About the Book
Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-304--and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including key aspects such as compute, network, storage, and security. 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: - Design monitoring - Design identity and security - Design data storage - Design business continuity - Design infrastructure
This Microsoft Exam Ref: - Organizes its coverage by exam objectives - Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you - Assumes you are an IT professional with significant experience and knowledge of IT operations, and expert-level Azure administration skills, and experience with Azure development and DevOps processes
About the Exam Exam AZ-304 focuses on knowledge needed to design for cost optimization; design logging and monitoring solutions; design authentication, authorization, governance, and application security; design database solutions and data integrations; select storage accounts; design for backup/recovery and high availability; design compute and network infrastructure; design application architectures, and design migrations. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential, demonstrating your expertise in compute, network, storage, and security for designing and implementing modern cloud-based solutions that run on Microsoft Azure. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn
About the Author: ASHISH AGRAWAL is a qualified technocrat, offering two decades of multifaceted experience as a technology leader, trusted advisor, and Enterprise Cloud Architect (Infra, Apps, Data, and Security). He drives a profound influence in the cloud technology landscape with provocative thought leadership and communicates his ideas with clarity and passion. Ashish has delivered numerous successful cloud engagements for global fortune 500 companies in cloud advisory, consulting, architecture, leadership, and delivery execution roles throughout his career and is considered an Azure subject matter expert since 2010. He is a change leader with transforming teams' experience to adopt and innovate best practices leading to critical customer impacting results. AVINASH BHAVSAR is a Microsoft certified Azure Professional with about 18 years of hands-on experience in all facets of cloud computing, such as discovery, assessment, cloud foundation build, datacenter transformation, cloud-native application development for Azure, and migration of applications and databases from on-premises to the Azure platform. He has extensive Application Development background, which includes architecture, design, development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery to Azure platform (IaaS, PaaS, and serverless). MJ PARKER has been a programmer for 30 years and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer who has been teaching various Microsoft technologies and other platforms for 25 years. Her passion, however, is writing absolutely anything. With the help of great editors, she has published several nontechnical books, as well as other technical works, including content for exams, training sessions, and courseware. GURVINDER SINGH is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect with about 14 years of diversified software development experience. He has a strong programming background and hands-on experience on .NET and C#. In the past few years, Gurvinder has been guiding large enterprises in the transformation of legacy applications into cloud native architecture with a focus on migration to Microsoft Azure. He is extremely passionate about technology, especially with the Microsoft Azure platform (PaaS, IaaS, and Serverless).
