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Design Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305T00)

4 days
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Learn to design Microsoft Azure infrastructure solutions for governance, identity, compute, storage, networking, resilience, monitoring, and cloud migration.

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Course Overview

This four-day course teaches Azure solution architects how to design infrastructure solutions. Topics include governance, identity, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, networking, monitoring, business continuity, disaster recovery, and migration.

Through instruction and case studies, participants explore core architectural principles and apply Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework guidance to solution design.

Course Benefits

  • Design governance, identity, authentication, and authorization solutions.
  • Design monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
  • Select and design Azure compute services for workload requirements.
  • Design relational and non-relational data storage solutions.
  • Design data integration and analytics solutions using Azure services.
  • Design application architectures incorporating messaging, events, caching, APIs, deployment, and configuration management.
  • Design network connectivity, application delivery, and application protection solutions.
  • Assess workloads and design migration approaches for structured and unstructured data.
  • Apply the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework to infrastructure designs.
  • Evaluate designs for reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.

Delivery Methods

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.

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Webucator is a Microsoft Certified Partner. This class uses official Microsoft courseware and will be delivered by a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

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Course Outline

  1. Describe the core architectural components of Azure
    1. What is Microsoft Azure
    2. Get started with Azure accounts
    3. Describe Azure physical infrastructure
    4. Describe Azure management infrastructure
    5. Module assessment
  2. Describe Azure compute and networking services
    1. Describe Azure virtual machines
    2. Describe Azure Virtual Desktop
    3. Describe Azure containers
    4. Describe Azure Functions
    5. Describe application hosting options
    6. Describe Azure virtual networking
    7. Describe Azure virtual private networks
    8. Describe Azure ExpressRoute
    9. Describe Azure DNS
    10. Module assessment
  3. Describe Azure storage services
    1. Describe Azure storage accounts
    2. Describe Azure storage redundancy
    3. Describe Azure storage services
    4. Identify Azure data migration options
    5. Identify Azure file movement options
    6. Module assessment
  4. Describe Azure identity, access, and security
    1. Describe Azure directory services
    2. Describe Azure authentication methods
    3. Describe Azure external identities
    4. Describe Azure conditional access
    5. Describe Azure role-based access control
    6. Describe the Zero Trust model
    7. Describe defense-in-depth
    8. Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    9. Module assessment
  5. Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
    1. Strategy
    2. Plan
    3. Ready
    4. Migrate
    5. Modernize
    6. Cloud-native
    7. Govern
    8. Manage
    9. Secure
    10. Module assessment
  6. Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
    1. Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
  7. Design governance
    1. Design for governance
    2. Design for management groups
    3. Design for subscriptions
    4. Design for resource groups
    5. Design for resource tags
    6. Design for Azure Policy
    7. Design for role-based access control (RBAC)
    8. Design for Azure landing zones
    9. Module assessment
  8. Design authentication and authorization solutions
    1. Design for identity and access management (IAM)
    2. Design for Microsoft Entra ID
    3. Design for Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B)
    4. Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer)
    5. Design for conditional access
    6. Design for identity protection
    7. Design for access reviews
    8. Design service principals for applications
    9. Design managed identities
    10. Design for Azure Key Vault
    11. Module assessment
  9. Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
    1. Design for Azure Monitor data sources
    2. Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
    3. Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
    4. Design for Azure Data Explorer
    5. Module assessment
  10. Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies
    1. Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
    2. Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
    3. Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
    4. Describe high availability and disaster recovery for PaaS deployments
    5. Explore high availability and disaster recovery solutions for IaaS
    6. Describe hybrid solutions
    7. Module assessment
  11. Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
    1. Design for backup and recovery
    2. Design for Azure Backup
    3. Design for Azure Blob Storage backup and recovery
    4. Design for Azure Files backup and recovery
    5. Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery
    6. Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery
    7. Design for Azure Site Recovery
    8. Module assessment
  12. Design a data storage solution for non-relational data
    1. Design for data storage
    2. Design for Azure storage accounts
    3. Design for data redundancy
    4. Design for Azure Blob Storage
    5. Design for Azure Files
    6. Design for Azure managed disks
    7. Design for storage security
    8. Module assessment
  13. Design a data storage solution for relational data
    1. Design for Azure SQL Database
    2. Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance
    3. Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
    4. Recommend a solution for database scalability
    5. Recommend a solution for database availability
    6. Design security for data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
    7. Design for Azure SQL Edge
    8. Design for Azure Cosmos DB and Table Storage
    9. Module assessment
  14. Design data integration
    1. Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
    2. Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
    3. Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Databricks
    4. Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
    5. Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths
    6. Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis
    7. Module assessment
  15. Design an Azure compute solution
    1. Choose an Azure compute service
    2. Design Azure Virtual Machines solutions
    3. Design Azure Batch solutions
    4. Design Azure App Service solutions
    5. Design Azure Container Instances solutions
    6. Design Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
    7. Design Azure Functions solutions
    8. Design Azure Logic Apps solutions
    9. Module assessment
  16. Design an application architecture
    1. Describe message and event scenarios
    2. Design a messaging solution
    3. Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution
    4. Design an event-driven solution
    5. Design a caching solution
    6. Design API integration
    7. Design an automated application deployment solution
    8. Design an application configuration management solution
    9. Module assessment
  17. Design network solutions
    1. Recommend a network architecture based on workload requirements
    2. Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services
    3. Design outbound connectivity and routing
    4. Design on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
    5. Choose an application delivery service
    6. Design application delivery services
    7. Design application protection services
    8. Module assessment
  18. Design migrations
    1. Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
    2. Describe the Azure migration framework
    3. Assess on-premises workloads
    4. Select a migration tool
    5. Migrate structured data in databases
    6. Select an online storage migration tool for unstructured data
    7. Migrate offline data
    8. Module assessment
  19. Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
    1. Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
  20. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework: Reliability
    1. Design for business requirements
    2. Design for resilience
    3. Design for recovery
    4. Design for operations
    5. Keep it simple
  21. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework: Security
    1. Plan security readiness
    2. Design to protect confidentiality
    3. Design to protect integrity
    4. Design to protect availability
    5. Sustain and evolve the security posture
  22. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework: Cost Optimization
    1. Develop cost-management discipline
    2. Design with a cost-efficiency mindset
    3. Design for usage optimization
    4. Design for rate optimization
    5. Monitor and optimize over time
  23. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework: Operational Excellence
    1. Embrace DevOps culture
    2. Establish development standards
    3. Evolve operations with observability
    4. Automate for efficiency
    5. Adopt safe deployment practices
  24. Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework: Performance Efficiency
    1. Negotiate realistic performance targets
    2. Design to meet capacity requirements
    3. Achieve and sustain performance
    4. Improve efficiency through optimization

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Azure class:

Before attending this course, participants must have experience deploying or administering Azure resources and conceptual knowledge of:

  • Azure Active Directory
  • Azure compute technologies, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless solutions
  • Azure virtual networking, including load balancers
  • Azure Storage technologies for unstructured data and databases
  • General application design concepts, including messaging and high availability

Participants should also have completed AZ-104T00: Microsoft Azure Administrator or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Experience in the following would be useful for this Azure class:

Experience with IT operations is useful, particularly in networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Previous experience designing and architecting solutions is also recommended.

Prerequisite Courses

Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:

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