Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

The Exam AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design course is designed for IT professionals and cloud architects looking to develop expertise in designing Azure-based solutions. As organizations increasingly migrate to cloud platforms, understanding workload requirements, identity security, authentication protocols, data management, and high availability strategies is crucial. This course equips learners with the necessary skills to create scalable, cost-effective, and secure cloud architectures that align with business objectives. By mastering these concepts, professionals can effectively design enterprise-grade solutions that optimize performance, security, and resource management in Microsoft Azure.

This course begins with determining workload requirements, covering cost optimization, monitoring strategies, and compliance policies. It then delves into identity security, authentication, and authorization using Azure AD, Single Sign-On (SSO), and multi-factor authentication. Risk prevention techniques, data management strategies, data flow, and protection methods are explored to ensure secure and efficient storage solutions. Additional modules focus on site recovery, high availability, archival, and deployment strategies, enabling professionals to design resilient cloud infrastructures. The course concludes with lessons on migration, integration, and storage, ensuring seamless data movement and connectivity across Azure services.

By completing this course, learners will gain a deep understanding of Azure architecture, enabling them to design scalable, cost-efficient, and secure cloud solutions tailored to business needs.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to determine the workload requirements
  • Learn about authentication and authorization
  • Explore how to monitor for identity and security
  • Design a Data Management, Data Protection, and Site Recovery Strategy

Program Curriculum

  • Gather Information and Requirements
  • Azure Cost Calculator - Demo
  • Optimize Consumption Strategy
  • Optimize Compute Costs - I
  • Optimize Compute Costs - II
  • Optimize Identity Costs
  • Optimize Network Costs
  • Optimize Storage Costs
  • Monitoring Strategy Agenda
  • Monitoring Strategy - I
  • Azure Compliance
  • Azure Monitor - Overview
  • Azure Monitor - Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor - Scenarios
  • Organizing Resource
  • Compliance - Azure Policy
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • What is Identity and Access Management - High-level
  • Access Controls
  • What is Azure Active Directory?
  • Azure AD B2B
  • Azure AD B2C
  • Azure Active Directory Domain Services
  • Enterprise Application - Access Control
  • Self Service
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Auth and Auth Intro
  • Authentication Authorization and Protocols
  • Azure AD Authentication Options
  • Identity Delegation
  • API Management and API Keys
  • Single Sign On
  • Configuring SSO - Lab
  • Managed Identities
  • Azure Key Vault
  • Multi-Factor Authentication
  • OpenID OAuth2 Lab
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Risk Prevention for Identity - Agenda
  • Identity Security and Risk Management
  • Azure AD Identity Protection
  • Conditional Access
  • Azure AD PIM
  • Azure AD Password Protection
  • Azure AD Licensing
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Monitoring for Identity and Security - Intro
  • Monitoring Azure AD
  • Monitoring in PIM and Azure and Identity Protection
  • Azure AD Connect Health
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Data Management Intro
  • Building Azure SQL Database - I
  • Building Azure SQL Database - II
  • Cosmos DB
  • SQL Data Warehouse
  • Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Data Flow Introduction
  • Azure Data Flow Fundamentals
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Databricks
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • Design a Data Protection Strategy - Introduction
  • Fundamentals of Data Protection
  • Azure SQL Data Protection
  • Azure SQL Data Network Security
  • Data Protection for Azure Data Warehouse
  • Data Protection for Cosmos DB
  • Chapter 8 Quiz

  • Introduction to Data Platform Monitoring
  • Monitoring Data Management Platforms
  • Chapter 9 Quiz

  • Introduction to Site Recovery
  • Principles of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  • Azure Site Recovery - Replication
  • Azure Site Recovery - Backup
  • Chapter 10 Quiz

  • High Availability - Introduction
  • Concepts of High Availability
  • High Availability for Azure Data Centers
  • High Availability for Azure Storage
  • High Availability for Connectivity
  • Chapter 11 Quiz

  • Introduction
  • Fundamentals of Archival
  • Azure Storage Account and Using Account Tiers
  • Chapter 12 Quiz

  • Introduction to Deployment
  • Deployment Strategies
  • Azure Resource Manager Templates
  • Azure Automation
  • Chapter 13 Quiz

  • Introduction
  • Migration Fundamentals
  • Azure Import Export Service
  • Chapter 14 Quiz

  • Introduction to Integration
  • Integration Fundamentals
  • Integration Through API Management
  • Integration with Messaging Platforms
  • Integration with Events
  • Chapter 15 Quiz

  • Storage Fundamentals
  • Azure File Shares
  • StoreSimple
  • Chapter 16 Quiz
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Instructor

Anand Rao Nednur

Anand Rao is a senior technical instructor and cloud consultant. He has worked with large enterprises for about 15 years and has a wide range of technologies in his portfolio. Anand is adept at not just cloud platforms (Azure, AWS and GCP) but also well-versed with IAM, security and automation with PowerShell and python. In addition, he has been developing and updating the content for various courses. He has been assisting many engineers in the lab examinations and securing certifications. Anand Rao has delivered instructor led trainings in several states in India as well as several countries like USA, Bahrain, Kenya and UAE. He has worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer globally for Corporate Major Clients. Anand is also a Certified seasoned professional holding certifications in following platforms: • Microsoft Certified Trainer (MC) • SY0-401: CompTIA Security + • Scrum Certified master (SCRUM) • ITIL V3 • Certified Network Defender (CND – EC-Council) • Certified Ethical hacker (CEH – EC-Council) • 70-640 MS Active Directory • 70-533 MS Azure Administration • 70-534 MS Azure Architecture • AWS certified solutions Architect – Associate • AWS certified sysops administrator – Associate • Google Cloud Platform-Cloud Architect (GCP) • Certified Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Anand also manages channel "AWS Blackboard" in YouTube. Feel free to subscribe to AWS and Azure. Share, Learn, Subscribe.

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