Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
(4 days)
Course Description
This course teaches Azure Solution Architects how to design infrastructure solutions. Course topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networks, business continuity, and migrations. The course combines lecture with case studies to demonstrate basic architect design principles.
Course objectives
- Design a governance solution
- Design a compute solution
- Design an application architecture
- Design storage, non-relational and relational
- Design data integration solutions
- Design authentication, authorization, and identity solutions
- Design network solutions
- Design backup and disaster recovery solutions
- Design monitoring solutions
- Design migration solutions
Audience
Successful students have experience and knowledge in IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Students also have experience designing and architecting solutions. Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and strong conceptual knowledge of:
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Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions
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Azure virtual networking to include load balancers
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Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases)
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General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability
Course Outline
Module 1: Microsoft Azure Architect Design Prerequisites
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Describe the core architectural components of Azure
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Describe Azure compute services
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Describe Azure storage services
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Describe Azure identity, access, and security
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Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
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Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
Module 2: Design identity, governance, and monitor solutions
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Design governance
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Design authentication and authorization solutions
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Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
Module 3: Design business continuity solutions
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Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies
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Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
Module 4: Design data storage solutions
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Design a data storage solution for non- relational data
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Design a data storage solution for relational data
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Design data integration
Module 5: Design infrastructure solutions
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Design an Azure compute solution
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Design an application architecture
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Design network solutions
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Design migrations
Module 6: Build great solutions with the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
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Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
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Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Reliability
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Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security
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Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization
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Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Operational excellence
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Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Performance efficiency
