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 Hi, I want to start out really kind
 of going over what you should expect

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 if you go in to take
 the AZ 500 exam.

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 Now there's four different areas that
 I'm going to cover in this short

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 video. Talk about the exam domains
 which we have in front of us.

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 We'll also look at the length of the
 exam, the types of questions you

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 would expect and any general information
 I have on the exam itself.

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 And again, this is all going
 to go relatively quickly.

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 The first section, as you can see, the
 first exam, what is called objective

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 domain, is manage identity
 and access.

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 And that's going to look at things like
 Azure AD and some role-based access

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 control and related topics.

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 And then we're going to take a look
 at implementing platform protection.

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 So what are some of the ways that we
 can protect things like our virtual

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 machines and our web applications,
 et cetera?

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 We'll look at managing security operations
 and that really is pretty much

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 looking at what we have to, what tools
 do we have to really help us centralize

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 and manage security.

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 And notice that's 25 to 30%.

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 And then finally securing data and applications
 is 20 to 25% of the overall

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 exam. Now these weights, this is not
 exact, but it does give you a pretty

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 good guideline. And for me, this is
 always useful because I tend to bog

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 down oftentimes in the sections that
 have the least weight, right?

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 So I'll find something really
 cool in platform protection.

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 And I'll just kind of go down the trail
 on that and maybe not necessarily

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 use my preparation time as
 effectively as possible.

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 Of course, you want to know everything
 there is, but if there is limited

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 study and time, this is a really good
 guideline to define where you want

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 to spend the most effort studying.


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 Of course, that also depends on what you
 are most comfortable with already.

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 Now exam length, the actual exam itself,
 somewhere around two hours of

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 actual exam time and there were somewhere
 around 40 questions to give

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 or take a few. And I will tell you,
 I found that I had plenty of time

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 to go through the exam and to take
 the best of my ability and I wasn't

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 rushed. Now you always want to use
 time management while you're taking

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 the exam, but I think you'll find that
 you have enough time for the exam

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 itself. Now what about
 the types of questions?

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 If you've taken Microsoft exams before,
 particularly in the last few years,

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 none of the types of questions are
 going to really surprise you.

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 First of all, you've got your standard
 multi-choice where it may be choose

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 one or choose two or three
 or whatever it is.

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 I can't think of an instance where I
 wasn't told how many to choose, but

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 there's always that possibility.

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 There's a number of drag and drop where
 there's a process and it asks

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 you to put the steps for the process
 in order, choose the right steps,

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 put them in order.

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 Those are always kind of fun.

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 And I find there were a lot of drop
 down lists and in particular drop

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 down lists surrounding things like
 command line syntax, whether it was

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 the Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell.


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 So any chance you get to become familiar
 with those, it's a good thing

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 to do. Also, in some cases, things
 like JSON for various definitions.

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 So you vary and we'll get to this
 in a pretty detail oriented.

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 There's also a scenario what I like to
 call scenario questions and they're

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 relatively new, although they've
 been around for a few years now.

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 And with the scenario questions, you're
 going to get the same scenario

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 across two or three questions and there'll
 be a problem defined in this

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 scenario. It's about a paragraph and
 then you've got a solution to that

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 and you have to determine just yes
 or no, does that solution actually

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 satisfy the scenario requirement
 or problem or whatever it is.

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 You've got to be very careful with
 these for a couple of reasons.

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 One, you cannot go back on these.

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 There's really the only type of question
 that you can't go back at least

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 within a section because they're going
 to give you really again the same

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 scenario with different answers.

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 And so that's just the way to make sure
 you don't go, oh, that's right.

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 That wouldn't work.

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 Something to go back and do this.

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 Also with scenarios, they tend to go
 back to back and be careful and make

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 sure you read them carefully.

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 I have on previous exams almost missed
 questions because I just, you know,

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 it was on my fourth or fifth scenario
 question and I just assumed it was

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 the same and I looked at the answer and
 then I was like, oh, let me actually

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 read it and what do you know?

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 It was different.

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 So be careful with those.

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 You may run into one or two case
 studies on this exam as well.

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 So if those freak you out, then that's
 certainly something you want to

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 practice with. I didn't find the ones
 I ran into to be unfair or overly

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 complex. All right.

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 Now in general, just a couple
 general comments.

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 First of all, I think
 the test was fair.

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 It was hard and it was detailed.

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 So, you know, I did not get 100
 or 1,000, I guess, as it were.

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 The standard Microsoft test
 700 is passing the exam.

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 But things, particularly details, a couple
 of things I want to point out.

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 Be very comfortable with what resource
 providers are going to provide

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 which resources.

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 That's something I think
 is useful to know.

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 And also, anytime you're looking at
 something, when you get into role

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-based access control and certainly in
 the videos for the learning path,

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 I talk about role-based access control
 and we'll go through some specific

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 examples. The more specifics you can
 kind of see on common role-based

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 access control. So, you know, things
 like virtual machine actions, which

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 are really permissions from the standpoint
 of role-based access control.

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 Just take a look at those.

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 Take a look at the structure.

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 It's not horrible.

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 But, again, definitely
 very detailed.

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 All right. So, that's what you
 can expect to take an exam.

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 Now, of course, that's going to
 change a little bit over time.

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 But I think the fundamentals of the
 exam will stay relatively solid.