AZ-301T04: Designing an Infrastructure Strategy

This camp is offered as part of the MCE Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect boot camp.

The NEW Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Training & Certification 7 Day Boot Camp focuses on actual job task teaching students how to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

The Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert boot camp is taught using Microsoft Official Courseware -

AZ-300T01: Deploying and Configuring Infrastructure
AZ-300T02: Implementing Workloads and Security
AZ-300T03: Understanding Cloud Architect Technology Solutions
AZ-300T04: Creating and Deploying Apps
AZ-300T06: Developing for the Cloud

AZ-301T01: Designing for Identity and Security
AZ-301T02: Designing a Data Platform Solution
AZ-301T03: Design for Deployment, Migration, and Integration
AZ-301T04: Designing an Infrastructure Strategy

While attending this 7 day camp - students will take two exams (AZ-300 / AZ-301) to achieve the Microsoft Certified Expert Azure Solutions Architect certification.  This hands on, instructor led live camp focuses on the real world responsibilities of an Azure Solutions Architect covering the information needed for the certification exams which are administered while attending.

Topics covered in this official boot camp:

Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources
Implementing and Managing Storage
Deploying and Managing VMs
Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
Managing Identities using Azure Active Directory

Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure
Implementing and Managing Application Services
Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking
Securing Identities using Azure AD

Design and Connectivity Patterns
Hybrid Networking
Address Durability of Data and Caching
Measure Throughput and Structure of Data Access

Use shell commands to create an App Service Web App
Create Background Tasks
Use Swagger to document an API
Create a reliable service
Create a Reliable Actors app
Hands-on with Reliable collections
Understand the Azure Container Registry
Use Azure Container instances

Understand how to Implement authentication using certificates, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, and tokens.
Implement Role-aBsed Access Control (RBAC) authorization.
Implement secure data for end-to-end encryption.
Implement secure data for implementing SSL and TLS communications.
Use Azure Key Vault to manage cryptographic keys.

How to configure a message-based integration architecture
Understand how to Develop for Asynchronous Processing
Begin creating apps for Autoscaling
Understand Azure Cognitive Services Solutions

Integrate their existing solutions with external identity providers using Azure AD B2B or B2C.
Design a hybrid identity solution.
Determine when to use advanced features of Azure AD such as Managed Service Identity, MFA and Privileged Identity Management.
Secure application secrets using Key Vault.
Secure application data using SQL Database and Azure Storage features.
Detail the various APIs available in Cognitive Services.
Identify when to use the Face API, Speech API or Language Understanding (LUIS) service.
Describe the relationship to Bot Framework and Azure Bot Services.

Determine the ideal pricing option for Azure Storage based on a solution’s requirements.
Identify performance thresholds for the Azure Storage service.
Determine the type of Storage blobs to use for specific solution components.
Use the Azure Files service for SMB operations.
Identify solutions that could benefit from the use of StorSimple physical or virtual devices.
Compare and contrast monitoring services for applications, the Azure platform, and networking.
Design an alert scheme for a solution hosted in Azure.
Select the appropriate backup option for infrastructure and data hosted in Azure.
Automate the deployment of future resources for backup recovery or scaling purposes.

Create a resource group.
Add resources to a resource group.
Deploy an ARM template to a resource group Integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service.
Design an App Service Plan or multi-region deployment for high performance and scale.
Integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service.
Design an App Service Plan or multi-region deployment for high performance and scale.

Describe various patterns pulled from the Cloud Design Patterns.
Distribute network traffic across multiple loads using load balancers.
Design a hybrid connectivity scenario between cloud and on-premise.
Design an availability set for one or more virtual machines.
Describe the differences between fault and update domains.
Author a VM Scale Set ARM template.