Introduction
The 70-532 exam focuses the skills necessary to develop software on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. It covers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings like Azure VMs and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings like Azure Storage, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Active Directory, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hub, Azure App Services, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Functions and other relevant marketplace applications. This book will help get started with these and other features of Azure so that you can begin developing and deploying Azure applications.
This book is geared toward cloud application developers who focus on Azure as the target host environment. It covers choosing from Azure compute options for IaaS and Paas, incorporating storage and data platforms. It will help you choose when to use features such as Web Apps, API Apps, API Management, Logic Apps and Mobile Apps. It will explain your data storage options between Azure CosmosDB, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Search, and Azure SQL Database. It also covers how to secure applications with Azure Active Directory using B2C and B2B features for single sign-on based on OpenID Connect, OAuth2 and SAML-P protocols, and how to use Azure Vault to protect secrets.
This book covers every major topic area found on the exam, but it does not cover every exam question. Only the Microsoft exam team has access to the exam questions, and Microsoft regularly adds new questions to the exam, making it impossible to cover specific questions. You should consider this book a supplement to your relevant real-world experience and other study materials. If you encounter a topic in this book that you do not feel completely comfortable with, use the “Need more review?” links you’ll find in the text to find more information and take the time to research and study the topic. Great information is available on MSDN, TechNet, and in blogs and forums.
Organization of this book
This book is organized by the “Skills measured” list published for the exam. The “Skills measured” list is available for each exam on the Microsoft Learning website: https://aka.ms/examlist. Each chapter in this book corresponds to a major topic area in the list, and the technical tasks in each topic area determine a chapter’s organization. If an exam covers six major topic areas, for example, the book will contain six chapters.
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Acknowledgments
Zoiner Tejada A book of this scope takes a village, and I’m honored to have received the support of one in making this second edition happen. My deepest thanks to the team at Solliance who helped make this possible: my co-authors Michele Leroux Bustamante and Ike Ellis and the hidden heroes, and Joel Hulen and Kyle Bunting helped us with research and coverage on critical topics as the scope of the book grew with the fast pace of Azure. Laura Norman, our editor, thank you for helping us navigate the path to completion with structure and compassion. To my wife Ashley Tejada, my eternal thanks for supporting me in this effort, the little things count and they don’t go unnoticed.
Michele Leroux Bustamante I want to thank Joel Hulen, Virgilio Esteves and Khaled Hikmat – who have been part of key Solliance projects in Azure, including this book – and this work and experience reflects in the guidance shared in the book. Thank you for being part of this journey! Thank you also to, Laura Norman, our editor – who was very supporting during challenging deadlines. A level head keeps us all sane. To my husband and son – thank you for tolerating the writing schedule – again. I owe you - again. Much love.
Ike Ellis First and foremost, I’d like to thank my wife, Margo Sloan, for her support in taking care of all the necessities of life while I wrote. Our editor, Laura Norman, had her hands full in wrangling three busy co-authors, and I’m very grateful for her diligence. I’m very grateful to my co-authors, Zoiner and Michele. It’s a joy to work with them on all of our combined projects.
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