AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design for High Availability Part 2

4. *NEW* Essential High Availability Concepts for Exam So at this point, I feel like I should reiterate how important it is to understand Availability Zones and how they improve the resiliency of your application and actually how they work. So we’ve covered this concept before, but Availability Zones are actually data centers. They’re physically… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design for cost optimization

1. Design Monitoring (10-15%) Alright, we’re getting into the course. The first major section of the exam says design monitoring. And that is where ten to 15% of the exam score. Now, that design monitoring is broken up into two subsections. One has to do with monitoring of costs and the other has to do… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design for API Integration Strategy

1. API Management So we’re going to wrap up this discussion of deployment, migration, and integration. Talking about API integration. Now, you know how there’s companies out there that will allow developers, thirdparty, developers to use an API to interact with their service. A good example of this is actually Microsoft Azure. As a developer,… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design Authentication Part 3

1. Introduction to Authorization So in this section of the course, we’re going to switch over to the concept of authorization. Now, we talked about authentication being more than just user ID and password. You could include the concept of multifactor authentication. We know with some certainty, or even 100% certainty that you are who… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design Authentication Part-2

1. Intro to Authentication So in this section of the course we’re going to be talking about authentication. Now one of the key concepts of the exam in terms of identity is understanding the difference between authentication and authorization. Now authentication is proving who you are. So if you are able to show your driver’s… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design authentication

1. Design Identity and Security (25-30%) The second major section of this exam says Design Identity and Security. And as you can see, it is worth a significant percentage of the exam score. So put a lot of emphasis on this. Identity. Within Microsoft Azure is usually we’re talking about Microsoft Azure Active Directory as… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a solution for logging and monitoring Part 2

5. Monitoring Storage Accounts Now we’re in the storage account section of Azure Monitor and we can see a selection of our storage accounts. Not all of them have got auto selected, but most of them have. And at a glance we can see over the past 4 hours how many transactions each storage account… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a solution for logging and monitoring

1. Group Resources Using Tags So in this section of the course, we’re going to be talking about designing, auditing and monitoring strategy. Now again, this is a very strategic thing as opposed to the technologies. One thing you have to understand about auditing and monitoring is that it’s things are getting a lot easier… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a Site Recovery Strategy

1. Design Business Continuity (10-15%) The fourth section of the exam says Design Business Continuity as worth ten to 15% of the exam score. Underneath the topic of Business Continuity are two subtopics. One is Backup and Recovery and the other is High availability. Now, we should deal with these together because obviously not going… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a Networking Strategy Part 2

5. Azure Private DNS Now the private DNS zone on the other hand, is actually pretty interesting. It is a DNS service only accessible to your Azure resources. And so instead of it being a domain name that you go and register with a registrar and anyone in the world can use that domain name.… Read More »