Introduction
Most books take a very low-level approach, teaching you how to use individual classes and accomplish fine-grained tasks. Through this book, we review the main technologies that Microsoft offers for deploying different kinds for solutions into Azure. From the most classical and conservative approaches using Azure Virtual Machines to the latest technologies, implementing event-based or message-based patterns with Azure Event Grid or Azure Service Bus, this book reviews the basics for developing most types of solutions using Azure services. The book also provides code examples for illustrating how to implement most of the concepts covered through the different sections. This should be used as the introduction to implementing more complex solutions. Although the book covers some basic concepts, you should have basic programming experience using ASP.NET, .NET Framework, or .NET Core, as well as using Git.
This book covers every major topic area found on the exam, but it does not cover every exam question. Only the Microsoft exam team has access to the exam questions, and Microsoft regularly adds new questions to the exam, making it impossible to cover specific questions. You should consider this book a supplement to your relevant real-world experience and other study materials. If you encounter a topic in this book that you do not feel completely comfortable with, use the “Need more review?” links you’ll find in the text to find more information and take the time to research and study the topic. Great information is available on MSDN, TechNet, and in blogs and forums.
Organization of this book
This book is organized by the “Skills measured” list published for the exam. The “Skills measured” list is available for each exam on the Microsoft Learn website: http://aka.ms/examlist. Each chapter in this book corresponds to a major topic area in the list, and the technical tasks in each topic area determine a chapter’s organization. If an exam covers six major topic areas, for example, the book will contain six chapters.
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