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! ☕
• ✨ Contributions of any kind are welcome!

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  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)

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• Azure in bulletpoints
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    • AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
    • AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator
    • AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
    • AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design
    • AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

1. Cloud Basics
   1. Benefits of Cloud Computing
   2. Cloud Deployment Models (Public vs Private vs Hybrid Cloud)
   3. Cloud Computing
      1. Compute & Serverless & Storage
      2. IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS
   4. Cloud Compliance
   5. Scaling
2. Azure Basics
   1. Purchasing & Licensing Options
   2. Account, Subscription, Support and Billing
   3. Azure Data Centers
   4. Interacting with Azure
   5. Service-level Agreements (SLA)
   6. Azure Resource Manager (Resources & Resource Groups & Management Groups)
   7. Compliance in Azure
3. Azure Services
   1. Compute
      1. Virtual Machines
      2. Containers
      3. App Service
      4. Serverless Computing
   2. Storage
   3. Networking
      1. Load Balancing
4. Security
   1. Shared Responsibility Model
   2. Defence in Depth
   3. Azure Security Center
   4. Identity and Access (Azure AD)
   5. Encryption (Azure Key Vault, Certificates)
   6. Network Protection
   7. Microsoft Azure Information Protection (AIP)
   8. Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
   9. Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL)
5. Governance
   1. Azure Policy & Azure Blueprints
   2. Monitoring (Azure Monitor & Azure Service Health)
6. Economics
   1. Economies of Scale
   2. Capital Expenditure (CapEx) vs Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
   3. Azure Costs & Tools
   4. Cost Optimization Best Practices

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AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator

1. Management
   1. Azure Cloud Shell
   2. Resources & Costs
   3. Resource Groups
2. Governence
   1. Roles
   2. Azure AD
      1. Entities
      2. Hybrid identities
   3. Azure Policies
3. Monitoring
4. Storage
   1. Azure Storage
      1. Security
      2. Monitoring
   2. Azure Files
   3. Azure Backup
5. Compute - Virtual Machines (VMs)
   1. High Availability
   2. Deployment
   3. VM Scale Sets (VMMS)
   4. Security
   5. Backups
6. Networking
   1. Virtual Network (VNet)
      1. Connecting VNets
      2. DNS & Name Resolution
   2. Load Balancers

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AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

1. Azure basics
2. Developing and Configuring Infrastructure
   1. Monitoring
   2. Azure Storage
   3. Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
   4. Virtual Machines
      1. Deploy
      2. Azure Backup & Azure Site Recovery
   5. Virtual Networks
      1. Virtual Network Connectivity
      2. Virtual Network Interface
   6. Identities
      1. Azure Active Directory
         1. Hybrid Identities
      2. Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
3. Implementing Workloads and Security
   1. Azure Migration
      1. Azure Migrate Service
      2. Azure Site Recovery Service
   2. Web Apps (App Service)
   3. Serverless Computing (Azure Functions & Event Grid & Service Bus & Logic Apps)
   4. Networking
      1. Hybrid Connections (Site-to-Site VPN & ExpressRoute)
   5. Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
   6. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
4. Create and Deploy Apps
   1. Creating Web Applications using PaaS
   2. Azure Service Fabric
   3. Using containers and orchestration
5. Implement Authentication and Secure Data
   1. Authentication
   2. Authorization
   3. Encryption
6. Developing for the Cloud
   1. Asynchronous Messaging
   2. Configure Message-based integration architecture
   3. Development for asynchronous processes
   4. Developing for autoscaling
   5. Implement code that addresses a transient state
   6. Implement code that addresses singleton application instances
   7. Querying Azure Resources
   8. Develop database solutions
7. Understanding Cloud Architect Technology Solutions
   1. Design and Connectivity Patterns
   2. Hybrid Networking
   3. Storing in cloud

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AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design

1. Designing for Identity and Security
   1. Security
      1. Responsibilities
      2. Azure data centers
      3. Azure Key Vault
      4. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
   2. SaaS services in Azure
      1. Cognitive Services
      2. Bots (Bot Services, QnA Maker)
      3. Azure Machine Learning
      4. Media Processing
2. Designing a Data Platform Solution
   1. Storage
      1. Azure Storage
         1. Storage Account
      2. StorSimple
   2. SQL (Azure SQL Database)
   3. Other data services (Azure Search, Cosmos DB, SQL Data Warehouse, Data Lake Store, Date Lake Analytics, Data Factory)
   4. Azure Automation
   5. Data Analysis (Azure Analysis Services, HDInsight, Azure Data Catalog)
   6. Backup (Azure Backup & Azure Site Recovery)
   7. Monitoring
3. Designing for Deployment, Migration and Integration
   1. Azure Resource Manager
      1. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
      2. Azure Resource Policies
      3. Securing ARM templates
      4. Deploying ARM templates (Azure Building Blocks)
   2. Managed Server Applications (App Service Environments, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Container Service, Azure Container Instance)
      1. High-Performance Compute (HPC)
   3. Migration strategies
   4. App Services
   5. Authoring Serverless Applications in Azure
4. Designing an Infrastructure Strategy
   1. Application Architecture Patterns in Azure
   2. VM Availability (SLA, Availability Sets, Availability Zones)
   3. Azure VM Scale Sets
   4. Hybrid Cloud
   5. Networking Azure Application Components
   6. Messaging Services

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AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

1. Introduction
   1. Design a DevOps Strategy
   2. Common tools for DevOps
2. Azure DevOps Overview
   1. Migrations
3. Agile work management
   1. Azure Boards
4. Continuous Testing
   1. Choosing Test and Work Management Tools
   2. Azure Test Plans
5. Continuous Feedback
   1. Azure Monitor
6. Package management
   1. Azure Artifacts
7. Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
   1. Deployment Patterns
   2. Azure Pipelines
      1. Container Agents
      2. Release Pipelines
      3. DevTest Labs
   3. Jenkins
   4. SonarQube
8. DevSecOps
   1. Azure Key Vault
9. Source code version control
   1. Git
   2. Pull request strategies
   3. Azure Repos
10. Containers
    1. Azure Container Registry
    2. Azure Kubernetes Service
11. Mobile DevOps (Visual Studio App Center)
12. Infrastructure as code
    1. ARM templates
13. Configuration as Code (PowerShell DSC & Azure Automation & Custom Script)