Exam Ref 70-487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services

Answers

This section contains the solutions to the thought experiments and answers to the lesson review questions in this chapter.

Objective 5.1: Thought experiment

1. A WCF Service can easily be deployed to Windows Azure. Because of the expected increase in users, Windows Azure is a good choice. Instead of buying big servers upfront to host the potential user load that you will get, you can start small and pay only for the resources you need. As your application starts growing, you can increase the capacity you have inside Windows Azure. This is a cost-effective way of hosting your application.

2. Because you are planning to expand the functionality of your application, it is wise to have a deployment process in place in which you can quickly update your ...