AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies

OVERVIEW
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Microsoft Azure is the fastest-growing cloud platform on the market. In October 2018, Microsoft released the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification examination. This exam is one of the certification exams to attain the credentials of a Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Cognixia offers an extensive training covering a vast array of topics which would help participants learn everything they need to know to clear the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies exam. This training is useful to enhance the skills required for leveraging cloud servers and learning how to employ a large array of intelligent services at cheaper costs.

This course offers an engaging, learning experience where participants can take advantage of connecting with industry experts, develop their competencies to meet industry and organizational standards and gain access to real-world best practices.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why you shouldn't miss this course

By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.

01Manage Azure subscriptions and resources
02Configure, deploy, and manage virtual machines and networks
03Implement and manage advanced virtual networking and application services
04Manage and secure identities
05Perform hybrid networking
06Create web applications using PaaS
07Create apps and Services Running on Service Fabric
08Use Azure Kubernetes Service for health monitoring and maintenance
09Develop long-running tasks and distributed transactions
10Configure a message-based integration architecture
11Develop for asynchronous processing and autoscaling
12Create Azure Cognitive Services solutions

PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience

CURRICULUM
Structured for
Strategic Application
  • Managing Azure subscriptions and resources
  • Implementing and managing storage
  • Deploying and managing Virtual Machines (VMs)
    • Create Virtual Machines (VM)s within the Azure Portal
    • Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using Azure PowerShell
    • Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using ARM templates
    • Deploy Linux Virtual Machines (VM)s
    • Monitor virtual machines (VM)s
    • Protect data using backups at regular intervals, whether by snapshot, Azure Backup, or Azure Site Recovery.
  • Configuring and managing Virtual Networks
    • Network routing using routing tables and algorithms
    • Inter-site connectivity using VNet-to-VNet connections and VPNs
    • Virtual network peering for regional and global considerations
    • Gateway transit
  • Managing Identities
    • Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
    • Built-in roles
    • Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)
    • Authentication methods for password reset
  • Evaluating and performing server migration to Azure
  • Implementing and managing application services
    • Deploying web apps
    • Managing web apps
    • App service security
    • Serverless computing concepts
    • Managing event grid
    • Managing service bus
    • Managing logic apps
  • Implementing advanced virtual networking
    • Azure load balancer
    • Azure application gateway
    • Site-to-Site VPN Connections
    • Overview of Express Route
  • Securing identities
    • Azure AD identity protection
    • Azure domains and tenants
    • Azure users and groups
    • Azure roles
    • Overview of Azure AD integration options focusing on Azure AD
  • Selecting compute and storage solutions
    • Azure architecture center
    • Cloud design patterns
    • Competing consumers pattern
    • Cache-aside pattern
    • Sharding patterns
  • Hybrid networking
    • Site-to-site connectivity
    • Point-to-site connectivity
    • Combining site-to-site and point-to-site connectivity
    • Virtual network–to–virtual network connectivity
    • Connecting across cloud
  • Measuring throughput and structure of data access
    • DTUs – Azure SQL database
    • RUs – Azure cosmos DB
    • Structured and unstructured data
    • Using structured data stores
  • Creating web applications using PaaS
    • Using shell commands to create an app service web app
    • Creating background tasks
    • Using swagger to document an API
    • Understand how Logic Apps help to build solutions
  • Creating apps and services running on service fabric
    • Overview of Azure service fabric
    • Challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications
    • Creating a reliable service
    • Creating a reliable actors app
    • Working with reliable collections
  • Using Azure Kubernetes Service
    • How to reduce operational overhead of managing Kubernetes
    • Azure container registry
    • Azure container instances
  • Developing long-running tasks and distributed transactions
    • Implementing large-scale, parallel, and high-performance apps using batches
    • HPC using Microsoft Azure virtual machines
    • Implementing resilient apps by using queues
    • Implementing code to address application events using webhooks
  • Configuring a message-based integration architecture
    • Configure an app or service to send emails
    • Configure an event publish and subscribe model
    • Configure the Azure relay service
    • Configure apps and services with Microsoft Graph
  • Developing for asynchronous processing
    • Implement parallelism, multithreading and processing
    • Implement Azure functions and Azure logic apps
    • Implement interfaces for storage or data access
    • Implement appropriate asynchronous computing models
    • Implement autoscaling rules and patterns
  • Developing for autoscaling
    • Implementing autoscaling rules and patterns
    • Implementing code that addresses singleton application instances
    • Implementing code that addresses a transient state
  • Developing Azure cognitive services solutions
    • Developing solutions using Computer Vision
    • Developing solutions using Bing web search
    • Developing solutions using custom speech service
    • Developing solutions using QnA Maker
  • Develop for Azure storage
    • Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB Storage
    • Develop solutions that use a relational database
    • Modeling a database by using Entity Framework Core
    • Develop solutions that use Microsoft Azure Blob

RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first,
hands-on learning model

Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)

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FAQs
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  • IT professionals
  • Cloud solution architects
  • Experienced Microsoft Azure administrators and developers
  • DevOps professionals

Our trainers are subject matter experts in the field of Microsoft Azure. They are industry experienced and highly accomplished training professionals.

An internet speed of at least 2 Mbps is essential.

When you enroll for this course, you get lifetime access to our Learning Management System (LMS) which would be your one-stop destination to access class recordings, presentations, sample codes, projects and lots of other learning material. Even if you miss a session, a recording of that session, as well as all the other sessions would be available on the LMS that you can access anytime, anywhere.

For any queries, you can reach out to our technical support team and they will guide you accordingly.

Yes. Once the course is completed, you need to appear for an objective question-based assessment conducted by Cognixia. Based on your performance on different parameters such as attendance in the sessions, assessment scores, etc. you will be awarded a certificate by Cognixia.

For the Microsoft certification, you need to schedule and appear for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies examination. Once you clear that examination, you will receive a certificate from Microsoft.

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Why Cognixia for This Course

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