Get Prepared for Microsoft Azure Solutions Certifications
Onur Dogruoz
In his recent blog post, Keith Mayer shared a comprehensive early study guide for the 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions exam. Since these Azure certifications are considerably new, it’s harder to find study guides and Keith did an excellent job to put all these resources together in a checklist format. You can access the Keith Mayer’s blog post here.
If you are preparing for 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam, make sure to take a look at Azure IaaS for IT Pros page on Microsoft Virtual Academy. Josh Condie covered this in a detailed post on our TS2 blog.
There is also 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions exam and I have included the preparation resources below, under “About 70-532 Exam section”.
Once you pass one of these exams, you will be earning “Microsoft Specialist” certification for Azure.
Good luck with your exam!
About 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Exam
Who should take this exam?
This exam is for candidates who are interested in validating their Microsoft Azure solution design skills. Candidates should know the features and capabilities of Azure services to be able to identify tradeoffs and make decisions for designing public and hybrid cloud solutions. Candidates who take this exam are expected to be able to define the appropriate infrastructure and platform solutions to meet the required functional, operational, and deployment requirements through the solution lifecycle.
Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions and Exam 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions are useful for candidates who want to validate their implementation experience across cloud projects, but they are not prerequisites for this exam.
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
- Design Microsoft Azure infrastructure and networking (15–20%)
- Secure resources (15–20%)
- Design an application storage and data access strategy (15–20%)
- Design an advanced application (15–20%)
- Design websites (15–20%)
- Design a management, monitoring, and business continuity strategy (15–20%)
About 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Exam
Who should take this exam?
This exam is for candidates who are experienced in implementing an infrastructure solution in Microsoft Azure. Candidates have experience implementing and monitoring cloud and hybrid solutions as well as supporting application lifecycle management.
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
- Implement websites (15-20%)
- Implement virtual machines (15-20%)
- Implement cloud services (15-20%)
- Implement storage (15-20%)
- Implement an Azure Active Directory (15-20%)
- Implement virtual networks (15-20%)
About 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
Who should take this exam?
This exam is for candidates who are experienced in designing, programming, implementing, automating, and monitoring Microsoft Azure solutions. Candidates are also proficient with development tools, techniques, and approaches used to build scalable and resilient solutions.
Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam.
Please note that the questions may test on, but will not be limited to, the topics described in the bulleted text.
- Preparation resources
- How to Deploy an Azure Web Site
- Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK
- Cloud Design Patterns: Prescriptive Architecture Guidance for Cloud Applications
- Preparation resources
- Copy Blob
- Load Balancing for Azure Infrastructure Services
- How to Monitor Cloud Services
- Preparation resources
- Continuous delivery to Azure using Visual Studio Online
- Configuring SSL for an application in Azure
- Windows Azure SDK for .NET - 2.2
- Preparation resources
- Azure Cloud Service Tutorial: ASP.NET MVC Web Role, Worker Role, and Azure Storage Tables, Queues, and Blobs - 1 of 5
- Shared Access Signatures, Part 1: Understanding the SAS Model
- How to Monitor a Storage Account
- Preparation resources
- Azure AD Graph API
- Virtual Network Configuration Tasks
- Notification Hubs Monitoring and Telemetry