Exam Ref AZ-300 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-300―and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of architecting high-value Microsoft Azure solutions for your organization or customers. Designed for modern IT professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Deploy and configure infrastructure
• Implement workloads and security
• Create and deploy apps
• Implement authentication and secure data
• Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
• Assumes you are an IT professional who wants to demonstrate your ability to design modern Microsoft Azure solutions involving compute, network, storage, and security

About the Exam

Exam AZ-300 focuses on knowledge needed to analyze resource usage; create and configure storage accounts and VMs; automate VM deployments and implement VM solutions; create and manage virtual networks; manage Azure AD and hybrid identities; migrate servers to Azure; configure serverless computing; implement app load balancing; integrate on-premises and virtual networks; manage RBAC; implement MFA; create web apps with PaaS; design and develop containerized apps; implement authentication and secure data solutions; build solutions with Cosmos DB or RDBMSes; configure message-based integration architecture; and develop for autoscaling.

About Microsoft Certification

Passing this exam and Exam AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Cer¿tified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential, demonstrating your expertise in compute, network, storage, and secu¿rity for designing modern cloud-based solutions that run on Microsoft Azure.

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Tim Warner is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect with more than 20 years of experience working with the Microsoft technology stack. Tim teaches Microsoft Azure courses for Pluralsight and O’Reilly Live Online Training, and he’s based in Nashville, Tennessee. Contact Tim via Twitter (@TechTrainerTim) or his website, TechTrainerTim.com.

Derek Schauland is an IT professional with 20 years’ experience. He currently specializes in cloud technologies. He spent 10 years of his career as a Microsoft MVP, first in file system storage and then in cloud and datacenter management. In addition to writing about cloud technologies, he has co-authored two other books and countless articles and blogs. Outside of the technology space, he enjoys barbecuing with family and friends.

Mike Pfeiffer is a 20-year tech industry veteran who’s worked for some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). He’s the founder and chief technologist at CloudSkills.io, a cloud consulting and training firm. Mike is an author for Pluralsight, international conference speaker, Microsoft Azure MVP, and host of the CloudSkills.fm podcast.

Nicole Stevens is technical director of an independent software venture (ISV) in the United Kingdom, which provides on-premises and hosted solutions across a variety of technologies and sectors. She has spent more than 20 years working within software development, starting out as an Oracle DBA to troubleshoot performance, design, and integration issues for large enterprises across EMEA. Switching to an ISV start-up brought fresh challenges, with a role spanning IT professional, technical consultancy, technical pre-sales, and software development. Nicole is currently driving adoption of Microsoft cloud services across the business, and her primary focus is the re-architecture of legacy software solutions for customers in the cloud.