I. Overview:

This 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.

II. Duration: 04 days (32 hours)

III. Intended Audience:

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. Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and strong conceptual knowledge of:

• Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions
• Azure virtual networking to include load balancers
• Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases)
• General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability

IV. Course outlines:

1. Microsoft Azure Architect Design Prerequisites

Learn the basic Azure concepts you'll need to know as an Azure infrastructure architect. This path gives you the knowledge to be successful as you begin studying for AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

• 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.

• Describe Azure compute and networking services: This module focuses on some of the computer services and networking services available within Azure.

• 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.

• Describe Azure identity, access, and security: This module covers some of the authorization and authentication methods available with Azure.

• Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework: This module covers the basics of how to use the Cloud Adoption Framework, which is a set of documentation, implementation guidance, best practices, and tools that help you align your strategy for business, people, and technology.

• 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.

2. Design identity, governance, and monitor solutions

Design identity, governance, and monitor solutions including authentication.

• Design governance: Azure Architects design and recommend governance solutions.

• Design authentication and authorization solutions: Azure Architects design and recommend authentication and authorization solutions.

• Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources: Azure Architects design and recommend logging and monitoring solutions.

3. Design business continuity solutions

Design business continuity solutions including high availability, backup, and disaster recovery.

• 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.

• Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery: Learn how to select appropriate backup solutions and disaster recovery solutions for Azure workloads.

4. Design data storage solutions

Design data storage solutions including non-relational storage, relational storage, and data integration.

• Design a data storage solution for non-relational data: Azure Architect's design and recommend nonrelational data storage solutions.

• Design a data storage solution for relational data: Azure Architect's design and recommend relational data storage solutions.

• Design data integration: Azure Architects design and recommend data integration solutions.

5. Design infrastructure solutions

Design Infrastructure Solutions including compute, applications, networking and migrations.

• Design an Azure compute solution: Azure Architects design and recommend Azure compute solutions.

• Design an application architecture: Azure Architects are responsible to design and recommend application architectures.

• Design network solutions: Azure Architects need to design and recommend network solutions.

• Design migrations: Azure Architect's design and recommend migration solutions.

6. Build great solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

Learn how to design and build secure, scalable, high-performing solutions in Azure using the pillars of the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework.

• 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.

• Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Reliability: Apply reliability guidance in your architecture to improve your workload's availability and resilience.

• 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.

• Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization: Apply cost optimization guidance in your architecture to sustain and improve your return on investment (ROI).

• 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.

• Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Performance Efficiency: To give users the best experience, it's important to scale your system to handle load, identify any network slowdowns, and optimize your storage performance. The tasks help your application run at its best.