Summary
With that, you have completed the first chapter. For those with some experience of Azure, this overview has hopefully offered a useful recap. For those of you who are completely new to Azure, it might have felt a bit overwhelming. Don’t worry; as you complete the next few chapters, your confidence will grow.
In this chapter, you learned how to navigate the Azure portal and observed the relationship between Azure accounts, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources. You also learned how to create new VMs, storage instances, VNets, and so on using both the Azure portal and the CLI. You are also aware of the major compute services that are available in Azure. With this foundational knowledge in place, you can move on to more interesting and certification-oriented topics.
In the next chapter, you will explore the concept of a partition strategy and how to implement it.