Microsoft Azure AZ-305 Info

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AZ-305 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Prerequisites Training | Microsoft Learn

Preparing for AZ-305 exam (Videos) – Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (segment 1 of 4) | Microsoft Learn

AZ-305 Exam Study Guide (microsoft.com)

Azure Active Directory(AAD) –

Azure AD B2B collaboration is intended for organizations that want to be able to authenticate users from partner/supplier organization, regardless of the identity provider, and be able to manage the lifecycle of those guest users. These accounts are managed in the same directory as employees, and can be added to the same groups and resources.

Azure AD B2C is intended for commerce and other interactions with consumers, citizens, or members of another group that does not require access to internal resources. These accounts are managed in a separate B2C directory, and are completely separate from your internal user accounts. B2C accounts are a customer lifecycle: they are either managed by the customer, or directly by the application.

Azure B2C

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/external-identities/external-identities-overview

What is Azure AD B2B? – Training | Microsoft Learn

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/active-directory-b2c/overview

Azure Architecture Center

Azure Architecture Center – Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Learn

Backup

Solution architecture: Back up on-premises applications and data to cloud

Backup cloud and on-premises workloads to cloud

Cross-region restore for Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Backup

Configure advanced options for SQL Server managed backup to Microsoft Azure

Azure Blueprints

https://azure.microsoft.com/services/blueprints

Deploy Azure Blueprints

Import and export blueprints with PowerShell – Azure Blueprints | Microsoft Learn

Azure Databricks

What is Azure Databricks? – Azure Databricks | Microsoft Learn

Azure FunctionsFunctions and Logic Apps are Azure services that enable serverless workloads. Azure Functions is a serverless compute service, whereas Azure Logic Apps is a serverless workflow integration platform.

Serverless business scenarios and use cases

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet/architecture/serverless/serverless-business-scenarios

Azure Functions

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-functions/functions-overview

Azure Functions code samples

https://docs.microsoft.com/samples/browse/?expanded=azure&languages=csharp&products=azure-functions

Durable functions

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-functions/durable/durable-functions-overview?tabs=csharp

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable/durable-functions-create-first-csharp?pivots=code-editor-vscode

High Availability

Azure Resliency

Run an N-tier application in multiple Azure regions for high availability

Multitier web application built for high availability and disaster recovery on Azure

Run a web application in multiple Azure regions for high availability

Building solutions for high availability using Availability Zones

Highly available app deployment in App Services Environment

High availability for Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance

Landing Zones – A landing zone is an environment for hosting your workloads, pre-provisioned through code.

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/

Choose the best Azure landing zone to support your requirements for cloud operations

docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/landing-zone/(opens in a new tab)

Management Groups

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/migrate/azure-best-practices/migrate-best-practices-security-management#best-practice-manage-resources-with-azure-management-groups

Netapp

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/products/netapp/

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-netapp-files/azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/training/modules/introduction-to-azure-netapp-files/4-when-to-use-azure-netapp-files

Networking

Network DMZ between Azure and an on-premises datacenter

Deploy DMZ between Azure and your on-premises datacenter

Application Gateway

Quickstart: Direct web traffic with Azure Application Gateway – Azure portal

Configure DD Protection Plan – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/configure-ddos

Queues

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/queues/storage-queues-introduction

Use the Azure portal to create a Service Bus queue – Azure Service Bus | Microsoft Learn

Azure Quickstart – Create an event hub using the Azure portal – Azure Event Hubs | Microsoft Learn

Azure Event Grid

Understanding Azure Events and Messages: Azure Service Bus, Event Grids, and Event Hubs

Azure Event Grid event schema

Choose between Azure messaging services – Event Grid, Event Hubs, and Service Bus

Storage

https://learn.microsoft.com/training/modules/design-data-storage-solution-for-non-relational-data/

Immutable storage

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/storage/blobs/immutable-storage-overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/immutable-policy-configure-container-scope?tabs=azure-portal

Blobs

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/understanding-block-blobs–append-blobs–and-page-blobs

Object replication for block blobs

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/object-replication-overview

Authorize access to blobs using Azure Active Directory

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/authorize-access-azure-active-directory

Azure Data Lake

Azure Data Lake is an on-demand scalable cloud-based storage and analytics service. It can be divided in two connected services, Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) and Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA). ADLS is a cloud-based file system that allows the storage of any type of data with any structure, making it ideal for the analysis and processing of unstructured data.

Azure Data Lake Analytics

Azure Data Lake Analytics is a parallelly-distributed job platform that allows the execution of U-SQL scripts on the Cloud. The syntax is based on SQL with a twist of C#, a general-purpose programming language first released by Microsoft in 2001.

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 (previously known as Azure Data Lake Store) is an enterprise-wide hyper-scale repository for big data analytics workloads. Data Lake Storage Gen1 lets you capture data of any size, type, and ingestion speed. The data is captured in a single place for operational and exploratory analytics.

Data Lake Storage Gen2 is the result of converging the capabilities of Microsoft two existing storage services, Azure Blob storage and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1.

Azure Data Lake Storage Docs

https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-best-practices#directory-structure

Quickstart: Analyze data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by using Azure Databricks

What is Apache Hadoop?

SQL

Features comparison: Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance –

https://docs.microsoft.com//azure/azure-sql/database/features-comparison

This doc compares all three:

https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-sql/azure-sql-iaas-vs-paas-what-is-overview#comparison-table

Subscriptions

Subscription considerations and recommendations – Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn

Tags

Resource naming and tagging decision guide – https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/decision-guides/resource-tagging/

Define your tagging strategy – https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/azure-best-practices/resource-tagging

Tag resources effectively – https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/migrate/azure-best-practices/migrate-best-practices-security-management#best-practice-tag-resources-effectively

Resource tagging patterns – https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/decision-guides/resource-tagging/?toc=/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/toc.json#resource-tagging-patterns

Tag limits: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/azure-subscription-service-limits

How will you enforce required tagging? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/tag-policies#policy-definitions

End of Chapter Review Quizzes

Module1

https://forms.office.com/r/wMpZHzQ5MT

Module 2

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Module3

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Module4

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Module 5

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Module 6

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Module 7

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Module 8

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Module 9

https://forms.office.com/r/HhgSFdq5BC

Module10

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Module11

https://forms.office.com/r/rM3EhCMnRB

Case Studies

AZ-305-DesigningMicrosoftAzureInfrastructureSolutions (microsoftlearning.github.io)

https://azure.microsoft.com/blog/4-common-analytics-scenarios-to-build-business-agility/

AZ-104 Labs

AZ-104 Interactive Lab Simulations – Microsoft Azure Administrator (cloudguides.com)

Optional lab exercises

AZ-104 Interactive Lab Simulations – Microsoft Azure Administrator (cloudguides.com)

Day 1

Exercise – List access using Azure RBAC and the Azure portal – Training | Microsoft Learn

Exercise – Create a web app in the Azure portal – Training | Microsoft Learn

Exercise – Create a Windows virtual machine – Training | Microsoft Learn

Exercise – Create a social media tracker with Azure Logic Apps – Training | Microsoft Learn

Day 2

Exercise -Create a storage account using the Azure portal | Microsoft learn

Exercise – Create a SQL database – Training | Microsoft Learn

Day 3

Create Azure users and groups in Azure Active Directory – Training | Microsoft Learn

Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure Storage – Training | Microsoft Learn

Day 4

Distribute your services across Azure virtual networks and integrate them by using virtual network peering – Training | Microsoft Learn

Secure and isolate access to Azure resources by using network security groups and service endpoints – Training | Microsoft Learn

Back up and restore your Azure SQL database – Training | Microsoft Learn

ModuleAZ-305 Labs student setup instructions

1) Create an Azure Free Trial which will require a credit card for identity only. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Strongly suggested you Create e NEW email account xxxaz305ddmmyy@outlook.com password Pa55w.rd1234 where xxx = your initials and ddmmyy = starting date of your courseEx: cyfaz305240423@outlook.com

The new Microsoft account is needed for the Azure Pass used for the labs in this course.  You can only use 1 free offer per account so is best to create a NEW account for this course. Appreciate your understanding. Lets have an awesome class!

You MUST be signed out of all other email accounts you are logged into. Using Private browsing will not help.

5) Redeem the Azure pass with the link provided by the instructor

If you were unable to redeem the Azure pass in #5 , you will have to create Azure Free Trial account in #6 which will require a credit card for identity only.

Helpful Azure  learning links

Microsoft Azure Forums  The Azure forums are very active. You can search the threads for a
specific area of interest. You can also browse categories like Azure Storage, Pricing
and Billing, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Migrate.

Azure Architecture Center  Gain access to the Azure Application Architecture Guide,
Azure Reference Architectures, and the Cloud Design Patterns.

Microsoft Learning Community Blog  Get the latest information the certification
tests and exam study groups.

https://channel9.msdn.com/  Channel 9 provides a wealth of informational videos, shows, and
events.

Azure Tuesdays With Corey  Corey Sanders answers your questions about
Microsoft Azure – Virtual Machines, Web Sites, Mobile Services, Dev/Test etc.

Azure Fridays  Join Scott Hanselman as he engages one-on-one with the engineers
who build the services that power Microsoft Azure as they demo capabilities,
answer Scott’s questions, and share their insights.

Microsoft Azure Blog  Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s
now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

Azure Tips & Tricks– – Michael Crump – Special collection of over 260+ tips, videos, conference talks that span the entire universe of the Azure platform.

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