Microsoft Azure Architect (AZ-305)^®

Course Description
This 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. Students will learn how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Lessons include design considerations related to logging, cost analysis, authentication and authorization, governance, security, storage, high availability, and migration. Solutions Architect role requires decisions in multiple areas that affect an overall design solution.

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What will you learn?
After completing this course you will learn how to design:

• a governance solution.
• a compute solution.
• an application architecture.
• storage, non-relational and relational.
• data integration solutions.
• authentication, authorization, and identity solutions.
• network solutions.
• backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• monitoring solutions.
• migration solutions.

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Who is this course for?
This course is for IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on Microsoft Azure. They should have broad knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. Azure Solution Architects use the Azure Portal and as they become more adept, they use the Command Line Interface. Candidates must have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have experience with Azure development processes and DevOps processes.

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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.

Successful Azure Architects begin this role with experience on operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, networking, applications and databases. Candidates need to have understanding of:

• on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
• network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
• Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.
• Applications development and APIs.
• Databases, both SQL such as MS SQL, MySQL or Postgres, and Non-SQL databases like MongoDB.
• decoupling Applications and services, for example, Queues, tables, Cache.
• Security concepts to protect your environment, like encryption at rest, encryption in transit, SSL, TLS.