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.
Course dates and course fee may be subjected to changes.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Design governance
- Design for governance
- Design for management groups
- Design for subscriptions
- Design for resource groups
- Design for resource tags
- Design for Azure Policy
- Design for role-based access control (RBAC)
- Design for Azure Blueprints
Lesson 2: Design an Azure compute solution
- Choose an Azure compute service
- Design for Azure Virtual Machines solutions
- Design for Azure Batch solutions
- Design for Azure App Service solutions
- Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
- Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
- Design for Azure Functions solutions
- Design for Azure Logic Apps solutions
Lesson 3: Design app architecture, access, and monitoring solutions
- Design for data storage
- Design for Azure storage accounts
- Design for data redundancy
- Design for Azure Blob Storage
- Design for Azure Files
- Design for Azure managed disks
- Design for storage security
Lesson 4: Design a data storage solution for relational data
- Design for Azure SQL Database
- Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- Recommend a solution for database scalability
- Recommend a solution for database availability
- Design security for data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
- Design for Azure SQL Edge
- Design for Azure Cosmos DB and Table Storage
Lesson 5: Design data integration
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
- Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Databricks
- Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths
Lesson 6: Design an application architecture
- Describe message and event scenarios
- Design a messaging solution
- Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution
- Design an event-driven solution
- Design a caching solution
- Design API integration
- Design an automated app deployment solution
- Design an app configuration management solution
Lesson 7: Design authentication and authorization solutions
- Design for identity and access management (IAM)
- Design for Azure Active Directory
- Design for Azure Active Directory business-to-business (B2B)
- Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer)
- Design for conditional access
- Design for identity protection
- Design for access reviews
- Design managed identities
- Design service principals for applications
- Design for Azure Key Vault
Lesson 8: Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
- Design for Azure Monitor data sources
- Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
- Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
- Design for Azure Data Explorer
Lesson 9: Design network solutions
- Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
- Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
- Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services
- Design outbound connectivity and routing
- Choose an application delivery service
- Design for application delivery services
- Design for application protection services
Lesson 10: Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
- Design for backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Backup
- Design for Azure blobs backup and recovery
- Design for Azure file shares backup and recovery
- Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery
- Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Site Recovery
Lesson 11: Design migrations
- Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
- Describe the Azure migration framework
- Assess your on-premises workloads
- Select a migration tool
- Migrate your structured data in databases
- Select an online storage migration tool for unstructured data
- Migrate offline data
Lesson 12: Build great solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
- Cost optimization
- Operational excellence
- Performance efficiency
- Reliability
- Security
Lesson 13: Accelerate cloud adoption with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Customer narrative
- Common blockers
