Sjoukje Zaal - Microsoft Azure Administrator – Exam Guide AZ-103: Your in-Depth Certification Guide in Becoming Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate

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Sjoukje Zaal is a Microsoft Principal Architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 15 years' experience providing architecture, development, consultancy, and design expertise. She works at Ordina, a system integrator based in the Netherlands.

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 and MixUG. She is also a board member of Azure Thursdays. Sjoukje is a public speaker and is involved in organizing events. She has written several books, writes blogs and is active on the Microsoft Tech Community. Sjoukje is also part of the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board.

Sander Rossel is a Microsoft-certified professional developer with experience and expertise in .NET and .NET Core (C#, ASP.NET, and Entity Framework), SQL Server, Azure, Azure DevOps, JavaScript, and other technologies. He has an interest in various technologies including, but not limited to, cloud computing, NoSQL, continuous integration/continuous deployment, functional programming, and software quality in general. In his spare time, he writes articles for MSDN, CodeProject, and his own blog, as well as books about object-oriented programming, databases, and Azure.

Steef-Jan Wiggers is all in on cloud technology. He works as an Azure technology consultant in the Netherlands and has over 20 years' experience in a wide variety of scenarios, including custom .NET solution development, overseeing complex enterprise integrations, mentoring, and consulting. He loves challenges in the Microsoft arena, building his approach to tackling them on his domain knowledge in the utilities, insurance, healthcare, agriculture, (local) government, bio-sciences, retail, travel, and logistics sectors. Furthermore, he is an InfoQ editor for cloud and a global public speaker, and also is very active in the community as a blogger. For these efforts, Microsoft has recognized him a Microsoft MVP for the past nine years. He can be found on Twitter as @steefjan.

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Azure is an ever-evolving platform. It offers an environment on the cutting edge of technology that suits many different industry requirements. New capabilities and features are coming out fast, which makes it difficult to stay up to date. This book will give you a complete overview of all the current features and capabilities that Azure has to offer from an administrative perspective, and is a complete guide to preparing for the AZ-103 exam.

This book will cover all the exam objectives. It will start with how to manage Azure subscriptions and resources , where you will learn how to manage Azure subscriptions and resource groups, analyze resource utilization and consumption, and manage role-based access control (RBAC). In the second part, you will learn how to implement and manage storage by creating and configuring storage accounts, how to import and export data to Azure, and how to configure Azure Files and implement Azure Backup. The third part will cover how to deploy and manage