Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions

by Tejada, Zoiner; Bustamante, Michele Leroux; Ellis, Ike

• ISBN13: 9781509304592
• ISBN10: 1509304592
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-01-22
• Publisher: Microsoft Press

Summary

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-532—and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of the skills needed to develop Microsoft Azure solutions. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for job success.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Create and manage Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines
• Design and implement a storage and data strategy
• Manage identity, application, and network services
• Design and implement Azure PaaS compute, web, and mo bile services

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
• Assumes you have experience designing, programming, implementing, automating, and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions, and are proficient with tools, techniques, and approaches for building scalable, resilient solutions

About the Exam

Exam 70-532 focuses on skills and knowledge for building highly available solutions in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

About Microsoft Certification

This exam is for candidates who are experienced in designing, programming, implementing, automating, and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions. Candidates are also proficient with development tools, techniques, and approaches used to build scalable and resilient solutions.

See full details at: microsoft.com/learning

Author Biography

ZOINER TEJADA has more than 18 years of experience in the software industry as a software architect, CTO, and start-up CEO, with particular expertise in cloud computing, big data, ana¿lytics, and machine learning. He was among the first to receive a Microsoft Azure MVP (“Most Valuable Professional”) designation and has since been awarded the MVP for six consecutive years, and most recently a dual MVP award for Azure and Data Platform. Additionally, he was recently recognized by Microsoft as a Microsoft Regional Director.

MICHELE LEROUX BUSTAMANTE is cofounder / CIO of Solliance, a Microsoft Regional Direc¿tor and Azure MVP, has been awarded Azure Elite and Azure Insider status as well as the ASP. NET Insider designation. Michele is a respected technology executive / thought leader, who builds high performance teams and infrastructure. With over 20 years of experience Michele has held senior executive positions, assembled software development teams and implemented processes for all aspects of the software development lifecycle, and actively facilitated large-scale enterprise application deployments. Michele is a recognized expert in many fields includ¿ing distributed systems architecture, cloud computing and identity and access management – the latter, an area with very few deep technical experts. Today, Michele specializes in deliver¿ing cloud-enabled solutions at scale, cloud migration, security, compliance, and micro-services platforms.

IKE ELLIS is a data architect who stays current on many database technologies. He special¿izes in the Microsoft Data Platform, including DocumentDB, Azure SQL Datawarehouse, and Azure Data Lake. He also loves visualizing data using Microsoft tools like Power BI, SQL Server Reporting Services, and mobile dashboarding. Ike is a current Microsoft MVP for the data platform team.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:  1. Design and implement websites   
 Objective 1.1 Deploy websites 
 Objective 1.2 Configure websites 
 Objective 1.3 Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics 
 Objective 1.4 Implement web jobs 
 Objective 1.5 Configure website for scale and resilience 
 Objective 1.6 Design and implement applications for scale and resilience 
Chapter 2: Create and manage virtual machines  
 Objective 2.1 Deploy workloads on Azure virtual machines  
 Objective 2.2 Create and manage a VM image or virtual hard disk 
 Objective 2.3 Perform configuration management 
 Objective 2.4 Configure virtual machine networking 
 Objective 2.5 Scale virtual machines 
 Objective 2.6 Design and implement virtual machine storage 
 Objective 2.7 Monitor virtual machines 
Chapter 3:  Design and implement cloud services  
 Objective 3.1 Design and develop a cloud service 
 Objective 3.2 Configure cloud services and roles 
 Objective 3.3 Deply a cloud service 
 Objective 3.4 Monitor and debug a cloud service 
Chapter 4: Design and implement a storage strategy  
 Objective 4.1 Implement Azure storage blobs and Azure files 
 Objective 4.2 Implement Azure storage tables 
 Objective 4.3 Implement Azure storage queues 
 Objective 4.4 Manage acccess 
 Objective 4.5 Monitor storage 
 Objective 4.6 Implement SQL databases 
Chapter 5: Manage application and network services  
 Objective 5.1  Integrate an app with Azure Active Directory 
 Objective 5.2 Configure a virtual network 
 Objective 5.3 Modify network configuration 
 Objective 5.4 Design and implement a communication strategy 
 Objective 5.5 Monitor communication 
 Objective 5.6 Implement caching