Azure Solutions Architect Expert

AZURE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT EXPERT
Designing, building, testing, and maintaining cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure.
French / English
5 Days
Certificate
Overview
Responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions.
An Azure Solution Architect partners with cloud administrators, cloud DBAs, and clients to implement solutions.
A candidate for this certification should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance–this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, this role should have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have experience with Azure development and DevOps processes.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with network concepts, such as IP addressing and routing
Familiarity with network connectivity methods, such as VPN
Familiarity with virtual machines
Familiarity with backup and restore concepts
Familiarity with high availability and autoscaling concepts
Goals
Implement and monitor an Azure infrastructure
Implement management and security solutions
Implement solutions for apps
Implement and manage data platforms
Design monitoring
Design identity and security
Design data storage
Design business continuity
Design infrastructure
Training Program
1- Architect network infrastructure in Azure
- Connect your on-premises network to the Microsoft global network by using ExpressRoute
- Secure and isolate access to Azure resources by using network security groups and service endpoints
- Distribute your services across Azure virtual networks and integrate them by using virtual network peering
- Enhance your service availability and data locality by using Azure Traffic Manager
- Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Azure Load Balancer
- Load balance your web service traffic with Application Gateway
- Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes
- Design an IP addressing schema for your Azure deployment
- Design a hybrid network architecture on Azure
- Centralize your core services by using hub and spoke Azure virtual network architecture
- Monitor and troubleshoot your end-to-end Azure network infrastructure by using network monitoring tools
2- Architect storage infrastructure in Azure
- Create an Azure Storage account
- Upload, download, and manage data with Azure Storage Explorer
- Connect an app to Azure Storage
- Make your application storage highly available with read-access geo-redundant storage
- Secure your Azure Storage account
- Store and share files in your app with Azure Files
- Choose the right disk storage for your virtual machine workload
- Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure storage
3- Architect compute infrastructure in Azure
- Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI
- Choose a compute provisioning solution for your application
- Deploy Azure infrastructure by using JSON ARM templates
- Deploy Azure virtual machines from VHD templates
- Build a scalable application with virtual machine scale sets
- Choose the best Azure service to automate your business processes
- Introduction to high-performance computing (HPC) on Azure
- Run parallel tasks in Azure Batch with the Azure CLI
4- Architect infrastructure operations in Azure
- Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure
- Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure
- Build and run a web application with the MEAN stack on an Azure Linux virtual machine
5- Architect a data platform in Azure
- Provision an Azure SQL database to store application data
- Scale multiple Azure SQL Databases with SQL elastic pools
- Migrate your relational data stored in SQL Server to Azure SQL Database
- Develop and configure an ASP.NET application that queries an Azure SQL database
- Create an Azure Cosmos DB database built to scale
- Distribute your data globally with Azure Cosmos DB
- Insert and query data in your Azure Cosmos DB database
- Design a data warehouse with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Import data into Azure Synapse Analytics by using PolyBase
6- Architect message brokering and serverless applications in Azure
- Route and process data automatically using Logic Apps
- Choose a messaging model in Azure to loosely connect your services
- Communicate between applications with Azure Queue storage
- Enable reliable messaging for Big Data applications using Azure Event Hubs
- Implement message-based communication workflows with Azure Service Bus
- React to state changes in your Azure services by using Event Grid
- Expose hybrid services securely with Azure Relay
7- Architect modern applications in Azure
- Run Docker containers with Azure Container Instances
- Build and store container images with Azure Container Registry
- Host a web application with Azure App Service
- Deploy and run a containerized web app with Azure App Service
- Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service
- Work with mutable and partial data in Azure Cache for Redis
8- Architect API integration in Azure
- Improve the performance of an API by adding a caching policy in Azure API Management
- Protect your APIs on Azure API Management
- Control authentication for your APIs with Azure API Management
- Expose multiple Azure Function apps as a consistent API by using Azure API Management
9- Architect migration, business continuity, and disaster recovery in Azure
- Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
- Design your site recovery solution in Azure
- Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
- Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
- Back up and restore your Azure SQL database
- Build a scalable application with virtual machine scale sets
- Dynamically meet changing web app performance requirements with autoscale rules
- Scale an App Service web app to efficiently meet demand with App Service scale up and scale out
- Design a geographically distributed application