Microsoft Azure Administrator - Exam Guide AZ-103 : Your in-Depth Certification Guide in Becoming Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- About Packt -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources -- Chapter 1: Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resource Groups -- Azure subscriptions and resource groups -- Azure subscriptions -- Azure resource groups -- Assigning administrator permissions -- Assigning global administrator permissions -- Assigning owner permissions -- Configuring Azure subscription policies -- Implementing and setting tagging on resource groups -- Configuring cost center quotas -- Configuring resource locks -- Moving resources across resource groups -- Removing resource groups -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 2: Analyzing Resource Utilization and Consumption -- Azure Monitor -- Creating and analyzing metrics and alerts -- Metrics -- Creating a metric -- Alerts -- Creating an alert -- Configuring diagnostic settings on resources -- Enabling diagnostic settings -- Viewing alerts in Log Analytics -- Utilizing Log Search Query functions -- Querying logs in Azure Monitor -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 3: Managing Role-Based Access Control -- Technical requirements -- RBAC -- Built-in roles -- Custom roles -- Configuring access to Azure resources by assigning roles -- Configuring management access to Azure -- Creating a custom role -- Azure Policy -- Implementing and assigning Azure policies -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Section 2: Implementing and Managing Storage -- Chapter 4: Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts -- Technical requirements -- Azure storage accounts -- Storage account types -- General-purpose v1 -- Blob storage -- General-purpose v2 (GPv2) -- Storage replication types -- LRS -- ZRS -- GRS -- RA-GRS -- Azure blob storage -- Access tiers -- Hot -- Cool -- Archive -- Azure file storage.

Azure disk storage -- Standard disk storage -- Premium disk storage -- Unmanaged versus managed disks -- Creating and configuring storage accounts -- Installing and using Azure Storage Explorer -- Configuring network access to the storage account -- SAS and access keys -- Managing access keys -- Generating an SAS -- Implementing Azure storage replication -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 5: Importing and Exporting Data to Azure -- Technical requirements -- Configuring and using Azure Blob Storage -- Creating import into, and export from Azure Job -- Azure CDN -- Configuring Azure CDN endpoints -- Azure Data Box -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 6: Configuring Azure Files and Implementing Azure Backup -- Technical requirements -- Azure file share and Azure file share sync service -- Creating an Azure file share -- Azure file share sync service -- Azure Backup -- Azure Site Recovery -- Performing a backup and restore operation -- Creating a Recovery Services vault -- Configuring a backup policy -- Trigger an on-demand backup -- Restore the backup -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Section 3: Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines -- Chapter 7: Creating and Configuring VMs for Windows and Linux -- Technical requirements -- VMs -- VM series and sizes -- Managed disks -- Availability sets -- Fault domains and update domains -- Deploying Windows and Linux VMs -- Deploying a Windows VM from the Azure portal -- Deploying a Windows VM from PowerShell -- VM scale sets -- Deploying and configuring scale sets -- Modifying and deploying ARM templates -- Modifying an ARM template -- Save a deployment as an ARM template -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 8: Managing Azure VMs and VM Backups -- Technical requirements -- Managing VM sizes -- Resizing a VM in the Azure portal.

Resizing a VM using the CLI -- Redeploying VMs -- Redeploying a VM from the Azure portal -- Redeploying a VM from PowerShell -- Moving VMs -- Adding data disks and network interfaces -- Adding a data disk -- Adding a network interface -- Automating configuration management -- Configuring VM backup and restore operations -- Creating a Recovery Services vault -- Creating and configuring a backup policy -- Restoring a backup -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Section 4: Deploying and Managing Virtual Networks -- Chapter 9: Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking -- Technical requirements -- Azure VNet -- IP addresses -- Public IP address -- Private IP addresses -- Configuring virtual networks and subnets -- Configuring private and public IP addresses -- User-defined routes -- Creating user-defined routes -- VNet peering -- Creating and configuring VNet peering -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 10: Integrating On-Premise Networks with Azure Virtual Networks -- Technical requirements -- Azure VPN gateway -- S2S VPNs -- Multi-site VPNs -- P2S VPNs -- ExpressRoute -- Creating and configuring an Azure VPN gateway -- Creating and configuring the on-premises VPN device -- Creating a virtual network -- Creating an Azure VPN gateway -- Creating and configuring S2S VPN -- Creating the local network gateway -- Configuring the on-premises VPN device -- Verifying on-premises connectivity -- VNet-to-VNet -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 11: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking -- Network Watcher -- Network resource monitoring -- Installing the Network Watcher agent -- Enabling Network Watcher -- Monitoring the network connectivity -- Managing virtual network connectivity -- Network topology -- Monitoring and troubleshooting on-premises connectivity -- Network Performance Monitor -- Next hop.

VPN troubleshoot -- Managing external networking -- IP flow verify -- Using IP flow verify -- Effective security rules -- Connection troubleshoot -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: Azure Security Groups and Azure DNS -- Technical requirements -- NSGs -- Service tags -- Creating and configuring an NSG -- Associating an NSG with a subnet or NIC -- Creating and evaluating security rules -- Azure DNS -- Domain names -- Public DNS zones -- Private DNS zones -- Record types -- Configuring a public DNS zone -- Configuring a private DNS zone -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Implementing Azure Load Balancer -- Technical requirements -- Azure Load Balancer -- Configuring an internal load balancer -- Creating the VNet -- Creating the VMs -- Creating the load balancer -- Creating a backend address pool -- Creating health probes -- Creating load balancing rules -- Testing the load balancer -- Configuring a public load balancer -- Creating the load balancer -- Creating a resource group -- Creating a public IP address -- Creating the load balancer -- Creating the health probe -- Creating the load balancer rule -- Creating the virtual network -- Creating an NSG -- Creating an NSG rule -- Creating NICs -- Creating backend servers -- Creating an availability set -- Creating two virtual machines -- Testing the load balancer -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Section 5: Managing Identities -- Chapter 14: Managing Azure Active Directory -- Azure AD -- Creating and managing users and groups -- Creating users in Azure AD -- Creating groups in Azure AD -- Adding and managing guest accounts -- Performing bulk user updates -- Configuring self-service password reset -- Azure AD Join -- Managing device settings -- Adding custom domains -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading.

Chapter 15: Implementing and Managing Hybrid Identities -- Azure AD Connect -- Azure AD password hash synchronization -- Azure AD pass-through authentication -- Installing Azure AD Connect -- Managing Azure AD Connect -- Password writeback -- Managing password writeback -- Enabling password writeback in Azure AD Connect -- Enabling password writeback in the Azure portal -- Password sync -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 16: Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication -- Azure MFA -- Enabling MFA for an Azure AD tenant -- Configuring user accounts for MFA -- Configuring the verification methods -- Configuring trusted IPs -- Configuring fraud alerts -- Configuring bypass options -- Summary -- Questions -- Further reading -- Chapter 17: Mockup Test Questions -- Chapter 1, Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resource Groups Access Control -- Chapter 2, Analyzing Resource Utilization and Consumption -- Chapter 3, Managing Role-Based Access Control -- Chapter 4, Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts -- Chapter 5, Importing and Exporting Data to Azure -- Chapter 6, Configuring Azure Files and Implementing Azure Backup -- Chapter 7, Creating and Configuring VMs for Windows and Linux -- Chapter 8, Managing Azure VMs and VM Backups -- Chapter 9, Implementing and Managing Virtual Networking -- Chapter 10, Integrating On-Premise Networks with Azure Virtual Networks -- Chapter 11, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Virtual Networking -- Chapter 12, Azure Security Groups and Azure DNS -- Chapter 13, Implementing Azure Load Balancer -- Chapter 14, Managing Azure Active Directory -- Chapter 15, Implementing and Managing Hybrid Identities -- Chapter 16, Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication -- Chapter 18: Mockup Test Answers -- Chapter 1, Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resource Groups -- Chapter 2, Analyzing Resource Utilization and Consumption.

Chapter 3, Managing Role-Based Access Control.

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