AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design
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, authorization, governance, security, storage, high availability, and migration.
Learning Outcomes
- 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
- 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
Prerequisites
Successful Azure Architects begin with experience in operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, networking, applications, and databases. Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies (VMs, virtual networking, virtual hard disks), network configuration (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, encryption), Active Directory concepts (domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos, LDAP), resilience and disaster recovery (backup/restore), applications development and APIs, databases (SQL and NoSQL), decoupling applications and services (queues, tables, cache), and security concepts (encryption at rest/in transit, SSL, TLS).
Prerequisite Courses
- AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals
- AZ-104: Azure administrators or AZ-303: Azure Solutions Architect Technologies
- IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on Microsoft Azure, requiring broad knowledge of IT operations including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. Candidates must have expert-level skills in Azure administration and experience with Azure development and DevOps processes.
"This course equipped me with advanced Azure design skills, enabling me to architect scalable and secure solutions that meet complex business needs. A must for any IT professional aiming to excel in cloud architecture. - Tan Wei Ming, Senior DevOps Engineer at a leading tech company"