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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

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568570

Pages 548 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Brett Hargreaves

Sjoukje Zaal

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

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

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Understanding Availability Sets

To create a reliable infrastructure, adding your VMs to an Availability Set is key. Several scenarios can have an impact on the availability of your Azure VMs. These are as follows:

Unplanned hardware maintenance events: When hardware is about to fail, Azure fires an unplanned hardware maintenance event. Live migration technology is used, which predicts the failure and then moves the VM, the network connections, memory, and storage to different physical machines, without disconnecting the client. When your VM is moved, the performance is reduced for a short time because the VM is paused for 30 seconds. Network connections, memory, and open files are still preserved.
Unexpected downtime: The VM is down when this event occurs because Azure needs to heal your VM. A hardware or physical infrastructure failure often causes this event to happen.
Planned hardware maintenance events: This type of event is a periodic update from Microsoft in Azure...

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Authors (2)

Brett Hargreaves

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

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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