This document provides information about implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam 70-533. It includes sections on deploying and configuring websites on Azure, using site slots, backups and restores of websites, various methods for deploying websites to Azure, using WebJobs to run background tasks on Azure websites, and configuring website options.

1. 70-533
Implementing Microsoft Azure
Infrastructure Solutions

2. Contents
MS Exam 70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.................................................5
Implement websites .....................................................................................................................................5
Deploy websites........................................................................................................................................5
To Add a Deployment Slot to a Website...................................................................................................6
About Configuration for Deployment Slots ..............................................................................................9
To Swap Deployment Slots .....................................................................................................................10
To Rollback a Production Site to Staging ................................................................................................10
To Delete a Site Slot................................................................................................................................11
Azure PowerShell cmdlets for Site Slots .................................................................................................11
Get-AzureWebsite...............................................................................................................................11
New-AzureWebsite.............................................................................................................................12
Publish-AzureWebsiteProject .............................................................................................................12
Show-AzureWebsite............................................................................................................................12
Switch-AzureWebsiteSlot....................................................................................................................12
Remove-AzureWebsite .......................................................................................................................12
Azure Cross-Platform Command-Line Interface (xplat-cli) commands for Site Slots .............................13
azure site list .......................................................................................................................................13
azure site create..................................................................................................................................13
azure site swap....................................................................................................................................13
azure site delete..................................................................................................................................13
Azure Websites Backups.............................................................................................................................14
What Gets Backed Up.............................................................................................................................14
Requirements and Restrictions...............................................................................................................14
To Create a Manual Backup....................................................................................................................14
To Configure Automated Backups ..........................................................................................................16
How Backups Are Stored.........................................................................................................................19
Notes.......................................................................................................................................................20
Restore a Microsoft Azure website.............................................................................................................20
To Restore an Azure website from a previously made backup ..............................................................20
To Restore an Azure website directly from a storage account...............................................................21
Choose Your Website Restore Settings and Start the Restore Operation..............................................24
View the Operation Logs.........................................................................................................................29
How to Deploy an Azure Website...............................................................................................................31
Deploying from a cloud-hosted source control system..........................................................................32

3. Visual Studio Online (VSO)..................................................................................................................32
Repository websites using Git.............................................................................................................32
Repository websites using Mercurial..................................................................................................33
Dropbox...............................................................................................................................................33
Deploying from an IDE ............................................................................................................................33
Visual Studio........................................................................................................................................33
WebMatrix ..........................................................................................................................................34
Deploying by using an FTP utility............................................................................................................34
Deploying from an on-premises source control system.........................................................................35
Team Foundation Server (TFS)............................................................................................................35
On-premises Git or Mercurial repositories.........................................................................................35
Using command-line tools and the Azure REST management API .........................................................35
MSBuild...............................................................................................................................................35
FTP scripts ...........................................................................................................................................36
Windows PowerShell ..........................................................................................................................36
.NET management API ........................................................................................................................36
Cross-platform command line (xpat-cli) .............................................................................................37
Web Deploy command line.................................................................................................................37
Use WebJobs to run background tasks in Azure Websites.........................................................................37
Acceptable File Types for Scripts or Programs........................................................................................37
Create an On Demand Task ....................................................................................................................38
Create a Continuously Running Task ......................................................................................................39
Create a Scheduled Task.........................................................................................................................40
Scheduled jobs and Azure Scheduler..................................................................................................45
View the Job History ...............................................................................................................................48
Configure websites .................................................................................................................................50
How to Configure Websites........................................................................................................................50
ow to: Change configuration options for a website ...............................................................................50
General................................................................................................................................................51
Certificates..........................................................................................................................................51
Domain names ....................................................................................................................................52
SSL Bindings.........................................................................................................................................52
Deployments.......................................................................................................................................52
Application diagnostics .......................................................................................................................52
Site diagnostics ...................................................................................................................................53

4. Monitoring ..........................................................................................................................................53
Developer analytics.............................................................................................................................54
App settings ........................................................................................................................................54
Connection strings ..............................................................................................................................54
Default documents..............................................................................................................................55
Handler mappings...............................................................................................................................55
Virtual applications and directories....................................................................................................55
How to: Configure a website to use a SQL database..............................................................................55
Overview.................................................................................................................................................62
DNS record types ....................................................................................................................................62
Find the virtual IP address ......................................................................................................................63
Create the DNS records...........................................................................................................................64
Create an “awverify” record (A records only).........................................................................................65
Enable the domain name on your website.............................................................................................65
Enable HTTPS for an Azure website............................................................................................................67
HTTPS for the *.azurewebsites.net domain............................................................................................67
Enable SSL for your custom domain .......................................................................................................67
Get an SSL certificate ..............................................................................................................................68
Get a certificate using Certreq.exe (Windows only)...........................................................................69
Get a certificate using OpenSSL..........................................................................................................74
Get a certificate using the IIS Manager...............................................................................................76
Get a SubjectAltName certificate using OpenSSL...............................................................................77
Generate a self-signed certificate (for testing only)...........................................................................79
Configure Standard mode.......................................................................................................................81
Configure SSL ..........................................................................................................................................82
Enforce HTTPS on your Azure website....................................................................................................84
.NET.....................................................................................................................................................86
PHP......................................................................................................................................................86
Node.js, Python Django, and Java.......................................................................................................86
Create Your Sites.................................................................................................................................87
Create Your ATM Profile .....................................................................................................................87
Adding Endpoints................................................................................................................................88
Configuring Your ATM Profile .............................................................................................................89
Testing Things So Far...........................................................................................................................91
Using a Custom Domain......................................................................................................................92

5. Load Balancing Methods.....................................................................................................................93
Configure diagnostics, monitoring, and analytics...................................................................................93
Configure scale and resilience ................................................................................................................93
How to Scale Websites................................................................................................................................94
Scaling to Shared or Basic Plan mode.....................................................................................................94
Scaling to Standard Plan Mode...............................................................................................................98
Scaling a SQL Server Database connected to your site.........................................................................103
Developer Features...............................................................................................................................104
Manage hosting plans...........................................................................................................................104
What is a Web Hosting Plan?....................................................................................................................104
Features in Web Hosting Plans .............................................................................................................104
Web Hosting Plans and Capacity ..........................................................................................................105
Web Hosting Plans and the new Azure Preview Portal ....................................................................105
Azure Websites Web Hosting Plans In-Depth Overview...........................................................................110
Websites, Web Hosting Plans, and Resource Groups...........................................................................110
When should I create a new resource group and when should I create a new web hosting plan?.....111
Existing resources group in the Azure Preview portal..........................................................................113
Web Hosting Plan F.A.Q........................................................................................................................115