Microsoft Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications Set 1

Which of the following software products or technologies would you consider yourself proficient in? Choose all that apply.

You are designing a Windows Azure application that will store data. You have the following requirements:
- The data storage system must support the storage of more than 500 GB of data.
- Data retrieval must be possible from a large number of parallel threads without threads blocking each other.
You need to recommend an approach for storing data. What should you recommend?

You are designing a web service that will be hosted in Windows Azure. The web service will accept and store structured and semi-structured data. The web service must meet the following requirements:
- Update all data within a single transaction.
- Enforce the data structure for structured data within the data store.
You need to recommend an approach for storing the data. What should you recommend?

You are designing a strategy for synchronizing a SQL Azure database and multiple remote Microsoft SQL Server 2008 databases. The SQL Azure database contains many tables that have circular foreign key relationships. You need to recommend an approach for ensuring that all changes in the remote databases synchronize with the SQL Azure database. What should you recommend?

You are designing a Windows Azure application. The application will include occasionally connected clients that reference data stored in Windows Azure Blob storage. The clients will be able to add data while disconnected. You need to recommend an approach for synchronizing offline client data with Windows Azure Blob storage. What should you recommend?

You are designing a strategy for synchronizing two geographically disparate SQL Azure databases. A database named DB1 is located in North America. A database named DB2 is located in Asia. DB2 contains a subset of the tables in DB1. You need to recommend an approach for bidirectionally synchronizing the databases each day. What should you recommend?

You are planning the deployment of a SQL Azure database. Your company has a Volume Licensing Agreement for Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The SQL Azure database must maintain a monthly availability of 99.9%. You need to recommend an approach for minimizing the monthly expenses associated with the SQL Azure database. What should you recommend?

You are designing a Windows Azure application that will provide online backup storage for very large media files. The application must be capable of storing an average of 1 GB of data for each user. The application must provide random read/write access. You need to recommend a durable data storage solution. What should you recommend?

You are designing a plan to migrate Microsoft SQL Server 2008 databases to SQL Azure. You do not plan to migrate the SQL Server databases to SQL Server 2008 R2. You need to recommend an approach for performing bulk data transfers from the SQL Server databases to SQL Azure. What should you recommend?

You are designing a plan for migrating an existing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database to SQL Azure. The database includes a SQL Server Agent job that cleans the application log table. You need to recommend an approach for ensuring that the SQL Server Agent job continues to run without modification. What should you recommend?