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Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide

You're reading from   Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide Ace the DP-203 exam with advanced data engineering skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805124689
Length 548 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Azure Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Azure Basics 3. Part 2: Data Storage
4. Chapter 2: Implementing a Partition Strategy 5. Chapter 3: Designing and Implementing the Data Exploration Layer 6. Part 3:Data Processing
7. Chapter 4: Ingesting and Transforming Data 8. Chapter 5: Developing a Batch Processing Solution 9. Chapter 6: Developing a Stream Processing Solution 10. Chapter 7: Managing Batches and Pipelines 11. Part 4:Secure, Monitor, and Optimize Data Storage and Processing
12. Chapter 8: Implementing Data Security 13. Chapter 9: Monitoring Data Storage and Data Processing 14. Chapter 10: Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing 15. Chapter 11: Accessing the Online Practice Resources 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing Azure Basics

This chapter introduces you to the basics of Azure and explains its general capabilities. It covers several core Azure concepts, including Virtual Machines (VMs), data storage, compute options, the Azure portal, accounts, and subscriptions, which future chapters will build upon.

Azure is one of the major hyperscalers in the industry, offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Software as a Service (SaaS). It provides several cloud, hybrid, and on-premises services, such as VMs, networks, compute, databases, messaging, and Machine Learning (ML), while focusing on security and compliance. You could use these services to build anything from web pages to mobile apps, and from data analytics solutions to IoT solutions.

In Azure, users have the flexibility to choose from completely hosted no-code solutions to completely build-your-own solutions. The latter of these...

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