AZ 305: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert: Step By Step Activity Guides (Hands-On Labs)

This blog covers a walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert Training that you must perform to learn this course. If you need to learn more about the certification, you can visit our blog about Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Expert[AZ-305].

The AZ-305 exams mesh with those who advise collaborators and translate business requirements into scalable, protected, and well-founded solutions.

The Step-By-Step Activity Guides for Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert Training program walkthrough will prepare you thoroughly for the AZ-305 certifications. There are 30+ hands-on labs for AZ305.

We also cover 25 hands-on labs for AZ303 and 13 hands-on labs for AZ304 in our Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert [AZ-305] Training Program, you can visit our blog about AZ 303/304: Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect: Step By Step Activity Guides (Hands-On Labs).

AZ-305 Hands-On Lab

AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Here is the Learning Path for AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert and the list of Hands-On labs that will help you clear the certification.

1) Register For A Free Azure Cloud Account

Creating an Azure free account is one way to access Azure services. When you start using Azure with a free account, you get USD200¹ credit to spend in the first 30 days after you sign up. In addition, you get free monthly amounts of two groups of services: popular services, which are free for 12 months, and more than 25 other services that are free always.

Azure Free Account

2) Design a governance solution

Take advantage of built-in and custom policies to set guardrails in your subscriptions. Easily deploy fully governed environments throughout your organization with Azure Blueprints. And, manage costs by gaining insights into your cloud spend so that you get the most from your cloud investments.

3) Design a compute solution

Azure offers a number of ways to host your application code. The term compute refers to the hosting model for the computing resources that your application runs on. If your application consists of multiple workloads, evaluate each workload separately. A complete solution may incorporate two or more compute services.

Compute flowchart

4) Design a non-relational storage solution

A non-relational database is a database that does not use the tabular schema of rows and columns found in most traditional database systems. Instead, non-relational databases use a storage model that is optimized for the specific requirements of the type of data being stored.

NoSQL Azure

5) Design a relational storage solution

Microsoft Azure offers services for a wide variety of data-related needs, including ones you would expect like file storage and relational databases, but also more specialized services, such as text searching and time-series data.

relational storage

6) Design data integration solutions

Azure Architects design and recommend data integration solutions. In this, you will learn to fully utilize Azure data services to provide complete data integration for your needs.

Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory.
Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake.
Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Databricks.
Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Synapse Analytics.
Design a strategy for hot/warm/cold data path.
Design Azure Stream Analytics solution for Data Analysis.

7) Design an app architecture solution

Microsoft Azure provides numerous services and possibilities. Getting the application architecture right could be a challenging task. We will learn about best practices to design your Azure applications. First, you’ll explore microservice architecture in Azure. Next, you’ll discover orchestration and automation solutions.

8) Design authentication and authorization solutions

Azure Architects design and recommend authentication and authorization solutions. Authentication is the process of proving who you are and who you say you are? Microsoft identity platform implements the OpenID Connect protocol for handling authentication, authentication, and authorization. Authorization is the act of granting an authenticated party permission to do something. Microsoft identity platform implements the OAuth 2.0 protocol for handling authorization.

Design for identity and access management.
Design for Azure Active Directory.
Design for Azure Active Directory Business to Business.
Design for Azure Active Directory Business to Customer.
Design for conditional access.
Design for identity protection.
Design for access reviews.
Design for service principals for applications
Design for Azure Key Vault

9) Design a logging and monitoring solution

Monitoring and logging are vital to keeping your applications healthy. In this course, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect: Design a Logging and Monitoring Solution, you’ll learn to design monitoring and logging for your applications. Here you’ll explore the options in Azure for monitoring your applications. Next, you’ll discover how to integrate monitoring services in your solution. Finally, you’ll learn how to recommend a monitoring design for your applications.

Azure Monitor

10) Design a network solution – Product catalog enterprise application

Enterprise Product Catalog: A Product Catalog for Business Customers in Telecoms. Enterprise Product Catalog for Telecom enables simple and flexible storage of the entire CSP product portfolio in one place. Here we will design an Optimal Network Solution for application and discuss deciding factors for network architecture.

Product Catalog

11) Design a network solution -BI enterprise application

Business Intelligence or BI Applications are used by organizations for decision making purposes. Here we will design the networking solution for it.

12) Design a business continuity solution

Business continuity refers to the mechanisms, policies, and procedures that enable your business to continue operating in the face of disruption, particularly to its computing infrastructure. Azure provides a variety of business continuity solutions to minimize the impact of disruptions. You’ll learn to plan the use of Azure Site Recovery services. Next, you’ll examine how to create a Recovery Services vault and replication policies.

13) Design a migration solution

Cloud migration and modernisation is a continuous process that involves significant organisational change management spanning people, process and technology. Taking a holistic approach will not only help you navigate the journey successfully but also help ensure that your organisation realises new benefits—including efficiency, agility and scale, once your workloads are running in the cloud.

Azure migrate Benefits

14) Optional Case Study: Fabrikam Residences

You have taken a new position with Fabrikam Residences, which is very successful and is experiencing rapid growth. Fabrikam Residences is a building contractor for new homes and major home renovations and have become successful by providing quality buildings and offering newer integrated home technologies than their competitors.

The company has seen tremendous growth over the past 2 years. The company is estimating it may double in size over the next 12-18 months. With such rapid growth in the regional market, the company has no current plans to expand outside of the regional market.

Design a solution for the Project Management software. Be prepared to explain why you chose each component of the design and how it meets the solution requirements.
Design an architecture for the New Home Technology Solution. Be prepared to explain why you chose each component of the design and how it meets the solution requirements.

15) Creating A Virtual Machine Using Azure Portal

Azure virtual machines (VMs) enable you to create dedicated compute resources in minutes that can be used just like a physical desktop or server machine.

16) Create A Virtual Machine With Custom VM Images

Using a Packer Template, you can create your custom VM images in this Activity Guide. We will configure a Packer template & build our Packer-based image. Then we will deploy a Virtual Machine based on that custom image and validate its deployment.

Read More: Virtual Machine

17) Deploy containers to Azure Container Instances (ACI)

Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a managed service that allows you to run containers directly on the Microsoft Azure public cloud, without requiring the use of virtual machines (VMs).

With Azure Container Instances, you don’t have to provision underlying infrastructure or use higher-level services to manage containers.

18) Deploy containers to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) simplifies deploying a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure by offloading the operational overhead to Azure. As a hosted Kubernetes service, Azure handles critical tasks, like health monitoring and maintenance.

19) Configuring a message-based integration architecture

In this Azure Solutions Architect activity guide, you’ll find out the ways to configure a message-based architecture integration. It integrates enterprise backend systems, using events and message queues to decouple services for high reliability and scalability. These backend systems may include software as a service (SaaS) systems, Azure services, and existing web services in your enterprise.

Msg Intg

20) How to Implement Azure Functions

For hosting the execution of your functions, you must have a function app. It lets your group function as a logical unit for easier deployment, scaling, management, and resource sharing. On winding up, you’ll learn how to create and group functions inside the function app.

Azure Functions

21) Implementing an Azure App Service Web App with a Staging Slot

Here in Azure Solutions Architect, you will learn to create a deployment slot as a staging environment in App Service.

Deployment tools

22) Implement Azure Logic Apps Integration With Azure Event Grid

With Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Design, the event grid is a new application service that connects applications to talk with each other in a distributed environment. This way of working decouple application components enabling more scalability, extensibility, and maintainability. Normally it is almost like a message queue service, similar to Azure Service Bus Topics, enabling a publish or subscribe model.

Azure Event Grid is a kind of heterogeneous messaging service that is built to allow event-based architectures similar to those used with Microservices architectures to be built more easily.

Event Grid

23) Migrating Hyper-V VMs To Azure By Using Azure Migrate

With Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Design, you’ll learn to migrate on-premises Hyper-V Virtual Machines to Azure with the Azure Migrate: Server Migration tool. Also, you’ll learn to:

Use Azure Migration: Server Migration tool.
Locate the Virtual Machines that you want to migrate.
Start replicating the VM.
Implement a test migration to make sure everything is working fine.
Run a full VM migration.

Migrating Hyper -V to Azure

24) Creating a Virtual Network using Azure Portal & PowerShell

Here, you’ll learn to create a virtual network using the Azure portal and PowerShell. Azure VNet is the fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. It enables many sorts of Azure resources, like VM, to securely communicate with one another, on web, and on-premises networks. A VNet is like a traditional network that you would have operated in your own data center but VNet brings with it some additional benefits of Azure’s infrastructure such as scale, availability, and isolation. Here, you will also learn to create a virtual network using the Azure portal.

Virtual Network

25) Create and delete a Subnet in Virtual Network

The subnet is a part of a network that covers a range of IP Addresses. In Azure, VNet can be divided into smaller subnets for organizations. When a VNet is created in Azure, the subnet range and topology needs to be specified. In Subnet, the IP Address range will be a subpart from a big block of IP Address used in Virtual Network (VNet). The Virtual Machines and resources in a network will be assigned the IP Address from these subnets.

26) VNet Peering Using Azure Portal

Here, you’ll learn to connect virtual networks with VNet peering. The VNet can be in the same region (VNet Peering) or different regions (Global VNet peering). Once virtual networks peer, the resources in both virtual networks can talk with each other.

Vnet peering

27) VNet-VNet VPN Gateway Connection

This Azure Solutions Architect Expert activity guide will help you to connect VNets by using the VNet-to-VNet type of connection. VNets can be of different subscriptions and from different regions. Creating a VNet-to-VNet connection is a simple way to connect a virtual network to another virtual network.

VNet-VNet VPN Gateway

28) Load Balancer And Traffic Manager In Azure

Using the Standard Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create highly available services. The load balancer supports both scenarios the inbound and outbound.

Here, we will implement inbound load balancing and NAT by using the Azure Load Balancer Standard. Then by using Azure Load Balancer Standard, we will configure the outbound SNAT traffic and test it.

29) Exploring Monitoring Capabilities In Azure

In this Azure Solutions Architect Activity Guide, you will learn to deploy VM scale sets and then implement monitoring & alerting using the Azure Monitor. Also, you’ll learn to set up autoscaling-based notifications, metric-based alerts, and testing.

30) Network Watcher In Azure

Azure Network Watcher provides tools to view metrics, monitor, diagnose, and enabling or disabling logs for the resources in an Azure VNet. Network Watcher is a service to monitor and repair the network health of IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) products, including VMs, VNets, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, etc.
Note: It is will not work for PaaS monitoring or Web analytics.

31) Virtual Machine Replication via Azure Site Recovery

The Azure Site Recovery service helps in BCDR (business continuity and disaster recovery) strategy by making your organization’s application online during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery manage and orchestrate disaster recovery of on-premises and Azure VM, including replication, failover, and recovery.

This quickstart describes setting up disaster recovery for an Azure Virtual Machine by replicating it to a secondary Azure region. Generally, default settings are used to enable replication.
Azure Replication

32) Implementing user-assigned managed identities for Azure resources

Managed identities for Azure resources provide services with a managed identity in Azure Active Directory. You can use this ID to authenticate to services that support Azure AD authentication without any need for credentials in your code.
Management Identity

33) Microsoft Azure Directory Synchronisation

Azure AD or Azure Active Directory is a fully managed multi-tenant service from Microsoft offering the identity and access capabilities for apps running in Microsoft Azure and on-premises environments. Its name sometimes leads to wrong conclusions about what Azure AD really is. Therefore, to avoid any confusion, understand that Azure AD is not Windows Server Active Directory running on Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure.

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