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.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and conceptual knowledge of:
- Azure Active Directory
- 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
Course Duration
4 Days
Course Outline
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
- Cost optimization
- Operational excellence
- Performance efficiency
- Reliability
- Security
- Customer narrative
- Common blockers
