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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

Workflow-driven applications using Logic Apps

Logic Apps, another service for the serverless offering from Azure, has a lot of overlap with Azure Functions. They can both be used to integrate apps or services. The main difference between the two is that Azure Functions are event-driven and Logic Apps are more workflow-driven. You can use Logic Apps to automate your business processes using a visual designer from the Azure Portal (developers can create them in Visual Studio as well), whereas Azure Functions are completely written in code. You can, however, call Azure Functions from within a Logic App.

With Logic Apps, you can build apps that integrate numerous cloud services and on-premises applications. These can be Azure services, third-party cloud services, different data stores and databases, and LOB applications. Azure Logic Apps provide a number of pre-built connectors that...