Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions

Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-532--and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of Microsoft Azure solution development. Designed for experienced developers ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Specialist level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Design and implement Websites
• Create and manage Virtual Machines
• Design and implement Cloud Services
• Design and implement a storage strategy
• Manage application and network services

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
• Will be valuable for Microsoft Azure developers, solution architects, DevOps engineers, and QA engineers
• Assumes you have experience designing, programming, implementing, automating, and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions and that you are proficient with tools, techniques, and approaches for building scalable, resilient solutions

Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
About the Exam
Exam 70-532 focuses on the skills and knowledge needed to develop Microsoft Azure solutions that include websites, virtual machines, cloud services, storage, application services, and network services.

About Microsoft Certification
Passing this exam earns you a Microsoft Specialist certification in Microsoft Azure, demonstrating your expertise with the Microsoft Azure enterprise-grade cloud platform.

You can earn this certification by passing Exam 70-532, Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions; or Exam 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions; or Exam 70-534, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions.

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Table of Contents

Introduction     xi
Microsoft certifications     xi
Acknowledgments     xii
Free ebooks from Microsoft Press     xiii
Errata, updates, & book support     xiii
We want to hear from you     xiii
Stay in touch     xiii
Preparing for the exam     xiv
Chapter 1     Design and implement websites     1
Objective 1.1: Deploy websites     2
Defining deployment slots     2
Rolling back deployments     7
Creating hosting plans     7
Migrating websites between hosting plans     10
Creating a website within a hosting plan     12
Objective summary     13
Objective review     13
Objective 1.2: Configure websites     13
Defining and using app settings     14
Defining and using connection strings     16
Defining and using request handler mappings     18
Defining and using virtual directories and virtual applications     20
Configure custom domains     22
Configuring certificates     26
Configuring SSL bindings      32
Managing websites by using the API, Windows PowerShell,
and the Cross-Platform Command Line Interface (xplat-cli)     33
Objective summary     34
Objective review     35
Objective 1.3: Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics     35
Retrieving diagnostics data and viewing streaming logs     36
Configuring diagnostics     43
Using remote debugging     45
Configuring endpoint monitoring     46
Configuring alerts     48
Monitoring website resources     51
Objective summary     54
Objective review     54
Objective 1.4: Implement WebJobs     55
Writing WebJobs using the SDK     55
Packaging and deploying WebJobs     58
Scheduling WebJobs     60
Objective summary     61
Objective review     61
Objective 1.5: Configure websites for scale and resilience     62
Configuring auto-scale using built-in and custom schedules     63
Configuring auto-scale by metric     64
Changing the size of an instance     68
Configuring Traffic Manager     69
Objective summary     73
Objective review     73
Objective 1.6: Design and implement applications for scale and resilience     74
Selecting a pattern     75
Implementing transient fault handling for services and responding to throttling     79
Disabling Application Request Routing (ARR) affinity     82
Objective summary     83
Objective review     83
Answers     84
Chapter 2     Create and manage virtual machines     91
Objective 2.1: Deploy workloads on Azure virtual machines     91
Identifying supported workloads     92
Creating a VM     93
Objective summary     96
Objective review     96
Objective 2.2: Create and manage a VM image or virtual hard disk     97
Creating specialized and generalized VM images     97
Uploading VHDs to Azure     99
Creating disks     100
Creating a VM using existing disks     101
Generalizing a VM     103
Creating or capturing a VM image     103
Instantiating a VM instance from a VM image     105
Copying images between storage accounts     106
Objective summary     107
Objective review     107
Objective 2.3: Perform configuration management     108
VM Agent and VM extensions     108
Configuring VMs with Custom Script Extension     109
Using PowerShell DSC      110
Configuring VMs with DSC     112
Using the Puppet and Chef configuration management tools     114
Enabling Puppet extensions     114
Enabling Chef extensions     119
Enabling remote debugging     122
Objective summary     122
Objective review     123
Objective 2.4: Configure VM networking     124
Configuring DNS at the cloud service level     124
Configuring endpoints with instance-level public IP addresses     124
Configuring endpoints with reserved IP addresses     126
Configuring access control lists     127
Load balancing endpoints and configuring health probes     128
Configuring Direct Server Return and keep-alive     132
Leveraging name resolution within a cloud service     133
Configuring firewall rules     133
Objective summary     135
Objective review     136
Objective 2.5: Scale VMs     136
Scaling up and scaling down VM sizes     137
Configuring availability sets     138
Configuring auto-scale     141
Objective summary     144
Objective review     144
Objective 2.6: Design and implement VM storage     145
Planning for storage capacity     145
Configuring storage pools      146
Configuring disk caching     148
Configuring geo-replication     150
Configuring shared storage using Azure File storage     150
Objective summary     154
Objective review     155
Objective 2.7: Monitor VMs     155
Configuring monitoring and diagnostics     156
Configuring endpoint monitoring     158
Configuring alerts     158
Monitoring metrics     160
Objective summary     162
Objective review     163
Answers     164
Chapter 3     Design and implement cloud services     171
Objective 3.1: Design and develop a cloud service     171
Installing SDKs and emulators     172
Developing a web or worker role     173
Design and implement resiliency     180
Developing startup tasks     181
Objective summary     184
Objective review     184
Objective 3.2: Configure cloud services and roles     185
Configuring instance size and count     185
Configuring auto-scale     187
Configuring cloud service networking     190
Configuring local storage     200
Configuring multiple websites in a web role     201
Configuring custom domains     204
Configuring caching     205
Objective summary     212
Objective review     212
Objective 3.3: Deploy a cloud service     213
Packaging a deployment     214
Upgrading a deployment     214
VIP swapping a deployment     218
Implementing continuous delivery from Visual Studio Online     219
Implementing runtime configuration changes using the management portal     222
Configuring regions and affinity groups     225
Objective summary     228
Objective review     228
Objective 3.4: Monitor and debug a cloud service     229
Configuring diagnostics     229
Profiling resource consumption     231
Enabling remote debugging     233
Enabling and using Remote Desktop Protocol     234
Debugging using IntelliTrace      236
Debugging using the emulator      237
Objective summary     239
Objective review     240
Answers     241
Chapter 4     Design and implement a storage strategy     245
Objective 4.1: Implement Azure Storage blobs and Azure files     246
Creating a container     246
Finding your account access key     249
Uploading a blob     250
Reading data     251
Changing data     251
Setting metadata on a container     253
Storing data using block and page blobs     255
Streaming data using blobs     255
Accessing blobs securely     255
Implementing an async blob copy     256
Configuring the Content Delivery Network     257
Designing blob hierarchies     258
Configuring custom domains     258
Scaling Blob storage     259
Working with Azure File storage     259
Objective summary     260
Objective review     260
Objective 4.2: Implement Azure Storage tables     261
Using basic CRUD operations     261
Querying using ODATA     265
Designing, managing, and scaling table partitions     266
Objective summary     267
Objective review     267
Objective 4.3: Implement Azure storage queues     268
Adding messages to a queue     268
Processing messages     269
Retrieving a batch of messages     270
Scaling queues     270
Objective summary     271
Objective review     272
Objective 4.4: Manage access     272
Generating shared access signatures     273
Creating stored access policies     276
Regenerating storage account keys     276
Configuring and using Cross-Origin Resource Sharing     278
Objective summary     279
Objective review     279
Objective 4.5: Monitor storage     280
Configuring storage metrics     280
Analyzing storage metrics      283
Configuring Storage Analytics Logging     285
Analyzing storage logs     287
Objective summary     291
Objective review     291
Objective 4.6: Implement SQL databases     292
Choosing the appropriate database tier and performance level     292
Configuring and performing point in time recovery     295
Enabling geo-replication     297
Importing and exporting data and schema (existing portal)     301
Importing and exporting data and schema (Preview portal)     302
Objective summary     303
Objective review     303
Answers     304
Chapter 5     Manage application and network services     313
Objective 5.1: Integrate an app with Azure Active Directory     313
Creating a directory     314
Managing users     315
Integrating applications     317
Querying directories with the Graph API     324
Objective summary     328
Objective review     329
Objective 5.2: Configure a virtual network     329
Creating a virtual network     330
Adding a VM to a virtual network      332
Deploying a cloud service to a virtual network     334
Objective summary     335
Objective review     335
Objective 5.3: Modify network configuration     336
Modifying a subnet (existing portal)     336
Modifying a subnet (Preview portal)     337
Moving a VM or cloud service to a new subnet     338
Exporting network configuration      339
Importing network configuration     339
Objective summary     340
Objective review     340
Objective 5.4: Design and implement a communication strategy     341
Creating a Service Bus namespace     342
Selecting a protocol for messaging     343
Using Service Bus relays     344
Using Service Bus queues     349
Using Service Bus topics and subscriptions     356
Using event hubs     361
Using notification hubs     366
Objective summary     368
Objective review     369
Objective 5.5: Scale and monitor communication     369
Choosing a pricing tier     370
Scaling Service Bus features     371
Monitoring Service Bus features     373
Objective summary     377
Objective review     377
Objective 5.6: Implement caching     378
Implementing Redis Cache     379
Implementing Azure Managed Cache Service     383
Objective summary     384
Objective review     385
Answers     386
Index     395

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