AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
This course teaches Azure Solution Architects how to design infrastructure solutions. Course topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication and security solutions, networks, plan deployments, business continuity, migrations, and integrations.
The course combines lecture with case studies to demonstrate basic architect design principles.
Implementation: Class (in Finnish), Online (in Finnish)
Length: 4 days
Starting dates: 28.10.2024
Material: Microsoft English Material (MOC)
Audience profileIT professionals and architects that 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.
This course, in addition to the prerequisite certificate AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate, prepares you for the certification exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions to obtain the Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certificate.
Students should have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and strong 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
Day 1
Lesson 1: Design for governance
- Design for governance
- Design for management groups
- Design for subscriptions
- Design for resource groups
- Design for resource tagging
- Design for Azure Policy and Azure RBAC
- Design with Azure Blueprint
Lesson 2: Design a compute solution
- Choose a compute service
- Design for Azure virtual machine solutions
- Design for Azure Batch solutions
- Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
- Design for Azure App Services solutions
- Design for Azure Kubernetes solutions
- Design for Azure Functions solutions
- Design for Logic App solutions
Day 2
Lesson 1: Design a data storage solution for non-relational data
- Design for data storage
- Design for Azure storage accounts
- Design for data redundancy
- Design for Azure blob storage
- Design for Azure files
- Design for Azure disk solutions
- Design for storage security
Lesson 2: Design a data storage solution for relational data
- Design for data storage
- Design for Azure SQL databases
- Recommend a solution for database scalability
- Recommend a solution for database availability
- Design security for data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use
- Design for Azure SQL Edge
- Design for Azure Cosmos DB and tables
Lesson 3: Design data integration
- Design for Azure Data Factory
- Design for Data Lake
- Design for Azure Databricks
- Design for Azure Synapse Analytics
- Design a strategy for hot, warm, and cold data paths
- Design Azure Stream Analytics solution for Data Analysis
Day 3
Lesson 1: Design an application architecture
- Describe message and event scenarios
- Design a messaging solution
- Design an event solution (Event Hub and Event Grid)
- Design an application automation solution
- Design application lifecycle
Lesson 2: Design authentication and authorization solutions
- Design for identity and access management
- Design for Active Directory (B2B and B2C)
- Design for conditional access
- Design for identity protection
- Design for access reviews
- Design service principals for applications
- Design for Azure key vault
Lesson 3: Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
- Design for Azure Monitor data sources
- Design for Log Analytics
- Design for Azure Workbooks and Insights
- Design for Azure Data Explorer
Day 4
Lesson 1: Design network solutions
- 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
Lesson 2: Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
- 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 for Azure SQL backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Site Recovery
Lesson 3: Design migrations
- Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
- Describe Azure Migration Framework
- Assess your workloads
- Compare migration tools
- Migrate your databases
- Select an online storage migration solution
- Select an offline storage migration solution
