Get prepared for the AZ-305 exam with instructor led labs and hands on simulations available 24/7
Instructed by John Christopher 16 hours on-demand video & 31 downloadable resources
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
Who this course is for:
- IT people interested in learning and passing the Microsoft AZ-305 exam!
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