How to Pass the Microsoft AZ-305 Exam

What is Microsoft Azure?

Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, allowing millions of companies worldwide to cost-effectively design and deploy computer systems. It provides a robust set of management tools to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of those systems. In this way, Azure provides all businesses (regardless of size) tools that would be extremely expensive to create themselves.

A cloud architect designs software systems to run in a cloud environment. The Microsoft Azure Architect Expert certification is a top-level recognition of the skills required to perform that task.

So what does an Azure Architect do? 

An architect designs software that:

• Meets the needs of the business to serve its customers
• Keeps the business and customer data secure
• Uses the computing resources efficiently
• Is designed to keep working even when the technology it is running on fails
• Makes it easy to develop and maintain the application
• Makes it easy to administer the application
• Makes it easy to detect and fix errors

While the architect’s job is to make processes easier for the user, this is no easy feat. Software that runs in the cloud has to be designed differently than software running on computing hardware that you completely control. The cloud is a shared environment with other Microsoft customers. Cloud architects are expected to be experts at the technology their applications are designed to run on. So you can think of a cloud architect as both an administrator AND a software designer.

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