Course Description: AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

This course teaches Azure solution architects how to design infrastructure solutions . Course topics cover governance, process, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networking, business continuity, and more. enterprise and migrations. The course combines lectures with practical cases to demonstrate the basic principles of architect design.

Audience profile

Eligible students have experience and knowledge of IT operations such as networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, budgeting, and governance. Students also have experience in solution design and architecture.

Items in this collection

• Design governance (12 units)
• Designing a process solution (11 Units)
• Designing a data warehousing solution for non-relational data (10 Units)
• Designing a data storage solution for relational data (11 Units)
• Data Integration Design (9 Units)
• Designing an application architecture (11 units)
• Designing authentication and authorization solutions (13 units)
• Designing a solution to log and monitor Azure resources (7 Units)
• Network Solutions Design (8 Units)
• Designing a solution for backups and disaster recovery (10 Units)
• Migration Design (10 Units)
• Building Great Solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework (6 Modules)
• Accelerating Cloud Adoption in Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure (9 Modules)

Course outline

1. Design a governance solution
Lesson
- Design for governance
- Design for management groups
- Design for Azure subscriptions
- Design for resource groups
- Design for resource tagging
- Design for Azure Policy and RBAC
- Design for Azure Landing Zones

Case study

2. Design a computational solution
Lesson
- Choose a computing service
- Design for Azure virtual machine solutions
- Design for Azure Batch solutions
- Design for Azure App Services solutions
- Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
- Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
- Design for Azure Function solutions
- Design for Azure Logic App solutions

Case study

3. Design a non-relational data storage solution
Lesson
- Design for data storage
- Design for Azure storage accounts
- Design for data redundancy
- Design for Azure blob storage
- Design for Azure files
- Design an Azure disk solutions
- Design for storage security

Case study

4. Design a data storage solution for relational data
Lesson
- Design for data storage
- Design for Azure SQL databases
- Recommend a solution for database scalability
- Recommend a solution for database availability
- Design security for data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use
- Design for Azure SQL Edge
- Design for Azure Cosmos DB and tables

Case study

5. Design a data integration solution

Lesson
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
- Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Databricks
- Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Design Azure Stream Analytics solution for Data Analysis
- Design a strategy for hot/warm/cold data path

Case study

6. Design an application architecture solution
Lesson
- Describe message and event scenarios
- Design a messaging solution
- Design an event solution (Event Hub and Event Grid)
- Design an application optimization solution
- Design application lifecycle

Case study

7. Design Authentication and Authorization Solutions
Lesson
- Design for identity and access management
- Design for Microsoft Enter ID
- Design for Microsoft Enter B2B
- Design for Azure Active Directory B2C
- Design for conditional access
- Design for identity protection
- Design for accessible reviews
- Design service principals for applications
- Design for Azure key vault

Case study

8. Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
Lesson
- Design for Azure Monitor data sources
- Design for Log Analytics
- Design for Azure workbooks and Azure Insights
- Design for Azure Data Explorer

Case study

9. Design a network infrastructure solution
Lesson
- Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
- Design for Azure network connectivity services
- Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure virtual networks
- Design for application delivery services
- Design for application protection services

Case study

10. Design a business continuity solution
Lesson
- Design for backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Backup
- Design for Azure blob backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Files backup and recovery
- Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery
- Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Site Recovery

11. Design a migration solution
Lesson
- Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
- Describes the Azure Migration Framework
- Assess your workloads
- Compare migration tools
- Migrate your databases
- Select an online storage migration tool
- Select an offline storage migration tool

Prerequisites

Before participating in this course, students should have prior experience deploying or managing Azure resources and a solid conceptual understanding of:

• Azure Active Directory

• Azure compute technologies such as virtual machines, containers, and serverless solutions

• Azure virtual networks, to include load balancers

• Azure Storage Technologies (Databases and Unstructured)

• General application design concepts, such as messaging and high availability

Language

• Course: English / Spanish

• Labs: English / Spanish

Related Certification

Get certified:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator)

Take a test:

• AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solution

Get certified:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert