Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305The Complete Beginner's Guide

Designing Identity Solutions

Objective 1.1 · Identity Governance

Designing Governance Solutions

Objective 1.2 · Identity Governance

Designing Monitoring Solutions

Objective 1.3 · Identity Governance

Azure Landing Zone Design

Objective 1.2

Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

Objective 1.3

Azure Advisor Recommendations

Objective 1.3

Azure Subscription and Management Group Design

Objective 1.2

Data Residency and Sovereignty Requirements

Objective 1.2

Cost Optimization Architecture Patterns

Objective 1.3

Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Objective 1.2

Azure Well-Architected Framework: Five Pillars

Objective 1.3

Azure Architecture Design Principles

Objective 1.3

Entra External Identities: B2B vs B2C Design

Objective 1.1

Conditional Access Policy Design

Objective 1.1

Privileged Identity Management Design

Objective 1.1

Key Vault Architecture for Secrets Management

Objective 1.1

Monitoring Strategy: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Insights

Objective 1.3

Log Analytics Workspace Design

Objective 1.3

Azure Managed Grafana for Monitoring

Objective 1.3

Azure Dashboards and Workbooks

Objective 1.3

Cost-Aware Architecture Design Patterns

Objective 1.3

Microsoft Defender for Cloud in Architecture

Objective 1.2

Regulatory Compliance by Design

Objective 1.2

Azure Security Benchmark in Architecture Reviews

Objective 1.2

Threat Modelling for Azure Solutions

Objective 1.2

Azure Cost Management and Budgets in Architecture

Objective 1.3

FinOps Practices for Azure Architects

Objective 1.3

Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Design

Objective 1.3

Policy as Code and Compliance Automation

Objective 1.2

Designing Azure Storage Solutions

Objective 2.1 · Data Storage

Designing Relational Database Solutions

Objective 2.2 · Data Storage

Designing Non-Relational Database Solutions

Objective 2.3 · Data Storage

Designing Data Integration Solutions

Objective 2.4 · Data Storage

Storage Account Design Decisions

Objective 2.1

Azure NetApp Files for NFS Workloads

Objective 2.1

Azure Table Storage vs Cosmos DB Design

Objective 2.3

Azure AI Search Architecture

Objective 2.4

Azure Data Factory for Data Integration Design

Objective 2.4

Azure Synapse Analytics Architecture

Objective 2.4

Azure Databricks Architecture

Objective 2.4

Azure Elastic SAN for Storage Architecture

Objective 2.1

Azure Container Storage

Objective 2.1

Azure Health Data Services (FHIR)

Objective 2.4

Designing Backup and Recovery

Objective 3.1 · Business Continuity

Designing Business Continuity Solutions

Objective 3.2 · Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery Patterns: Active-Active vs Active-Passive

Objective 3.2

RPO and RTO Requirements for Architecture

Objective 3.1

Designing for Availability Zones and Regions

Objective 3.2

Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture

Objective 3.2

ZRS vs GRS vs GZRS for BCDR

Objective 3.1

Azure Backup Vault Design

Objective 3.1

Chaos Engineering and Resilience Testing

Objective 3.2

Azure Resiliency Patterns and Anti-Patterns

Objective 3.2

Azure Site Recovery Design

Objective 3.2

Designing Compute Solutions

Objective 4.1 · Infrastructure

Designing Azure Network Solutions

Objective 4.2 · Infrastructure

Designing Migration Solutions

Objective 4.3 · Infrastructure

Designing Application Architecture

Objective 4.4 · Infrastructure

Hub-Spoke Network Topology

Objective 4.2

Azure Front Door vs Traffic Manager

Objective 4.2

Microservices Architecture on Azure

Objective 4.4

Event-Driven Architecture with Event Grid and Service Bus

Objective 4.4

API Management Design and Governance

Objective 4.4

Serverless Architecture Patterns

Objective 4.4

Hybrid Connectivity: VPN Gateway vs ExpressRoute

Objective 4.2

Azure Arc for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

Objective 4.3

Azure Migrate and Migration Strategies

Objective 4.3

Private Endpoints and Private Link Design

Objective 4.2

Azure Traffic Manager for Global Load Balancing

Objective 4.2

Azure API Gateway Architecture

Objective 4.4

Domain-Driven Design for Cloud Architecture

Objective 4.4

CQRS and Event Sourcing Patterns

Objective 4.4

Saga Pattern for Distributed Transactions

Objective 4.4

Bulkhead and Circuit Breaker Patterns

Objective 4.4

Retry, Throttling, and Backoff Patterns

Objective 4.4

Strangler Fig Migration Pattern

Objective 4.3

Azure Spring Apps for Java Workloads

Objective 4.1

Azure Red Hat OpenShift

Objective 4.1

Azure Service Fabric

Objective 4.1

Azure Batch for Large-Scale Compute

Objective 4.1

High Performance Computing (HPC) on Azure

Objective 4.1

Azure Network Topology Patterns

Objective 4.2

Azure Virtual WAN

Objective 4.2

Azure DNS Private Resolver Design

Objective 4.2

ExpressRoute Circuit Design and Routing

Objective 4.2

Azure NAT Gateway for Outbound Connectivity

Objective 4.2

DDoS Protection Design

Objective 4.2

Azure Firewall Design and FQDN Rules

Objective 4.2

Azure Front Door WAF Design

Objective 4.2

Cache-Aside Pattern with Azure Cache for Redis

Objective 4.4

Azure Service Bus Topology Design

Objective 4.4

Azure Event Grid Architecture

Objective 4.4

Azure Logic Apps for Integration

Objective 4.4

Azure Spot VMs for Cost Reduction

Objective 4.1

Azure Database Migration Service

Objective 4.3

Azure DevOps Integration with Architecture

Objective 4.4

Platform Engineering on Azure

Objective 4.4

SAP on Azure Design Considerations

Objective 4.1

Mainframe Migration to Azure

Objective 4.3

Azure Notification Hubs for Push at Scale

Objective 4.4

Workload Assessment and Migration Analysis

Objective 4.3

Azure VMware Solution Design

Objective 4.3

Azure Stack Hub for Disconnected Environments

Objective 4.3