After successufully passing AZ-204 few months ago, I’ve decided to try AZ-400. I started from Microsoft’s e-learnings which are pretty nice. However when I started with Whizlabs’es exams – I said “no way”. It’s too ops comparing to my job. Therefore, looking around about other valuable exams, I picked AZ-303/AZ-304 as the way to get …
Tag: Azure
Azure region in Poland
Microsoft just announced new region in Poland. The total investment plan is 1 billion USD! There is quite long movie about this plan which you can watch on YouTube.
Budgets and payments in clouds
How to set up payments and budgets in cloud provider is today’s topic. Usually providers offers two payment models: consumption based – monthly invoice for consumed resources reserved instances – paying upfront for reserved resources (capacity) Also interesting part is setting up spending limits. Alibaba Alibaba has very simple budget interface. In fact it allows …
Cloud comparison – intro
Under the series of articles I’m going to discuss the differences between main cloud compatitors: Alibaba AWS Azure Google (GCP) IBM Cloud Oracle This list is based on Gartner’s magic quadrant (2019) and the order is alphabetical. Looking into Gartner’s data, the leader is AWS and just few steps behind is Azure. Next is GCP. …
Changes to Microsoft Certs
Microsoft just announced changes to their exam including: AZ-103, AZ-203, AZ-300, AZ-301, AI-100. New versions (AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-303, AZ-304, AI-101) will be rolled out in March 2020. Old exams will be available for 90 days after new ones will become available. Also some other updates are expected (to other exams) but they were not announced …
Learning to Azure AZ-203 exam
Here is a bunch of links which I’m using in learning to AZ-203 (and AZ-204) exam: Exam homepage Learning path related to materials from Microsoft (long read) 50 minutes intro (overview) on Azure Whizlabs on the preparations Youtube videos with basic knowledge by Adam Marczak Azure for architectes by Ritesh Modi (Packt, Oct 2017) – …