Lab 1:- Azure, Cloud, SSAS, PAAS and IAAS

• Define SSAS, PAAS and IAAS ?
• How is cloud different from normal webhosting ?
• Explain the 2 big O’s in cloud ?
• What is a resource and why do we need Resource groups ?
• What is the importance of Resource group location ?
• What are app services ?
• Which appservice will you choose to host a website ?
• What is the importance of Service plan and pricing tier?
• How to upload a site by using FTP on Azure ?
• What is the importance of “wwwroot” folder ?
• How can you go to the console of Azure ?
• What is the need to App Service editor ?
• Explain the importance of publish profile of Azure ?

Lab 2:- SQL Server on Azure ( DTU & EDTU)

• What is the problem of mapping work load with Azure configuration ?
• Explain DTU and EDTU ?
• On which factors does DTU depend ?
• How to calculate DTU ?
• How to measure the five factors which derive DTU ?
• How can you create SQL Server DB on Azure ?

Lab 3 :- Azure Function Apps

• Explain function apps ?
• Explain the term “ServerLess” ?
• How to create function apps using portal ?
• For function app template in visual studio , what has to be installed ?
• How to create function apps using visual studio ?
• Consumption plan VS Service plan
• What is the importance of Scale controller ?
• What is a Web Hook / API function app?

Lab 4:- Azure storage (Blobs,Table,File and Queue)

• Differentiate between resource manager and classic ?
• Explain the difference between blobs , files , queues and table ?
• Differentiate between general storage v1 vs v2 vs blob ?
• When should we select hot access tier or cold access tier ?
• When should we choose standard vs premium ?
• Differentiate between SDD vs HDD ?
• Differentiate between LRS , ZRS , GRS and RA-GRS ?
• How can azure storage explorer make your life easy ?

Lab 5 :- Azure Cosmos DB

• What is the goal of Cosmos DB ?
• Explain the word planet-scale ?
• Explain consistency problem in Cosmos ?
• Why is DR , BCP not the main goal of cosmos , how is it different ?
• __ consistency is best when Performance is more important than consistency.
• __ consistency should be selected for high consistency and for most recent data.
• Explain session , bounded and prefix consistencies ?
• What is multi-api support in cosmos ?
• Explain the hierarchical structure of Cosmos DB ?
• How to connect to Cosmos DB using C# language ?

Lab 6 :- Azure Fabric and Micro-services

• Why automation is must for Micro-services?
• What are the infrastructure issues when deploying Micro-services?
• Define Azure fabric in one sentence ?
• What is the use of Azure fabric SDK and Local cluster manager tool ?
• Differentiate between stateful and stateless microservices ?
• Explain the importance of configuration project in Azure fabric projects ?
• Explain the importance of “StateManager” in stateful projects ?
• Where is Web application URL configured ?
• Differentiate between LTSC and SAC ?
• What role does certificate play in fabric ?
• what is the use AD user in fabric ?
• Explain Azure vault ?
• How to publish using visual studio to Azure fabric ?
• How to use client certificates for deployment and management ?

Lab 7 :- Azure Table , Partition , Rowkey

• Define Azure Tables ?
• Explain the importance of Partition and Row key ?
• Azure tables are same like RDBMS database , true or false ?
• Explain the architecture of Azure tables ?
• How to connect to Azure tables using C# language ?
• C# Entity classes should inherit from _ to receive Azure records ?
• What are TableQuery classes in C# ?
• How to perform insert,update and delete using C# on Azure tables?
• How to do batch inserts using Azure API ?
• What is the consequence of not writing point queries ?
• How does duplicate data increase search performance in Azure tables ?
• How does storing aggregate data benefit in terms of performance ?
• When should we use compound key in Azure tables ?
• What is EGT , can EGT be done across tables ?

Lab 8 :- Block blobs , Append blobs and Page blobs

• What are the different types of Blobs?
• In which scenarios we should use which type of blobs?
• Can you explain the working of block blobs ?
• What is the size of individual block blob ?
• How many block blobs can be accommodated in one blob ?
• Explain the hierarchal structure of account , container and blobs ?
• Explain private , container and blob access levels ?
• What are the broader steps to create blobs ?
• What is the importance of “SingleBlobThreshHoldInBytes” ?
• What happens when we specify “StreamWriteSizeInBytes” ?
• Differentiate between “SingleBlobThreshHoldInBytes” VS “StreamWriteSizeInBytes” ?
• When should we use “PutBlock” and “PutBlockList” ?
• How can we get committed and uncommitted blobs ?
• How can we download block blob ?
• Explain the importance of “StreamMinimumReadSizeInBytes” ?
• How to use AppendBlockBlobs ?
• Can we update appendBlockBlob ?
• Explain “WritePages” and “Read” methods of page blobs ?
• What does “Seek” method do of page blob ?

Lab 9 :- Azure Queues , visibility timeouts ,Peek & De-Queue.

• What is the need of Queues?
• What is FIFO in Queues?
• How to add message read the next record?
• Does PeekMessage read the next record?
• How to do a De-queue in Queues?
• Explain visibility time out concept?
• How is GetMessage different from Peek?
• How to read bulk messages from Queues?
• By default In GetMessage visibility time out ___seconds.
• How to update a message?
• What is the MessageUpdateField meant for?
• What is importance of MessageId and Popreceiptid?

Lab 10 :- App services and Cloud services.

   • Different ways of publishing on Azure

   • Cloud vs App services

   • Impact on resource groups

   • Web role , Worker roles and Web jobs

   • Loosely coupled vs tightly couples deployment

   • Configuration files in Azure deployment

   • Doing RDP in virtual machines.

Lab 11 :- WebJob and background processing.

• Why WebJobs?
• Types of Webjobs (Triggered, Continuos.
• View logs of WebJobs.
• CRON expressions
• Always on importance in continous webjob
• Storage accounts in Webjobs
• Publish website and webjob using VS