This book is the successor of Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions – Exam Guide 70-535, the book that I wrote only 2 years ago. I've noticed while writing this book that not only have most Azure resources got more functionalities, many more features have also been added to the Azure platform. This indicates how fast Azure is changing and how extremely difficult it is for professionals to keep up to date with this ever-evolving platform.

This book will prepare you for the AZ-300 exam, which is the most practical exam of the Azure Architect Expert series. By reading it, you will get updated with all those new functionalities, features, and resources. This book will cover all the exam objectives, giving you a complete overview of the objectives that are covered in the exam.

This book will start with deploying and configuring an infrastructure in Azure. You will learn how to analyze resource utilization and consumption. You will learn about storage accounts, Azure Virtual Networks, and Azure Active Directory (AD). Next, you will learn about implementing workloads and security in Azure, and how to create and deploy apps. Then, the focus in this book will switch to implementing authentication and securing data, and finally, how to develop for the cloud and for Azure storage.

Each chapter concludes with a Further reading section, which is a very important part of the book, because it will give you extra and sometimes crucial information for passing the AZ-300 exam. As the questions of the exam will change slightly over time and this book will eventually become outdated, the Further reading sections will be the place that provides access to all the updates.