As a Microsoft Azure solutions architect, you have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including:
- Compute
- Network
- Storage
- Monitoring
- Security
Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including:
- Developers
- Administrators
- Security engineers
- Data engineers
As a candidate for this exam, you should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. You should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, you should have experience with:
- Azure administration
- Azure development
- DevOps processes
- Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
- Design data storage solutions
- Design business continuity solutions
- Design infrastructure solutions
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.
- Working knowledge of networking technologies including connectivity services, application delivery services, and network architectures.
- Working knowledge of storage technologies including relational and non-relational data solutions.
- Working knowledge of compute technologies including virtual machines, containers, and PaaS compute solutions.
- Experience architecting solutions including security, migration, and business continuity.
- Lesson: Design for governance
- Lesson: Design for management groups
- Lesson: Design for Azure subscriptions
- Lesson: Design for resource groups
- Lesson: Design for resource tagging
- Lesson: Design for Azure Policy and RBAC
- Lesson: Design for Azure Landing Zones
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Choose a compute service
- Lesson: Design for Azure virtual machine solutions
- Lesson: Design for Azure Batch solutions
- Lesson: Design for Azure App Services solutions
- Lesson: Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
- Lesson: Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
- Lesson: Design for Azure Function solutions
- Lesson: Design for Azure Logic App solutions
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Design for data storage
- Lesson: Design for Azure storage accounts
- Lesson: Design for data redundancy
- Lesson: Design for Azure blob storage
- Lesson: Design for Azure files
- Lesson: Design an Azure disk solutions
- Lesson: Design for storage security
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Design for data storage
- Lesson: Design for Azure SQL databases
- Lesson: Recommend a solution for database scalability
- Lesson: Recommend a solution for database availability
- Lesson: Design security for data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use
- Lesson: Design for Azure SQL Edge
- Lesson: Design for Azure Cosmos DB and tables
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
- Lesson: Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
- Lesson: Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Databricks
- Lesson: Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Lesson: Design Azure Stream Analytics solution for Data Analysis
- Lesson: Design a strategy for hot/warm/cold data path
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Describe message and event scenarios
- Lesson: Design a messaging solution
- Lesson: Design an event solution (Event Hub and Event Grid)
- Lesson: Design an application optimization solution
- Lesson: Design application lifecycle
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Design for identity and access management
- Lesson: Design for Microsoft Entra ID
- Lesson: Design for Microsoft Entra B2B
- Lesson: Design for Azure Active Directory B2C
- Lesson: Design for conditional access
- Lesson: Design for identity protection
- Lesson: Design for access reviews
- Lesson: Design service principals for applications
- Lesson: Design for Azure key vault
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Design for Azure Monitor data sources
- Lesson: Design for Log Analytics
- Lesson: Design for Azure workbooks and Azure Insights
- Lesson: Design for Azure Data Explorer
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
- Lesson: Design for Azure network connectivity services
- Lesson: Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure virtual networks
- Lesson: Design for application delivery services
- Lesson: Design for application protection services
- Case study
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Design for backup and recovery
- Lesson: Design for Azure Backup
- Lesson: Design for Azure blob backup and recovery
- Lesson: Design for Azure Files backup and recovery
- Lesson: Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery
- Lesson: Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery
- Lesson: Design for Azure Site Recovery
- Learning recap
- Lesson: Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
- Lesson: Describe the Azure Migration Framework
- Lesson: Assess your workloads
- Lesson: Compare migration tools
- Lesson: Migrate your databases
- Lesson: Select an online storage migration tool
- Lesson: Select an offline storage migration tool
- Learning recap
Yes! The Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification will be earned by completing the following requirements:
- Earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification and
- Pass Exam AZ-305
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.
Please reach out to info@industechservices.com after your course to obtain your exam voucher.
