Brett Hargreaves and Sjoukje Zaal - Implementing Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: AZ-303 Exam Prep and Beyond: A guide to preparing for the AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam

A guide to preparing for the AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam

Brett Hargreaves

Sjoukje Zaal

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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Based in the UK, Brett Hargreaves is a lead Azure consultant who has worked for some of the world's biggest companies for over 25 years, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he has been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack, including hardware, virtualization, databases, storage, software development, and the cloud. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses, which have over 20,000 students (and counting!).

Sjoukje Zaal is a CTO, 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.

Ricardo Cabral is a licensed computer engineer with several Microsoft certifications, and is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Having worked in both administration and development roles, with several years' experience in IT management, development, and projects, he now works as an IT consultant and trainer. In his spare time, he actively participates in, and volunteers and/or speaks at, technical community meetings.

I would like to thank all my friends and a special individual (you know who you are) who helped guide me in my decisions. I would also like to thank Packt Publishing for the opportunity to review this wonderful book.

Aprizon has been working with Microsoft Infrastructure technologies for more than 20 years, starting with Windows Server through to the cloud platform, including Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Security, and is passionate about business process transformation. He has worked in an IT consulting company as an expert by leveraging Office 365, enterprise mobility security, and Microsoft Azure to increase efficiency and implement changes from the ground up. He has also worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and delivers Microsoft Official Curriculum training.

Above all else, he is a father, husband, son, brother, and friend.

Derek Campbell works as a senior solution architect in the advisory team at Octopus Deploy. He has worked all over the globe, including in London, Melbourne, and Singapore, and now from his home in Glasgow, Scotland.

Derek originally started in operations 15 years ago, becoming a system architect. Over time, he moved into DevOps. He has been automating infrastructure configuration, working with Azure and CI/CD pipelines, for about 8 years and has helped lead and implement CI/CD across multiple companies during his time in DevOps and automation consultancy.

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