▶Book Description
Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-535 will get Azure architects and developers up-to-date with the latest updates on Azure from an architecture and design perspective. The book includes all the topics that are still relevant from the previous 70-534 exam, and is updated with latest topics covered, including Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and architecture styles.
This exam guide is divided into six parts, where the first part will give you a good understanding of how to design a compute infrastructure. It also dives into designing networking and data implementations. You will learn about designing solutions for Platform Service and operations. Next, you will be able to secure your resources and data, as well as design a mechanism for governance and policies. You will also understand the objective of designing solutions for Platform Services, by covering Artificial Intelligence, IoT, media services, and messaging solution concepts. Finally, you will cover the designing for operations objective. This objective covers application and platform monitoring, as well as designing alerting strategies and operations automation strategies.
By the end of the book, you’ll have met all of the exam objectives, and will have all the information you need to ace the 70-535 exam. You will also have become an expert in designing solutions on Microsoft Azure.
▶What You Will Learn
- Use Azure Virtual Machines to design effective VM deployments
- Implement Architecture styles, like Serverless and Microservices on top of the Azure platform
- Secure your data using the different security features in Azure and design effective security strategies
- Design Azure storage solutions using various Azure storage features
- Learn to design Azure Data Services, relationaldatabases, NoSQL and CosmosDB storage in a highly available and cost-effective manner
- Know how to design identity management solutions for your applications and resources using different identity providers
- Design state of the art solutions using Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Azure Media Services.
- Use the different automation solutions that are incorporated in the Azure platform.
▶Key Features
- Learn to successfully design and architect powerful solutions on Azure Cloud platform
- Enhance your job-role skills with mock tests and practice questions.
- A detailed certification guide that will help you clear the 70-535 exam with confidence
▶Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at architects and experiences developers who want to prepare for the 70-535 exam. Technical architects interested in learning more about designing cloud solutions will also find this book useful.
▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Working with Azure Virtual Machines, will cover how to design solutions using Azure virtual machines. This includes designing VM deployments using availability sets, fault and update domains, and backup and recovery.
- Chapter 2, Configuring Compute-Intensive Applications, covers how to design HPC and other compute-intensive applications using Azure Services, such as Azure Batch.
- Chapter 3, Designing Web Applications, will cover how to design web applications and custom web APIs, how design for business continuity, scalability and performance, and more.
- Chapter 4, Implementing Serverless and Microservices, will teach you how to design serverless and microservice-based solutions. This chapter will cover Azure Service Fabric, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and more.
- Chapter 5, Robust Networking Implementations, will cover all the networking features and capabilities that Azure has to offer and how to design effective networking solutions.
- Chapter 6, Connecting Hybrid Applications, will teach you how to design connectivity to onpremises data from Azure applications using Azure Data Management Gateway for Data Factory, Azure On-Premises Data Gateway, and more.
- Chapter 7, Using Storage Solutions, will cover how to design storage solutions using Azure Blob Storage, blob tiers, Azure Files, disks, and StorSimple. It will cover NoSQL and CosmosDB.
- Chapter 8, Scalable Data Implementations, will cover how to design solutions using Azure Data Services. This includes determining when to use Data Catalog, Azure Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Analysis Services, and Azure HDInsight.
- Chapter 9, Securing Your Resources, covers how to secure your Azure resources and applications using Azure Active Directory, multi-factor authentication, and more.
- Chapter 10, Securing Your Data, will cover data security solutions and capabilities, such as Azure Key Vault, Azure Storage Encryption, and Azure Disk Encryption.
- Chapter 11, Governance and Policies, will cover designing a mechanism of governance and policies for administering Azure resources, such as determining when to use Azure RBAC standard roles and custom roles, when to use Azure resource policies, and more.
- Chapter 12, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and Media Services, will discuss the different features and capabilities that Azure has to offer for designing artificial intelligence and IoT solutions. It will also cover how to design solutions using Azure Media Services.
- Chapter 13, Implementing Messaging Solutions, will cover how to design an effective messaging architecture using Azure Storage Queues, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, Event Grid, and more.
- Chapter 14, Application Monitoring and Alerting Strategies, will cover how to design an application monitoring and alerting strategy and how to design a platform-monitoring and alerting strategy using the different Microsoft products and services for monitoring Azure platform solutions.
- Chapter 15, Exploring Operations Automation Strategies, will cover different solutions and methods for designing an operations automation strategy and designing an autoscaling strategy.
- Appendix A, Assessments, will contain the answers for all the questions given at the end of each chapter.
- Appendix B, Mock Test Questions, will consist of mock questions for you to test your knowledge. It tries to cover all the topics from the scope of the exam and challenges your understanding of the topics.
- Appendix C, Mock Test Answers, will have the answers to the questions present in Appendix B, Mock Test Questions.
