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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

Application Insights

Application Insights offers a monitoring solution for cross-platform Apps that are hosted in Azure and for on-premises apps. It is aimed at developers and can be used in order to monitor the performance and detect issues, and it helps improve usability of your apps. It can be integrated in DevOps processes and development tools, such as Visual Studio.

Developers can set up an Application Insights Resource inside Azure and install a package inside their application. This can be an Azure application or an on-premises application; they can both connect to the resource in Azure. This package is responsible for sending telemetry data to Azure. You can add performance counters, Docker logs, and diagnostic logs as well.

It collects the following types of application events:

  • Rate data: Different types of rate data can be sent to Application Insights, such as request...