Azure Architect

Shaping customer decisions to buy, architect and adopt Azure Infrastructure and Platform solutions

Duration

5 Days

Level

Intermediate Level

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While customers are progressively moving to public cloud, properly architecting cloud solutions, while managing how decisions in each area of networking, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance impact the overall cloud solution. This course is for professionals who advise stakeholders and transform business requirements into scalable, reliable, performant and secure cloud solutions.

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The intended audience for this course

Cloud Architects
Enterprise Architects
Technical Architects

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Understanding existing Enterprise topology and gather non-functional requirements

Identify security and legal compliances
Identifying Identity and access management requirements
Identifying non-functional requirements for scalability, security, availability, monitoring, back-ups, logging, auditing, SLAs and sizing
Capacity planning for various workloads
Designing the cloud physical architecture to cater for the gathered non-functional requirements
Estimate Azure sizing/pricing based on the above information

Planning and designing for security to Azure

Planning for Identity and access management
Planning for authentication and authorization approaches
Planning for end-user self-service capabilities
Plan for Identity protection, security and conditional access including multi factor authentication and single SignOn
Defining access control based on role, rule and responsibility
Plan for managing the security posture on the entire Azure environment
Plan and design for metric based alert notifications triggered on specific events

Strategize Data platform solution on Azure

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)
Batching workloads for failing-over to Azure based on applications
Modernizing network topology and design for High Availability, global distribution and auto-scaling
Design for Planned and Unplanned failover/failbacks
Securing and optimizing workloads post-migration
Planning for a Disaster Recovery site on Azure (Azure to Azure / On-prem to Azure)
Recommend data archival strategy based on the business compliance requirements
Identify the right data archival pricing tiers and identify SLAs

Design Azure migrations, Business continuity and Disaster Recovery

Strategize compute, network, storage and monitoring solutions

Recommend Azure compute options – App Services, Containers, VMs, AKS, Azure Service Fabric and so on
Recommend appropriate storage solutions and management tools
Design secure and scalable network topologies on Azure
Recommend network management tools
Recommend the right services for application and infrastructure level monitoring

Workload modernization/refactoring based on Azure best practices

How to work with development teams to identify the scope for application modernization?
Design for auto-scaling
Design for third party integrations – Cloud and On-Premise
Design for event-based triggers, asynchronous communication(messaging), API integrations
Recommend scope for serverless computing to save costs

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The participants should have a basic knowledge of Linux/Unix commands

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