Course Overview
This course teaches Solutions Architects how to translate business requirements into secure,
scalable, and reliable solutions. Lessons include virtualization, automation, networking, storage, identity,
security, data platform, and application infrastructure. This course outlines how decisions in each theses area
affects an overall solution.
Learning Objectives
- Secure identities with Azure Active Directory and users and groups
- Implement identity solutions spanning on-premises and cloud-based capabilities
- Apply monitoring solutions for collecting, combining, and analyzing data from different sources
- Manage subscriptions, accounts, Azure policies, and Role-Based Access Control
- Administer Azure using the Resource Manager, Azure portal, Cloud Shell, and CLI
- Configure intersite connectivity solutions like VNet Peering, and virtual network gateways
- Administer Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes
Prerequisites
- To take this Azure solution architect certification course, you need prior hands-on experience in various IT
operations, covering networking, virtualization, security, compute, storage, billing and budgeting, and
governance. Also, you need proficiency in at least one of the following domains: Azure administration, Azure
development, or DevOps.
Course Curriculum
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Topic Covered:
- Virtual Network Peering
- Implement VNet Peering
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Topic Covered:
- Select Virtual Machine Size
- Configure High Availability
- Implement Azure Dedicated Hosts
- Deploy and Configure Scale Sets
- Configure Azure Disk Encryption
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Topic Covered:
- Azure Resource Manager Templates
- Save a Template for a VM
- Evaluate Location of New Resources
- Configure a Virtual Hard Disk Template
- Deploy from a Template
- Create and Execute an Automation Runbook
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Topic Covered:
- Implement Azure Load Balancer
- Implement an Application Gateway
- Understand Web Application Firewall
- Implement Azure Firewall
- Implement Azure Front Door
- Implementing Azure Traffice Manager
- Implement Network Security Groups and Application Security Grou
- Implement Azure Bastion
Hands-on Lab: Implementing Highly Available Azure IaaS Compute Architecture
- Describe characteristics of highly available Azure VMs residing in the same
availability set behind
- Describe characteristics of highly available Azure VMs residing in different
availability zones behi
- Describe characteristics of automatic horizontal scaling of Azure VM Scale Sets
- Describe characteristics of manual vertical scaling of Azure VM Scale Sets
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Topic Covered:
- Storage Accounts
- Blob Storage
- Storage Security
- Managing Storage
- Accessing Blobs and Queues using AAD
- Configure Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks
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Topic Covered:
- Overview of Azure Active Directory
- Users and Groups
- Domains and Custom Domains
- Azure AD Identity Protection
- Implement Conditional Access
- Configure Fraud Alerts for MFA
- Implement Bypass Options
- Configure Trusted IPs
- Configure Guest Users in Azure AD
- Manage Multiple Directories
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Topic Covered:
- Create Management Groups, Subscriptions, and Resource Groups
- Overview of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Secure App Configuration Data by using Azure App Configuration
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Roles
- Azure AD Access Reviews
- Implement and Configure an Azure Policy
- Azure Blueprints
Hands-on Lab: Implementing and Configuring Azure Storage File and Blob Services
- Implement authorization of Azure Storage blobs by leveraging shared access
signatures
- Implement authorization of Azure Storage blobs by leveraging Azure Active Directory
- Implement authorization of Azure Storage file shares by leveraging access keys
Hands-on Lab: Managing Azure Role-Based Access Control
- Define a custom RBAC role
- Assign a custom RBAC role
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Topic Covered:
- Install and Configure Azure AD Connect
- Configure Password Sync and Password Writeback
- Configure Azure AD Connect Health
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Topic Covered:
- Migrate Workloads using Azure Migrate
- VMware – Agentless Migration
- VMware – Agent-Based Migration
- Implement Azure Backup
- Azure to Azure Site Recovery
- Implement Azure Update Management
Hands-on Lab: Protecting Hyper-V VMs by using Azure Site Recovery
- Configure Azure Site Recovery
- Perform test failover
- Perform planned failover
- Perform unplanned failover
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Topic Covered:
- Azure Infrastructure Security Monitoring
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Workbooks
- Azure Alerts
- Log Analytics
- Network Watcher
- Azure Service Health
- Monitor Azure Costs
- Azure Application Insights
- Unified Monitoring in Azure
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Topic Covered:
- Azure Key Vault
- Azure Managed Identity
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Topic Covered:
- Create and Configure Azure App Service
- Create an App Service Web App for Containers
- Create and Configure an App Service Plan
- Configure Networking for an App Service
- Create and Manage Deployment Slots
- Implement Logic Apps
- Implement Azure Functions
Hands-on Lab: Configuring a Message-Based Integration Architecture
- Configure and validate an Azure Function App Storage Blob trigger
- Configure and validate an Azure Event Grid subscription-based queue messaging
Hands-on Lab: Implementing an Azure App Service Web App with a Staging Slot
- Implement Blue/Green deployment pattern by using deployment slots of Azure App Service web apps
- Perform A/B testing by using deployment slots of Azure App Service web apps
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Topic Covered:
- Azure Container Instances
- Configure Azure Kubernetes Service
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Topic Covered:
- Configure Storage Account Tables
- Select Appropriate CosmosDB APIs
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Topic Covered:
- Configure Azure SQL Database Settings
- Implement Azure SQL Database Managed Instances
- High-Availability and Azure SQL Database
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