You are designing a Windows Azure application that will process images. The maximum size of an image is 10
MB.
The application includes a web role that allows users to upload images and a worker role with multiple instances that processes the images.
The web role communicates with the worker role by using a Windows Azure Queue.
You need to recommend an approach for storing images that minimizes storage transactions.
What should you recommend? streaming. Page blobs, which are optimized for random read/write operations and which provide the ability to write to a range of bytes in a blob.

You are designing a Windows Azure application.
The application includes two web roles and three instances of a worker role. The web roles will send requests to the worker role through one or more Windows Azure Queues.
You have the following requirements:
Ensure that each request is processed exactly one time.
Minimize the idle time of each worker role instance.
Maximize the reliability of request processing.
You need to recommend a queue design for sending requests to the worker role.
What should you recommend?

You are designing a Windows Azure application.
The application includes a web role and a worker role that communicate by using a Windows Azure Queue.
The worker role processes each message within 10 seconds of retrieving it from the queue. The worker role must process each message exactly one time.
If a process does not complete, the worker role must reprocess the message.
You need to recommend an approach for the worker role to manage messages in the queue.
What should you recommend?

You are designing a Windows Azure application that will generate events for multiple clients.
Client web services might be behind NAT gateways.
You need to recommend an approach that will allow you to broadcast the events to clients.
What should you recommend? communication, large-scale event distribution, naming, and service publishing. The Service Bus provides connectivity options for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and other service endpoints including network address translation (NAT) boundaries, or bound to frequently-changing, dynamically-assigned IP addresses, or both. The Service Bus provides both “relayed” and “brokered” messaging capabilities. In the relayed messaging pattern, the relay service supports direct one-way messaging, request/response messaging, and peer-to- peer messaging. Brokered messaging provides durable, asynchronous messaging components such as Queues, Topics, and Subscriptions, with features that support publish-subscribe and temporal decoupling: senders and receivers do not have to be online at the same time; the messaging infrastructure reliably stores messages until the receiving party is ready to receive them.

You are designing a Windows Azure application.
The application contains one web role and three worker roles.
You need to recommend an approach for updating only one role without interrupting the other roles.
What should you recommend? the whole thing and it works now, it seems for some reason CName entry was gone from GoDaddy (not sure if taking down the web service has got to do something with it).

You are planning an upgrade strategy for a Windows Azure application.
You need to identify changes that will require application downtime.
Which change will always require downtime?

A Windows Azure application is running in the development fabric.
You need to recommend an approach for deploying the application to Windows Azure.
What should you recommend?

You are designing an automated deployment process for a Windows Azure application.
The process must deploy the application to Windows Azure without any user interaction.
You need to recommend a deployment strategy.
What should you recommend?

You are migrating a solution to Windows Azure.
The solution includes a web application and a business logic layer.
The web application runs on three dual-core servers.
The business logic layer runs on two quad-core servers.
The Windows Azure application must match or exceed the current hardware specifications.You need to recommend role instance sizes that minimize cost.
What should you recommend?

You are designing an upgrade strategy for a Windows Azure application that includes one web role with one instance.
You have the following requirements:
Test the application on the Windows Azure platform.
Ensure that application upgrades can be rolled back.
Ensure that upgrade and rollback processes do not cause downtime.
You need to recommend an approach for upgrading the application.
What should you recommend? service to either Staging or Production. your service in the Windows Azure environment before you deploy it to production. You can upgrade your service by deploying a new package to the staging environment and then swapping the staging and production deployments. This type of upgrade is called a Virtual IP or VIP swap, as it swaps the addresses of the two deployments. a new service definition file, you must swap VIPs; you cannot perform an in-place upgrade. However, you can swap VIPs only if the number of endpoints specified by the service definition is identical for both deployments. cannot upgrade your service using a VIP swap; you’ll need to delete your production deployment and redeploy instead