Free sections from Ultra Transcenders AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, on the comparisons and decisions the exam keeps asking about.
Choosing a redundancy option for durability and availability targets, and what customer-managed account failover does.
How to pick between Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure VMs from compatibility and management requirements.
Zone redundancy, active geo-replication and failover groups for Azure SQL, with the RPO and RTO each design gives.
A decision guide to Azure compute services by control, scale and operational effort.
How private endpoints and service endpoints differ, and how to design private DNS for hybrid networks.
Choosing between Azure's global and regional, layer 4 and layer 7 load-balancing services.
The five Cosmos DB consistency levels, what each guarantees, and the latency and availability trade-offs.
System-assigned vs user-assigned managed identities, workload identity federation and when to use each.