AZ-305T00 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

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Course Overview

Are your Azure solutions truly built to scale, recover, and adapt to enterprise demands? Too many cloud architectures fall short because they weren't designed with the full picture in mind, governance, performance, security, and cost optimization.

This instructor-led course gives you the tools and frameworks to design robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure. Through hands-on labs, real-world case studies, and coverage of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework, you’ll learn how to evaluate requirements and make architecture decisions that align with business and technical goals.

You'll also gain the skills needed to confidently prepare for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam, a key step toward earning your Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential.

Who Should Attend

Successful students have experience and knowledge in IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Students also have experience designing and architecting solutions.

Course Objectives

    After completing this course, you’ll be able to design secure, scalable, and resilient Azure infrastructure solutions tailored to enterprise needs.

    • Translate business and technical requirements into Azure architecture
    • Design governance and identity solutions using Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC
    • Plan for hybrid networking, availability, migration, and disaster recovery
    • Design data storage, compute, and monitoring strategies
    • Align with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework
    • Prepare thoroughly for the AZ-305 certification exam

Course Outline

1 - Describe the core architectural components of Azure

  • What is Microsoft Azure
  • Get started with Azure accounts
  • Describe Azure physical infrastructure
  • Describe Azure management infrastructure

2 - Describe Azure compute and networking services

  • Describe Azure virtual machines
  • Describe Azure virtual desktop
  • Describe Azure containers
  • Describe Azure functions
  • Describe application hosting options
  • Describe Azure virtual networking
  • Describe Azure virtual private networks
  • Describe Azure ExpressRoute
  • Describe Azure DNS

3 - Describe Azure storage services

  • Describe Azure storage accounts
  • Describe Azure storage redundancy
  • Describe Azure storage services
  • Identify Azure data migration options
  • Identify Azure file movement options

4 - Describe Azure identity, access, and security

  • Describe Azure directory services
  • Describe Azure authentication methods
  • Describe Azure external identities
  • Describe Azure conditional access
  • Describe Azure role-based access control
  • Describe zero trust model
  • Describe defense-in-depth
  • Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud

5 - Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

  • Overview
  • Define strategy
  • Plan
  • Ready
  • Adopt
  • Govern and manage

6 - Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

  • Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
  • Cost optimization
  • Operational excellence
  • Performance efficiency
  • Reliability
  • Security

7 - Design governance

  • Design for governance
  • Design for management groups
  • Design for subscriptions
  • Design for resource groups
  • Design for resource tags
  • Design for Azure Policy
  • Design for role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Design for Azure landing zones

8 - Design authentication and authorization solutions

  • Design for identity and access management (IAM)
  • Design for Microsoft Entra ID
  • Design for Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B)
  • Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer)
  • Design for conditional access
  • Design for identity protection
  • Design for access reviews
  • Design service principals for applications
  • Design managed identities
  • Design for Azure Key Vault

9 - Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources

  • Design for Azure Monitor data sources
  • Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
  • Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
  • Design for Azure Data Explorer

10 - Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies

  • Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
  • Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
  • Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
  • Describe high availability and disaster recovery options for PaaS deployments
  • Explore an IaaS high availability and disaster recovery solution
  • Describe hybrid solutions

11 - Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery

  • Design for backup and recovery
  • Design for Azure Backup
  • Design for Azure blob backup and recovery
  • Design for Azure files backup and recovery
  • Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery
  • Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery
  • Design for Azure Site Recovery

12 - Design a data storage solution for non-relational data

  • Design for data storage
  • Design for Azure storage accounts
  • Design for data redundancy
  • Design for Azure Blob Storage
  • Design for Azure Files
  • Design for Azure managed disks
  • Design for storage security

13 - Design a data storage solution for relational data

  • Design for Azure SQL Database
  • Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
  • Recommend a solution for database scalability
  • Recommend a solution for database availability
  • Design security for data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
  • Design for Azure SQL Edge
  • Design for Azure Cosmos DB and Table Storage

14 - Design data integration

  • Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
  • Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
  • Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Databricks
  • Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths
  • Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis

15 - Design an Azure compute solution

  • Choose an Azure compute service
  • Design for Azure Virtual Machines solutions
  • Design for Azure Batch solutions
  • Design for Azure App Service solutions
  • Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
  • Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
  • Design for Azure Functions solutions
  • Design for Azure Logic Apps solutions

16 - Design an application architecture

  • Describe message and event scenarios
  • Design a messaging solution
  • Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution
  • Design an event-driven solution
  • Design a caching solution
  • Design API integration
  • Design an automated app deployment solution
  • Design an app configuration management solution

17 - Design network solutions

  • Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
  • Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services
  • Design outbound connectivity and routing
  • Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
  • Choose an application delivery service
  • Design for application delivery services
  • Design for application protection services

18 - Design migrations

  • Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
  • Describe the Azure migration framework
  • Assess your on-premises workloads
  • Select a migration tool
  • Migrate your structured data in databases
  • Select an online storage migration tool for unstructured data
  • Migrate offline data

19 - Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

  • Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
  • Cost optimization
  • Operational excellence
  • Performance efficiency
  • Reliability
  • Security

20 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization

  • Develop cost-management discipline
  • Design with a cost-efficiency mindset
  • Design for usage optimization
  • Design for rate optimization
  • Monitor and optimize over time

21 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Operational excellence

  • Embrace DevOps culture
  • Establish development standards
  • Evolve operations with observability
  • Deploy with confidence
  • Automate for efficiency
  • Adopt safe deployment practices

22 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Performance efficiency

  • Negotiate realistic performance targets
  • Design to meet capacity requirements
  • Achieve and sustain performance
  • Improve efficiency through optimization

23 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Reliability

  • Design for business requirements
  • Design for resilience
  • Design for recovery
  • Design for operations
  • Keep it simple

24 - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security

  • Plan your security readiness
  • Design to protect confidentiality
  • Design to protect integrity
  • Design to protect availability
  • Sustain and evolve your security posture

25 - Getting started with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

  • Customer narrative
  • Common blockers

26 - Prepare for successful cloud adoption with a well-defined strategy

  • Customer narrative
  • Capture strategic motivation
  • Define objectives and key results
  • Evaluate financial considerations
  • Understand technical considerations
  • Create a business case

27 - Prepare for cloud adoption with a data-driven plan

  • Customer narrative

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

  • Customer narrative
  • Common operating models
  • Design areas for Azure landing zones
  • Design principles for Azure landing zones
  • Journey to the target architecture
  • Choose an Azure landing zone option
  • Deploy the Azure landing zone accelerator
  • Enhance your landing zone

29 - Migrate to Azure through repeatable processes and common tools

  • Customer narrative
  • Migration process
  • Migration tools
  • Common tech platforms

30 - Address tangible risks with the Govern methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

  • Customer narrative
  • Govern methodology
  • Corporate policies
  • Governance disciplines
  • Deploy a cloud governance foundation
  • The Cost Management discipline

31 - Ensure stable operations and optimization across all supported workloads deployed to the cloud

  • Establish business commitments
  • Deploy an operations baseline
  • Protect and recover
  • Enhance an operations baseline
  • Manage platform and workload specialization

32 - Innovate applications by using Azure cloud technologies

  • Follow the innovation lifecycle
  • Azure technologies for the build process
  • Infuse your applications with AI
  • Azure technologies for measuring business impact
  • Azure technologies for the learn process

33 - Prepare for cloud security by using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

  • Customer narrative
  • Methodology
  • Security roles and responsibilities
  • Simplify compliance and security
  • Simplify security implementation
  • Security tools and policies

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This is a 4-day class

Price: $2,495.00

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Register 10/06/2025 9:00AM - 5:00PM GTR VILT
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