Tag: Azure

Artificial intelligence and Cloud computing: Real-time fraud detection in online banking application within the cloud

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Over the last few years, cloud computing has been the buzz. Cloud computing services offer an infrastructure that is highly scalable and supports high-performance computing. With high adoption by businesses of all sizes. Development and deployment of applications within the cloud platform are easy and time to market is done in a fraction of the time.

Artificial intelligence is not a new technology. It has been here for a long time and has helped develop computers and software that perform tasks that are associated with intelligence. Machine learning and deep learning are subsets of artificial intelligence that involve the development of algorithms that learn from data inputs and give intelligent output based on that data and the learned patterns.

A lot of research has been done and still is being done on implementing artificial intelligence into cloud computing. Cloud service providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft have already integrated AI into their clouds to improve service delivery. AI brings about capabilities such as machine learning, recognition of patterns and robotics to the cloud. On the other hand, the cloud is able to provide a wide range and large volumes of data since these capabilities are largely dependent on data as input so as to produce the desired output. The cloud also allows the systems to open-access and open-source data which is very crucial in facilitating collaborative learning.

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Creating a Load Balancer in the Microsoft Cloud: Azure

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WHAT IS AZURE LOAD BALANCER?

Azure Load Balancer secures high availability and network performance to your applications/frontend/backend.

It is a Layer 4 load balancer (TCP/UDP) that distributes traffic among instances of services defined in the load-balanced set.

You can load-balance web applications, Virtual Machines, and so-on by routing traffic based on NAT rules that you configure on the load-balancer.

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70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions – Preparing and taking the exam

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As some of you know I have a background with private cloud and as of late been moving more and more towards the hybrid cloud, to take advantage of Microsoft Azure.

I’ve been preparing for multiple exams as of late and wanted to take the 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure
Infrastructure Solutions due to the sheer volume of growth Microsoft is having with Azure.

So I realized, I best stay updated and formalize my knowledge.

Figured it was time to sit the 70-533 exam which covers:


Preparing

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I took advantage of Microsoft’s focus on Azure, they provide free training and heavily discounted practice tests as well as exam vouchers.

Here are the resources I took advantage of in the time going towards the exam itself:

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One of the challenges with the exam is that it is quite broad and to understand the width you need hands on experience, thankfully the hands on labs from Microsoft were great.

The exam also covers Powershell as well as JSON examples, that you have to plot in the right cmdlet for – so get used to it, throw up an editor, or run through the practice test.

A strong suggestion that I urge you to follow through with it, get an Azure trial, the best way to familiarize yourself with Azure is by using it, and also to understand the basics of the ARM deployments and the Powershell scripts.

GitHub has many great repositories that let you get a full infrastructure up and running in no time, however to maximize your trial, remember to turn things off or deleting them so you can get the most out of your thirty day trial.

Some workplaces also have free trials up and running, so ask a colleague you might already have an environment dedicated for Azure testing.

 

 

 

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Conclusion

I am happy to announce that I did pass the 70-533 exam, it was a challenge, and really happy to have passed it. These days a lot of my time is spent on researching new Azure features, looking at ways I can implement them and also quality assurance, ensuring they have a place in a customers production environment.

I would recommend the exam to anyone wanting to formalize their knowledge, but also wanting to dive deeper into Microsoft Azure. Let me know how your preparation or exam is going in the comments, and as always hit me up here or on twitter at @UlvBjornsson if you have any ideas for future articles or thoughts you’d like to share.