Data Access and Services with Microsoft Azure

Overview/Description
This course covers the various data storage and messaging technologies available in Microsoft's Azure cloud services, and is one of a series that prepares students for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Target Audience
Developers wanting to learn about the data storage and messaging technologies in Microsoft's Azure cloud services and those preparing for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Data Access and Services with Microsoft Azure

• start the course
• identify the different storage options available in Azure and how to choose between them
• examine the Azure web portal, where to find the various components, and what's available
• explain how Azure caching compares with traditional in-memory, in-process caching
• explain the Azure blob storage service
• create a new blob store in Azure
• add new files to a blob store in Azure and work with a virtual file system
• make Azure blobs public or private
• use the Azure Blob REST API
• use the Azure content delivery network (CDN) to distribute blobs
• explain the Azure table storage service
• retrieve, create, or delete tables stored in Azure
• retrieve existing entities from tables stored in Azure
• add, modify, and delete existing entities in tables stored in Azure
• use the Azure Tables REST API
• explain the Azure storage queue service
• check for, create, or delete queues in Azure
• add a new message to an existing queue in Azure
• retrieve the next available message from a queue in Azure
• access the next message in a queue in Azure without physically removing the message
• explain Service Bus queues and how they compare with storage queues in Azure
• create a namespace for Service Bus queues in Azure
• obtain the credentials required to work with Service Bus queues in Azure
• create a new Service Bus queue and send messages to it
• receive messages from a Service Bus queue in Azure
• work with Service Bus Topics and Subscriptions
• use the Azure Service Bus REST API
• host WCF services within Azure worker roles and configure different bindings for them
• explain the use of the Azure Service Bus relay service by WCF services
• implement resilient, asynchronous WCF services on Azure storage and Service Bus queues
• use Azure's storage options