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. Course topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networks, business continuity, and migrations. The course combines lecture with case studies to demonstrate basic architect design principles.
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Skills Covered
- Design a governance solution.
- Design a compute solution.
- Design an application architecture.
- Design storage, non-relational and relational.
- Design data integration solutions.
- Design authentication, authorization, and identity solutions.
- Design network solutions.
- Design backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Design monitoring solutions.
- Design migration solutions.
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
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Course Modules
Azure Architects design and recommend governance solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you’ll learn how to:
- Design for governance.
- Design for management groups.
- Design for Azure subscriptions.
- Design for resource groups.
- Design for resource tagging.
- Design for Azure policy.
- Design for Azure role-based access control.
- Design for Azure Blueprints.
Prerequisites
- Conceptual knowledge of governance policies, resource organization, and subscription management.
- Working experience with organizing resources, applying governance policies, and enforcing compliance requirements.
Azure Architects design and recommend compute solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you’ll learn how to:
- Choose a compute service.
- Design for Azure virtual machines solutions.
- Design for Azure Batch solutions.
- Design for Azure App Services solutions.
- Design for Azure Container Instances solutions.
- Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions.
- Design for Azure Function solutions.
- Design for Azure Logic App solutions.
Prerequisites
- Conceptual knowledge of Azure compute solutions.
- Working experience with virtual machines, containers, and app service.
Azure Architects design and recommend non-relational data storage solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
- Design for data storage.
- Design for Azure storage accounts.
- Design for Azure Blob Storage.
- Design for data redundancy.
- Design for Azure Files.
- Design for Azure managed disks.
- Design for storage security.
Prerequisites
- Conceptual knowledge of storage accounts, blobs, files, disks, and data protection.
- Working experience with creating and securing storage systems.
Azure Architects design and recommend relational data storage solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
- Design for Azure SQL Database.
- Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance.
- Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
- Recommend a solution for database scalability.
- Recommend a solution for database availability.
- Design protection for data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use.
- Design for Azure SQL Edge.
- Design for Azure Cosmos DB.
- Design for Azure Table Storage.
Prerequisites
- Working experience with database solutions.
- Conceptual knowledge of SQL Server.
Azure Architects design and recommend data integration solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you’ll learn how to:
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory.
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake.
- Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Databricks.
- Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Design a strategy for hot/warm/cold data path.
- Design Azure Stream Analytics solution for Data Analysis.
Prerequisites
- Working experience with data integration solutions.
- Conceptual knowledge of data integration solutions.
Azure Architects design and recommend application architectures.
Learning objectives
In this module, you’ll learn how to:
- Describe message and event scenarios.
- Design a messaging solution.
- Design an Event Hub messaging solution.
- Design an event-driven solution.
- Design an automated app deployment solution.
- Design API integration.
- Design an application configuration management solution.
- Design a caching solution.
Prerequisites
- Working experience with developing cloud applications.
- Conceptual knowledge of messaging, events, deployments, configurations, API, and caching.
Azure Architects design and recommend authentication and authorization solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
- Design for identity and access management.
- Design for Azure Active Directory.
- Design for Azure Active Directory business-to-business (B2B).
- Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer).
- Design for conditional access.
- Design for identity protection.
- Design for access reviews.
- Design for managed identities.
- Design for service principals for applications.
- Design for Azure Key Vault.
Prerequisites
- Conceptual knowledge of identity assignment solutions, role-based access control, and identity protection methods.
- Working experience creating, assigning, and securing corporate identities.
Azure Architects design and recommend logging and monitoring solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you learn how to:
- Design for Azure Monitor data sources
- Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
- Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
- Design for Azure Data Explorer
Prerequisites
- Working experience with monitoring and logging cloud environments
- Conceptual knowledge of monitoring and logging
Azure Architects design and recommend network solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you’ll learn how to:
- Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
- Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Networks
- Design for Azure network connectivity services
- Design for application delivery services
- Design for application protection services
Prerequisites
- Working experience with enterprise networking.
- Conceptual knowledge of software defined networking and hybrid connectivity.
Learn how to select appropriate backup solutions and disaster recovery solutions for Azure workloads.
Learning objectives
In this module, you’ll learn how to:
- Design for backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure Backup.
- Design for Azure blob backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure Files backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery.
- Design for6 Azure SQL backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure Site Recovery.
Prerequisites
- Conceptual knowledge of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions.
- Working experience with object replication, backup solution tools, and recovery options.
Azure Architects design and recommend migration solutions.
Learning objectives
In this module, you’ll learn how to:
- Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Describe the Azure Migration Framework.
- Assess your on-premises workloads.
- Select a migration tool.
- Migrate your databases.
- Select an online storage migration tool.
- Migrate offline data.
Prerequisites
- Conceptual knowledge of migrating compute, database, and storage workloads.
- Working experience with planning migrations, assessing workloads, determining migration requirements, and deploying workloads.
Learn how to design and build secure, scalable, high-performing solutions in Azure using the pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
Prerequisites
None
Do you need a clear path forward for your cloud journey? This learning path includes best practice guidance to help you create a cloud strategy, define a cloud adoption plan, prepare your cloud environment with proper governance, and implement cloud operations in alignment with your organizational needs. Cloud architects and IT professionals will learn and engage with the proven best practices, tools, and documentation in the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure to build the technical knowledge needed to help your organization successfully adopt the cloud and meet business goals.
For additional learning on how to manage organizational alignment, take this learning module: Use the Cloud Adoption Framework to manage organizational alignment.
This learning path helps prepare you for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
Prerequisites
An understanding of cloud computing is helpful, but isn’t necessary.
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Training Options
- ILT: Instructor-Led Training
- VILT: Virtual Instructor-Led Training
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.
Training & Certification Guide
Candidates for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification should have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security.
Responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for secure, scalable, and reliable Azure solutions.
An Azure solutions architect partners with developers, administrators, and other roles responsible for implementing solutions on Azure.
A candidate for this certification should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. A professional in this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, they should have experience in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes.
Candidates for this exam should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. A professional in this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, they should have experience in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes.
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions; design data storage solutions; design business continuity solutions; and design infrastructure solutions.
Skills measured
- Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25-30%)
- Design data storage solutions (25-30%)
- Design business continuity solutions (10-15%)
- Design infrastructure solutions (25-30%)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Azure solutions architects play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions using Azure. They have a deep understanding of Azure services and can architect scalable and secure cloud infrastructures. As an Azure solution architect, you collaborate with clients or colleagues to develop cloud strategies, ensure optimal performance, and provide guidance on best practices.
This role requires strong technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and the ability to align business objectives with cloud solutions.
The Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is a certification that validates the skills and expertise required to design, implement, and manage solutions using Microsoft Azure technologies.
In modern business, the cloud is definitely here to stay. Be future-ready! Validate your skills and experience as an Azure solutions architect expert by earning your certification. Then apply key principles and best practices to your cloud solutions to meet your organization’s needs. Prove your worth to your team and company by designing, building, and continuously improving secure, reliable, efficient, and scalable architecture on Azure—today and in the future.
Earning a Microsoft Azure certification is globally recognized and industry-endorsed evidence of mastering real world skills. It shows you demonstrate proficiency in keeping pace with technology. It’s a career move that yields many positive results.
Microsoft Certifications have long been recognized as a valuable and reliable way for professionals to break into the tech industry. As the global demand for skilled IT professionals continues to grow, holding a Microsoft Certification not only confers a level of authority and expertise but also offers a competitive edge in an increasingly crowded job market.
Microsoft offers a variety of training resources, including instructor-led training, self-paced online training, and Microsoft Official Practice Tests.
To stay up to date, IT pros are constantly learning and adding skills. The IDC study concluded that Microsoft Learning Partners such as Trainocate Malaysia which was recently awarded the Microsoft Learning Partner 2023 are well positioned to help organizations achieve their business and learning goals. The IT leaders who were surveyed found the most value from a Learning Partner that provides:
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- High-quality content and delivery, meaning accurate, relevant courseware, top-notch instructors, and a path to certification, if needed.
The number of questions on a certification exam is subject to change as Microsoft make updates to ensure it aligns with current changes in the technology and job role. Most Microsoft Certification exams typically contain between 40-60 questions; and around 60-140 minutes.
Starting June 30 2021, all newly earned role-based and specialty certifications will be valid for one year from the date the certification was earned.
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