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AZ-305T00 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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What You'll Learn

  • Describe Azure regions, region pairs, and sovereign regions
  • Describe Availability Zones
  • Describe Azure datacenters
  • Describe Azure resources and Resource Groups
  • Describe subscriptions
  • Describe management groups
  • Describe the hierarchy of resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups
  • Compare compute types, including container instances, virtual machines, and functions
  • Describe virtual machine (VM) options, including VMs, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, availability sets, Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Describe resources required for virtual machines
  • Describe application hosting options, including Azure Web Apps, containers, and virtual machines
  • Describe virtual networking, including the purpose of Azure Virtual Networks, Azure virtual subnets, peering, Azure DNS, VPN Gateway, and ExpressRoute
  • Define public and private endpoints
  • Compare Azure storage services
  • Describe storage tiers
  • Describe redundancy options
  • Describe storage account options and storage types
  • Identify options for moving files, including AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, and Azure File Sync
  • Describe migration options, including Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box
  • Describe directory services in Azure, including Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Describe authentication methods in Azure, including single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), and passwordless
  • Describe external identities and guest access in Azure
  • Describe Microsoft Entra Conditional Access
  • Describe Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Describe the concept of Zero Trust
  • Describe the purpose of the defense in depth model
  • Describe the purpose of Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Learn how to leverage the Cloud Adoption Framework to identify where your organization is in the digital transformation journey.
  • Identify triggers and opportunities for cloud adoption.
  • Recognize the components needed to develop a digital transformation strategy around your business, people, and technology.
  • Describe the pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework
  • Identify key principles for creating a solid architectural foundation
  • Design for governance.
  • Design for management groups.
  • Design for Azure subscriptions.
  • Design for resource groups.
  • Design for resource tagging.
  • Design for Azure Policy.
  • Design for Azure role-based access control.
  • Design for Azure landing zones.
  • Design for identity and access management.
  • 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 for managed identities.
  • Design for service principals for applications.
  • Design for Azure Key Vault.
  • 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
  • Define recovery time objective and recovery point objective
  • Explore the available high availability and disaster recovery options for both IaaS and PaaS
  • Devise an appropriate high availability and disaster recovery strategy
  • 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.
  • Design for data storage.
  • Design for Azure storage accounts.
  • Design for Azure blob storage.
  • Design for data redundancy.
  • Design for Azure files.
  • Design an Azure disk solution.
  • Design for storage security.
  • 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 protection for data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use.
  • Design for Azure SQL Edge.
  • Design for Azure Cosmos DB.
  • Design for Azure Table Storage.
  • Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory.
  • Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake.
  • Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Databricks.
  • Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Synapse Analytics.
  • Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths.
  • Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis.
  • 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.
  • Describe message and event scenarios.
  • Design a messaging solution.
  • Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution.
  • Design an event-driven solution.
  • Design an automated app deployment solution.
  • Design API integration.
  • Design an application configuration management solution.
  • Design a caching solution.
  • Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
  • Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
  • Design for Azure network connectivity services
  • Design for application delivery services
  • Design for application protection services
  • Evaluate migration with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
  • Describe the Azure Migration and Modernization Program (Azure Migration Framework)
  • Assess your on-premises workloads
  • Select a migration tool
  • Migrate your databases
  • Select an online storage migration tool
  • Migrate offline data
  • Describe the pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework
  • Identify key principles for creating a solid architectural foundation
  • Build a team culture that has awareness of budget, expenses, reporting, and cost tracking
  • Spend only on what you need to achieve the highest return on your investments
  • Maximize the use of resources and operations
  • Increase efficiency without redesigning, renegotiating, or sacrificing requirements
  • Continuously right-size investment as your workload evolves
  • Apply modern practices to design, build, and orchestrate resources on Azure
  • Gain operational insights by using monitoring and analytics
  • Reduce effort and error by using automation
  • Identify issues and improve quality in your application by using tests
  • Scale your capacity based on workload.
  • Optimize network performance.
  • Optimize storage and database performance.
  • Improve application performance by identifying bottlenecks.
  • Determine the reliability requirements from the business and apply those requirements to your workload design.
  • Design your workload to be fault-tolerant and able to degrade gracefully.
  • Design your workload to recover from malfunctions ranging from component-level faults to disasters.
  • Build observability and testing into your workload design and operations practices.
  • Design your workload with a focus on simplicity to minimize risks.
  • Create a security readiness plan that's aligned with business priorities.
  • Properly handle confidentiality requirements.
  • Strengthen the integrity of your workload against security risks.
  • Strengthen the availability of your workload against security incidents.
  • Continuously maintain and improve your workload's security posture
  • Understand common roadblocks that prevent adoption success.
  • Evaluate one or more guides that can help you get things started or move faster.
  • Get started on the proper course of action by using shared guidance and related Learn modules.
  • Create clarity for a corporate strategy to ensure that all team members are working toward common goals.
  • Establish metrics to create clarity, help the team learn, and systematically work toward your organizational objectives.
  • Evaluate financial considerations to understand the value of cloud adoption.
  • Assess your strategy using the Cloud Adoption Strategy.
  • Evaluate technical considerations to help the team prepare for successful cloud adoption projects.
  • Create an actionable cloud adoption plan.
  • Understand your digital estate.
  • Assess the digital estate with Azure Migrate and refine your plan.
  • Compare your management, governance, and security requirements for operations to common operating models.
  • Evaluate options for implementing Azure landing zones against your short-term and long-term requirements.
  • Choose the best Azure landing zone and Learn modules to support your needs for cloud adoption.
  • Understand the tools commonly used in migration
  • Learn about the migration processes required to migrate effectively
  • Demonstrate a migration (hands-on if possible)
  • Understand options for properly migrating various platforms and workloads
  • Choose the best learning path to continue on with migrating a specific platform or workload
  • Establish processes to properly govern cloud adoption.
  • Classify tangible risks based on the reference cloud adoption plan.
  • Integrate corporate policies to mitigate tangible risks.
  • List implementation strategies to mitigate risks.
  • Demonstrate Azure Policy additions that implement risk mitigation strategies.
  • Prioritize future governance investments.
  • Evaluate levels of business commitment across your portfolio of workloads
  • Deploy an operations baseline
  • Customize the baseline to meet operations needs
  • Centralize operations for core platforms
  • Partner with workload teams for richer decentralized operations
  • Understand the innovation cycle
  • Map Azure services to the phases of the innovation cycle
  • Correlate technologies to business outcomes of innovation
  • Understand cloud security methodology.
  • Identify security roles and responsibilities.
  • Assess cultural and role and responsibility changes that typically come with cloud adoption.
  • Learn how to simplify compliance and security implementation in the cloud.

Who Should Attend

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.

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Prerequisites

Please review the prerequisites listed for each module in the course content and click on the provided links for more information.

Learning Journey

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1. Describe the core architectural components of Azure

This module explains the basic infrastructure components of Microsoft Azure. You'll learn about the physical infrastructure, how resources are managed, and have a chance to create an Azure resource.

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2. Describe Azure compute and networking services

This module focuses on some of the computer services and networking services available within Azure.

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3. Describe Azure storage services

This module introduces you to storage in Azure, including things such as different types of storage and how a distributed infrastructure can make your data more resilient.

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4. Describe Azure identity, access, and security

This module covers some of the authorization and authentication methods available with Azure.

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5. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

This module covers the basics of how to use the Cloud Adoption Framework—a set of documentation, implementation guidance, best practices, and tools that aid in aligning the strategy for business, people, and technology.

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6. Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

You want to build great things on Azure, but you're not sure exactly what that means. Using key principles throughout your architecture, regardless of technology choice, can help you design, build, and continuously improve your architecture.

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7. Design governance

Azure Architects design and recommend governance solutions.

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8. Design authentication and authorization solutions

Azure Architects design and recommend authentication and authorization solutions.

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9. Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources

Azure Architects design and recommend logging and monitoring solutions.

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10. Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies

Plan an appropriate high availability and disaster recovery strategy based on recovery time objective and recovery point objective. Choose the best solution for IaaS or PaaS deployments or hybrid workloads.

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11. Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery

Learn how to select appropriate backup solutions and disaster recovery solutions for Azure workloads.

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12. Design a data storage solution for non-relational data

Azure Architects design and recommend non-relational data storage solutions.

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13. Design a data storage solution for relational data

Azure Architects design and recommend relational data storage solutions.

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14. Design data integration

Azure Architects design and recommend data integration solutions.

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15. Design an Azure compute solution

Azure Architects design and recommend Azure compute solutions.

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16. Design an application architecture

Azure Architects design and recommend application architectures.

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17. Design network solutions

Azure Architects design and recommend network solutions.

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18. Design migrations

Azure Architects design and recommend migration solutions.

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19. Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

You want to build great things on Azure, but you're not sure exactly what that means. Using key principles throughout your architecture, regardless of technology choice, can help you design, build, and continuously improve your architecture.

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20. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization

Apply cost optimization guidance in your architecture to sustain and improve your return on investment (ROI).

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21. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Operational excellence

Learn how to design an Azure architecture that uses modern practices and gives you full visibility into what's happening in your environment.

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22. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Performance efficiency

Scaling your system to handle load, identifying network bottlenecks, and optimizing your storage performance are important to ensure your users have the best experience. Learn how to make your application perform at its best.

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23. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Reliability

Apply reliability guidance in your architecture to improve your workload's availability and resilience.

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24. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security

Learn how to incorporate security into your architecture design, and discover the tools that Azure provides to help you create a secure environment through all the layers of your architecture.

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25. Getting started with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure is a guide to the full lifecycle of cloud adoption. Along your organization's journey to the cloud, you encounter roadblocks that can be easily removed through common approaches that thousands of customers share.

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26. Prepare for successful cloud adoption with a well-defined strategy

Success in cloud adoption depends on having a clear strategy that helps a team understand executive direction and regularly measure progress. This module helps you capture the cloud adoption strategy you need to drive your success.

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27. Prepare for cloud adoption with a data-driven plan

Adopting the cloud might depend on many moving parts. Starting with a sound plan built by experts creates clarity. Integrating data about your current environment and long-term objectives refines the plan to reflect realistic expectations and assignments.

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28. Choose the best Azure landing zone to support your requirements for cloud operations

Azure landing zones can accelerate configuration of your cloud environment. This module will help you choose and get started with the best landing zone option for your needs.

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29. Migrate to Azure through repeatable processes and common tools

The Migrate methodology in the Cloud Adoption Framework guides you through migration to Azure by using repeatable processes and common tools.

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30. Address tangible risks with the Govern methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Without proper governance, it can be difficult and laborious to maintain consistent control across a portfolio of workloads. Fortunately, cloud-native tools like Azure Policy and Azure Blueprints provide convenient means to establish those controls. The Govern methodology helps you evaluate and establish corporate policies and disciplines to mitigate tangible risks.

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31. Ensure stable operations and optimization across all supported workloads deployed to the cloud

As workloads are deployed to the cloud, operations are critical to success. In this learn module, you learn how to deploy an operations baseline to manage workloads in your environment. The module also covers how to enhance the baseline, both for workloads and for platforms.

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32. Innovate applications by using Azure cloud technologies

Innovation is a complex subject that encompasses many disciplines. The agility of the public cloud allows to quicker innovation cycles and quicker hypothesis verification. Learn how to use Azure cloud technologies to sustain your organization's innovation requirements.

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33. Prepare for cloud security by using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Organizations moving to the cloud often find they need to modernize security practices and tooling to keep up with continuous changes in cloud platforms, business requirements, and security threats.

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure provides guidance for this security modernization journey by providing clarity on processes, best practices, models, and experiences. This guidance is based on Zero Trust principles and the lessons learned and real-world experiences of Microsoft's own security work. It's also based on work with organizations like the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Open Group, and the Center for Internet Security.

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Skills measured

  • Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
  • Design data storage solutions
  • Design business continuity solutions
  • Design infrastructure solutions

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