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Implementing Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ-303 Exam Prep and Beyond - Second Edition

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Published in Dec 2020
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ISBN-13 9781800568570
Pages 548 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Brett Hargreaves Brett Hargreaves
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Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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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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Preface 1. Section 1: Implement and Monitor Azure Infrastructure
2. Chapter 1: Implementing Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring 3. Chapter 2: Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts 4. Chapter 3: Implementing and Managing Virtual Machines 5. Chapter 4: Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking 6. Chapter 5: Creating Connectivity between Virtual Networks 7. Chapter 6: Managing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) 8. Chapter 7: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) 9. Chapter 8: Implementing and Managing Hybrid Identities 10. Section 2: Implement Management and Security Solutions
11. Chapter 9: Managing Workloads in Azure 12. Chapter 10: Implementing Load Balancing and Networking Security 13. Chapter 11: Implementing Azure Governance Solutions 14. Section 3: Implement Solutions for Apps
15. Chapter 12: Creating Web Apps Using PaaS and Serverless 16. Chapter 13: Designing and Developing Apps for Containers 17. Chapter 14: Implementing Authentication 18. Section 4: Implement and Manage Data Platforms
19. Chapter 15: Developing Solutions that Use Cosmos DB Storage 20. Chapter 16: Developing Solutions that Use a Relational Database 21. Chapter 17: Mock Exam Questions
22. Chapter 18: Mock Exam Answers
23. Assessments 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database offers a relational database in the cloud. It uses the last stable SQL Server on-premises database engine. Azure SQL Database can be used for a variety of applications, because it enables you to process both relational data and non-relational structures, such as graphs, JSON, spatial, and XML.

Azure SQL Database offers scalability without causing any downtime for your databases. It offers column-based indexes, which make your queries perform much more quickly.

There is built-in monitoring for your databases and built-in intelligence for increasing the performance of your database automatically, and it provides high availability by providing automatic backups and point-in-time restores. You can also use active geo-replication for global applications.

Azure SQL Database offers the following options for your databases:

  • Elastic database pool: Elastic pools are a feature that helps in managing and scaling databases that...
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