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Exam Ref AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Jim Cheshire
Exam Ref AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
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I dedicate this book to my wife, Becky, my daughter, Hope, and my son, James.
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Acknowledgments
Id like to express my deep gratitude to the following people, without whom this book would not have been possible.
Thank you to Loretta for bringing me into this project. After two decades of working together on numerous projects, you still seem to find a way to bring freshness and excitement to each one. To Troy for your always-present ear when I needed to bounce an idea off someone, and for your experienced counsel during the editing process. Thank you to Liv for your unwavering work during copy editing and helping to tighten things up. Thanks to Tim for all the times you made me take a second look at my approach, and for adding real value with your ideas. Finally, thank you to all the people at Microsoft Press who worked so hard to create this book from the digital manuscript.
About the Author
JIM CHESHIRE is a technology enthusiast with over 25 years of experience in various roles within IT. Jim has authored more than 15 books on technology, and hes held numerous training sessions on Microsoft Azure, both in private enterprises and through Safaris Live Training program. Jim is heavily involved in Azure and is in his 21st year at Microsoft. Hes currently working as an engineer in Azure App Service.
Introduction
Both businesses and individuals are adopting cloud technologies at a breakneck pace, and Microsoft Azure is often the choice for cloud-based applications and services. The purpose of the AZ-900 exam is to test your understanding of the fundamentals of Azure. The exam includes high-level concepts that apply across all of Azure to important concepts that are specific to a particular Azure service. Like the exam, this book is geared towards giving you a broad understanding of Azure itself and of many of the common services and components in Azure.
While weve made every effort possible to make the information in this book accurate, Azure is rapidly evolving, and theres a chance that some of the screens in the Azure portal are slightly different now than they were when this book was written. Its also possible that other minor changes have taken place such as minor name changes in features and so on.
This book covers every major topic area found on the exam, but it does not cover every exam question. Only the Microsoft exam team has access to the exam questions, and Microsoft regularly adds new questions to the exam, making it impossible to cover specific questions. You should consider this book a supplement to your relevant real-world experience and other study materials. If you encounter a topic in this book that you do not feel completely comfortable with, use the Need more review? links youll find in the text to find more information and take the time to research and study the topic. Great information is available on MSDN, TechNet, and in blogs and forums.
Organization of this book
This book is organized by the Skills measured list published for the exam. The Skills measured list is available for each exam on the Microsoft Learning website: http://aka.ms/examlist. Each chapter in this book corresponds to a major topic area in the list, and the technical tasks in each topic area determine a chapters organization. If an exam covers six major topic areas, for example, the book will contain six chapters.
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