This course teaches Solutions Architects how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Lessons include design considerations related to logging, cost analysis, authentication and authorization, governance, security, storage, high availability, and migration. This role requires decisions in multiple areas that affect an overall design solution.
Objectives
Recommend solutions to minimize costs
Recommend a solution for Conditional Access, including multi-factor authentication
Recommend a solution for a hybrid identity including Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect
Recommend a solution that includes KeyVault
Recommend a solution that includes Azure AD Managed Identities
Recommend a storage access solution
Design and Azure Site Recovery solution
Recommend a solution for autoscaling
Recommend a solution for containers
Recommend a solution for network security
Recommend a solution for migrating applications and VMs
Recommend a solution for migration of databases
Prerequisites
Successful Azure Solution Architects start this role with experience on operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking.
Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.
Audience
This course is for IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on Microsoft Azure. They should have broad knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. Azure Solution Architects use the Azure Portal and as they become more adept they use the Command Line Interface. Candidates must have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have experience with Azure development processes and DevOps processes.
Topics
Design a Compute Solution
Design a Network Solution
Design for Migration
Design Authentication and Authorization
Design Governance
Design a Solution for Databases
Select an Appropriate Storage Account
Design Data Integration
Design a Solution for Logging and Monitoring
Design a Solution for Backup and Recovery
Design for High Availability
Design for Cost Optimization
Design an Application Architecture
Design Security for Applications