Sjoukje Zaal - Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Exam Guide AZ-300: A guide to preparing for the AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam

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Sjoukje Zaal is a management consultant, Microsoft cloud architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 15 years' experience of providing architecture, development, consultancy, and design expertise. She works at Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, technology services, and digital transformation.

She loves to share her knowledge and is active in the Microsoft community as a co-founder of the Dutch user groups SP&C NL, MixUG, and the Global Mixed Reality Bootcamp. She is also a board member of the Global Azure Bootcamp and Azure Thursdays. She is a public speaker and is involved in organizing events. She has written several books, writes blogs, and is active in the Microsoft Tech Community. She is also part of the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board.

Sander Rossel is a Microsoft-certified professional developer and author with experience and expertise in .NET and .NET Core, Azure, Azure DevOps, SQL Server, JavaScript, and other technologies. With his company, JUUN Software, he builds cloud-native applications and brings companies to the cloud. You can always reach Sander Rossel on LinkedIn (/in/sanderrossel/).

Stephane Eyskens is a cloud and cloud-native architect and digital transformation activist. He is a blogger, author, and speaker, and has a particular interest in hybrid architectures, modern authentication, and security in general, as well as artificial intelligence.

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This book is the successor of Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Exam Guide 70-535, the book that I wrote only 2 years ago. I've noticed while writing this book that not only have most Azure resources got more functionalities, many more features have also been added to the Azure platform. This indicates how fast Azure is changing and how extremely difficult it is for professionals to keep up to date with this ever-evolving platform.

This book will prepare you for the AZ-300 exam, which is the most practical exam of the Azure Architect Expert series. By reading it, you will get updated with all those new functionalities, features, and resources. This book will cover all the exam objectives, giving you a complete overview of the objectives that are covered in the exam.

This book will start with deploying and configuring an infrastructure in Azure. You will learn how to analyze resource utilization and consumption. You will learn about storage accounts, Azure Virtual Networks, and Azure Active Directory (AD). Next, you will learn about implementing workloads and security in Azure, and how to create and deploy apps. Then, the focus in this book will switch to implementing authentication and securing data, and finally, how to develop for the cloud and for Azure storage.

Each chapter concludes with a Further reading section, which is a very important part of the book, because it will give you extra and sometimes crucial information for passing the AZ-300 exam. As the questions of the exam will change slightly over time and this book will eventually become outdated, the Further reading sections will be the place that provides access to all the updates.

This book targets Azure solution architects who advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. They should have advanced experience and knowledge of various aspects of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance. This role requires managing how decisions in each area affect an overall solution.