AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure with SIMS!

We really hope you’ll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

• Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

• Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

• Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:

Introduction

• Welcome to the course

• Understanding the Microsoft Environment

• Having a Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains

• Having a Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

• Having a Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

• Order of concepts covered in the course

• Questions for John Christopher

Setting up for hands on

• IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course

• Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account

• Adding a subscription to your Azure account

• Creating some resources to use in the course

Design a solution for logging and monitoring

• Starting content for AZ-305

• Designing log routing based on the appropriate level of logging

• Using the appropriate level of metric logging in Azure monitor

• Log routing using a log analytics workspace

• Setting up an alert strategy in Azure monitor

• Using insights in Azure monitor

• Using the Azure Advisor for strengthening your environment

• Implementing a solution for DDos protection

Design authentication and authorization solutions

• Authorization in the Microsoft cloud service environment

• Clarifying role-based access control (RBAC) in Azure

• Implementing a solution for role-based access control in Azure

• Role-based access control concepts with Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

• Using PIM to manage role-based access control in Azure

• Identity management for guests using access reviews in Azure

Design governance

• Organizational and hierarchical structure for Azure resources with scopes

• Identity management by utilizing access management groups

• Organizational management with administrative units

• Utilizing defender for cloud to strengthen administrative governance

• Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud to locate vulnerabilities in Azure

Design identities and access for applications

• Identity and application access with zero trust concepts

• Azure Key Vault access control

• Generating Azure Key Vault keys, secrets & certificates for use with app & more

• Key rotation with Azure Key Vaults

• Visualizing application access registration concepts with Azure AD

• Configuring an application registration with Azure AD, part of Microsoft Entra

• Using an Azure app proxy for allowing application access through Azure

• Exploring the configuration of an Azure application proxy

• Removing un-needed resources before starting the next lesson

Design a data storage solution for relational data

• Understanding the role storage accounts play as a storage solution

• Adding a storage account for use in Azure

• Configuring network access to storage accounts

• Configuring a storage account for Azure AD authentication

• Working with access keys on a storage account

• Using shared access signature (SAS) tokens in regards to storage accounts

• Implementing stored access policies

• Understanding the use of storage redundancy in Azure

• Implementing storage redundancy in Azure

• Performing object replication

• Managing Azure file shares and storage tiers

• Working with Blob storage management

• Blob lifecycle management with Azure storage

• Understanding relational databases

• Understanding database service tier sizing

• Visualizing solutions for database scalability

Design data integration

• Creating an Azure VM with SQL as a relational data storage solution

• Assigning a Public Azure DNS name to your Azure SQL VM

• Using SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) to connect to an Azure SQL VM solution

• Removing the un-needed SQL resources

• Providing a solution for relational data using the Azure SQL databases resource

• Managing client connections with the SQL firewall settings

• Implementing database auditing

Recommend a data storage solution

• Relational, semi-structured, and non-relational data storage solutions in Azure

• Configuring a solution for data authentication

• Utilizing Azure SQL dynamic masking

• Implementing database encryption

• Removing existing objects

• Enabling Microsoft Defender for SQL

Design a data storage solution for non-relational data

• Understanding non-relational data and NoSQL

• Capacity planning to balance features, performance, and cost

• Implementing a non-relational Cosmos database solution in Azure

• Creating a container for non-relational data storage

• Using replication for protection and durability

• Understanding data lake storage

• How to create a data lake storage account

• Understanding Azure Databrick Storage

• Visualizing the use of Azure Synapse

• Registering Synapse as a resource provider

• Adding a SQL DB and server for use with Synapse

• Creating a Synapse workspace and Data Lake Storage account

• SQL Pool usage with Azure Synapse

• Creating a SQL Pool for usage with Azure Synapse

• Understanding the Azure Data Factory

• Setting up an Azure Data Factory resources

• Using Azure Data Factory copying data into Azure Synapse Analytics

• Removing data storage resources that are no longer needed

Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery

• Recovery Time Objective [RTO], Recovery Level Objective [RLO], Recovery Point Objective [RPO]

• Backup and recovery solutions using a Recovery Services Vault

• Backup policies for Recovery Time Objectives [RTO] & Recovery Point Object [RPO]

• Implementing Azure backup for storage and compute resources

• Viewing reporting data involving Azure backup and recovery

Design for high availability

• Using availability zones as a high availability solution in Azure

• Design concepts for Azure Site Recovery

• Azure Site Recovery networking

• Understanding recovery plans

• Implementing a high availability solution for VM compute resources

• Testing a failover high availability solution for VM compute resources

• Creating a second storage account for storage high availability

• Replicating data storage to provide high availability

Design a compute solution

• Understanding Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop as a computer based solution

• Host pool architectures with Azure Virtual Desktop compute solutions

• Understanding the container-based compute solution in Azure

• Implementing a container-based compute solution in Azure

• Using container groups to help manage multiple container-based computer solutions

• Using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) compute solutions

• Azure Kubernetes Service scaling

Design an application architecture

• Recommend Azure messaging and event-driven architecture options

• Installing Microsoft Visual Studio for application development

• Setting up Azure DevOps for application development and management

• Creating a DevOps project and assigning tasks

• Using Visual Studios to upload an application project to Azure DevOps

• Creating a pipeline for a DevOps application

• Committing application changes through the pipeline with Visual Studios

• Introduction to deploying a DevOps application to an App Service

• Understanding App Service Plans for deploying web applications

• App Service Plan deployment in Azure

• Implementing App Service plan scaling

• Creating an App Service deployment

• Network configuration within App Services

• App Service deployment configuration management settings

• Utilizing custom domain names with an Azure App Service

• Performing backups for an App Service deployment

• API Management and integration in Azure

Design migrations

• Visualizing migration solutions for storage, VMs, and databases to Azure

• Using import and export jobs for data migrations

• Migrating data with storage explorer and azcopy

• Setup a SQL Server to migrate data from

• Setup an Azure SQL Database as our migration destination

• Adding a table of data to migrate

• Installing Azure Data Studio and the Azure SQL Migration plugin needed for migration

• Migrating SQL data from a source SQL service to a destination SQL service

• Clearing resources before moving on

Design network solutions

• Plan and implement network segmentation and address spaces

• Creating VNets based on network architecture workload requirements

• Providing a connectivity solution with peering

• Planning subnets for Azure resource connectivity workload requirements

• Implementing subnet delegation for supporting various Azure resource workloads

• Using prefixes with public IP addresses in Azure network architecture

• Recommending when its appropriate to use public IP address prefixes

• Planning a custom public IP address prefix (bring your own IP) solution in Azure

• Allocating an address from a public IP address prefix to support workload requirements

• Associating an address from a public IP address prefix to an Azure resource

• Understanding how NSGs and ASGs help optimize network security in Azure

• How an Azure Firewall can help optimize network security

• Deploy an Azure Firewall and route table to optimize network security

• Cleaning up existing networking resources

• Understanding usages for Azure load balancing solutions

• Use cases for Azure load balancers

• Setting up a load balancing solution for VMs to host web applications

• Verifying health probes for proper load balancing traffic routing