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You're reading from Microsoft Azure Administrator ??? Exam Guide AZ-103 Your in-depth certification guide in becoming Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838829025

Length 452 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Sjoukje Zaal

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resource Groups

3. Analyzing Resource Utilization and Consumption

4. Managing Role-Based Access Control

5. Section 2: Implementing and Managing Storage

6. Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts

7. Importing and Exporting Data to Azure

8. Configuring Azure Files and Implementing Azure Backup

9. Section 3: Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines

10. Creating and Configuring VMs for Windows and Linux

11. Managing Azure VMs and VM Backups

12. Section 4: Deploying and Managing Virtual Networks

13. Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking

14. Integrating On-Premise Networks with Azure Virtual Networks

15. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking

16. Azure Security Groups and Azure DNS

17. Implementing Azure Load Balancer

18. Section 5: Managing Identities

19. Managing Azure Active Directory

20. Implementing and Managing Hybrid Identities

21. Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication

22. Mockup Test Questions

23. Mockup Test Answers

24. Assessments

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Automating configuration management

There are various ways in Azure to automate the creation and the configuration of your infrastructure. You can use ARM templates to deploy your infrastructure as a code, or use Azure Automation, PowerShell scripts and more.

When the different Azure resources are deployed, there are some tools that you can use to manage the configuration of the resources. For example, when you want to automate the configuration of your VMs, Azure provides the following tools:

Chef: Chef is a third-party solution that offers a DevOps automation platform for Linux, Windows, and macOS devices. It can be used for virtual and physical server configurations. It requires an agent to be installed on the virtual machines or servers, which connects to the Chef server to check whether there are available updates and other configurations for the machines. You can use the...

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Authors (1)

Sjoukje Zaal

Sjoukje Zaal is head of the Microsoft Cloud Center of Excellence, Microsoft Regional Director, and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years' experience in architecture, development, consultancy, and design-related roles. She currently works at Capgemini, a global leader in consultancy, technology services, and digital transformation. She loves to share her knowledge and is active in the Microsoft community as a co-founder of the user groups Tech Daily Chronicle, Global XR Community, and the Mixed Reality User Group. She is also a board member of Azure Thursdays and Global Azure. Sjoukje is an international speaker and is involved in organizing many events. She has written several books and writes blogs.

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