Preparing for the Azure Exam 70-533

Prepare to pass the Microsoft Azure 70-533 exam

So the Primary focus should be on the topics mentioned below, this is as per the blue print listed on the Microsoft website for the certification 70-533

• Implement Websites
• Implement Virtual Machines
• Implement Cloud Services
• Implement Storage
• Implement an Azure Active Directory
• Implement Virtual Network

You need to have a good Understanding of  Cloud Computing and Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has several Datacenter accross the world, these are listed on the azure portal

Services offfered :-
On-Demand Self Service
-Don't have to be an admin
-end user can do it, create, Delete, provision
-App Developers can use this

Broad Network Access
Requires LAN/WAN
-You need High speed Network Connection on premises

Resource Pooling
Cloud Provider abstract Infrastructure
-Cloud computing tenant
-pay as you need (Disk, Memory, CPU)

Rapid Elasticity
Scale up and down to meet demand
Automatically- you can host business website online and  do not pay for tha less load
pay for load as per usage
-pay only for the services

Measured Service
Pay for the resources you use
if you buy a Computer-OEM, also gets junk software that get them money


Cloud Computing –Some of the Leading Providers

• Microsoft Azure
• Office 365
• Amazon Web Services
• Google Cloud Platform (Developer focused)
• Salesforce (Pioneer of the public cloud)..SAAD
• Dropbox (generated a lot of business-Cloud based storage)

Cloud Service Models
SaaS
Audience :  End Users
Examples :

• Office 365
• Dropbox

PaaS
Audience : Software Developer
Examples :

• Mobile Apps (iOS, Android, Windows)
• API Services

Back-end VMs are abstracted away, developers can use its seemlessly

IaaS
Audience: System Administrator
Direct access to VMs and Virtual networks

Premises is a location
Premise is an Idea

Cloud Deployment Types
Microsoft Describes Azure as a combination of IaaS and PaaS
Public Cloud
Azure, AWS

Private Cloud
Take as much of the Public cloud ideas,

• scale
• self service
• resource pooling

Replicate a public cloud in your data center would be expenses
System center or Azure Stack could be used here
Hybrid Cloud

• on premises
• Domain Controller
• Exchange
• File Services
• Extending on premises to cloud

Demo:
Registering a Azure Account
Search for Azure Credit
Trail :
You need a credit card for subscription
You could avail around $200 a month during the trail period to evaluate and user the Azure services
Microsoft Certified Trainers, MVP also get these free credits as a reward

There is a Calculator you could use,
Spending limit to control your expenses on your subscription
Let’s sign-up
https://azure.microsoft.com



Sign-Up with a Credit Card
MS will not accept Prepaid cards
Post Completion of Phone Verification
Remember you will not be charged till you explicitly  upgrade to a paid offer
it will take you to Portal.azure.com

the other one that you need to know is manage.windowsazure.com
you can always keep a track of the credit status, this will get used up based on the services you use





Understand the Difference Between ASM Vs ARM

Azure Service Managementmanage.windowsazure.com	Azure Resource Manager portal.azure.com
XML-based REST API	JSON-based REST API
Separate Xplat-CLI modes, Portals, PowerShell modules	Resources are JSON template-based container     Taxonomic tagging(Costs)      Download pre-build services (ARM templates)
Resources are created and managed separately in cloud services	Role Based access control (RBAC)
Look for “Classic” in the new portal	you can manage resource groups  as a single unit

Azure Resource Manager*
Focus more in Production


Demo:

Visit the Classic Azure Portal
and then compare it with the new Azure Portal
manage.windowsazure.com

know the console better
Global Navigation  on  the  left
portal.azure.com

a lot of java script libraries are present
Dashboard and tiles are customizable
the list is customizable


the options on the navigation bar and sub categories are awesome, Microsoft call them blades
always keep an eye on the Bell Icon to read the notification

Tip : Understanding Cloud Computing and PowerShell Automation ensures your future viability in the IT Market place

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Microsoft: a Gartner cloud computing leader across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

This Article has surprised me,  but I am happy to share this :)

CIOs no longer ask whether they should use cloud, but rather how. According to IDC, seventy percent of CIOs will embrace a cloud-first strategy in 2016. By partnering closely with customers around the world, we see the natural path to enterprise cloud adoption -- starting with software services like email and collaboration, then moving to infrastructure for storage, compute and networking and finally embracing platform services to transform business agility and customer engagements. In this journey to adopt the cloud, customers are looking for a vendor who understands and leads in meeting the broad spectrum of their cloud needs.

Today, Gartner has named Microsoft Azure as a leader in its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service for the third year in a row based on completeness of our vision and ability to execute. We are honored by this continued recognition as we are relentless about our commitment and rapid pace of innovation for infrastructure services. With the G series, Azure led with the largest VMs in the cloud and we continue to deliver market leading performance with our recent announcement supporting SAP HANA workloads up to 32 TB. And while Azure is a world class cloud platform for Windows, it’s also recognized for industry-leading support for Linux and other open source technologies. Today, nearly one in three VMs deployed on Azure are Linux. Strong momentum for Linux and open source is driven by customers using Azure for business applications and modern application architectures, including containers and big data solutions. With over sixty percent of the 3,800 solutions in Azure Marketplace built on Linux, including popular open source images by Ubuntu, CoreOS, Bitnami, Oracle, DataStax, Red Hat and others, it’s exciting that many open source vendors considered Microsoft one of the best cloud partners.

While we are proud of our continued leadership in cloud infrastructure, we are committed to delivering the breadth and depth of cloud solutions to support our customers’ natural path to cloud adoption. Microsoft is the only vendor recognized as a leader across Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions for enterprise cloud workloads. We are in a unique position with our extensive portfolio of cloud offerings designed for the needs of enterprises, including Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings like Office 365, CRM Online and Power BI and Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). And Microsoft’s cloud vision is a unified story that we’re executing on with the same datacenter regions, compliance commitments, operational model, billing, support and more. The ability to deploy and use applications close to data with consistent identity and a shared ecosystem, means greater efficiency, less complexity, and cost savings.

Many of our customers embrace Identity as a first step in moving to the cloud. Office 365 and Azure share the same identity system with Azure Active Directory therefore providing a simple, friction free experience for our customers. And with Office 365 commercial customers surpassing 70 million monthly active users, Azure adoption is quickly following suit. Once in Azure, customers tend to start with IaaS and then quickly extend to using both IaaS and PaaS models to optimize productivity and embrace new opportunities for business differentiation. Today fifty-five percent of Azure IaaS customers are also deploying PaaS.

The following table summarizes vendors in the leader quadrant across Gartner MQs for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions for key enterprise cloud workloads.

The true power of Azure is enabling our customers and partners on their cloud journey to realize their unique business goals. Customers and partners like Fruit of the Loom and Boomerang demonstrate this common need and cloud adoption path from Software as a Service (SaaS) to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS).

• Fruit of the Loom: Office 365 was their “runway” to Azure. Success with Office 365 deployment has led to use of Azure infrastructure and its platform services as they moved their consumer-facing website fruit.com to Azure. To gain insight into how they should market and package their products, Fruit of the Loom is also leveraging platform services such as Azure Machine Learning.
• Boomerang: An Office 365 ISV takes advantage of Azure to create productivity solutions within Outlook. A key feature for Boomerang is its ability to generate real-time calendar images that are shareable with people outside of the user’s organization. Boomerang relies on Azure’s enterprise-proven infrastructure to support this computationally demanding workload. Their experience with Office 365 led them to look more closely at Azure, and they have started to migrate services from AWS to Azure to leverage Azure’s platform services and Machine Learning capabilities.

We look forward to delivering more on this vision across our portfolio of cloud offerings to our customers and partners. If you’d like to read the full report, “Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure as a Service,” you can request it here.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Credit : Microsoft Azure Blog

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