By: Daniel Calbimonte | Updated: 2018-01-12 | Comments (2) | Related: More > Professional Development Certifications
Problem
I'm a big fan of your Microsoft certification series and I was studying for the 70-534 exam. However, I heard there is a new exam 70-535 that will replace the 70-534. Can you answer some questions about this new exam?
Solution
Sure. In this tip, we will review this new exam and provide some useful resources to study for the exam.
Who should take this exam?
This exam is oriented to DBAs, Data Scientist, Data Architects, Data Analysts, Data Developers or other professionals who want to learn or who want to be certified in Azure technologies.
Is this exam a requirement for any Certification?
This exam is optional to get the MCSA in Azure (Cloud Platform Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate), it is also an optional exam for the MCSE in Cloud Platform and Infrastructure and the MCSD: App Builder.
Is the exam easy?
No. If you do not have experience with Hadoop, Azure, Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure Active Directory (AAD), Azure Web Apps, Azure Service Fabrics, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Search, Azure Data Bases, Azure Networking, Big Data and other similar technologies, you will have a hard time with this exam.
Why is the 70-534 going to be replaced with this new one?
Because the topics for this exam changed a lot. It was decided to create a new exam instead of just updating the 70-534 exam.
What will happen to the exam 70-534?
After November 30, 2017 you will not be able to register for this exam.
What will happen to people who already took the 70-534 exam?
The exam will be valid, but no longer available. This exam will be retired on December 31, 2017.
What is the relationship between SQL Server and this certification?
Everything is migrating to Azure. SQL Server on-premises is gradually being migrated to Azure and the unstructured data is being stored in the cloud. You can query data from SQL Server on-premises or Azure SQL using PolyBase. This exam contains useful topics related to Azure like Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure SQL Databases and other technologies than you may need in the future if your company plans to move from on-premises to Azure. You will learn what is new in Azure and you find what is useful to your company to buy some Azure Services.
Why is this exam in English only?
This exam is new, but will be available in multiple languages soon.
What are the main differences between the exam 70-534 and 70-535?
The exam 70-534 includes main 6 topics. The 70-535 includes 7 topics. The main topics are different.
The 70-535 includes more features to study like CosmosDB, DMZ, WAF, AAD, Azure Key Vault, Event Grid and more.
Which books would you recommend for this exam?
These books can be useful:
- Data Lake for Enterprises
- Azure: Microsoft Azure Tutorial The Ultimate Beginners Guide
- MCSA Cloud Infrastructure Lab Guide: 70-534 Exam: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Paperback
- Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (2nd Edition)
- Microsoft Azure Active Directory: Extend Active Directory to the cloud
- Microsoft Azure Security Infrastructure (IT Best Practices - Microsoft Press)
- Practical Azure Application Development: A Step-by-Step Approach to Build Feature-Rich Cloud-Ready Solutions
- Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (Developer Reference) 1st Edition
- Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications (Developer Reference)
- Getting started with Azure Data Factory
- Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight
- Mastering Azure Analytics: Architecting in the Cloud with Azure Data Lake, HDInsight, and Spark
- Big Data Analytics with Microsoft HDInsight in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself
- HDInsight Essentials - Second Edition
- Processing Big Data with Azure HDInsight: Building Real-World Big Data Systems on Azure HDInsight Using the Hadoop Ecosystem
- Microsoft Big Data Solutions
- HDInsight: Microsoft’s Cloud Hadoop
- Pro Microsoft HDInsight: Hadoop on Windows
- HDInsight For Beginners
Are there some courses for this exam?
Yes, here you have some useful courses:
- Data Series: Platform: Azure Data Services
- Data Series: Platform & Analytics Foundational
- Elastic Database Capabilities with Azure SQL DB
- Big Data Analytics with HDInsight: Hadoop on Azure
- Implementing Big Data Analysis
- Design and Implement Big Data & Advanced Analytics Solutions
- Creating your first HDInsight cluster and run samples
- Introducing Azure Data Lake
- Orchestrating Data and Services with Azure Data Factory
- Azure Data Factory makes it even easier and convenient to uncover insights from data when using Data Lake Store with SQL Data Warehouse
- Processing Real-Time Data Streams in Azure
- 70-534 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
- Azure Cloud Services (6-Course Bundle)
- Practice Tests for 70-534 Architecting MS Azure Solutions
- 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions Certification
- 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
- Exam 70-535: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions First Look
- Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-534) Certification Training
Do you have some links to study, for this exam?
Yes, these links will be useful:
Design Compute Infrastructure
- Design solutions using virtual machines
- Create a Windows virtual machine with the Azure portal
- How to use availability sets
- Azure Exam Prep – Fault Domains and Update Domains
- Manage the availability of Windows virtual machines in Azure
- Use a custom Docker image for Web App for Containers
- What are virtual machine scale sets in Azure?
- Run intrinsically parallel workloads with Batch
- About Azure Migrate
- Back up Azure virtual machines to a Recovery Services vault
- About Site Recovery
- Design solutions for serverless computing
- Design microservices-based solutions
- Design web applications
- Web Apps overview
- Run a web application in multiple regions
- Documentación de Web Apps
- Disaster recovery and high availability for applications built on Microsoft Azure
- Create a REST service using ASP.NET Web API and SQL Database in Azure App Service
- Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR): Azure Paired Regions
- Configure web apps in Azure App Service
- Web Apps Documentation
- Things You Should Know: Web Apps and Linux
- Background jobs
- 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
- CDN Documentation
- Redis Cache Documentation
- Create compute-intensive application
Design Data Implementation
- Design for Azure Storage solutions
- Design for Azure Data Services
- Data Catalog Documentation
- Azure Data Factory V2 Preview Documentation
- What is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
- Azure DWH part 2: Get Started with Azure Data Warehouse
- Overview of Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics
- What is Azure Analysis Services?
- Introduction to Azure HDInsight, the Hadoop and Spark technology stack
- Design for relational database storage
- Create an Azure SQL database in the Azure portal
- Stretch Database
- Scaling out with Azure SQL Database
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL Documentation
- Azure Database for MySQL Documentation
- Microsoft extends Azure managed database services with introduction of MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Designing highly available services using Azure SQL Database
- Configure active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database in the Azure portal and initiate failover
- Learn about automatic SQL Database backups
- Design for NoSQL storage
- Design for CosmosDB storage
- Welcome to Azure Cosmos DB
- Microsoft Azure MongoDB
- Azure Active Directory Part 5: Graph API
- Azure Cosmos DB: REST API Reference
- Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Graph API
- Azure Cosmos DB pricing
- Table Service REST API
- Performance and scale testing with Azure Cosmos DB
- Performance tips for Azure Cosmos DB
- Tunable data consistency levels in Azure Cosmos DB
- How to distribute data globally with Azure Cosmos DB
Design Networking Implementation
- Design Azure virtual networks
- Create a Site-to-Site connection in the Azure portal
- Azure Virtual Network
- Azure Virtual Network frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Overview of Application Gateway
- Application Gateway multiple site hosting
- 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
- User-defined routes and IP forwarding
- Overview of Application Gateway
- Design external connectivity for Azure Virtual Networks
- Configure a Point-to-Site connection to a VNet using the Azure portal
- How to Configure Azure Route Tables (UDR) using Azure Portal and ARM
- Create a VNet with a Site-to-Site connection using the classic portal (classic)
- Configure ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site coexisting connections (classic)
- ExpressRoute overview
- Design security strategies
- Design connectivity for hybrid applications
- What is Azure Relay?
- Data Management Gateway - High Availability and Scalability Preview
- Connecting to on-premises data sources with Azure On-premises Data Gateway
- Azure App Service Hybrid Connections
- Integrate your app with an Azure Virtual Network
- Highly Available Cross-Premises and VNet-to-VNet Connectivity
- Join a Windows Server virtual machine to a managed domain
Design Security and Identity Solutions
- Design an identity solution
- Azure AD Connect sync: Understand and customize synchronization
- Multi-factor Authentication Documentation
- Configure your App Service app to use Azure Active Directory login
- Windows Azure Active Directory vs. Windows Server Active Directory
- Differences Between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
- 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?
- Design a data security solution
- Azure Storage Service Encryption for Data at Rest
- Announcing Default Encryption for Azure Blobs, Files, Table and Queue Storage
- Azure Disk Encryption for Windows and Linux IaaS VMs
- Securing your SQL Database
- Key Vault Documentation
- Use Azure Key Vault to pass secure parameter value during deployment
- Use Azure Key Vault to protect application secrets
- Get started with Azure Key Vault certificates
- Managed Service Identity (MSI) for Azure resources
- Design a mechanism of governance and policies for administering Azure resources
- Use Role-Based Access Control to manage access to your Azure subscription resources
- Get started with Role-Based Access Control in the Azure portal
- Use Role-Based Access Control to manage access to your Azure subscription resources
- Create custom roles for Azure Role-Based Access Control
- Azure Key Vault – Making the cloud safer
- Manage security risks by using an appropriate security solution
- Introduction to Azure Security Center
- What is Operations Manager Suite (OMS)?
- Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
- Azure Advanced Threat Detection
- Manage endpoint protection issues with Azure Security Center
- Microsoft Endpoint Protection for Windows Azure Customer Technology Preview Now Available
Design Solutions by using Platform Services
- Design for Artificial Intelligence Services
- Design for IoT
- Design messaging solution architectures
- Azure Service Bus Event Hubs 101 with Dan Rosanova
- Get started with Azure Queue storage using .NET
- Service Bus
- Service Bus Documentation
- Event Hubs
- Azure Event Grid Documentation
- What is Azure Relay?
- Introducing Azure Functions
- Logic Apps Documentation
- Add Push Notifications to your iOS App
- Add push notifications to your Android app
- Notification Hubs Documentation
- Design for media service solutions
Design for Operations
- Design an application monitoring and alerting strategy
- Design a platform monitoring and alerting strategy
- Design an operations automation strategy
Next Steps
For more information about this exam, refer to these links:
- Exam 70-535
- Microsoft retires exam 70-534 and replaces with a new exam 70-535 (tentative name)
- 70-534 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
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: 2018-01-12
