Architecting Azure Solutions 70-535




Earlier this week I had the opportunity to write the Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions 70-535 exam. This exam is part of Microsoft's Cloud Architect certification offering and is a high level exam featuring all the Azure products and services in pretty in depth technical detail.

The 70-535 replaces the older 70-534 exam and is an elective to the MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure certification track. Along with another one of the 532, 533, 473 or 475 exams this will also earn you the MCSA Cloud Platform certification.

First things first if you have not had any recent Microsoft Cloud exam exposure you are in  for quite a difficult journey as these new certifications are very tough and require a lot of dedication. These exams are difficult and require extensive in-depth Azure experience.

With regards to the 70-535, the course content was revised after the 70-534 exam was retired at the end of 2017. Anyone studying on that path needs to check the new official exam guide to verify the latest material. There have been a lot of additions as per the latest product implementations in Azure. I will link the exam guide article at the bottom of this post.

The following course content is currently covered on the 70-535:


Design Compute Infrastructure (20-25%)
Design Data Implementation (15-20%)
Design Networking Implementation (15-20%)
Design Security and Identity Solutions (20-25%)
Design Solutions by using Platform Services (10-15%)
Design for Operations (10-15%)

Each of these sections are very in depth and go into a lot of detail. Please note that you will require extensive experience in all of these areas before attempting the exam. The best way to do this is by gaining Access to Azure and labbing out all of the work. Practical experience, deep understanding and real world experience is vital for this exam. Azure does offer a free account with $200 credit as well as student access options to get this practical knowledge.

To sum up all resources that I used while training and studying for this exam, I have put together some links below to all free training documentation, free training videos as well as useful links that can be used. Honestly using all of the resources below, getting free Azure access and reading the relevant documentation will assist hugely with this exam.

This link is a great place to start and a great resource that puts all of the course content into a well structured flow of resources based on course content and I highly recommend this:


Please find further invaluable links to free training resources and videos:


This is really a challenging exam and please take your time in preparation. There are also some articles on this blog with some resources related to this exam so they would be worth a read even if it's just an overview of some of the content. And yes I did thankfully pass! :)

1 comment:

  1. likitha19 November 2018 at 04:19

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