On your 6 day accelerated Azure Solutions Architect Expert course, you'll get the skills you need as an Azure Solutions Architect to implement, monitor and maintain Azure solutions, from implementation of virtual machines to designing API integration strategies. You'll also gain expert understanding of service capabilities within Microsoft Azure cloud.
Your expert Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) will immerse you in the curriculum with Firebrand's unique Lecture | Lab | Review technique, helping you to build and retain information faster. You'll also have 24/7 lab access at the training centre, so you can test your skills and make the most of your stay.
You'll also learn how to:
You'll benefit from the latest Microsoft courseware and practice papers, as Firebrand is a Microsoft Learning Partner.
You'll also be prepared for exam AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies and exam AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design. You'll sit these exams at the Firebrand Training Centre during the course, covered by your Certification Guarantee.
If you're an Azure Administrator who manages cloud services that span across a variety of cloud capabilities, this course is ideal for you.
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Module 1: Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources
In this module you will explore Azure monitoring capabilities using Azure alerts, Azure activity logs, and Log Analytics. You will learn to query, analyze, and interpret the data viewed in Log Analytics.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Implementing and Managing Storage
In this module you will learn about Azure storage accounts, data replication, how to use Azure Storage Explorer, and monitor storage.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines (VMs)
In this module you will learn how to do the following:
Additionally, you will learn how to protect data using backups at regular intervals, whether by snapshot, Azure Backup, or Azure Site Recovery.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
In this module you will create and implement virtual networks using the Azure Portal as well as Azure PowerShell and CLI. You will receive and overview on how to assign IP addresses to Azure resources to communicate with other Azure resources, your on-premises network, and the Internet.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 5: Managing Identities
This module covers Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for IT Admins and Developers with a focus on the Azure AD multi-tenant cloud-based directory and identity management service.
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure
This module covers migrating workloads to a new environment, whether it be another datacenter, or to a public cloud, and setting clear goals for the migration. Goals include both technology-focused and business-focused goals for migrations and the benefits to an organisation’s business. Activities include components of the Azure migration process: creating a project, creating a collector, assessing readiness and estimating costs. Additionally, you will receive and overview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) that includes and end-to-end scenarios.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Implementing and Managing Application Services
This module includes the following topics:
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking
This module includes the following topics:
As well as an overview of ExpressRoute, which allows companies to extend on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a dedicated private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: Securing Identities
This module includes the following topics with an emphasis on identity and roles:
As well as an overview of Azure AD integration options that focuses on Azure AD Connect to integrate on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Selecting Compute and Storage Solutions
This module includes the following topics:
As well as sharding patterns to divide a data store into horizontal partitions or shards. Each shard has the same schema but holds its own distinct subset of the data.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Hybrid Networking
This module includes the following topics:
As well as connecting across cloud providers for failover, backup, or even migration between providers such as AWS.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Measuring Throughput and Structure of Data Access
This module includes the following topics:
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Creating Web Applications using PaaS
This module provides an overview of Azure App Service Web Apps for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and a mobile back end. Topics include the following:
As well as an explanation of how Logic Apps help to build solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organisations by automating tasks and business processes as workflows.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Creating Apps and Services Running on Service Fabric
This module provides an overview of Azure Service Fabric as a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. This module also addresses the challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications. Additional topics include:
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Using Azure Kubernetes Service This module focuses on the Azure
Kubernetes Service (AKS) for deploying and managing a Kubernetes cluster in Azure. Topics include how to reduce operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure, such as health monitoring and maintenance. Additional topics include:
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Developing Long-Running Tasks and Distributed Transactions
Topics for this module include:
As well as, implementing code to address application events by using webhooks. Implementing a webhook gives an external resource a URL for an application. The external resource then issues an HTTP request to that URL whenever a change is made that requires the application to take an action.
Module 2: Configuring a Message-Based Integration Architecture
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Developing for Asynchronous Processing
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: Developing for Autoscaling
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 5: Developing Azure Cognitive Services Solutions
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After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Managing Security & Identity for Azure Solutions
This module discusses both security and identity within the context of Azure. For security, this module reviews the various options for monitoring security, the options available for securing data and the options for securing application secrets. For identity, this module focuses specifically on Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and the various features available such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Managed Service Identity, Azure AD Connect, ADFS and Azure AD B2B/B2C.
Lab: Securing Secrets in Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Integrating SaaS Services Available on the Azure Platform
This module introduces multiple SaaS services available in Azure that are available for integration into existing Azure solutions. These services include Cognitive Services, Bot Service, Machine Learning and Media Services.
Lab: Deploying Service Instances as Components of Overall Azure Solutions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Backing Azure Solutions with Azure Storage
This module describes how many Azure services use the Azure Storage service as a backing store for other application solution in Azure. The module dives into critical considerations when using Azure Storage as a supplemental service for an all-up Azure solution.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Comparing Database Options in Azure
This module compares the various relational and non-relational data storage options available in Azure. Options are explored as groups such as relational databases (Azure SQL Database, MySQL, and PostgreSQL on Azure), non-relational (Azure Cosmos DB, Storage Tables), streaming (Stream Analytics) and storage (Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Data Lake).
Lab: Deploying Database Instances in Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Monitoring & Automating Azure Solutions
This module covers the monitoring and automation solutions available after an Azure solution has been architected, designed and possibly deployed. The module reviews services that are used to monitor individual applications, the Azure platform and networked components. This module also covers automation and backup options to enable business-continuity scenarios for solutions hosted in Azure.
Lab: Deploying Configuration Management Solutions to Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Deploying Resources with Azure Resource Manager
This module establishes a basic understanding of Azure Resource Manager and the core concepts of deployments, resources, templates, resource groups and tags. The module will dive deeply into the automated deployment of resources using ARM templates.
Lab: Deploying Resources with Azure Resource Manager
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Creating Managed Server Applications in Azure
This module describes how solutions can leverage serverless application hosting services in Azure to host web applications, REST APIs, integration workflows and HPC workloads without the requirement to manage specific server resources. The module focuses on App Services-related components such as Web Apps, API Apps, Mobile Apps, Logic Apps and Functions.
Lab: Deploying Managed Containerised Workloads to Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Authoring Serverless Applications in Azure
This module describes how solutions can leverage serverless application hosting services in Azure to host web applications, REST APIs, integration workflows and HPC workloads without the requirement to manage specific server resources. The module focuses on App Services-related components such as Web Apps, API Apps, Mobile Apps, Logic Apps and Functions.
Lab: Deploying Serverless Workloads to Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 1: Application Architecture Patterns in Azure
This module introduces, and reviews common Azure patterns and architectures as prescribed by the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team. Each pattern is grouped into performance, resiliency and scalability categories and described in the context of similar patterns within the category.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 2: Building Azure IaaS-Based Server Applications (ADSK)
This module identifies workloads that are ideally deployed using Infrastructure-as-a-Service services in Azure. The module focuses on the VM Scale Sets and Virtual Machine services in Azure and how to best deploy workloads to these services using best practices and features such as Availability Sets.
Lab: Building Azure IaaS-Based Server Applications.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 3: Networking Azure Application Components
This module describes the various networking and connectivity options available for solutions deployed on Azure. The module explores connectivity options ranging from ad-hoc connections to long-term hybrid connectivity scenarios. The module also discusses some of the performance and security concerns related to balancing workloads across multiple compute instances, connecting on-premise infrastructure to the cloud and creating gateways for on-premise data.
Lab: Deploying Network Infrastructure for Use in Azure Solutions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 4: Integrating Azure Solution Components Using Messaging Services
This module describes and compares the integration and messaging services available for solutions hosted on the Azure platform. Messaging services described include Azure Storage Queues, Service Bus Queues, Service Bus Relay, IoT Hubs, Event Hubs and Notification Hubs. Integration services include Azure Functions and Logic Apps.
Lab: Integrating Azure Solution Components using Messaging Services
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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On this course, you'll take the following exams, covered by your Certification Guarantee:
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You should have advanced experience and knowledge across various aspects of IT operations, including networking, virtualisation, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance. This role requires managing how decisions in each area affects an overall solution.
You must also be proficient in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps, and have expert-level skills in at least one of those domains.
Don’t worry - we’ll discuss your technical background, experience and qualifications to determine whether this accelerated course suits you.
Just call us on 080 80 800 888 and speak to one of our enrolment consultants.
Firebrand is an immersive environment and requires commitment. Some prerequisites are simply guidelines; you may find your unique experience, attitude and determination enables you to succeed on your accelerated course.
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