Microsoft offers many services to businesses that need cloud solutions. Microsoft also offers a series role-based certification courses that enable professionals to master each one of these services. We live in a constantly changing and evolving market. Microsoft regularly updates its courses to keep up with changing business needs. It includes course material that will help professionals learn specific operations and functionalities for each service. Microsoft Azure Architect Design is an example of such a course.
Microsoft recently updated the AZ-301 certification. The Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam was renamed the AZ304 exam in 2020. This certification validates your skills and expertise and tells organisations and hiring managers that it is a valuable addition to their workforce.
Experts and candidates agree that the AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design course offers the most difficult certification path. Microsoft offers only two Expert certifications, and the AZ-304 one of them.
Candidates who take this exam are certified as Azure Solutions Architects. They advise stakeholders and translate business needs into scalable and reliable solutions.
Before you begin preparing for the AZ304 Azure Architect Design certification exam, take a look at the content and what you should be prepared for.
The AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design Certificate covers the following topics:
DOMAIN 1 Design Monitoring – 10 to 15:
Design for cost optimization
Quickstart: Analyze and explore costs with cost analysis
Tutorial: Optimize costs using recommendations
Create a solution to log and monitor:
Azure Monitor Logs overview
Auditing and security logging in Azure
Overview of Azure platform logs
What is the Azure Event grid?
Security Control: Logging & Monitoring
DOMAIN 2 – Design Security and Identity – 25-30%
Design authentication
What is single sign on (SSO)?
What is Azure Active Directory authentication?
What is Conditional Access?
Use the location condition in a Conditional access policy
What is Azure AD Connect?
Plan an Azure Active Directory self-service password reset deployment
What is guest user access in Azure Active Directory B2B
Design authorisation
Authentication vs. authorisation
Management of access and identity
Management group and subscription organization
Design governance
Your naming and tagging strategy should be developed for Azure resources
Perform a review of your cloud policy
Azure CAF Foundation blueprint deployment
Application security design
Azure Key Vault keys and secrets, as well as certificates overview
Use Key Vault best practices
What are managed identities for Azure resources and what do they mean?
Integration of Azure Active Directory with Applications Getting Started guide
DOMAIN 3 Design Data Storage – 15-20%
Design a database solution
Azure data platform end-to-end
Azure Data Architecture Guide
Azure encryption overview
Design data integration
Mapping data flows in Azure Data Factory
What is Azure Data Factory?
What are Azure Databricks?
What is a dedicated SQL pool?
Choose the storage account that is right for you
Azure Blob Storage Access Tiers – Hot, Cool, and Archive
Authorizing access to Azure Storage data
Automate Azure Blob Storage access Tiers to reduce costs
DOMAIN 4 Design Business Continuity – 10% to 15%
Create a backup and recovery solution
Site Recovery
General questions about Azure Site Recovery
Moving Azure VMs from one Azure region to another
What is the Azure backup service? vManage Azure VM Backups with Azure backup service
Rehydrate blob data in the archive tier
Disaster recovery and failover of storage accounts
Azure Storage compliance offerings
Design for High Availability
Availabili allows you to build solutions that are high-availability.
