Prepare for Microsoft Exam AZ-304-and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including key aspects such as compute, network, storage, and security. Designed for modern IT professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified Expert level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: * Design monitoring * Design identity and security * Design data storage * Design business continuity * Design infrastructure This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by exam objectives * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you * Assumes you are an IT professional with significant experience and knowledge of IT operations, and expert-level Azure administration skills, and experience with Azure development and DevOps processes About the Exam Exam AZ-304 focuses on knowledge needed to design for cost optimization; design logging and monitoring solutions; design authentication, authorization, governance, and application security; design database solutions and data integrations; select storage accounts; design for backup/recovery and high availability; design compute and network infrastructure; design application architectures, and design migrations. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam and Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential, demonstrating your expertise in compute, network, storage, and security for designing and implementing modern cloud-based solutions that run on Microsoft Azure. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

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Discover how to plan a Microsoft Teams deployment within a business environment and manage Teams administrative functions on a day-to-day basis Key Features Plan and design your Microsoft Teams deployment Prepare, deploy, and manage policies for Microsoft Teams and for apps within Teams Pass the MS-700 exam and achieve certification with the help of self-assessment questions and a mock exam Book DescriptionDo you want to build and test your proficiency in the deployment, management, and monitoring of Microsoft Teams features within the Microsoft 365 platform? Managing Microsoft Teams: MS-700 Exam Guide will help you to effectively plan and implement Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft 365 Teams admin center and Windows PowerShell. You'll also discover best practices for rolling out and managing MS services for Teams users within your Microsoft 365 tenant. The chapters are divided into three easy-to-follow parts: planning and design, feature policies and administration, and team management, while aligning with the official MS-700 exam objectives to help you prepare effectively for the exam. The book starts by taking you through planning and design, where you'll learn how to plan migrations, make assessments for network readiness, and plan and implement governance tasks such as configuring guest access and monitoring usage. Later, you'll understand feature administration, focusing on collaboration, meetings, live events, phone numbers, and the phone system, along with applicable policy configurations. Finally, the book shows you how to manage Teams and membership settings and create app policies. By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to pass the MS-700 certification exam and have a handy reference guide for MS Teams. What you will learn Explore Security & Compliance configuration options for Teams features Manage meetings, calls, and chat features within Microsoft Teams Find out how to manage phone numbers, systems, and settings in Teams Manage individual team settings, membership, and guest access Create policies for Microsoft Teams apps and features Deploy access reviews and dynamic team membership Who this book is forThis Microsoft Teams book is for IT professionals who want to achieve Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate certification. Familiarity with the principles of establishing and administering the core features and services within a Microsoft 365 tenant and a basic understanding of Microsoft Teams features are required before getting started with the book. Prior knowledge of other Microsoft 365 workloads such as Security & Compliance will also be beneficial.

Pass the Certified Information Systems Security Professional Exam with our all-new set of practice exams designed to simulate the latest exam version Key Features Get ready to take the CISSP exam with the help of practice questions covering all concepts tested in the exam Discover and fill the gaps in your knowledge with detailed explanations of answers Take two full practice exams that simulate CISSP version May 2021 Book DescriptionThe CISSP exam is for security professionals who understand that poor security can put a company out of business. The exam covers eight important security domains - risk management, security architecture, data security, network security, identity management, auditing, security operations, and software development security. Designed to cover all the concepts tested in the CISSP exam, CISSP (ISC)2 Certification Practice Exams and Tests will assess your knowledge of information security and introduce you to the tools you need to master to pass the CISSP exam (version May 2021). With more than 100 questions for every CISSP domain, this book will test your understanding and fill the gaps in your knowledge with the help of descriptive answers and detailed explanations. You'll also find two complete practice exams that simulate the real CISSP exam, along with answers. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to take and pass the (ISC)2 CISSP exam and achieve the Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification putting you in the position to build a career as a security engineer, security manager, or chief information security officer (CISO) What you will learn Understand key principles of security, risk management, and asset security Become well-versed with topics focused on the security architecture and engineering domain Test your knowledge of IAM and communication using practice questions Study the concepts of security assessment, testing, and operations Find out which security controls are applied in software development security Find out how you can advance your career by acquiring this gold-standard certification Who this book is forThis book is for existing and aspiring security professionals, security engineers, security managers, and security experts who want to validate their skills and enhance their careers by passing the CISSP 2021 exam. Prior experience working in at least two of the CISSP security domains will be beneficial.

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Prepare to achieve Microsoft 365 Certified Teamwork Administrator Associate certification by learning essential SharePoint Online concepts, and answering self-assessment questions to test your knowledge Key Features Cover essential topics based on the MS-300 exam, and learn with the help of detailed explanations Understand the collaborative features of SharePoint, both on-premises and as part of the Office 365 service Work through practice questions relating to business use cases for SharePoint Server and Online Book DescriptionThe Microsoft MS-300 exam is designed to test the knowledge and skills of administrators in deploying, configuring, and managing SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server, SharePoint Hybrid, OneDrive for Business, and Teams. This book offers up-to-date coverage of the important topics based on the MS-300 exam and features question answers and insider tips to help you prepare for certification. Written in a clear, succinct way, the book starts by helping you configure and manage SharePoint Online. You'll then delve into OneDrive for Business, right from managing users and groups, through to monitoring sharing and security. Further chapters will guide you through working with Teams, with an emphasis on managing identity authentication, resolving issues with the service, and even observing usage patterns. Later, you'll get up to speed with workload integrations, covering the Yammer business communications platform, before moving on to understand how to integrate Microsoft Stream with SharePoint, Teams, and Yammer. Finally, you'll learn to develop data governance and user adoption strategies. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with SharePoint Online and have learned the essential techniques and concepts you need to know in order to pass the MS-300 certification exam. What you will learn Discover the different Microsoft services and features that make up Office 365 Configure cloud services for your environment and extend your infrastructure's capabilities Understand site architecture, site settings, and hub settings in SharePoint Online Explore business connectivity services for view and access options in SharePoint Online Configure Yammer to integrate with Office 365 groups, SharePoint, and Teams Deploy SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams successfully, including bots and connectors Who this book is forThis book is for SharePoint developers, administrators, or those who want to explore Microsoft's teamwork solution platforms and pass the certification exam to boost their career as Microsoft Teamwork Administrator Associates. Anyone who has achieved Microsoft's entry-level admin certification and wants to progress to intermediate certification will also find this book useful.

Acquire necessary skills in preparing for Microsoft certification and enhance your software development career by learning the concepts of C# programming Key Features Prepare for the certification using step-by-step examples, and mock tests with standard solutions Understand the concepts of data security for secure programming with C# Learn to scale and optimize your application codebase using best practices and patterns Book DescriptionProgramming in C# is a certification from Microsoft that measures the ability of developers to use the power of C# in decision making and creating business logic. This book is a certification guide that equips you with the skills that you need to crack this exam and promote your problem-solving acumen with C#. The book has been designed as preparation material for the Microsoft specialization exam in C#. It contains examples spanning the main focus areas of the certification exam, such as debugging and securing applications, and managing an application's code base, among others. This book will be full of scenarios that demand decision-making skills and require a thorough knowledge of C# concepts. You will learn how to develop business logic for your application types in C#. This book is exam-oriented, considering all the patterns for Microsoft certifications and practical solutions to challenges from Microsoft-certified authors. By the time you've finished this book, you will have had sufficient practice solving real-world application development problems with C# and will be able to carry your newly-learned skills to crack the Microsoft certification exam to level up your career. What you will learn Explore multi-threading and asynchronous programming in C# Create event handlers for effective exception handling Use LINQ queries for data serialization and deserialization Manage filesystems and understand I/O operations Test, troubleshoot, and debug your C# programs Understand the objectives of Exam 70-483 and apply common solutions Who this book is forThe book is intended to the aspirants of Microsoft certifications and C# developers wanting to become a Microsoft specialist. The book does not require the knowledge of C#, basic knowledge of software development concepts will be beneficial

Learn through hands-on exercises covering a variety of topics including data connections, analytics, and dashboards to effectively prepare for the Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam Key Features Prepare for the Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam with the help of tips and techniques shared by experts Implement Tableau's advanced analytical capabilities such as forecasting Delve into advanced Tableau features and explore best practices for building dashboards Book DescriptionThe Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam measures your knowledge of Tableau Desktop and your ability to work with data and data visualization techniques. This book will help you to become well-versed in Tableau software and use its business intelligence (BI) features to solve BI and analytics challenges. With the help of this book, you'll explore the authors' success stories and their experience with Tableau. You'll start by understanding the importance of Tableau certification and the different certification exams, along with covering the exam format, Tableau basics, and best practices for preparing data for analysis and visualization. The book builds on your knowledge of advanced Tableau topics such as table calculations for solving problems. You'll learn to effectively visualize geographic data using vector maps. Later, you'll discover the analytics capabilities of Tableau by learning how to use features such as forecasting. Finally, you'll understand how to build and customize dashboards, while ensuring they convey information effectively. Every chapter has examples and tests to reinforce your learning, along with mock tests in the last section. By the end of this book, you'll be able to efficiently prepare for the certification exam with the help of mock tests, detailed explanations, and expert advice from the authors. What you will learn Apply Tableau best practices to analyze and visualize data Use Tableau to visualize geographic data using vector maps Create charts to gain productive insights into data and make quality-driven decisions Implement advanced analytics techniques to identify and forecast key values Prepare customized table calculations to compute specific values Answer questions based on the Tableau Desktop Certified Associate exam with the help of mock tests Who this book is forThis Tableau certification book is for business analysts, BI professionals, and data analysts who want to become certified Tableau Desktop Associates and solve a range of data science and business intelligence problems using this example-packed guide. Some experience in Tableau Desktop is expected to get the most out of this book.

A comprehensive certification guide that will help you prepare for the exam from day one of your preparation journey Key Features Get well-versed with the nitty-gritty of Windows server 2016 A practical guide towards installing, upgrading, and migrating to Windows Server 2016 Enhance your skills with practice questions and mock tests Book DescriptionMCSA: Windows Server 2016 is one of the most sought-after certifications for IT professionals which include working with Windows Server and performing administrative tasks around it. It targets Exam 70-740, Exam 70-741, Exam 70-742 and Exam 70-743 certifications and the demand for these certifications is increasingly high. This book will start with installation, upgrade and migration to Windows Server 2016, cover imaging and deployment and proceed with High Availability and Clustering. Then we will deep dive into fundamental concepts like Core networking, DNS, DHCP, Storage and proceed to Hyper-V, Network Access and Distributed File System. It will also explain Advanced Networking topics such as Software Defined Networking and High-Performance Networking. Furthermore, it will also cover advanced Identity topics in Windows Server 2016 such as Active Directory installation and configuration, Group Policy, Active Directory Certificate Services, and Active Directory Federation Services and Rights Management. Towards the end of this book, test questions and mock preparation items will help in preparing for the certifications with more ease. By the end of this book, you will be able to complete MCSA: Windows Server 2016 certification with more confidence. What you will learn Prepare for exam 70-741 Networking with Windows Server 2016 Learn to apply the technology to real-world examples Learn core networking, name resolution and connectivity technologies in Windows Server 2016. Get prepared for exam 70-742 Identity with Windows Server 2016 Get ways to clear the exam 70-743 Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA: Windows Server 2016 Practice critical skills and test your knowledge of the objectives of all three MCSA exams Who this book is forThis book is targeted towards system administrators or windows server administrators who are interested in clearing the MCSA certification with ease.

Prepare to achieve AWS Machine Learning Specialty certification with this complete, up-to-date guide and take the exam with confidence Key Features Get to grips with core machine learning algorithms along with AWS implementation Build model training and inference pipelines and deploy machine learning models to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud Learn all about the AWS services available for machine learning in order to pass the MLS-C01 exam Book DescriptionThe AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty exam tests your competency to perform machine learning (ML) on AWS infrastructure. This book covers the entire exam syllabus using practical examples to help you with your real-world machine learning projects on AWS. Starting with an introduction to machine learning on AWS, you'll learn the fundamentals of machine learning and explore important AWS services for artificial intelligence (AI). You'll then see how to prepare data for machine learning and discover a wide variety of techniques for data manipulation and transformation for different types of variables. The book also shows you how to handle missing data and outliers and takes you through various machine learning tasks such as classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, text mining, and image processing, along with the specific ML algorithms you need to know to pass the exam. Finally, you'll explore model evaluation, optimization, and deployment and get to grips with deploying models in a production environment and monitoring them. By the end of this book, you'll have gained knowledge of the key challenges in machine learning and the solutions that AWS has released for each of them, along with the tools, methods, and techniques commonly used in each domain of AWS ML. What you will learn Understand all four domains covered in the exam, along with types of questions, exam duration, and scoring Become well-versed with machine learning terminologies, methodologies, frameworks, and the different AWS services for machine learning Get to grips with data preparation and using AWS services for batch and real-time data processing Explore the built-in machine learning algorithms in AWS and build and deploy your own models Evaluate machine learning models and tune hyperparameters Deploy machine learning models with the AWS infrastructure Who this book is forThis AWS book is for professionals and students who want to prepare for and pass the AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty exam or gain deeper knowledge of machine learning with a special focus on AWS. Beginner-level knowledge of machine learning and AWS services is necessary before getting started with this book.