Monthly Archives: January 2023

1. Core tenets of Security, Privacy, and Compliance Section, we’re going to talk about privacy and compliance. Now I’m going to give a caveat here to say that in different areas of this course, this is a Z 900. It is supposed to be an overview of the fundamentals of Azure. Some of it is […]

1. Overview of Azure Pricing Section of this exam, it says describe Azure cost management and service level agreements and is worth ten to 15% of the overall score. So we can see that there are only two subsections in that. One has to do with planning and managing costs and the other has to […]

1. Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Agreement within Azure or SLA. A service level agreement in business in general is basically the service provider making certain commitments to the service consumer. And maybe there are either financial or other penalties associated with not meeting those commitments. When it comes to Microsoft Azure, for almost all […]

1. Overview of Azure Identity Services Identity, governance, privacy and compliance features and is worth 20% to 25% of the exam score. Now, identity as a concept is very important in the world of cloud computing. This is how you identify who people are and what access privileges they have to you, both your application […]

1. Overview of Azure Authentication and RBAC Role based Access Control or RBAC. So just like Microsoft Azure ad is the preferred identity solution, using this type of role based Access Control is what Microsoft teaches. And this is what we’re talking about in this course. Now, the reason it’s called role based is because […]

1. Lecture: Key Vault Overview To begin this module. One of the key components for security in Azure is the concept of a Key Vault. And a Key Vault is a service in Azure for safeguarding keys and secrets. So think of this as a vault, as a service that you can create, as opposed […]

1. Azure Migration Strategy So next up we’re going to talk about migrations. Now, migrations is a big topic. It is actually fairly complex because it’s very difficult to go from so many different configurations within your own network to a more standardized configuration within Microsoft Azure. Every company is going to have a slightly […]

1. API Management So we’re going to wrap up this discussion of deployment, migration, and integration. Talking about API integration. Now, you know how there’s companies out there that will allow developers, thirdparty, developers to use an API to interact with their service. A good example of this is actually Microsoft Azure. As a developer, […]

1. Design Infrastructure (25-30%) The final section of the exam, it’s a big one, says design infrastructure and is worth 25% to 30% of your exam score. Now, inside of this section, we’re going to be talking about the biggies of infrastructure as a service. We’re going to talk about compute services, we’re going to […]

1. Storage Account Strategy Overview So in this section of the course we’re going to be talking about storage. Now, a reminder that the AZ 303 exam is the Technologies exam and it’s much more focused on the acts of creating storage and understanding the choices that you’re making as you’re making them in terms […]