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

Steve Miles

Jan. 2023 · Packt Publishing via PublishDrive · Vorgelesen von AI-Narated

Über dieses Hörbuch

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.

Autoren-Profil

Steve Miles, aka SMiles or Mr. Analogy, is a Microsoft Azure Hybrid MVP, MCT, and multi-cloud and hybrid technologies author and technical reviewer with over 20 years of experience in networking, data center infrastructure, managed hosting, and cloud solutions. His experience comes from working with end users and reseller channels and in vendor spaces and roles with a global network and app security vendor, with global telco hosters, in managed hosting, with colocation and data center service providers, and in hardware distribution. Currently, he is working for a multi-Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) distributor based in the UK and Dublin in a cloud and hybrid technology leadership role.His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows Server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments.Most happy in front of a whiteboard, he prefers to communicate using illustrations. He is renowned for breaking down complex technologies with analogies and concepts into everyday, real-world scenarios.His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows Server and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure Security, Identity, Network, and M365. He also holds multiple security and networking vendor certifications.Finally, as part of the multi-cloud domain, he has experience with GCP, AWS, an Alibaba Cloud MVP, and is Alibaba Cloud-certified.