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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
Languages
Author (1):
Steve Miles Steve Miles
Profile icon 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

Summary

This chapter included complete coverage of the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam skills area, Describe Cloud Concepts.

We described the benefits and value of cloud computing, its positioning as a digital transformation enabler, and the audience of cloud computing. We saw that cloud computing is often more of a mindset, and we contrasted it to a traditional computing mindset. We then looked into how computing has a hierarchy of needs, how this evolves with the adoption of cloud computing, and we continued to look at cloud computing as an operations model.

The final exam topics skills covered were the economics of the cloud and the fundamental change of moving from a capital expenditure model to an operational expenditure model, closing with the idea that cloud computing is as much about the people, processes, and business stakeholders as it is about the technology.

Further knowledge beyond exam content was provided to prepare for a real-world, day-to-day, Azure-focused...

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