Microsoft Azure: Publishing and Caching from Skillsoft

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One of the primary purposes of cloud services is for content publishing. The availability aspect of public cloud computing makes it ideally suited to the task. Caching is implemented in Microsoft Azure to improve performance, which is sometimes seen as the weakness of public cloud offerings. This course covers caching and web publishing; it also covers Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager and hosted Active Directory. Finally it covers alerts for monitoring cloud systems, and backup.

Learning Objectives

Caching

start the course
create a cache in Microsoft Azure
describe caches in Microsoft Azure
describe cache configuration options in Microsoft Azure
monitor cache values in Microsoft Azure

Web Sites

set up a website on Microsoft Azure
monitor a Microsoft Azure web site
configure web site scaling to upgrade or downgrade sites

FTP and Web Publishing

publish an FTP site on Microsoft Azure
configure web sites to support WebMatrix publishing
enable web site content publishing on Microsoft Azure
upscale and downscale the resources that have been allocated to a site on Microsoft Azure

Traffic Manager

describe Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager features and policies
distribute client access across multiple instances using Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager
configure Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager failover mode
configure Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager performance mode
configure Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager round robin mode

Azure Active Directory

describe Windows Azure cloud-based security
describe the concepts and benefits of Microsoft Azure cloud-based Active Directory services
set up a Microsoft Azure Active Directory
create an administrative account on Microsoft Azure Active Directory
configure password synchronization in Microsoft Azure Active Directory
integrate Windows Azure applications with Active Directory synchronization
manage users and groups in Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Alerts and Backup

set up alerts in Microsoft Azure
create and upload a custom certificate for secure access to backup vaults in Microsoft Azure
install the Microsoft Azure backup agent