How to chain 2 functions at once in one expression?

Question

excel

Can you please tell me if it is possible to perform 2 actions at once.
I want to combine text from 2 adjacent columns into a 3rd one:

=(A2& " " &B2)

and immediately convert the result to uppercase:

=UPPER(" ")

because the first time I try to work with functions in tables, I can’t figure out how to do it without an intermediate cell. I wanted something like this:

=(A2& " " &B2)=X; =UPPER("X")

Answer 1

=UPPER(A2& " " &B2)