Exam Ref AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions

✍ Scribed by Charles Pluta

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-700 and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of planning, implementing, and maintaining Azure networking solutions, including hybrid networking, connectivity, routing, security, and private access to Azure services. Designed for professionals with Azure networking experience, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Network Engineer Associate level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Design, implement, and manage hybrid networking
• Design and implement core networking infrastructure
• Design and implement routing
• Secure and monitor networks
• Design and implement private access to Azure services

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
• Assumes you have expertise in planning, implementing, and maintaining Azure networking solutions

About the Exam

Exam AZ-700 focuses on knowledge needed to design, implement, and manage site-to-site and point-to-site VPN connections, and Azure ExpressRoute; design and implement virtual network private IP addressing, name resolution, cross-virtual network connectivity, and Azure Virtual WAN architectures; design and implement virtual network routing, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Front Door, and Azure Traffic Manager profiles; secure and monitor networks via Azure Firewall, network security groups (NSGs), Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Monitor, and other tools; design and implement Azure Private Link, Azure Private Endpoint, service endpoints, and virtual network integration for dedicated PaaS services. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Network Engineer Associate credential, demonstrating your expertise as a Network Engineer capable of recommending, planning, and implementing Azure networking solutions; managing them for performance, resiliency, scale, and security; deploying them via the Azure Portal and other methods; and working with architects, administrators, engineers, and developers to deliver Azure solutions.

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✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Contents at a Glance
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Organization of this book
Microsoft certifications
Errata, updates, and book support
Stay in touch
Chapter 1. Design, implement, and manage hybrid networking
Skill 1.1: Design, implement, and manage a site-to-site VPN connection
Skill 1.2: Design, implement, and manage a point-to-site VPN connection
Skill 1.3: Design, implement, and manage Azure ExpressRoute
Configure encryption over ExpressRoute
Chapter summary
Thought experiment
Thought experiment answers
Chapter 2. Design and implement core networking infrastructure
Skill 2.1: Design and implement private IP addressing for virtual networks
Skill 2.2: Design and implement name resolution
Skill 2.3: Design and implement cross-VNet connectivity
Skill 2.4: Design and implement an Azure Virtual WAN architecture
Chapter summary
Thought experiment
Thought experiment answers
Chapter 3. Design and implement routing
Skill 3.1: Design, implement, and manage virtual network routing
Skill 3.2: Design and implement an Azure load balancer
Skill 3.3: Design and implement Azure Application Gateway
Skill 3.4: Implement Azure Front Door
Skill 3.5: Implement an Azure Traffic Manager profile
Skill 3.6: Design and implement an Azure Virtual Network NAT
Chapter summary
Thought experiment
Thought experiment answers
Chapter 4. Secure and monitor networks
Skill 4.1: Design, implement, and manage an Azure Firewall deployment
Skill 4.2: Implement and manage network security groups (NSGs)
Skill 4.3: Implement a Web Application Firewall (WAF) deployment
Skill 4.4: Monitor networks
Chapter summary
Thought experiment
Thought experiment answers
Chapter 5. Design and implement private access to Azure services
Skill 5.1: Design and implement Azure Private Link service and private endpoints
Skill 5.2: Design and implement service endpoints
Skill 5.3: Configure VNet integration for dedicated platform as a service (PaaS) services
Chapter summary
Thought experiment
Thought experiment answers
Index
Code Snippets