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☁️ Azure summary in bullet points
Azure in bulletpoints
- This repo contains my study notes for different Azure exams.
- The notes are comprehensive and written with goal of covering all exam areas.
- I passed all of the exams with these notes.
- Good luck & enjoy studying! ☕
Content
- AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
- AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
- AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design
- AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
Support
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Symbols
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There are two symbols used throughout the documentation.
Symbol Description 💡 Best practice or special hint for exam ❗ An important limitation, challenge or an exception 📝 Common exam area 🤗 Fact / trivia (most likely unrelated to the exam)
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
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Cloud Basics
- Benefits of Cloud Computing
- Cloud Deployment Models (Public vs Private vs Hybrid Cloud)
- Cloud Computing
- Compute & Serverless & Storage
- IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
- Cloud Compliance
- Scaling
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Azure Basics
- Purchasing & Licensing Options
- Account, Subscription, Support and Billing
- Azure Data Centers
- Interacting with Azure
- Service-level Agreements (SLA)
- Azure Resource Manager (Resources & Resource Groups & Management Groups)
- Compliance in Azure
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Azure Services
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Compute
- Virtual Machines
- Containers
- App Service
- Serverless Computing
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Storage
- Databases
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Networking
- Load Balancing
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Compute
- Security
- Shared Responsibility Model
- Defence in Depth
- Azure Security Center
- Identity and Access (Azure AD)
- Encryption (Azure Key Vault, Certificates)
- Network Protection
- Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP)
- Microsoft Defender for Identity
- Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)
- Governance
- Azure Policy & Azure Blueprints
- Monitoring (Azure Monitor & Azure Service Health)
- Economics
- Economies of Scale
- Capital Expenditure (CapEx) vs Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
- Azure Costs & Tools
- Cost Optimization Best Practices
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AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
- Management
- Azure Cloud Shell
- Resources & Costs
- Resource Groups
- Governance
- Roles
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Azure AD
- Entities
- Hybrid identities
- Azure Policies
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Monitoring
- Monitoring costs
- Storage
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Azure Storage
- Security
- Monitoring
- Azure Files
- Azure Backup
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Azure Storage
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Compute - Virtual Machines (VMs)
- High Availability
- Deployment
- VM Scale Sets (VMMS)
- Security
- Backups
- Networking
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Virtual Network (VNet)
- Connecting VNets
- DNS & Name Resolution
- Load Balancers
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Virtual Network (VNet)
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AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
- Azure basics
- Infrastructure services
- Monitoring
- Azure Storage
- Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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Virtual Machines
- Deploy
- Azure Backup & Azure Site Recovery & Snapshots
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Virtual Networks
- Virtual Network Connectivity
- Virtual Network Interface
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Azure Migration
- Azure Migrate Service
- Azure Site Recovery Service
- Security
- Identities
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Azure Active Directory
- Hybrid Identities
- Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
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Azure Active Directory
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Networking
- Hybrid Connections (Site-to-Site VPN & ExpressRoute)
- Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Implement Authentication and Secure Data
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Encryption
- Identities
- Application services
- Creating Web Applications using PaaS
- Web Apps (App Service)
- Azure Service Fabric
- Using containers and orchestration
- Serverless Computing (Azure Functions & Logic Apps)
- Developing for cloud
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Asynchronous Messaging
- Azure Queues (Storage Queues & Event Grid & Service Bus & Event Hubs & IoT Hub)
- Configure Message-based integration architecture
- Developing for asynchronous processes
- Developing for autoscaling
- Implement code that addresses a transient state
- Implement code that addresses singleton application instances
- Querying Azure Resources
- Develop database solutions
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Asynchronous Messaging
- Cloud architecture patterns
- Design and Connectivity Patterns
- Hybrid Networking
- Storing in cloud
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AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design
- Security
- Responsibilities
- Azure data centers
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- SaaS services in Azure
- Cognitive Services
- Bots (Bot Services, QnA Maker)
- Azure Machine Learning
- Media Processing
- Data platform
- Storage
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Azure Storage
- Storage Account
- StorSimple
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Azure Storage
- SQL (Azure SQL Database)
- Big data services
- Azure Automation
- Data Analysis (Azure Analysis Services, HDInsight, Azure Data Catalog)
- Backup (Azure Backup & Azure Site Recovery)
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Monitoring
- Azure Sentinel
- Storage
- Deployment, Migration and Integration
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Azure Resource Manager
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Azure Resource Policies
- Securing ARM templates
- Deploying ARM templates (Azure Building Blocks)
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Managed Server Applications (App Service Environments, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Container Service, Azure Container Instance)
- High-Performance Compute (HPC)
- Migration strategies
- App Services
- Authoring Serverless Applications in Azure
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Azure Resource Manager
- Infrastructure strategy
- Application Architecture Patterns in Azure
- VM Availability (SLA, Availability Sets, Availability Zones)
- Azure VM Scale Sets
- Hybrid Cloud
- Networking Azure Application Components
- Messaging Services
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AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
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Introduction
- Design a DevOps Strategy
- Common tools for DevOps
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Azure DevOps Overview
- Migrations
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Agile work management
- Azure Boards
- Continuous Testing
- Choosing Test and Work Management Tools
- Azure Test Plans
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Continuous Feedback
- Azure Monitor
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Package management
- Azure Artifacts
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Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
- Deployment Patterns
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Azure Pipelines
- Container Agents
- Release Pipelines
- DevTest Labs
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
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DevSecOps
- Azure Key Vault
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Source code version control
- Git
- Pull request strategies
- Azure Repos
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Containers
- Azure Container Registry
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Mobile DevOps (Visual Studio App Center)
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Infrastructure as code
- ARM templates
- Configuration as Code (PowerShell DSC & Azure Automation & Custom Script)
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