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Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions - Exam Guide 70-535

By : Sjoukje Zaal
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Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions - Exam Guide 70-535

By: Sjoukje Zaal

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Appendix A – Assessments
Appendix B – Mock Test Questions
Appendix C – Mock Test Answers

Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor is a monitoring solution in the Azure Portal, which provides infrastructure metrics and logs for mostly all services in Microsoft Azure. Not all Azure resources have been added to Azure Monitor by the time of writing this book, but in the future, more will be added.

Azure Monitor offers the following capabilities:

  • Activity Log: The activity log provides information about all types of events that are occurring inside an Azure Subscription. This can be activities such as stopping or starting VMs and maintenance activities. It offers different event categories, such as administrative, security, service health, autoscale, alerts, recommendations, policies, and resource health events. The events are stored for a retention period of 90 days. Queries can be saved and pinned to the Azure Dashboard, and they can be exported to a storage account for storing...