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Designing Infrastructure Solutions with Microsoft Azure Architecture

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Overview

Prepare for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam

This course has been created in partnership with Microsoft.

Solutions architects play a vital role in ensuring business processes and IT infrastructure work harmoniously within organizations.

On this five-week course, you’ll examine how to design solutions as an architect, using Azure services, and gain the skills to take the AZ-305 exam.

Discover key concepts for a career as a solutions architect

Architects align IT solutions with organisation objectives, designing solutions to address business goals and needs.

Building on your understanding of business processes, you’ll examine how to identify optimization opportunities and design solutions for specific areas of business and IT, from business continuity to data storage.

Learn to design hybrid and cloud solutions using Azure

Azure services offer a range of tools to help you respond to challenges across IT platforms.

Using tools including Azure Active Directory, Data Factory, and Azure App Services, you’ll gain a comprehensive overview of Azure and its real-world applications.

You’ll be able to design solutions using appropriate Azure services, as well as explaining your design process to stakeholders.

Improve your knowledge of IT operations across frameworks

Successful architects create high-performing solutions that address a number of needs at once, not just in isolation.

You’ll learn how to use the Azure Well-Architected Framework to optimize costs, reliability, and security.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to design business solutions using Azure architecture and be ready to take the AZ-305 exam, demonstrating your skills as an Azure Solutions Architect.

This course is designed to help prepare you for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. It’s recommended that you have some prior knowledge of identity, governance, and monitoring solutions, as well as experience of working with integrating identity and governance solutions.

Syllabus

  • Design Identity, Governance and Monitor Solutions
    • Design governance
    • Design authentication and authorization solutions
    • Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
  • Design Business Continuity Solutions
    • Design for high availability
    • Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
  • Design Data Storage Solutions
    • Design a data storage solution for non-relational data
    • Design a data storage solution for relational data
    • Design data integration
  • Design Infrastructure Solutions
    • Design a compute solution
    • Design an application architecture
    • Design network solutions
    • Design migrations
  • Build Great Solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
    • Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
    • Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost optimization
    • Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Operational excellence
    • Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Performance efficiency
    • Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Reliability
    • Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security

Taught by

Astrid deRidder

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