T E Q N I U M
  • Serenity Square, India.

Introduction

As a Microsoft Azure solutions architect, you have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including:
⬩ Compute
⬩Network
⬩ Storage
⬩ Monitoring
⬩ Security

Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including:
⬩ Developers
⬩ Administrators
⬩ Security engineers
⬩ Data engineers

As a candidate for this exam, you should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. You should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, you should have experience with:

⬩ Azure administration
⬩ Azure development
⬩ DevOps processes

Skills at a glance

⬩Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%)
⬩ Design data storage solutions (20–25%)
⬩ Design business continuity solutions (15–20%)
⬩ Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%)



Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%)

Design solutions for logging and monitoring

⬩ Recommend a logging solution
⬩ Recommend a solution for routing logs
⬩ Recommend a monitoring solution

Design authentication and authorization solutions

⬩ Recommend an authentication solution

⬩ Recommend an identity management solution
⬩ Recommend a solution for authorizing access to Azure resources
⬩ Recommend a solution to manage secrets, certificates, and keys

Design governance

⬩ Recommend a structure for management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and a strategy for resource tagging
⬩ Recommend a solution for managing compliance
⬩ Recommend a solution for identity governance

Design data storage solutions (20–25%)

Design data storage solutions for relational data

⬩Recommend a solution for storing relational data
⬩ Recommend a database service tier and compute tier
⬩ Recommend a solution for database scalability
⬩ Recommend a solution for data protection

Design data integration

⬩ Recommend a solution for data integration
⬩ Recommend a solution for data analysis

Design business continuity solutions (15–20%)

Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery

⬩ Recommend a recovery solution for Azure and hybrid workloads that meets recovery objectives
⬩ Recommend a backup and recovery solution for compute
⬩ Recommend a backup and recovery solution for databases
⬩ Recommend a backup and recovery solution for unstructured data

Design for high availability

⬩ Recommend a high availability solution for compute
⬩ Recommend a high availability solution for relational data
⬩ Recommend a high availability solution for semi-structured and unstructured data

Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%)

Design compute solutions

⬩ Specify components of a compute solution based on workload requirements
⬩ Recommend a virtual machine-based solution
⬩ Recommend a container-based solution
⬩ Recommend a serverless-based solution
⬩ Recommend a compute solution for batch processing

Design an application architecture

⬩ Recommend a messaging architecture
⬩ Recommend an event-driven architecture
⬩ Recommend a solution for API integration
⬩ Recommend a caching solution for applications
⬩ Recommend an application configuration management solution
⬩ Recommend an automated deployment solution for application

Design migrations

⬩ Evaluate a migration solution that leverages the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
⬩ Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
⬩ Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS)
⬩ Recommend a solution for migrating databases
⬩ Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data

Design network solutions

⬩ Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet
⬩ Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks
⬩ Recommend a solution to optimize network performance
⬩ Recommend a solution to optimize network security
⬩ Recommend a load-balancing and routing solution