AZ-304: Azure Solutions Architect Design.
This course provides students with the key knowledge to help prepare for Exam AZ-304.
Course Description
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.
Modules
- Module 1: Design a Compute Solution
- Module 2: Design a Network Solution
- Module 3: Design for Migration
- Module 4: Design Authentication and Authorization
- Module 5: Design Governance
- Module 6: Design a Solution for Databases
- Module 7: Select an Appropriate Storage Account
- Module 8: Design Data Integration
- Module 9: Design a Solution for Logging and Monitoring
- Module 10: Design a Solution for Backup and Recovery
- Module 11: Design for High Availability
- Module 12: Design for Cost Optimization
- Module 13: Design an Application Architecture
- Module 14: Design Security for Applications
Skills gained
- 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 for using Azure Policy
- Recommend a solution that includes KeyVault
- Recommend a solution that includes Azure AD Managed Identities
- Recommend a storage access solution
- Design an 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

Audience profile
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.
DELIVERY METHOD
This course includes activities that will allow you to test new skills and apply knowledge through hands-on lab activities. The course will be delivered through a mix of:
- Instructor-led Training
- Hands-on Labs
Prerequisites
- 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.
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