Azure Logic Apps

Question 1

What are Logic Apps?

Answer 1

Allow you to build powerful intergrations and exchange data between disparate systems

Use many pre-built components

Question 2

What are the Logic App Components

Answer 2

(1) Trigger
(2) Managed Connectors
(3) Actions
(3) Enterprise Integration Pack

Question 3

What are Managed Connectors

Answer 3

Is a special object that allows your workflow to access data, services and systesm.

Microsoft provides these connectors as well as other components you need to work with

Question 4

What is the Enterprise Integration Pack?

Answer 4

Advance integrations such as talking to BizTalk/SAP

Question 5

Types of Triggers

Answer 5

(1) Recurring Trigger
(2) Sliding WIndow Trigger
(3) Polling Trigger
(4) Push Trigger

Question 6

Type of connectors?

Answer 6

(1) Built-in Connectors
(2) Managed Connectors

Built-in Connectors are fundelmental workflow triggers and actions.
Managed connectors are provided by Microsoft

Question 7

What are the managed connector types?

Answer 7

(1) Simple
(2) On Premises
(3) Integration Account Connectors

SImple - used for services like Power BI and Azure Storage
On Premises - deal with interactions with on-premises resources
Integration Account - BizTalk/SAP

Question 8

What are Control Actions

Answer 8

Ability to add logic to the Logic App and control the execution flow

Question 9

What are the 6 built-in Control Actions?

Answer 9

(1) Conditional
(2) For Each
(3) Switch
(4) Until
(5) Scope
(6) Terminate

Scope - Group actions together within your workflow and detemines if all of those activities collectivily succeed or fail
Terminate - Way to handle errors in your workflow

Question 10

What are Custom Connectors?

Answer 10

Expands the capabilities of your Logic App by creating a wrapper around a REST or SOAP API and exposes a public API

Question 11

What can Custom Connectors be used for?

Answer 11

Besides Logic Apps, they can be used in Power Automate and Power BI

Question 12

What is the Custom Connector Lifecyle?

Answer 12

(1) Build the API
(Use existing, Azure Fucntion, Web, or API App)
(2) Secure the API
(3) Describe the API and Create the Connector
Open API (Swagger)
(4) Use the connector
(5) Share
Use within your organization
(6) Cerfify
Share with external, must be certified by Microsoft

Question 13

What options for security for an API

Answer 13

(1) Generic OAuth 2.0
(2) OAuth
(3) Basic Authentication
(4) API Key

Question 14

What are the basic files for an ARM template?

Answer 14

(1) template.json
(2) parameters.json

Question 15

Easiest way to create an ARM Template

Answer 15

Click on Export Template menu item under Automation

NOTE: Need to know the difference between creating an ARM Template from a particular resource (doesn’t include dependancies or connectors). This needs to be done at the resource group level?

Question 16

How to create an ARM template in Visual Studio

Answer 16

(1) Install the Azure App Logic Tool
(2) Open Visual Studio and Continue without Code option
(3) Go to Cloud Explorer and Sign In
(4) Click to download the template
(5) Make editing changes

Question 17

How to create an ARM template in PowerShell

Answer 17

(1) Install the Logic App Template
Install-Module -name LogicAppTemplate
(2) Use Get-LogicAppTemplate

Question 18

How to create an ARM template in Azure CLI

Answer 18

(1) Create the parameter list
(2) Call Get-LogicAppTemplate
(3) Call Get-ParameterTemplate

Not sure if Azure CLI requires the same installation as was done for PowerShell

Question 19

What is the structure of an ARM Template?

Answer 19

(1) $schema
(2) contentVersion
(3) parameters
(4) variables
(5) functions
(6) resources
(7) outputs

Question 20

What are the important sections of the resources in an ARM Template

Answer 20

(1) type
(2) triggers
(3) actions
(4) parameters:connections