What this book covers

Chapter 1, Managing Azure Active Directory Objects, teaches you how to create and manage users and groups within Azure AD.

Chapter 2, Managing Role-Based Access Control, covers role-based access control.

Chapter 3, Creating and Managing Governance, looks at establishing governance in Azure and creating the mechanisms for managing it.

Chapter 4, Managing Governance and Costs, explores how to manage resources and services available in Azure that support governance objectives.

Chapter 5, Practice Labs – Managing Azure Identities and Governance, gives you hands-on experience testing your skills on identities and governance.

Chapter 6, Understanding and Managing, delves into understanding, creating, configuring, and managing storage.

Chapter 7, Securing Storage, teaches you about securing storage on the Azure platform.

Chapter 8, Practice Labs – Implementing and Managing Storage, gives you hands-on experience testing your skills in implementing and managing storage.

Chapter 9, Automating VM Deployments Using ARM Templates, explores how to read and modify ARM templates and how to deploy resources using ARM templates.

Chapter 10, Configuring Virtual Machines, examines virtual machines and the management of networking, high-availability, and host configurations.

Chapter 11, Creating and Configuring Containers, covers configuring the sizing and scaling of containers, working with Azure container instances, working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) storage, scaling AKS, and the networking side of AKS.

Chapter 12, Creating and Configuring App Services, teaches you how to create and configure app services in Azure.

Chapter 13, Practice Labs – Deploying and Managing Azure Compute Resources, offers hands-on experience of managing Azure compute resources.

Chapter 14, Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking, shows you how to create and configure virtual networks, peer networks with each other, configure private and public IP addresses, create user-defined network routes, implement subnets, create endpoints on subnets, configure private endpoints, and finally, how to configure Azure DNS, including custom DNS settings and private or public DNS zones.

Chapter 15, Securing Access to Virtual Networks, shows you how to create security rules and associate a network security group (NSG) with a subnet or network interface. You will also learn how to effectively evaluate security rules and get hands-on deployment on Azure Firewall and Azure Bastion.

Chapter 16, Configuring Load Balancing, delves into Azure load balancing services, including creating and configuring an internal and public load balancer, configuring an Azure Application Gateway, creating health probes for your load balancer, and how to configure load balancing rules. The chapter will end with how to troubleshoot these load balancing services.

Chapter 17, Integrating On-Premises Networks with Azure, teaches you how to integrate your on-premises network with an Azure virtual network. This chapter is about VPN connections from your on-premises environment to Azure, creating an Azure VPN gateway, and how to configure a Site-to-Site (S2S) VPN using an on-premises server and the Azure VPN gateway. We will also explore Azure Virtual WAN and the capabilities it introduces.

Chapter 18, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking, looks at how to manage your virtual network connectivity and how to monitor and troubleshoot on-premises connectivity as well as use Network Watcher.

Chapter 19, Practice Labs – Configuring and Managing Virtual Networking, offers hands-on experience testing your skills in configuring and managing Azure virtual networking.

Chapter 20, Monitoring Resources with Azure Monitor, shows you how to monitor the rest of your Azure estate. We will explore the Azure Monitor service and explore the various components exposed through the service such as Metrics, Alerts, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.

Chapter 21, Implementing Backup and Recovery Solutions, explores how to configure backup and recovery solutions. This includes how to deploy a recovery services vault, configure backup policies, how restore operations work, and how to perform site-to-site recovery via Azure Site Recovery. The last portion will focus on how to configure backup reports.

Chapter 22, Practice Labs – Monitoring and Backing Up Azure Resources, gives you hands-on experience of monitoring and backing up Azure resources.

Chapter 23, Mockup Test Questions and Answers, lets you practice your skills on a mockup set of exam questions to prepare for taking the exam.