Description

Candidates for this exam should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. A professional in this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, they should have experience in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes.

Note: Currently the exam is available in Beta version

Course Fee: £1,799+VAT

Objectives

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

Who Should Attend

Azure Solution Architects have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitor, and security. Responsibilities for an Azure Solution Architect include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designing secure, scalable, and reliable Azure cloud solutions. An Azure Solution Architect partners with Azure Developers, Azure Administrators, and other roles responsible for implementing Azure solutions. Azure Solutions Architects have experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance–this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. Generally, this role has experience in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes.

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of Azure Active Directory 
• Knowledge on Azure Compute Technologies such as containers, VMs and serverless solutions  
• Knowledge of Azure virtual networking to include load balancers 
• Understanding of Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases) 
• Understanding of general application design concepts such as messaging and high availability 

Course Outline

Module 1: Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions   

Design a Solution for Logging and Monitoring  

• Designa log routing solution  
• Recommendan appropriate level of logging  
• Recommenda monitoring tool(s) for a solution  

Design Authentication and Authorization Solutions  

• Recommenda solution for securing resources with role-based access controls  
• Recommendan identity management solution  
• Recommenda solution for securing identities  

Design Governance  

• Recommendan organizational and hierarchical structure for Azure resources  
• Recommenda solution for enforcing and auditing compliance  

Design Identities and Access for Applications  

• Recommendsolutions to allow applications to access Azure resources  
• Recommenda solution that securely stores passwords and secrets  
• Recommenda solution for integrating applications into Azure AD  
• Recommenda user consent solution for applications  

Module 2: Design Data Storage Solutions  

Design a Data Storage Solution for Relational Data  

• Recommenddatabase service tier sizing  
• Recommenda solution for database scalability  
• Recommenda solution for encrypting data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use  

Design Data Integration  

• Recommenda solution for data integration Recommend a solution for data analysis  

Recommend a Data Storage Solution  

• Recommenda solution for storing relational data  
• Recommenda solution for storing semi-structured data  
• Recommenda solution for storing non-relational data  

Design a Data Storage Solution for Non-relational Data  

• Recommendaccess control solutions to data storage  
• Recommenda data storage solution to balance features, performance, and cost  
• designa data solution for protection and durability  

Module 3: Design Business Continuity Solutions  

Design a Solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery  

• Recommenda recovery solution for Azure, hybrid, and on-premises workloads that meets recovery objectives (RTO, RLO, RPO)  
• Understandthe recovery solutions for containers  
• Recommenda backup and recovery solution for compute  
• Recommenda backup and recovery solution for databases  
• Recommenda backup and recovery solution for unstructured data  

Design for High Availability  

• Identifythe availability requirements of Azure resources  
• Recommenda high availability solution for Compute  
• Recommenda high availability solution for non-relational data storage  
• Recommenda high availability solution for relational data storage  

Module 4: Design Infrastructure Solutions 

Design a Compute Solution  

• Recommenda Virtual Machine-based compute solution  
• Recommendan appropriately sized compute solution based on workload requirements  
• Recommenda Container-based compute solution  
• Recommenda Serverless-based compute solution  

Design an Application Architecture  

• Recommenda caching solution for applications  
• Recommenda messaging architecture  
• Recommendan event-driven architecture  
• Recommendan automated deployment solution for your applications  
• Recommendan application configuration management solution  
• Recommenda solution for API integration  

Design Migrations  

• Evaluatemigration solution that leverages the Cloud Adoption Framework  
• Assessand interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration  
• Recommenda solution for migrating applications and Virtual Machines  
• Recommenda solution for migrating databases  
• Recommenda solution for migrating unstructured data  

Design Network Solutions  

• Recommenda network architecture solution based on workload requirements  
• Recommenda connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the Internet  
• Recommenda connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks  
• Optimizenetwork performance for applications 
• Recommenda solution to optimize network security  
• Recommenda load balancing and routing solution 

About The Trainer

A Certified Microsoft Azure Trainer

Course Fee

£1,799+VAT