Introduction to Azure for Architects Course

Course Summary

Customers are progressively moving to public cloud platforms, and properly architecting cloud solutions is challenging. This is an introductory course for professionals who want to step-up their careers as Azure Architects.

The course begins by exploring how to identify and gather information about the organizations' topology and the requirements for the platform. Next, it will cover how to implement workloads and design for security through interactive labs. The course concludes by covering cloud components including security considerations, data platform design, and cloud compatibility identifications.

Purpose

This course introduces you to everything a cloud solutions architect needs to know to plan and design solutions for Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Audience

Engineers looking to plan and design solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform

Role

Software Developer - System Administrator - Web Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Workshops

Duration

2 Days

Related Technologies

Azure

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Productivity Objectives:

Gather customer requirements and map them to the right Azure services
Calculate TCO and ROI for cloud investments
Use components of a cloud physical architecture

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What You'll Learn

In the Introduction to Azure for Architects training course, you'll learn:

Understand existing Enterprise topology and gathering of non-functional requirements
- Identify security and legal compliances
- Identify Identity and access management requirements
- Identify non-functional requirements for scalability, security, availability, monitoring, back-ups, logging, auditing, SLAs and sizing
- Capacity planning for various workloads
- Design cloud physical architecture to cater for the gathered non-functional requirements
- Estimate Azure sizing/pricing based on the above information
Implement workloads and design for security, monitoring, alerts, configuration, and deployment
- Configure monitoring and alerts for Azure infrastructure and services
- Monitor and report subscription costs
- Plan and Implement AD Connect for hybrid identities
- Communication across virtual networks – VNET to VNET, VNET Peering, Dynamic network gateways
- Design and Implement Site to Site connectivity using dynamic VPN gateways
- Automate deployment of Azure resources using ARM templates
- Understand Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for Azure resources
- Plan and implement conditional access policies on Azure AD – MFA, IP and location-based whitelisting
- Recommend Azure key vault for securing keys, secrets and certificates
- Design considerations and best practices for implementing auto-scaling
- Design considerations for highly performant global applications
Study components of Cloud Physical architecture
- Learn about security considerations on Azure
- Design data platform and guidelines on Azure
- Plan for on-prem to Azure migrations – VMware, Hyper-V and physical machines
- Conduct cloud assessment to identify compatibility issues, if any
- Conduct network bandwidth assessment
- Design recovery policies and define Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Level Objective (RLO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- Batch workloads for failing-over to Azure based on applications
- Modernize network topology and design for High Availability, global distribution and auto-scaling
- Design for Planned and Unplanned failover/failback
- Secure and optimizing workloads post-migration
- Explore Disaster Recovery options on Azure
- Recommend Azure compute, serverless, storage and networking options – App Services, Containers, VMs, AKS, Azure Service Fabric, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager, WAF and so on