I recently sat the Microsoft exam AZ-100: Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Deployment. This was only my second Microsoft exam, the other being 70-535: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (now retired). I generally approach IT exams with a healthy dose of skepticism as my experience has shown them to be scattered with errors, poor wording, and questions of dubious quality. However I found AZ-100 to be above the average of exams I have taken. Here are some of my thoughts on the exam.
Azure Storage Redundancy Explained
Leveraging commercial cloud services allows increased data redundancy without having to expand and maintain your own infrastructure. A new cloud user can become overwhelmed and confused with the data redundancy options available, especially since each Cloud Service Provider (CSP) tends to use their own terminology. In this post I try to describe the data redundancy methods available in Microsoft Azure in simple terms.
Searching VM Images in Azure
The Azure Portal provides search capability allowing quick review and selection of a desired VM image. But when deploying via the Azure CLI or template you must know some parameters to specify the image to be deployed. This post provides a few examples showing how to search the image listing via the Azure CLI.
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