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    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.

    Audience Profile

    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. Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and strong conceptual knowledge of:

    • 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

    About this Course

    Course Outline

    Skills at a glance

    • Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%)

    • Design data storage solutions (20–25%)

    • Design business continuity solutions (15–20%)

    • Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%)

    Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%)

    Design solutions for logging and monitoring

    • Recommend a logging solution

    • Recommend a solution for routing logs

    • Recommend a monitoring solution

    Design authentication and authorization solutions

    • Recommend an authentication solution

    • Recommend an identity management solution

    • Recommend a solution for authorizing access to Azure resources

    • Recommend a solution to manage secrets, certificates, and keys

    Design governance

    • Recommend a structure for management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and a strategy for resource tagging

    • Recommend a solution for managing compliance

    • Recommend a solution for identity governance

    Design data storage solutions (20–25%)

    Design data storage solutions for relational data

    • Recommend a solution for storing relational data

    • Recommend a database service tier and compute tier

    • Recommend a solution for database scalability

    • Recommend a solution for data protection

    Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data

    • Recommend a solution for storing semi-structured data

    • Recommend a solution for storing unstructured data

    • Recommend a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and costs

    • Recommend a data solution for protection and durability

    Design data integration

    • Recommend a solution for data integration

    • Recommend a solution for data analysis

    Design business continuity solutions (15–20%)

    Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery

    • Recommend a recovery solution for Azure and hybrid workloads that meets recovery objectives

    • Recommend a backup and recovery solution for compute

    • Recommend a backup and recovery solution for databases

    • Recommend a backup and recovery solution for unstructured data

    Design for high availability

    • Recommend a high availability solution for compute

    • Recommend a high availability solution for relational data

    • Recommend a high availability solution for semi-structured and unstructured data

    Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%)

    Design compute solutions

    • Specify components of a compute solution based on workload requirements

    • Recommend a virtual machine-based solution

    • Recommend a container-based solution

    • Recommend a serverless-based solution

    • Recommend a compute solution for batch processing

    Design an application architecture

    • Recommend a messaging architecture

    • Recommend an event-driven architecture

    • Recommend a solution for API integration

    • Recommend a caching solution for applications

    • Recommend an application configuration management solution

    • Recommend an automated deployment solution for applications

    Design migrations

    • Evaluate a migration solution that leverages the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

    • Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration

    • Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS)

    • Recommend a solution for migrating databases

    • Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data

    Design network solutions

    • Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet

    • Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks

    • Recommend a solution to optimize network performance

    • Recommend a solution to optimize network security

    • Recommend a load-balancing and routing solution

     

    Duration

    4 Days

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