70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
The Microsoft Azure environment is constantly evolving. This document includes the most
recent updates to Exam 70-532 that address both deprecated and new technologies and
processes. These changes are effective as of March 10, 2016.
Objective Domain
Design and implement Website Web Apps (15-20%)
Deploy website Web Apps
Define deployment slots; roll back deployments; implement pre and post
deployment actions; create, configure, and deploy a package; create hosting
plans App Service plans; migrate websites Web Apps between hosting plans
App Service plans; create a website Web App within an hosting plan App
Service plan
Configure websites Web Apps
Define and use app settings, connection strings, handlers, and virtual
directories; configure certificates and custom domains; configure SSL bindings
and runtime configurations; manage websitesWeb Apps by using the API,
Windows PowerShell Azure PowerShell, and Xplat-CLI
Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics
Retrieve diagnostics data; view streaming logs; configure endpoint monitoring;
configure alerts; configure diagnostics; use remote debugging; monitor
website Web App resources
Implement web jobs
Write web jobs using the SDK; package and deploy web jobs; schedule web
jobs
Configure websites Web Apps for scale and resilience
Configure auto-scale using built-in and custom schedules; configure by metric;
change the size of an instance; configure Traffic Manager
Design and implement applications for scale and resilience
Select a pattern; implement transient fault handling for services; respond to
throttling; disable Application Request Routing (ARR) affinity
Create and Manage Virtual Machines (20-25%)
Deploy workloads on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
Identify workloads that can and cannot be deployed; run workloads including
Microsoft and Linux; create VMs
Create and manage a VM image or virtual hard disk
Create specialized and reusable images; prepare images using SysPrep and
Windows Agent (Linux); copy images between storage accounts and
subscriptions; upload VMs
Perform configuration management
Automate configuration management by using PowerShell Desired State
Configuration and VM Agent (custom script extensions); configure VMs using a
configuration management tool such as Puppet or Chef; enable remote
debugging
Configure VM networking
Configure reserved IP addresses, access control list (ACL) Network Security
Groups (NSG), DNS at the cloud service virtual network level, load balancing
endpoints, HTTP and TCP health probes, public IPs, firewall rules, direct server
return, and keep-alive
Scale VMs
Scale up and scale down VM sizes; configure auto-scale and availability sets
Design and implement VM storage
Configure disk caching; plan for storage capacity; configure shared storage
using Azure File service; configure geo-replication
Monitor VMs
Configure endpoint monitoring; configure alerts; configure diagnostic and
monitoring storage location
Design and Implement Cloud Services (20-25%)
Design and develop a cloud service
Install SDKs; install emulators; develop a web role or worker role; design and
implement resiliency including transient fault handling; develop startup tasks
Configure cloud services and roles
Configure HTTPS endpoint and upload an SSL certificate, and instance count
and size; configure network access rules, local storage, multiple websites Web
Apps, custom domains, and dedicated and co-located caching; scale up and
scale down role sizes; configure auto-scale
Deploy a cloud service
Upgrade an automatic, manual, or simultaneous deployment; VIP swap a
deployment; package a deployment; implement continuous deployment from
Visual Studio Online (VSO); implement runtime configuration changes using
the portal; configure regions and affinity groups
Monitor and debug a cloud service
Configure diagnostics using the SDK or configuration file; profile resource
consumption; enable remote debugging; establish a connection using Remote
Desktop cmdlets in Windows PowerShell Azure PowerShell; debug using
IntelliTrace or the emulator
Design and Implement a Storage Strategy (20-25%)
Implement Azure Storage blobs and Azure Files
Read data; change data; set metadata on a container; store data using block
and page blobs; stream data using blobs; access blobs securely; implement
async blob copy; configure Content Delivery Network (CDN); design blob
hierarchies; configure custom domains; scale blob storage; implement Azure
Premium storage
Implement Azure storage tables
Implement CRUD with and without transactions; design and manage partitions;
query using OData; scale tables and partitions
Implement Azure storage queues
Add and process messages; retrieve a batch of messages; scale queues
Manage access
Generate shared access signatures, including client renewal and data
validation; create stored access policies; regenerate storage account keys;
configure and use Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
Monitor storage
Set retention policies and logging levels; analyze logs
Implement SQL databases
Choose the appropriate database tier and performance level; configure and
perform point in time recovery; enable geo-replication; import and export data
and schema; scale SQL databases
Manage application and network services (15-20%)
Integrate an app with Azure Active Directory
Develop apps that use WS-federation, OAuth, and SAML-P endpoints; query
the directory by using graph API
Configure a virtual network
Deploy a VM into a virtual network; deploy a cloud service into a virtual
network
Modify network configuration
Modify a subnet; import and export network configuration
Design and implement a communication strategy
Develop messaging solutions using service bus queues, topics, relays, and
notification hubs; create service bus namespaces and choose a tier; scale
service bus
Monitor communication
Monitor service bus queues, topics, relays, and notification hubs
Implement caching
Implement Redis caching; implement migrate solutions from Azure Cache
Service to use Redis caching
