Azure and Cloud Fundamentals

With the prevalence of cloud technologies and DevOps ways of working, the IT industry demands developers who can develop and deploy cloud solutions and monitor them throughout the application life cycle. Becoming a Microsoft-certified Azure developer can differentiate developers from the competition, but with such a plethora of information out there, it can be difficult to structure learning in an effective way to obtain the relevant certification. This book aims to make the process of preparing for the AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure exam less of a challenge.

Unfortunately, there is no mystical cloud floating around providing IT resources to organizations, but there are some incredibly powerful machines in your cloud provider’s data centers with which you can use and configure resources.

With cloud computing, you can quickly create servers, web applications, storage, and virtual machines (to name just a few) within seconds...