AZ-204: Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Azure Solutions Competency (Intermediate Level)

Topics covered

• add code to your app to handle transient faults
• collect and query data using Azure Application Insights
• configure caching rules and behaviors in Azure CDN
• connect to on-prem applications remotely and securely through Azure AD Application Proxy
• deploy an Azure CDN endpoint
• deploy Azure Cache for Redis for your application
• enable Application Insights to collect data from your ASP.NET Core web site
• ensure your site is available using Application Insights
• ensure you use best practices when implementing Azure CDN
• follow best practices for caching your web applications
• identify what causes transient fault handling
• implement Redis Output Cache Provider
• implement the session state provider to store session state in-memory with Azure Cache for Redis
• leverage Azure Web Application Firewall with Azure Application Gateway to secure your web apps
• protect your application from distributed denial-of-service attacks with Azure DDoS Protection
• recognize what Azure Cache for Redis provides
• restrict access by country to your web application using Azure Content Delivery Network
• use Application insights to diagnose performance issues
• use Application Insights to find and diagnose exceptions
• use Azure Application Gateway to build and protect highly available secure applications
• use Azure Monitor for collecting and analyzing logs
• use Azure Sentinel for security analysis and threat detection
• use secrets stored in Azure Vault to encrypt and decrypt storage through your application
• use the alerting function in Azure Monitor to identify when there are issues in your app
• use the Azure Storage Client Library to encrypt and decrypt client application data
• use the JavaScript SDK to leverage Application Insights for web app monitoring