Prepare for the official Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam AZ-301 and work toward your Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification in this Azure training course. In this four-part course, we cover how to manage security and identity within the context of Azure, how to identify data streaming options for large-scale data ingest, and identify longer-term data storage options, how to deploy an ARM template to a resource group, author a complex deployment using the Azure Building Blocks tools, and integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service, and how to compare connectivity options for ad-hoc and hybrid connectivity, distribute network traffic across multiple loads using load balancers, and design a hybrid connectivity scenario between cloud and on-premise.
You Will Learn How To:
- Integrate their existing solutions with external identity providers using Azure AD B2B or B2C.
- Design a hybrid identity solution.
- Determine when to use advanced features of Azure AD such as Managed Service Identity, MFA and Privileged Identity Management.
- Secure application secrets using Key Vault.
- Secure application data using SQL Database and Azure Storage features.
- Detail the various APIs available in Cognitive Services.
- Identify when to use the Face API, Speech API or Language Understanding (LUIS) service.
- Describe the relationship to Bot Framework and Azure Bot Services.
- Determine the ideal pricing option for Azure Storage based on a solution’s requirements.
- Identify performance thresholds for the Azure Storage service.
- Determine the type of Storage blobs to use for specific solution components.
- Use the Azure Files service for SMB operations.
- Identify solutions that could benefit from the use of StorSimple physical or virtual devices.
- Compare and contrast monitoring services for applications, the Azure platform, and networking.
- Design an alert scheme for a solution hosted in Azure.
- Select the appropriate backup option for infrastructure and data hosted in Azure.
- Automate the deployment of future resources for backup recovery or scaling purposes.
- Create a resource group.
- Add resources to a resource group.
- Deploy an ARM template to a resource group Integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service.
- Design an App Service Plan or multi-region deployment for high performance and scale.
- Integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service.
- Design an App Service Plan or multi-region deployment for high performance and scale.
- Describe various patterns pulled from the Cloud Design Patterns.
- Distribute network traffic across multiple loads using load balancers.
- Design a hybrid connectivity scenario between cloud and on-premise.
- Design an availability set for one or more virtual machines.
- Describe the differences between fault and update domains.
- Author a VM Scale Set ARM template.
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Software/Tools
- Managed Service Identity, MFA and Privileged Identity Management
- Relational databases (Azure SQL Database, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)
- Non-relational databases (Azure Cosmos DB, Storage Tables)
- VNETs in Azure
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Recommended Experience
This course is for an experienced solutions architect -
Who Should Attend
Successful Cloud Solutions Architects begin this role with practical experience with operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, billing, and networking. -
Microsoft Exam Information
This course can help you prepare for the following Microsoft role-based certification exam — AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design