AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

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

Developers
Administrators
Security engineers
Data engineers