Azure Architect Design (AZ-301)
This Azure Achitect Design is among the most valuable and highly sought after cloud computing certifications in the world today We designed this cloud architect certification training for anyone seeking to learn the major components of Microsoft. By the end of the course, you’ll be prepared to pass the Azure Architect Design certification exam. The Azure certification is a must-have for any IT professional.
Azure Architect Design (AZ-301)
This Azure Achitect Design is among the most valuable and highly sought after cloud computing certifications in the world today We designed this cloud architect certification training for anyone seeking to learn the major components of Microsoft. By the end of the course, you’ll be prepared to pass the Azure Architect Design certification exam. The Azure certification is a must-have for any IT professional.
Course Introduction
This 40-day (Weekdays -3hrs.) OR 12-week (Sunday/Saturday) instructor led Azure Architect Design course is designed to provide professionals with extensive knowledge to accomplish their day to day job and Azure Architect Design certification. The key to a high success rate is based on the program’s objectives as follows:
- Course contents are based on Microsoft guidelines and cover all topics specified in Azure curriculum.
- Dedicated Monitoring to evaluate and report candidates progress
- Extensive hands-on lab exercises
- Regular evaluation
- Industry Experienced Certified instructors
Course Highlights
- Project manager can be assigned to track candidates’ performance
- Curriculum based on course outlines defined by Microsoft.
- This Instructor-led classroom course is designed with an aim to build theoretical knowledge supplemented by ample hands-on lab exercises
- Facility of Lab on cloud available (based on booking)
- Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
- Assignments and test to ensure concept absorption.
- Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
- Assignments and test to ensure concept absorption.
- Repeating or lectures allowed (based on seat availability)
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the cloud architectures
- Create Linux and Windows servers on Azure VM
- Configure Azure Load Balancer
- Manage and attach Volumes with VM instances
- Manage key pairs, network security groups, auto-scaling groups, templates and snapshots
- Create containers with private and public access
- Hosting static website on VM
- Perform life cycle management, cross-region replication, versioning, transfer acceleration
- Create and Provision Azure Files
- Configure Active Directory services
- Manage networks using VNETs
- Perform Remote access VPN
- Monitor resources using Cloud Watch with email alerts
- Perform serverless computing with ACI and AKS
Course Topics
Design Monitoring (10-15%)
- Design for cost optimization
- recommend a solution for cost management and cost reporting
- recommend solutions to minimize costs
- Design a solution for logging and monitoring
- determine levels and storage locations for logs
- plan for integration with monitoring tools including Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel
- recommend appropriate monitoring tool(s) for a solution
- choose a mechanism for event routing and escalation
- recommend a logging solution for compliance requirements
Design Identity and Security (25-30%)
- Design authentication
- recommend a solution for single-sign on
- recommend a solution for authentication
- recommend a solution for Conditional Access, including multi-factor authentication
- recommend a solution for network access authentication
- recommend a solution for a hybrid identity including Azure AD Connect and Azure AD
- Connect Health
- recommend a solution for user self-service
- recommend and implement a solution for B2B integration
- NOT: federation with ADFS
- Design authorization
- choose an authorization approach
- recommend a hierarchical structure that includes management groups, subscriptions and resource groups
- recommend an access management solution including RBAC policies, access reviews,
- role assignments, physical access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure AD
Identity Protection, Just In Time (JIT) access
- Design governance
- recommend a strategy for tagging
- recommend a solution for using Azure Policy
- recommend a solution for using Azure Blueprint
- Design security for applications
- recommend a solution that includes KeyVault
- What can be stored in KeyVault
- KeyVault operations
- KeyVault regions
- recommend a solution that includes Azure AD Managed Identities
- recommend a solution for integrating applications into Azure AD
- recommend a solution that includes KeyVault
Design Data Storage (15-20%)
- Design a solution for databases
- select an appropriate data platform based on requirements
- recommend database service tier sizing
- recommend a solution for database scalability
- recommend a solution for encrypting data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use
- Design data integration
- recommend a data flow to meet business requirements
- recommend a solution for data integration, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data
Bricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics
- Select an appropriate storage account
- choose between storage tiers
- recommend a storage access solution
- recommend storage management tools
Design Business Continuity (10-15%)
- Design a solution for backup and recovery
- recommend a recovery solution for Azure hybrid and on-premises workloads that meets
- recovery objectives (RTO, RLO, RPO)
- design and Azure Site Recovery solution
- recommend a site recovery replication policy
- recommend a solution for site recovery capacity
- recommend a solution for site failover and failback (planned/unplanned)
- recommend a solution for the site recovery network
- recommend a solution for recovery in different regions
- recommend a solution for Azure Backup management
- design a solution for data archiving and retention
- recommend storage types and methodology for data archiving
- identify business compliance requirements for data archiving
- identify requirements for data archiving
- identify SLA(s) for data archiving
- recommend a data retention policy
- Design for high availability
- recommend a solution for application and workload redundancy, including compute,
- database, and storage
- recommend a solution for autoscaling
- identify resources that require high availability
- identify storage types for high availability
- recommend a solution for geo-redundancy of workloads
Design Infrastructure (25-30%)
- Design a compute solution
- recommend a solution for compute provisioning
- determine appropriate compute technologies, including virtual machines, App Services,
- Service Fabric, Azure Functions, Windows Virtual Desktop, and containers
- recommend a solution for containers
- AKS versus ACI and the configuration of each one
- recommend a solution for automating compute management
- Design a network solution
- recommend a solution for network addressing and name resolution
- recommend a solution for network provisioning
- recommend a solution for network security
- private endpoints
- firewalls
- gateways
- recommend a solution for network connectivity to the Internet, on-premises networks,
- and other Azure virtual networks
- recommend a solution for automating network management
- recommend a solution for load balancing and traffic routing
- Design an application architecture
- recommend a microservices architecture including Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service Bus,
- Storage Queues, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and webhooks
- recommend an orchestration solution for the deployment of applications including ARM
Templates, Logic Apps, or Azure Functions
- select an automation method
- choose which resources or lifecycle steps will be automated
- design integration with other sources such as an ITSM solution
- recommend a solution for monitoring automation
- recommend a solution for API integration
- design an API gateway strategy
- determine policies for internal and external consumption of APIs
- recommend a hosting structure for API management
- recommend when and how to use API Keys
- Design migrations
- assess and interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
- recommend a solution for migrating applications and VMs
- recommend a solution for migration of databases
- determine migration scope, including redundant, related, trivial, and outdated data
Lab Topics
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Virtual Classroom
- Instructor led online training is an ideal vehicle for delivering training to individuals anywhere in the world at any time.
- This innovative approach presents live content with instructor delivering the training online.
- Candidates will be performing labs remotely on our labs on cloud in presence of an online instructor.
- Rstforum uses microsoft lync engine to deliver instructor led online training.
- Advances in computer network technology, improvements in bandwidth, interactions, chat and conferencing, and realtime audio and video offers unparalleled training opportunities.
- Instructor led online training can helps today’s busy professionals to perform their jobs and upgrade knowledge by integrating self-paced instructor led online training in their daily routines.
Miscellaneous
- Minimum batch size required for batch is 10 participants in the this course.
- The RST Forum reserves the right to cancel/postpone the class.
- Course schedule will be provided before commencement of the course.
- Certificate of participation will be awarded to participants with a minimum 90% attendance.
- All attendees are to observe the Copyright Law on intellectual properties such as software and courseware from respective vendors.
- The RST Forum reserves the right to include external participants in the program either for the entire course or individual courses.
- The RST Forum reserves the right to change/alter the sequence of courses. RST FORUM published Book would be given at 50% discounted rate to the forum students.