the appropriate APIs
		Creating a Cosmos DB
		Creating the sample application
	Understanding partitioning schemes
	Setting the appropriate consistency level for operations
	Creating replicas
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 16: Developing Solutions that Use a Relational Database
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Azure SQL Database
		SQL Server Stretch Database
	Provisioning and configuring an Azure SQL database
		Creating a server-level firewall rule
		Creating a table in the database
	Creating, reading, updating, and deleting data tables using code
		Connecting to the Azure SQL database
		Adding items to the database
		Querying Azure SQL Database items
		Updating an Azure SQL Database row
		Deleting an item
	Configuring elastic pools for Azure SQL Database
	Configuring high availability
		Creating a SQL replica
		Creating a SQL database failover
	Implementing Azure SQL Database managed instances
	Publishing a SQL database
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Mock Exam Questions
Mock Exam Answers
Assessments
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
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