AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Welcome to the AZ-304 AZ-305 course

1. Overview of the AZ-304 + AZ-305 Exam Requirements So let’s look at the requirements for the AZ 304 and AZ 305 exams in more detail. You can go ahead and enter AZ Hyphen 304 into your favorite search engine and you will find this official Microsoft landing page for this exam on the Microsoft… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design Migrations

1. Azure Migration Strategy So next up we’re going to talk about migrations. Now, migrations is a big topic. It is actually fairly complex because it’s very difficult to go from so many different configurations within your own network to a more standardized configuration within Microsoft Azure. Every company is going to have a slightly… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design for Risk Prevention for identity

1. What is Risk? So we’ve been talking about identity and security in this last set of sections and one thing we should talk about is the risk, the risk of things happening when it comes to identity, what can happen? How do you mitigate against it? How bad would it be? Now, let’s start… Read More »

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

1. Application Redundancy So we’ve been talking in this section about business continuity. Now, part of business continuity is being able to recover from a disaster, of course, and we’ve talked about that. But another aspect of business continuity is not even suffering a disaster, not having any downtime. Even when a particular component fails… Read More »

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 »