Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Study Guide
Exam AZ-900
James Boyce
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Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals Study Guide
Exam AZ-900
James Boyce
About This Book
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.
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Chapter 1
Cloud Concepts
- Identify the benefits and considerations of using cloud services
- Identify the benefits of cloud computing, such as High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity, Agility, and Disaster Recovery
- Identify the differences between Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
- Describe the consumption‐based model
- Describe the differences between categories of cloud services
- Describe the shared responsibility model
- Describe Infrastructure‐as‐a‐Service (IaaS)
- Describe Platform‐as‐a‐Service (PaaS)
- Describe Software‐as‐a‐Service (SaaS)
- Identify a service type based on a use case
- Describe the differences between types of cloud computing
- Describe cloud computing
- Describe Public cloud
- Describe Private cloud
- Describe Hybrid cloud
- Compare and contrast the three types of cloud computing
Understanding Cloud Computing
The second Microsoft cloud offering, Microsoft 365, is geared primarily toward providing end‐user SaaS solutions like Windows, Office, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Microsoft Dynamics 365 encompasses enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications. Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are not covered on the AZ‐900 exam.