Summary

This chapter provided complete coverage of the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam skills area called Describe Core Azure Solutions.

In this chapter, you learned about various skills that will provide you with the confidence to explain and discuss the following aspects with a business or technical audience: serverless computing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data and analytics, and DevOps.

Every organization should be evaluating the solutions referenced in this chapter; this is more important than ever for organizations of any size. There is a need to accelerate innovation, work smarter and not harder, and find ways to reduce costs from shrinking budgets. An organization needs to respond quickly to gain a competitive advantage or get software and systems into the market; release and update cycles of years, months, and weeks are no longer tenable.

For each of the technology areas we have covered in this chapter, the question should no longer be Why would we want to do this? but instead, How do we accelerate adoption quicker?

We are ushering in a new era of digital leaders; a culture and mindshift are required from the top down to foster teams to work more collaboratively; we need to leave behind the organization’s technical debt and shift that on-premises mindset and go beyond DevOps and into a DigitalOps culture.

As they say, you are on the bus or under its wheels; the DevOps and Data Insights bus has left the depot… don’t get left behind… or under the wheels.

In this chapter, further knowledge beyond the exam’s content was provided to help prepare you for a real-world, day-to-day Azure-focused role.

The chapter concluded with a hands-on exercise section that brought together some of the skills areas that were covered in this chapter.

The next chapter will outline Azure Management tools such as the Azure portal, PowerShell, the Azure CLI, Cloud Shell, and Mobile App. We will also describe the functionality and usage of Azure Advisor, Azure Monitor, and Azure Service Health.