By: Daniel Calbimonte | Updated: 2017-06-06 | Comments | Related: More > Professional Development Certifications
Problem
I like your certification series tips. They helped me a lot. However, what should I study to pass the 70-534 exam?
Solution
This time we will answer questions about Microsoft Exam 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions.
FAQ
Who should take this exam?
This exam is oriented to professionals who want to be architects for cloud solutions. This exam is valid to be a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Solution Associate (MCSA) and a Microsoft Certified Solution Expert (MCSE).
What are the requirements to be a MCP, MCSA and MCSE in Azure?
To become a MCP, you need to pass one Microsoft Exam. If you pass this exam, you can get the MCP Certification.
To get the MCSA in Azure (MCSA Cloud platform), you need to pass 2 exams.
- Exam 70-532
- Exam 70-533
- Exam 70-534 (yes this one)
- Exam 70-473
- Exam 70-475
For the MCSE you need to take 1 of the following exams.
- The exams for the MCSA mentioned above.
- Exam 70-744
- Exam 70-413
- Exam 70-414
- Exam 70-246
- Exam 70-247
In other words, this exam is optional for the MCSA or MCSE. Is that correct?
Yes, this exam is optional.
This is my first Microsoft exam. Do you recommend me to start with this exam first?
No, the best way to start, if you do not have experience in Azure is with the MTA exam for Azure (Cloud fundamentals):
I would also recommend to try 70-532 before this one.
What happened with the Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), Azure Solutions Architect certification?
This certification was retired in March 2017 and replaced with the MCSA and MCSE.
Is this exam difficult?
Yes. It is very difficult. It the most difficult related to Azure in my opinion.
Which books would you recommend for this exam?
Most of the books are obsolete because of the changes in the portal. The most famous book is Exam Ref 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, however it is not a the best book according to reviewers.
Do you recommend some courses for this exam?
- Course 40442A: MOC Workshop: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
- The MVA course, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions was retired (it was obsolete).
- 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification
- Microsoft Azure 70-534 CBTnuggets
- Cert Exam Prep: Exam 70-534: Architecting Azure Solutions
Do you recommend a practice test?
Yes, here are some practice tests:
- Microsoft Official Practice Test for Exam 534
- Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-534) Practice Test
- Microsoft 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Exam
- Microsoft (70-534): Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions - English
Do you have some links to study, for this exam?
Yes, the following links will be useful:
Design Azure Resource Manager (ARM) networking
- Design Azure virtual networks
- Create a Site-to-Site connection in the Azure portal
- Azure Virtual Network
- Azure Load Balancer overview
- Understand load balancer probes
- Create load-balanced VM endpoints with direct server return
- Controlling Azure web app traffic with Azure Traffic Manager
- Overview of Traffic Manager
- Manage DNS servers used by a virtual network (Classic) using the Azure portal (Classic)
- Design Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Networking
- IP address types and allocation methods in Azure
- IP Address pricing
- Filter network traffic with network security groups
- User-defined routes and IP forwarding
- Overview of Application Gateway
Describe Azure VPN and ExpressRoute architecture and design
- Describe Azure VPN and ExpressRoute architecture and design
Secure resources
- Secure resources by using managed identities
- Windows Azure Active Directory vs. Windows Server Active Directory
- Differences Between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
- Azure Active Directory Part 5: Graph API
- Azure Active Directory v2.0 and the OpenID Connect protocol
- Single Sign-On SAML protocol
- Federated Identity with Microsoft Azure Access Control Service
- Active Directory Federation Services
- Secure resources by using identity providers
- Azure Active Directory B2C: Provide sign-up and sign-in to consumers with Microsoft accounts
- Azure Active Directory B2C: Provide sign-up and sign-in to consumers with Facebook account
- Azure Active Directory B2C: Provide sign-up and sign-in to consumers with Google+ accounts
- Azure Active Directory B2C: Create an Azure AD B2C tenant
- Azure Active Directory B2C: Register your application
- Azure Active Directory B2C: FAQs
- Azure Active Directory B2C: Enable Multi-Factor Authentication in your consumer-facing applications
- What is Azure AD B2B collaboration?
- Identify an appropriate data security solution
- Design a role-based access control (RBAC) strategy
- Manage security risks by using an appropriate security solution
Design an application storage and data access strategy
- Design data storage
- Azure Storage Table Design Guide: Designing Scalable and Performant Tables
- Create an Azure SQL database in the Azure portal
- Welcome to Azure Cosmos DB
- Microsoft Azure MongoDB
- Create and connect to a MySQL database in Azure
- Working with table, blob, queues and file storage in Azure
- Securing your SQL Database
- Azure storage security overview
- Select the appropriate storage option
Design advanced applications
- Create compute-intensive applications
- Create long-running applications
- Integrate Azure services in a solution
- What is Azure Active Directory?
- Design Azure virtual networks
- Deploy your app to Azure App Service
- Azure App Service plans in-depth overview
- Move an app to a different App Service plan
- Create an App Service plan
- Create an API gateway and developer portal in minutes
- API Management Documentation
- Azure Redis Cache
- Redis Cache Documentation
- Azure Search
- Service Bus
- Service Bus Documentation
- Event Hubs
- Azure Service Bus Event Hubs 101 with Dan Rosanova
- What is Stream Analytics?
- Overview of the Azure IoT Hub service
- Azure Machine Learning Documentation
- Azure Machine Learning - Your first experiment
- Data Mining Part 40: Big Data and Microsoft Data Mining
- Media Services
- Media Services Documentation
- What is Azure Search?
- Implement messaging applications
- Implement applications for background processing
- Design connectivity for hybrid applications
Design Azure Web and Mobile Apps
- Design Web Applications
- Web Apps overview
- Create a REST service using ASP.NET Web API and SQL Database in Azure App Service
- Configure web apps in Azure App Service
- Web Apps Documentation
- Background jobs
- Help protect a web API by using bearer tokens from Azure AD
- Improve scalability in a web application
- Scale up an app in Azure
- Run a web application in multiple regions
- Deploy your app to Azure App Service
- Configure Web Apps
- Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics
- Enable diagnostics logging for web apps in Azure App Service
- How to: Monitor Apps in Azure App Service
- Streaming Logs and the Console
- Monitor availability and responsiveness of any web site
- Create metric alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure services - Azure portal
- Troubleshoot a web app in Azure App Service using Visual Studio
- Monitor Azure web app performance
- Configure Web Apps for scale and resilience
- Scale up an app in Azure
- Scale instance count manually or automatically
- How to: Monitor Apps in Azure App Service
- Deploy your app to Azure App Service
- Azure App Service plans in-depth overview
- Designing resilient applications for Azure
- Run a web application in multiple regions
- Azure Web Apps Backup-Restore
- How to Backup a Web App in Azure App Service
- Disaster recovery and high availability for applications built on Microsoft Azure
- Design Mobile Applications
- Mobile Apps
- App Service Mobile Apps documentation
- Offline Data Sync in Azure Mobile Apps
- Work with the .NET backend server SDK for Azure Mobile Apps
- How to use the Azure Mobile Apps Node.js SDK
- Building Native Client and Mobile Apps using Azure Active Directory for Sign In
- How to configure your App Service application to use Azure Active Directory login
- Add Push Notifications to your iOS App
- Add push notifications to your Android app
- Notification Hubs Documentation
Design a management, monitoring, and business continuity strategy
- Design a monitoring strategy
- Describe Azure business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR)
- Design a disaster recovery strategy
- Design Azure Automation and PowerShell workflows
- Describe the use cases for Azure Automation configuration
Architect an Azure Compute infrastructure
- Design ARM Virtual Machines (VMs)
- Design ARM template deployment
- Understand the structure and syntax of Azure Resource Manager templates
- Best practices for creating Azure Resource Manager templates
- Deploy resources with Resource Manager templates and Azure portal
- Deploy resources with Resource Manager templates and Azure PowerShell
- Deploy resources with Resource Manager templates and Azure CLI
- Design for availability
Next Steps
With the material provided, you can now start studying for the exam.
For more information about this exam, refer to these links:
- Exam 70-534
- 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification
- Passing the "Architecting Azure Solutions (70-534)" certification exam: Tips and Resources
About the author
Daniel Calbimonte is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer and 6-time Microsoft Certified IT Professional. Daniel started his career in 2001 and has worked with SQL Server 6.0 to 2022. Daniel is a DBA as well as specializes in Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) technologies.This author pledges the content of this article is based on professional experience and not AI generated.
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Article Last Updated: 2017-06-06
