Preparation for the Azure Solutions Architect

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Azure Solutions Architect, With my 10 years of IT journey and 5+ years of Cloud engineer, my thought was that I could take the Azure Solution Architect exam in 2021 first quarter.

I have been working with Azure for the majority of my professional career. I always started to a find solution to the problem that I faced and I would find the solution most of the time.

My milestone to obtain to the “Azure solutions Architect” certification. you need to complete the following 2 exams:

Following key areas, I would like to mention under studying aspect of both exams.

Past cloud solution design experience

If you work with Azure for at least 1-3 years, I think you on the correct approach to services offed by azure. During the experience again mode, you might come across different approaches on how to provide correct solutions while researching documents. Azure technologies

Pluralsight Video Tutorials

If you have a business subscription you can gain perfect core tutorials on pluralsight website.

Udemy

Udemy and in this platform, there is quite some content available if you want to study for anything and thus also for Azure certifications. Scott Duffy video tutorials are very much helping me to understand the concept of each segment of the AZ-303 and AZ-304.

Study Guide

AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Certification Exam Study Guide

It is essential to get familiar with the exam objectives and skills measured first. That is why I recommend reading the description of the exam and the skills measured.

Exam AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

Candidates for this exam are Azure Solutions Architects who advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Candidates should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. This role requires managing how decisions in each area affects an overall solution.

Candidates must have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have experience with Azure development processes and DevOps processes.

The high-level view of the skills measured in the exam:

  1. Implement and Monitor an Azure Infrastructure (50-55%)
  2. Implement Management and Security Solutions (25-30%)
  3. Implement Solutions for Apps (10-15%)
  4. Implement and Manage Data Platforms (10-15%)

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AZ-303 Exam

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Implement and Monitor an Azure Infrastructure (50-55%)

Implement cloud infrastructure monitoring

Implement storage accounts

Implement VMs for Windows and Linux

Automate deployment and configuration of resources

Implement virtual networking

Implement Azure Active Directory

Implement and manage hybrid identities

Implement Management and Security Solutions (25-30%)

Manage workloads in Azure

Implement load balancing and network security

Implement and manage Azure governance solutions

Manage security for applications

Implement Solutions for Apps (10-15%)

Implement an application infrastructure

Implement container-based applications

Implement and Manage Data Platforms (10-15%)

Implement NoSQL databases

Implement Azure SQL databases

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Certification Exam Study Guide

Exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design

Candidates for this exam are Azure Solutions Architects who advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

Candidates should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. This role requires managing how decisions in each area affects an overall solution.

Candidates must have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have experience with Azure development processes and DevOps processes.

The high-level view of the skills measured in the exam:

  1. Design Monitoring (10-15%)
  2. Design Identity and Security (25-30%)
  3. Design Data Storage (15-20%)
  4. Design Business Continuity (10-15%)
  5. Design Infrastructure (25-30%)

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Design Monitoring (10-15%)

Design for cost optimization

Design a solution for logging and monitoring

Design Identity and Security (25-30%)

Design authentication

Design authorization

Design governance

Design security for applications

Design Data Storage (15-20%)

Choose the right data store

Design a solution for databases

Design data integration

Select an appropriate storage account

Design Business Continuity (10-15%)

Design a solution for backup and recovery

Design for high availability

Design Infrastructure (25-30%)

Design a compute solution

Design a network solution

Design an application architecture

Design migrations

Conclusion

In this blog post, I shared with web readers way of gain exam objective. Of course, this is my learning path, someone may have another approach to manage the exam objective. But sharing the thoughts is very much helpful to the global readers.

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