AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design
This course teaches Solutions Architects how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable Azure solutions. It covers design considerations in areas like logging, cost analysis, authentication, governance, security, storage, high availability, and migration. Participants will learn to make decisions that impact overall design solutions effectively.
Learning Outcomes
- Recommend solutions to minimize costs
- Recommend a solution for Conditional Access, including multi-factor authentication
- Recommend a solution for hybrid identity with 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 should have experience with operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, networking, applications, and databases. This includes understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, network configuration (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, encryption), Active Directory concepts, resilience and disaster recovery, applications development and APIs, databases (SQL and NoSQL), decoupling applications and services, and security concepts like encryption at rest and in transit.
Prerequisite Courses
- AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals
- AZ-104: Azure administrators
- AZ-303: Azure Solutions Architect Technologies
- IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions on Microsoft Azure, possessing 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 skills to design secure and scalable Azure architectures, significantly improving my ability to meet business objectives. - Tan Wei Ming, Senior DevOps Engineer at a leading tech company"