AZ-305T00 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions training course

1 — Describe the core architectural components of Azure

• What is Microsoft Azure
• Get started with Azure accounts
• Describe Azure physical infrastructure
• Describe Azure management infrastructure

2 — Describe Azure compute and networking services

• Describe Azure virtual machines
• Describe Azure virtual desktop
• Describe Azure containers
• Describe Azure functions
• Describe application hosting options
• Describe Azure virtual networking
• Describe Azure virtual private networks
• Describe Azure ExpressRoute
• Describe Azure DNS

3 — Describe Azure storage services

• Describe Azure storage accounts
• Describe Azure storage redundancy
• Describe Azure storage services
• Identify Azure data migration options
• Identify Azure file movement options

4 — Describe Azure identity, access, and security

• Describe Azure directory services
• Describe Azure authentication methods
• Describe Azure external identities
• Describe Azure conditional access
• Describe Azure role-based access control
• Describe zero trust model
• Describe defense-in-depth
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud

5 — Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

• Overview
• Define strategy
• Plan
• Ready
• Adopt
• Govern and manage

6 — Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
• Cost optimization
• Operational excellence
• Performance efficiency
• Reliability
• Security

7 — 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 landing zones

8 — Design authentication and authorization solutions

• Design for identity and access management (IAM)
• Design for Microsoft Entra ID
• Design for Microsoft Entra 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 service principals for applications
• Design managed identities
• Design for Azure Key Vault

9 — 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

10 — Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies

• Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
• Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
• Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
• Describe high availability and disaster recovery options for PaaS deployments
• Explore an IaaS high availability and disaster recovery solution
• Describe hybrid solutions

11 — Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery

• 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

12 — Design a data storage solution for non-relational data

• 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

13 — 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

14 — 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
• Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis

15 — 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

16 — 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

17 — Design network solutions

• Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
• Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services
• Design outbound connectivity and routing
• Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
• Choose an application delivery service
• Design for application delivery services
• Design for application protection services

18 — 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

19 — Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
• Cost optimization
• Operational excellence
• Performance efficiency
• Reliability
• Security

20 — Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework — Cost Optimization

• Develop cost-management discipline
• Design with a cost-efficiency mindset
• Design for usage optimization
• Design for rate optimization
• Monitor and optimize over time

21 — Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework — Operational excellence

• Embrace DevOps culture
• Establish development standards
• Evolve operations with observability
• Deploy with confidence
• Automate for efficiency
• Adopt safe deployment practices

22 — Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework — Performance efficiency

• Negotiate realistic performance targets
• Design to meet capacity requirements
• Achieve and sustain performance
• Improve efficiency through optimization

23 — Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework — Reliability

• Design for business requirements
• Design for resilience
• Design for recovery
• Design for operations
• Keep it simple

24 — Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework — Security

• Plan your security readiness
• Design to protect confidentiality
• Design to protect integrity
• Design to protect availability
• Sustain and evolve your security posture

25 — Getting started with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

• Customer narrative
• Common blockers

26 — Prepare for successful cloud adoption with a well-defined strategy

• Customer narrative
• Capture strategic motivation
• Define objectives and key results
• Evaluate financial considerations
• Understand technical considerations
• Create a business case

27 — Prepare for cloud adoption with a data-driven plan

• Customer narrative

28 — Choose the best Azure landing zone to support your requirements for cloud operations

• Customer narrative
• Common operating models
• Design areas for Azure landing zones
• Design principles for Azure landing zones
• Journey to the target architecture
• Choose an Azure landing zone option
• Deploy the Azure landing zone accelerator
• Enhance your landing zone

29 — Migrate to Azure through repeatable processes and common tools

• Customer narrative
• Migration process
• Migration tools
• Common tech platforms

30 — Address tangible risks with the Govern methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

• Customer narrative
• Govern methodology
• Corporate policies
• Governance disciplines
• Deploy a cloud governance foundation
• The Cost Management discipline

31 — Ensure stable operations and optimization across all supported workloads deployed to the cloud

• Establish business commitments
• Deploy an operations baseline
• Protect and recover
• Enhance an operations baseline
• Manage platform and workload specialization

32 — Innovate applications by using Azure cloud technologies

• Follow the innovation lifecycle
• Azure technologies for the build process
• Infuse your applications with AI
• Azure technologies for measuring business impact
• Azure technologies for the learn process

33 — Prepare for cloud security by using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

• Customer narrative
• Methodology
• Security roles and responsibilities
• Simplify compliance and security
• Simplify security implementation
• Security tools and policies