Overview
Level up with Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
How do organizations today balance risk, cost, and capabilities—while continuing to deliver business value?
The cloud can address all of these issues, and it has transformed the way businesses solve their technology challenges. Microsoft Azure solutions architects are the key to implementing cloud architecture, using resources efficiently, and maintaining security—whether migrating an existing system to the cloud or building a new one.
This AZ-305T00: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions course teaches Azure Solution Architects:
- how to design infrastructure solutions.
- topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networks, business continuity, and migrations.
Skills Covered
- Describe the core architectural components of Azure
- Describe Azure compute and networking services
- Describe Azure storage services
- Describe Azure identity, access, and security
- Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
- Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Design governance
- Design authentication and authorization solutions
- Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
- Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies
- Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
- Design a data storage solution for non-relational data
- Design a data storage solution for relational data
- Design data integration
- Design an Azure compute solution
- Design an application architecture
- Design network solutions
- Design migrations
- Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Reliability
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Security
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Cost Optimization
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Operational Excellence
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Performance Efficiency
Who Should Attend
Successful students have experience and knowledge in IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Students also have experience designing and architecting solutions.
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and conceptual knowledge of:
- Azure Active Directory
- Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions
- Azure virtual networking to include load balancers
- Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases)
- General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability
- Have attended AZ-900T00: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals or have equivalent knowledge
Course Modules
Exam & Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
As a candidate for this expert-level certification, an Azure solutions architect has the skills to design end-to-end solutions for Azure, considering infrastructure, apps, data, security, and more.
Since it’s the most comprehensive certification, it’s suitable for IT pros, developers, and data professionals.
If your experience is on the infrastructure side, you might need to reinforce your apps and data design and architecture skills. If you’re coming from the developer side, be sure to reinforce your Azure administration skills. And all candidates need to be experts in DevOps processes.
Certification Prerequisites
To earn the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification, you must pass Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions and satisfy the certification prerequisites by earning the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification via passing the AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator exam.
When you’re skilled up and confident in your administration and developer foundations, combine them with your advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations. These include networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. And you should know how to manage the way that decisions in each area affect an overall solution.
