AZ-305T00: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Module 1: Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions

• Design authentication and authorization solutions
• Microsoft Entra ID and identity management
• Azure RBAC and access control
• Identity governance
• Design solutions for secrets, certificates, and keys
• Management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups
• Azure Policy and compliance
• Resource tagging strategies
• Azure monitoring solutions
• Logging and log routing
• Monitoring and alerting strategies

Module 2: Design Data Storage Solutions

• Design relational data storage solutions
• Azure SQL and database service selection
• Database scalability and performance
• Data protection and security
• Design solutions for semi-structured data
• Design solutions for unstructured data
• Azure Storage solutions
• Storage performance, durability, and cost considerations
• Data integration solutions
• Data analytics solutions

Module 3: Design Business Continuity Solutions

• Business continuity planning
• High availability architecture
• Recovery objectives and requirements
• Backup solutions for Azure and hybrid workloads
• Compute backup and recovery
• Database backup and recovery
• Unstructured data protection
• Disaster recovery solutions
• Azure Site Recovery
• Designing resilient architectures
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Module 4: Design Azure Compute Solutions

• Select appropriate Azure compute services
• Azure Virtual Machines
• VM-based architecture
• Azure App Service
• Azure Functions
• Azure Container Instances
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Batch
• Serverless computing
• Container-based architectures
• Compute scalability and availability

Module 5: Design Application Architecture

• Messaging architectures
• Event-driven architectures
• Azure Event Grid
• Azure Event Hubs
• Azure Service Bus
• API integration
• Azure API Management
• Application caching
• Azure Cache for Redis
• Application configuration management
• Azure App Configuration
• Automated application deployment

Module 6: Design Network Solutions

• Azure virtual network architecture
• Internet connectivity
• Hybrid connectivity
• Azure VPN Gateway
• Azure ExpressRoute
• Network security
• Network performance optimization
• Load balancing
• Azure Load Balancer
• Application Gateway
• Azure Front Door
• Traffic routing and network optimization

Module 7: Design Migration Solutions

• Azure Cloud Adoption Framework
• Assess on-premises workloads
• Migration planning and strategy
• Server and application migration
• IaaS and PaaS migration
• Database migration
• Unstructured data migration
• Azure Migrate
• Migration assessment and planning
• Hybrid and cloud migration architectures

• Azure Solution Architects
• Cloud Solution Architects
• Azure Infrastructure Architects
• Cloud Architects
• Senior Azure Administrators
• Azure Developers
• Cloud Engineers
• Infrastructure Engineers
• DevOps Engineers
• IT Architects
• Technical Leads and Senior IT Professionals
• Professionals responsible for designing cloud and hybrid Azure solutions
• Professionals preparing for the AZ-305 examination and Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification

• Design secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-effective Azure infrastructure solutions.
• Translate business and technical requirements into effective Azure architecture designs.
• Design identity, authentication, authorization, and governance solutions.
• Develop strategies for Azure monitoring, logging, and compliance.
• Select appropriate solutions for relational, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Design high availability, backup, and disaster recovery architectures.
• Select appropriate Azure compute, container, serverless, and application services.
• Design modern messaging, event-driven, API, caching, and application configuration architectures.
• Design Azure and hybrid networking solutions.
• Evaluate and plan workload, database, server, and data migrations.
• Apply principles from the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure.
• Develop architectural recommendations that balance security, performance, reliability, scalability, operational efficiency, and cost.
• Prepare for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions examination.

• Strong understanding of Azure administration and core Azure services.
• Experience deploying or administering Azure resources.
• Knowledge of Azure compute technologies, including virtual machines, containers, and serverless services.
• Working knowledge of Azure virtual networking and load balancing.
• Understanding of Azure Storage and database services.
• Knowledge of application architecture concepts such as messaging, event-driven architectures, APIs, caching, and high availability.
• Understanding of identity, security, governance, and access management.
• Experience with backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Familiarity with Azure development and DevOps processes.
• Experience designing or architecting cloud or hybrid solutions is strongly recommended.

Exam: AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
Course Duration: 4 Days
Passing Score: 700 or greater