Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

• Project manager can be assigned to track candidate’s performance.
• Curriculum based on course outlines defined by Microsoft.
• This Instructor-led classroom course is designed with an aim to build theoretical knowledge supplemented by ample hands-on lab exercises.
• Facility of Lab on cloud available.
• Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
• Assignments and tests to ensure concept absorption.
• Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
• Repeating of lectures allowed (On approval basis)
• Candidates can attend lectures online.

• Design solutions for logging and monitoring.
• Design authentication and authorization solutions.
• Design governance.
• Design data storage solutions for relational data.
• Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data.
• Design data integration.
• Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery.
• Design for high availability.
• Design infrastructure solutions.
• Design compute solutions.
• Recommend a virtual machine-based solution.
• Recommend a container-based solution.
• Recommend a serverless-based solution
• Design an application architecture
• Recommend an event-driven architecture.
• Recommend a caching solution for application.
• 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).
• 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.
• optimize network security.
• Recommend a load-balancing and routing solution.
• Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions.
• Design business continuity solutions.
• Design infrastructure solutions.
• Choose Azure compute service.
• Design a cashing solution.

This course is aimed at imparting knowledge and skills to design, deploy, configure, and manage Azure cloud solution in a large-scale live enterprise network. Candidates will learn to design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions. This course covers to design data storage solutions, business continuity solutions, compute solutions and infrastructure solutions. The following topics are general guidelines to better reflect the contents of the course and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.

Azure Solutions Architect Expert: Course Topics

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 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 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 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

Followings labs will be performed by candidates during lab practice sessions:

• Lab 1 Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions.
• Lab 2 Design a logging solution.
• Lab 3 Design authentication and authorization solutions.
• Lab 4 Design and implement identity management solution.
• Lab 5 Design structure for management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and a strategy for resource tagging.
• Lab 6 Implement a solution for storing relational data.
• Lab 7 Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data.
• Lab 8 Implement data storage solutions.
• Lab 9 Implement access control solutions to data storage.
• Lab 10 Implement solution for backup and disaster recovery.
• Lab 11 Implement connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet.
• Lab 12 Implement connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks.
• Lab 13 Configure load-balancing and routing solution.
• Lab 14 Configure solution to optimize network security.
• Lab 15 Design a solution to optimize network performance.
• Lab 16 Implement a solution for migrating databases.
• Lab 16 Design event-driven architecture.
• Lab 17 Configure container-based solution.
• Lab 18 Configure solution for storing relational data.
• Lab 19 Recommend an authentication solution.
• Lab 20 Design monitoring solution.
• Lab 21 Design infrastructure solutions.
• Lab 22 Specify components of a compute solution based on workload requirements.

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