Azure AZ-800 case studies
Azure AZ-800 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
AZ-800, Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure, is the core exam for the Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Administrator Associate credential. It targets administrators who run Windows Server as a workload in both on-premises and hybrid environments - deploying, implementing, managing and troubleshooting Windows Server in Azure, and migrating workloads to Azure. The Azure AZ-800 case studies are 5 cases and about 4,359 words.
1Contoso - Placing Domain Controllers in Azure Without Leaking Authentication Across the VPN
Contoso has one AD forest and one domain, corp.contoso.com, with two domain controllers: DC01 in Amsterdam and DC02 in Dublin. All five FSMO roles are on DC01.
880 words, about 4 min2Fabrikam - One Patching Control Plane Across Three Network Zones
Fabrikam runs 120 Windows Server 2019 and 2022 VMs on VMware. Eighty-five sit in the corporate network and reach the internet only through an authenticating proxy.
876 words, about 4 min3Tailspin - Latency-Sensitive Tiers and a Legacy Windows Container
Tailspin's customer portal runs in East US 2 in three tiers: four stateless web VMs, four app-tier VMs, and a two-node SQL Server Always On availability group. The service level commitment to the business is 99.95%.
819 words, about 4 min4Northwind - Hub/Spoke Connectivity Where One Direction Never Worked
Northwind connects its HQ network (10.10.0.0/16) to Azure through a route-based VPN gateway in a hub VNet, 10.100.0.0/16. Two spoke VNets, SpokeA (10.101.0.0/24) and SpokeB (10.102.0.0/24), are peered to the hub.
829 words, about 4 min5Adatum - Replacing DFS-R with Azure File Sync on a 9 TB File Estate
Adatum has 9 TB of file data on FS01, a Windows Server 2019 file server, published through a DFS namespace. Three branch offices each run a Windows Server 2016 server that replicates 2 TB of that data with DFS-R.
955 words, about 5 min