Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions

Course details

This course focuses on the architectural considerations and decisions necessary when building a highly available solution in the cloud. This course also prepares the students for the 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions certification exam.

Course Outline

1 - Development using the Microsoft Azure Platform

• Azure Services
• Management Portals

2 - Establishing a Development Environment using Azure Virtual Machines

• Constructing Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure Virtual Machine Workloads
• Migrating Azure Virtual Machine Instances
• Lab : Creating an Azure Virtual Machine for Development & Testing

3 - Managing Infrastructure in Azure

• Azure Virtual Networks
• Highly Available Azure Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Configuration Management
• Customizing Azure Virtual Machine Networking
• Lab : Managing Multiple Virtual Machines in a Virtual Network

4 - Web Infrastructure in the Azure Platform

• Azure Web Sites
• Hosting Web Applications in Azure
• Configuring an Azure Web Site
• Publishing an Azure Web Site
• Monitoring an Azure Web Site
• Lab : Creating an ASP.NET Web Site Using Azure Web Sites

5 - Designing Cloud Applications for Resiliency

• Application Design Practices for Highly Available Applications
• Building High Performance Applications using ASP.NET
• Common Cloud Application Patterns
• Caching Application Data

6 - Processing Background Logic using Azure

• Understanding Cloud Services
• Cloud Service Web Roles
• Customizing Cloud Service Configurations
• Updating and Managing Azure Cloud Service Deployments
• Cloud Service Worker Roles
• Cloud Service Worker Role Processing
• Caching Data using Roles
• Analyzing Applications in Cloud Service Role Instances
• Lab : Creating a Background Process Using Azure Worker Roles

7 - Storing Tabular Data in Azure

• Azure SQL Databases Overview
• Managing SQL Databases in Azure
• Using Azure SQL Databases with SQL Server Data Tools
• Migrating Data to Azure SQL Databases
• Replication and Recovery of Azure SQL Database Instances
• Azure Storage Overview
• Azure Storage Tables Overview
• Table Entity Transactions
• Lab : Storing Event Data in Azure SQL Databases
• Lab : Storing Event Registration Data in Azure Storage Tables

8 - Storing Files and Media in Azure

• Azure Storage Blobs
• Controlling Access to Storage Blobs & Containers
• Monitoring Storage Blobs
• Configuring Azure Storage Accounts
• Azure Files
• Uploading and Migrating Storage Data
• Lab : Storing Generated Documents in Azure Storage Blobs

9 - Storing Data in Queues using Azure

• Queue Mechanisms in Azure
• Azure Storage Queues Overview
• Handling Storage Queue Messages
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Service Bus Queues
• Azure Service Bus Relay
• Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs
• Lab : Using Queues and Service Bus to Manage Communication Between Web Applications in Azure

10 - Automating Integration with Azure Resources

• Azure SDK Client Libraries
• Scripting Azure Service Management using PowerShell
• Azure REST Interface
• Azure Resource Manager
• Lab : Automating the Creation of a Test Environment using PowerShell

11 - Implementing Security in Web Applications using Azure

• Azure Active Directory
• Azure AD Directories
• Azure AD Access Control Service
• Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication
• Lab : Integrating Azure Active Director with the Events Administration Portal

12 - Deploying Web Applications to Azure

• Deployment Strategies for Web Applications
• Deploying Azure Web Sites
• Deploying Azure Cloud Services
• Continuous Integration
• Monitoring Cloud Applications
• Lab : Deploying the Events Web Application to Azure