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Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond
Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond

Exam Ref AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certification and Beyond: Design secure and reliable solutions for the real world in Microsoft Azure

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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.

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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.

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  • Understand the role of architecture in the cloud
  • Ensure security through identity, authorization, and governance
  • Find out how to use infrastructure components such as compute, containerization, networking, and storage accounts
  • Design scalable applications and databases using web apps, functions, messaging, SQL, and Cosmos DB
  • Maintain operational health through monitoring, alerting, and backups
  • Discover how to create repeatable and reliable automated deployments
  • Understand customer requirements and respond to their changing needs

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Stephen Richardson Aug 16, 2021
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An excellent book which will allow you to prepare successfully for the AZ-304 exam. It goes into sufficient detail on the core syllabus and helped clarify a number of technical components in Azure and its underlying products and services.
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James Sep 27, 2021
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My job is currently changing, and Azure is coming more and more into focus. As an architect, I understand that it's vitally important that I understand the design patterns and best practises involved in Azure implementations, and this book gives me the confidence to approach this head on, and further to work towards the AZ-304 exam in order to establish my credibility.
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win Aug 25, 2021
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This book is really good and helpful a person who is preparing for Microsoft azure architect exam.I think, this single book is enough for this exam and Author is also amazing person who explain each and every topic is good/deep way.
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Tacitus Aug 23, 2021
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Short Version: I can recommend this book for the Azure Architecture exams, even as Microsoft adjusts the content ever so often, as it does a great job covering the essential material and concepts.Long Version: I’ve been taking Microsoft Exams for just shy of 20 years now, and have successfully passed dozens of them (including this one!) outside of other industry exams. My “Gold Standard” for exam prep books are still the Microsoft Press “Blue Books” of 20 years ago, which were written in a very dense, dry, explicit fashion that didn’t necessarily give you a crib sheet for the exam (there was a handy CD-ROM included for that!), but rather taught you all of the elements that you would need to know to master the subject at hand and do the work in your daily job.Times have changed – for one, the exam itself is now cramming in a breadth of materials that would formally have been half a dozen individual exams. Partly that’s to reflect the breadth of knowledge an architect would need to have these days, and partly because the technology has advanced to such a degree in the Cloud that a lot of the minutiae of service setup and drive partition alignment is no longer necessary. For another, MS Press is no longer cranking out those detailed books, and so we’re left searching for alternatives.This book captures the essence of what I liked about the Microsoft Blue Books of yore – that it’s teaching you the elements you would need to know to actually do this work in the field rather than being a simple exam crib sheet. It is written in a more colloquial, easy to read format, and breaks up the material into chapters roughly how Microsoft breaks up the exam “skills covered.”Inside the book is a good mix of conceptual approaches, diagrams, step-by-step instructions, and screen shots of the Azure Portal that’s large enough to see what’s going on. Helpful links, like the ever-changing list of Azure IP’s by service, are included, and concepts such as FIPS 140-2 are given a nod. There’s a section that provides something of a history of infrastructure architecture, and what its implications are for the current mode of ci/cd and infrastructure-as-code JSON templates. Code, where provided, is broken out into easy to read examples that again provide the best of the approach to learning this type of material – do it yourself to practice. There are some good Q&A study prep questions, but nothing to the extent of like an online practice exam or similar.I don’t have much to criticize about this book that doesn’t stem from the Microsoft exam itself – that the exam is covering a wide swath of material that would be better served as a few exams that go more in-depth into the topics themselves. For example - databases, both SQL and NoSQL, are covered in the book to the extent that they’re covered in the exam – but each of those topics are probably worthy of their own exam (the DP-300 arguably covers the former), and even within the broad topic of NoSQL there’s a number of high-level flavors – DocumentDB, Key-Value, Graph, and so on – that don’t get treatment in the exam, and therefore don’t get full treatment in the book. Again, no fault of the book, but of the exam.In sum, if I were an IT Admin looking to move up to a more architect role, or just looking to be familiar with the latest Cloud technologies, I would recommend this book to help you get there, and by extension to pass the exam.
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Umesh Pandit Aug 18, 2021
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Finally, I found a book Exam AZ-304 by Brett HargreavesReally It has Design and its real-world examples! I liked the five pillars which talk about costs, operations, performance, reliability, and security.The book also has examples of questions. #security #Az304 #azure #devops #cloudsecurity #cloud #microsoft #msftadvocate #design #kubernetes
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