Microsoft Azure Architect Design

Transform your career as a Microsoft Azure Solution Architect by mastering secure, scalable, and reliable solutions tailored for IT professionals ready to excel in their cloud operations expertise.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Design secure and cost-effective Azure solutions.

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Implement identity management and governance strategies.

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Optimize Azure resources using monitoring and logging techniques.

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Migrate and integrate data effectively within Azure ecosystems.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 4 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • IT Professionals
  • Azure Solution Architects
  • Cloud Infrastructure Experts
  • DevOps Engineers

Description

This course teaches Solutions Architects how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Lessons include design considerations related to logging, cost analysis, authentication and authorization, governance, security, storage, high availability, and migration. This role requires decisions in multiple areas that affect an overall design solution.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Design for Cost Optimization

  1. Recommend Solutions for Cost Management

  2. Recommended Viewpoints for Minimizing Costs

  3. Optimize with Azure Cost Management

  4. Design with Cost in mind

  5. Optimize Costs from recommendations

Module 2: Design a Solution for Logging and Monitoring

  1. Azure Monitoring Services

  2. Azure Monitor

  3. Monitor Azure resources with Azure Monitor

  4. Collect and analyze Resource Logs for Azure resources

  5. Understand how Azure Sentinel collects data on the devices, users, infrastructure, and applications

Module 3: Design Authentication

  1. Recommend a Solution for Multi-Factor Authentication

  2. Recommend a Solution for Single-Sign On (SSO)

  3. Five Steps for Securing Identity Infrastructure

  4. Recommend a Solution for a Hybrid Identity

  5. Recommend a Solution for B2B Integration

  6. Plan for a MFA Deployment

  7. Understand Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On (SSO)

  8. Recommend an Authentication Methodology for Hybrid Identity

  9. Integrate with Identity Providers

Module 4: Design Authorization

  1. Infrastructure Protection

  2. Recommend a Hierarchical Structure for Management Groups, Subscriptions and Resource Groups

  3. Recommend hierarchy of Management Groups and Subscriptions

  4. Configure custom RBAC Role definitions and assignments

Module 5: Design Governance

  1. Recommend a Solution for using Azure Policy

  2. Recommend a Solution for using Azure Blueprint

  3. Organize Policies with Initiatives

  4. Manage Tag Governance with Azure Policy

  5. Provide guidance on Azure Blueprints

Module 6: Design Security for Applications

  1. Recommend a Solution using KeyVault

  2. Recommend a Solution using Azure AD Managed Identities

  3. Understand Key Vault authentication and authorization

  4. Understand Azure Key Vault availability and redundancy

  5. Understand how Blueprints differ from Resource Manager Templates and Azure Policy

Module 7: Design a Solution for Databases

  1. Select an Appropriate Data Platform Based on Requirements

  2. Overview of Azure Data Storage

  3. Recommend Database Service Tier Sizing

  4. Dynamically Scale Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instances

  5. Recommend a Solution for Encrypting Data at Rest, Transmission, and In Use

  6. Recommend Database Service Tier Sizing

  7. Recommend a Solution for Encrypting Data at Rest, Transmission, and In Use

  8. Understand Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Blob Storage containers

Module 8: Design Data Integration

  1. Recommend a Data Flow

  2. Recommend a Solution for Data Integration

  3. Implement Azure Synapse Analytics

  4. Describe how data flows using Azure Data Factory

  5. Demonstrate how to use Azure Data Factory to load data into SQL Data Warehouse

Module 9: Select an Appropriate Storage Account

  1. Understanding Storage Tiers

  2. Recommend a Storage Access Solution

  3. Recommend Storage Management Tools

  4. Recommend tools for working with Azure Storage

  5. Design for Azure Blob Storage access tiers

Module 10: Design a Solution for Backup and Recovery

  1. Recommend a Recovery Solution for Hybrid and On-Premises Workloads

  2. Design and Azure Site Recovery Solution

  3. Recommend a Solution for Recovery in Different Regions

  4. Recommend a Solution for Azure Backup Management

  5. Design a Solution for Data Archiving and Retention

Module 11: Design for High Availability

  1. Recommend a Solution for Application and Workload Redundancy

  2. Recommend a Solution for Autoscaling

  3. Identify Resources that Require High Availability

  4. Identify Storage Types for High Availability

  5. Recommend a Solution for Geo-Redundancy of Workloads

Module 12: Design a Compute Solution

  1. Recommend a Solution for Compute Provisioning

  2. Determine Appropriate Compute Technologies

  3. Recommend a Solution for Containers

  4. Recommend a Solution for Automating Compute Management

Module 13: Design a Network Solution

  1. Recommend a Solution for Network Addressing and Name Resolution

  2. Recommend a Solution for Network Provisioning

  3. Recommend a Solution for Network Security

  4. Recommend a Solution for Internet Connectivity and On-Premises Networks

  5. Recommend a Solution for Automating Network Management

  6. Recommend a Solution for Load Balancing and Traffic Routing

Module 14: Design an Application Architecture

  1. Recommend a Microservices Architecture

  2. Recommend an Orchestration Solution for Deployment of Applications

  3. Recommend a Solution for API Integration

  4. Recommend deployment solutions using ARM templates, Logic Apps, or Azure Functions

  5. Recommend a solution for monitoring automation

  6. Recommend a hosting structure for API management

Module 15: Design Migrations

  1. Assess and On-Premises Servers and Applications for Migration

  2. Recommend a Solution for Migrating Applications and VMs

  3. Recommend a Solution for Migration of Databases

  4. Assess on-premises servers and applications for migration

  5. Suggest solutions for migrating applications and VMs

  6. Determine migration scope, including redundant, related, trivial, and outdated data

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