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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

You're reading from Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification and Beyond

Product type Book

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801073301

Pages 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Steve Miles

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud Concepts

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing

3. Chapter 2: Benefits of Cloud Computing

4. Section 2: Core Azure Services

5. Chapter 3: Core Azure Architectural Components

6. Chapter 4: Core Azure Resources

7. Section 3: Core Solutions and Management Tools

8. Chapter 5: Core Azure Solutions

9. Chapter 6: Azure Management Tools

10. Section 4: Security

11. Chapter 7: Azure Security

12. Section 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and Compliance

13. Chapter 8: Azure Identity Services

14. Chapter 9: Azure Governance

15. Chapter 10: Azure Privacy and Compliance

16. Section 6: Cost Management and Service-Level Agreements

17. Chapter 11: Azure Cost Planning and Management

18. Chapter 12: Azure Service-Level Agreements

19. Chapter 13: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cloud computing's target audience

Cloud computing can be different things to different people depending on their perspective and their role or function. A business leader will have one idea of what cloud computing needs to deliver, which will be very different from the technology leader and very different from a developer, a database admin, or a data scientist. They all have other wants and needs, and so cloud computing as a model almost has to be all things to all people.

Azure provides the following high-level categorization of services to a business:

Hosted infrastructure platform
Application development platform
Data and analytics platform
Monitoring and management platform
Hybrid and multi-cloud control plane platform
Security operations platform
Identity and compliance platform

With regard to Azure, as Microsoft's cloud computing platform, these different functions are very well catered for, making it relevant from all perspectives...

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Authors (1)

Steve Miles

Steve Miles is a Microsoft security and Azure/hybrid MVP and MCT with over 20 years of experience in security, networking, storage, end user computing, and cloud solutions. His current focus is on securing, protecting, and managing identities, Windows clients, and Windows server workloads in hybrid and multi-cloud platform environments. His first Microsoft certification was on Windows NT and he is an MCP, MCITP, MCSA, and MCSE for Windows and many other Microsoft products. He also holds multiple Microsoft Fundamentals, Associate, Expert, and Specialty certifications in Azure security, identity, network, M365, and D365. He also holds multiple security, networking vendor, and other public cloud provider certifications.

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