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.
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Course Outline
1. Describe the core architectural components of Azure
• What is Microsoft Azure
• Get started with Azure accounts
• Describe Azure physical infrastructure
• Describe Azure management infrastructure
2. Describe Azure compute services
• Describe Azure virtual machines
• Describe Azure virtual desktop
• Describe Azure containers
• Describe Azure functions
• Describe AI, machine learning, and IoT/Edge services in Azure
• Describe application hosting options
3. Describe Azure storage services
• Describe Azure storage accounts
• Describe Azure storage redundancy
• Describe Azure storage services
• Identify Azure data migration options
• Identify Azure file movement options
4. Describe Azure identity, access, and security
• Describe Azure directory services
• Describe Azure authentication methods
• Describe Azure external identities
• Describe Azure conditional access
• Describe Azure role-based access control
• Describe Zero Trust model
• Describe defense-in-depth
• Describe encryption and key management in Azure
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud
5. Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
• Strategy
• Plan
• Ready
• Migrate
• Modernize
• Cloud-native
• Govern
• Manage
• Secure
6. Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
7. Design governance
• Design for governance
• Design for management groups
• Design for subscriptions
• Design for resource groups
• Design for resource tags
• Design for Azure Policy
• Design for role-based access control (RBAC)
• Design for Azure landing zones
8. Design authentication and authorization solutions
• Design for identity and access management (IAM)
• Design for Microsoft Entra ID
• Design for Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B)
• Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer)
• Design for conditional access
• Design for identity protection
• Design for access reviews
• Design service principals for applications
• Design managed identities
• Design for Azure Key Vault
9. Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
• Design for Azure Monitor data sources
• Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
• Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
• Design for Azure Data Explorer
10. Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies
• Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
• Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
• Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
• Describe high availability and disaster recovery for PaaS deployments
• Explore high availability and disaster recovery solution for IaaS
• Describe hybrid solutions
11. 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
12. 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 managed disks
• Design for storage security
13. Design a data storage solution for relational data
• Design for Azure SQL Database
• Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• Recommend a solution for database scalability
• Recommend a solution for database availability
• Design security for data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
• Design for Azure Cosmos DB and Table Storage
14. Design data integration
• Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
• Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
• Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Databricks
• Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
• Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths
• Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis
15. Design an Azure compute solution
• Choose an Azure compute service
• Design for Azure Virtual Machines solutions
• Design for Azure Batch solutions
• Design for Azure App Service solutions
• Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
• Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
• Design for Azure Functions solutions
• Design for Azure Logic Apps solutions
16. Design an application architecture
• Describe message and event scenarios
• Design a messaging solution
• Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution
• Design an event-driven solution
• Design a caching solution
• Design API integration
• Design an automated app deployment solution
• Design an app configuration management solution
17. Design network solutions
• Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
• Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services
• Design outbound connectivity and routing
• Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
• Choose an application delivery service
• Design for application delivery services
• Design for application protection services
18. Design migrations
• Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
• Describe the Azure migration framework
• Assess your on-premises workloads
• Select a migration tool
• Migrate your structured data in databases
• Select an online storage migration tool for unstructured data
• Migrate offline data
19. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Reliability
• Design for business requirements
• Design for resilience
• Design for recovery
• Design for operations
• Keep it simple
20. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Security
• Plan your security readiness
• Design to protect confidentiality
• Design to protect integrity
• Design to protect availability
• Sustain and evolve your security posture
21. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Cost Optimization
• Develop cost-management discipline
• Design with a cost-efficiency mindset
• Design for usage optimization
• Design for rate optimization
• Monitor and optimize over time
22. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Operational Excellence
• Embrace DevOps culture
• Establish development standards
• Evolve operations with observability
• Automate for efficiency
• Adopt safe deployment practices
23. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Performance Efficiency
• Negotiate realistic performance targets
• Design to meet capacity requirements
• Achieve and sustain performance
• Improve efficiency through optimization
Course Details
• You should be familiar with basic computing concepts and terminology. Experience designing architecture solutions are desired, but not required.
• Conceptual knowledge of identity, governance, and monitoring solutions; working experience with integrating identity and governance solutions.
• Working experience with designing highly available architectures; conceptual knowledge of high availability for applications, databases, and compute resources, and of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Working experience with object replication, backup solution tools, and recovery options.
• Conceptual knowledge of storage accounts, blobs, files, disks, data protection, and databases; working experience with creating and securing storage systems, designing database solutions, and integrating data solutions.
• Conceptual knowledge of compute, applications, networking and migration solutions; working experience with architecting compute and network 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. 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
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