1 – Describe the core architectural components of Azure

• What is Microsoft Azure
• Get started with Azure accounts
• Describe Azure physical infrastructure
• Describe Azure management infrastructure
• Module assessment

2 – Describe Azure compute and networking services

• Describe Azure virtual machines
• Describe Azure virtual desktop
• Describe Azure containers
• Describe Azure functions
• Describe application hosting options
• Describe Azure virtual networking
• Describe Azure virtual private networks
• Describe Azure ExpressRoute
• Describe Azure DNS
• Module assessment

3 – Describe Azure storage services

• Describe Azure storage accounts
• Describe Azure storage redundancy
• Describe Azure storage services
• Identify Azure data migration options
• Identify Azure file movement options
• Module assessment

4 – Describe Azure identity, access, and security

• Describe Azure directory services
• Describe Azure authentication methods
• Describe Azure external identities
• Describe Azure conditional access
• Describe Azure role-based access control
• Describe Zero Trust model
• Describe defense-in-depth
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Module assessment

5 – Introduction to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework

• Strategy
• Plan
• Ready
• Migrate
• Modernize
• Cloud-native
• Govern
• Manage
• Secure
• Module assessment

6 – Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars

7 – Design governance

• Design for governance
• Design for management groups
• Design for subscriptions
• Design for resource groups
• Design for resource tags
• Design for Azure Policy
• Design for role-based access control (RBAC)
• Design for Azure landing zones
• Module assessment

8 – Design authentication and authorization solutions

• Design for identity and access management (IAM)
• Design for Microsoft Entra ID
• Design for Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B)
• Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer)
• Design for conditional access
• Design for identity protection
• Design for access reviews
• Design service principals for applications
• Design managed identities
• Design for Azure Key Vault
• Module assessment

9 – Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources

• Design for Azure Monitor data sources
• Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
• Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
• Design for Azure Data Explorer
• Module assessment

10 – Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies

• Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
• Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
• Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
• Describe high availability and disaster recovery for PaaS deployments
• Explore high availability and disaster recovery solution for IaaS
• Describe hybrid solutions
• Module assessment

11 – Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery

• Design for backup and recovery
• Design for Azure Backup
• Design for Azure blob backup and recovery
• Design for Azure files backup and recovery
• Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery
• Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery
• Design for Azure Site Recovery
• Module assessment

12 – Design a data storage solution for non-relational data

• Design for data storage
• Design for Azure storage accounts
• Design for data redundancy
• Design for Azure Blob Storage
• Design for Azure Files
• Design for Azure managed disks
• Design for storage security
• Module assessment

13 – Design a data storage solution for relational data

• Design for Azure SQL Database
• Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
• Recommend a solution for database scalability
• Recommend a solution for database availability
• Design security for data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
• Design for Azure SQL Edge
• Design for Azure Cosmos DB and Table Storage
• Module assessment

14 – Design data integration

• Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
• Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
• Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Databricks
• Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
• Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths
• Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis
• Module assessment

15 – Design an Azure compute solution

• Choose an Azure compute service
• Design for Azure Virtual Machines solutions
• Design for Azure Batch solutions
• Design for Azure App Service solutions
• Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
• Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
• Design for Azure Functions solutions
• Design for Azure Logic Apps solutions
• Module assessment

16 – Design an application architecture

• Describe message and event scenarios
• Design a messaging solution
• Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution
• Design an event-driven solution
• Design a caching solution
• Design API integration
• Design an automated app deployment solution
• Design an app configuration management solution
• Module assessment

17 – Design network solutions

• Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
• Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services
• Design outbound connectivity and routing
• Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
• Choose an application delivery service
• Design for application delivery services
• Design for application protection services
• Module assessment

18 – Design migrations

• Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
• Describe the Azure migration framework
• Assess your on-premises workloads
• Select a migration tool
• Migrate your structured data in databases
• Select an online storage migration tool for unstructured data
• Migrate offline data
• Module assessment

19 – Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

• Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars

20 – Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Reliability

• Design for business requirements
• Design for resilience
• Design for recovery
• Design for operations
• Keep it simple

21 – Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Security

• Plan your security readiness
• Design to protect confidentiality
• Design to protect integrity
• Design to protect availability
• Sustain and evolve your security posture

22 – Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Cost Optimization

• Develop cost-management discipline
• Design with a cost-efficiency mindset
• Design for usage optimization
• Design for rate optimization
• Monitor and optimize over time

23 – Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Operational Excellence

• Embrace DevOps culture
• Establish development standards
• Evolve operations with observability
• Automate for efficiency
• Adopt safe deployment practices

24 – Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework – Performance Efficiency

• Negotiate realistic performance targets
• Design to meet capacity requirements
• Achieve and sustain performance
• Improve efficiency through optimization