Ashish Agrawal - Exam Ref AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Ashish Agrawal

Gurvinder Singh

Avinash Bhavsar

Mohamed Sabir Sopariwala

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T he purpose of the AZ-305 certification exam is to test your knowledge and understanding of the Microsoft Azure platform, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. The exam is targeted toward Azure Solutions Architects, and includes coverage of advising the stakeholders responsible for translating business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions. This book provides comprehensive coverage of exam domain objectives, including in-depth explanations and demonstrations of real-world design scenarios. Designed for modern IT professionals, this book focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level.

While weve made every effort possible to ensure that the information in this book is accurate, Azure is rapidly evolving. So theres a chance that some of the screens in the Azure Portal will have changed slightly since this book was written, which means some figures in this book might look different from what you see on your screen. Its also possible that other minor interface changes have taken place, such as name changes and so on.

Azure supports a wide range of programming languages, frameworks, databases, and services. Given this, IT professionals must learn a vast range of technical topics in a short span of time. There is an overabundance of content available, which makes it difficult to find just enough study material to prepare for the AZ-305 examno more and no less. This book offers prescriptive guidance for people preparing for this exam.

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. Moreover, 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 More Info links found throughout the text to access more information. Take the time to research and study those topics. Great information is available on Microsoft Learn, docs.microsoft.com/azure, TechNet, and blogs and forums.

This book is organized to reflect the Skills measured list published for the exam. 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.