AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

The AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions course focuses on the skills needed to design cloud and hybrid solutions using Microsoft Azure.

Participants will learn how to make the right architectural decisions for an organisation, taking into account performance, security, reliability, scalability and cost. The course brings together different Azure services to create infrastructure solutions that meet real business and technical requirements.

Course Objectives

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Design Azure infrastructure and cloud solutions based on business requirements.

• Design solutions for identity, governance and security.

• Plan reliable and scalable data storage solutions.

• Design business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

• Design Azure solutions for compute, networking and applications.

• Choose the right Azure services based on performance, availability and cost.

• Design monitoring and management solutions.

• Evaluate different architectures and make informed technical design decisions.

Course Outline

1. Design Identity, Governance and Monitoring Solutions

• Microsoft Entra ID

• Identity and access management

• Azure governance

• Subscriptions and management groups

• Azure Policy

• Monitoring and logging

2. Design Data Storage Solutions

• Azure Storage

• Blob Storage

• Azure Files

• Storage accounts and data protection

• Azure databases

• Data integration and migration

3. Design Business Continuity Solutions

• High availability

• Backup and recovery

• Disaster recovery

• Azure Site Recovery

• Recovery objectives and planning

4. Design Infrastructure Solutions

• Azure compute services

• Virtual machines and VM Scale Sets

• Containers

• Azure App Service

• Networking and connectivity

• Load balancing

5. Design Application Architecture

• Application integration

• Messaging and event solutions

• Azure Functions

• API Management

• Application performance and scalability

6. Design Network Solutions

• Azure Virtual Networks

• Network security

• VPN and ExpressRoute

• Private Endpoints

• Azure Firewall

• Hybrid connectivity

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable for Azure solution architects, cloud engineers, IT professionals and experienced administrators who are involved in designing cloud or hybrid infrastructure solutions using Microsoft Azure.

What will participants gain?

Participants will develop the knowledge needed to design complete Azure infrastructure solutions, making informed decisions around security, performance, reliability, scalability and cost. They will also gain a better understanding of how different Azure services can work together to meet an organisation's specific requirements.