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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

Designing an autoscaling strategy

Autoscaling offers a solution to match performance requirements and meet SLAs for Azure resources and Applications. It can add additional resources such as adding VMs and CPUs to VMs and other Azure resources, and when those resources are no longer needed, they can be removed to minimize costs. This process is handled by Azure.

Autoscaling is one of the key benefits of cloud technologies because you add and remove additional resources easily and even automatically without the need to manage those resources. Autoscaling can be done in the following two different ways:

  • Vertical Scaling: This is also called scaling up and down. You can move applications to a different VM size. By changing the VM size, applications become unavailable for a short period of time, so this type of scaling is normally not executed automatically.
  • Horizontal Scaling:...