Microsoft Exam 70-535 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions) in a nutshell!- Key topics of Design an application storage and data access strategy

In a previous post about the exam  70-535 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions), I talked about the seven pillar main topics that you have to cover before entering this exam. Today I will speak about the third topic. This topic should cover 5%-10%:

• Design an application storage and data access strategy : 

This includes two dimensions; the data access strategy design and the Azure storage that fits it. The following are the main topics that you have to consider when studying this topic:

• •Design for Azure Storage solutions•Determine when to use Azure Blob Storage, blob tiers, Azure Files, disks, and StorSimple
  •Design for Azure Data Services
  •Design for relational database storage
  •Design for NoSQL storage
  •Design for CosmosDB storage
• •Determine when to use MongoDB API, DocumentDB API, Graph API, Azure Tables API; design for cost, performance, data consistency, availability, and business continuity
• •Determine when to use Azure Redis Cache, Azure Table Storage, Azure  Data Lake, Azure Search, Time Series Insights
• •Determine when to use Azure SQL Database and SQL Server Stretch Database; design for scalability and features; determine when to use Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL; design for HA/DR, geo-replication; design a backup and recovery strategy
• •Determine when to use Data Catalog, Azure Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Analysis Services, and Azure HDInsight.





Important Tip:

Know the various storage types and their uses. For example, many times you can use Queues to decouple components of a system.
Check this link to know when to use what: https://aka.ms/azure/storage

Microsoft Exam 70-535 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions) in a nutshell!- Key topics of Design-Azure-Resource-Manager-ARM-Networking

These are the sub-topics that you have to cover in the Design-Azure-Resource-Manager-ARM-Networking topic of exam Exam 70-535 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions). This sub-topic should cover 5-10% of the exam.

For the complete list of the seven topics, please refer to the first post of this series :

That is entitled: Microsoft Exam 70-535 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions) in a nutshell!

• Design Azure virtual networks

•Design solutions that use Azure networking services: design for load balancing using Azure Load Balancer and Azure Traffic Manager; define DNS, DHCP, and IP strategies; determine when to use Azure Application Gateway; determine when to use multi-node application gateways, Traffic Manager and load balancers

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• Design external connectivity for Azure Virtual Networks

•Determine when to use Azure VPN, ExpressRoute and Virtual Network Peering architecture and design; determine when to use User Defined Routes (UDRs); determine when to use VPN gateway site-to-site failover for ExpressRoute 

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• Design security strategies

•Determine when to use network virtual appliances; design a perimeter network (DMZ); determine when to use a Web Application Firewall (WAF), Network Security Group (NSG), and virtual network service tunneling

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• Design connectivity for hybrid applications

•Design connectivity to on-premises data from Azure applications using Azure Relay Service, Azure Data Management Gateway for Data Factory, Azure On-Premises Data Gateway, Hybrid Connections, or Azure Web App’s virtual private network (VPN) capability; identify constraints for connectivity with VPN; identify options for joining VMs to domains

Microsoft Exam 70-535 (Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions) in a nutshell!

Many People are asking  and searching for the new Microsoft Exam 70-535: 

Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions that is still in A version and B is still not released.

Few important points to know:

• In its current version is coming in one only language which is English. 
• The exam is coming is an adaptive exam that comes with couple of cases and each cases has some applied questions. Your answers to one case determine the next case you get.
• Based on being an adaptive exam, means that once you leave one case you will not be able to return it back. This applies because the second case has been decided based on the answers of the previous case so, changing the answers of the first case may lead to changing the second case that you already have answered already which could create a lot of miss during the exam. that is why, this is already disabled and not possible initially.
• The exam is based on seven pillars of knowledge. Here are they and some key points under each of them:

• Design Azure Resource Manager (ARM) networking.

• Secure Resources.

• Design an application storage and data access strategy.

• Design advanced applications.

• Design Azure Web and Mobile Apps.

• Design a management, monitoring, and business continuity strategy.

• Architect an Azure Compute infrastructure.

Please note that The exam 70-534 includes main 6 topics. The 70-535 includes 7 topics. The main topics are different.

The 70-535 includes more features to study like CosmosDB, DMZ, WAF, AAD, Azure Key Vault, Event Grid and more.

in the The following posts I will speak about the content topics that you should be aware of in each of the seven pillar topics.