Summary

This chapter provided complete coverage of the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam skills area called Describe Core Azure Solutions.

In this chapter, you learned about various skills that will provide you with the confidence to explain and discuss the following aspects with a business or technical audience: serverless computing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data and analytics, and DevOps.

Every organization should be evaluating the solutions referenced in this chapter; this is more important than ever for organizations of any size. There is a need to accelerate innovation, work smarter and not harder, and find ways to reduce costs from shrinking budgets. An organization needs to respond quickly to gain a competitive advantage or get software and systems into the market; release and update cycles of years, months, and weeks are no longer tenable.

For each of the technology areas we have covered in this chapter, the question should no longer be Why would...