Azure - Architect
Introduction
- As a Microsoft Azure solutions architect, one has subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure.
Skills at a glance
Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions
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
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 storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data- Recommend a solution for storing semi-structured data
- Recommend a solution for storing unstructured data
- Recommend a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and costs
- Recommend a data solution for protection and durability
Design data integration- Recommend a solution for data integration
- Recommend a solution for data analysis
Design business continuity solutions
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
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 applications
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
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