A comprehensive study guide that will

provide you with great preparation tools

for the AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect
Design exam

AZ-304
Official
Course Study
Guide

Jordi Koenderink 3/10/2021

Introduction
Welcome to the AZ-304 Study Guide. This guide will go over each topic of the skills outline, provided
by Microsoft for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design exam.

Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise in designing and implementing
solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including aspects like compute, network, storage, and
security. Candidates should have intermediate-level skills for administering Azure. Candidates should
understand Azure development and DevOps processes.

Responsibilities for an Azure Solution Architect include advising stakeholders and translating business
requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions.

An Azure Solution Architect partners with cloud administrators, cloud DBAs, and clients to implement
solutions.

A candidate for this exam should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations,
including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data
platform, budgeting, and governance–this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an
overall solution. In addition, this role should have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have
experience with Azure development and DevOps processes.

About the exam:

• Taking the exam will cost you $165 US dollars.

• Microsoft certification exams are scored out of 1000 points. You need 700 points or higher to
pass the AZ-304 exam and gain your Azure Administrator Badge.
• The AZ-304 exam will need to be renewed every year. Microsoft will from time to time retire
certifications, however, and you may also find exam numbers evolve (this is what happened
with the previous exam AZ-301) when Microsoft changes the curriculum substantially for the
certification.
• The exam will have around 55 questions for which you have 3h to answer.
• As of this moment of writing, there’re no labs.

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Video training:

This course goes through all of the skills needed

to take and pass the AZ-304 exam: Microsoft
Azure Architect Technologies. This course
teaches all of the requirements for the exam,
one by one. Each of the things that Microsoft
tests will be covered in this course.

AZ-304 Azure Architecture Technologies Exam

Prep 2021 | Udemy
This path is structured to mimic the
organization of the exam so you can more easily
follow along during your study preparation.

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (AZ-

304) Path | Pluralsight
Whizlabs’ Microsoft Azure Exam AZ-304 Online
Course helps Professionals to prepare
themselves for the actual certification exam.

Microsoft Azure Exam AZ-304 Certification |

Online Course | Whizlabs

Microsoft Learn:

Those tutorial/paths have been combined by Microsoft and published for free. They contain a
collection of text, videos, and exercises for the exam.

AZ-304: Architect network infrastructure in

Azure

Learn how to architect a secure, flexible,

network infrastructure in Azure and connect
on-premises networks to your Azure resources.

Architect network infrastructure in Azure

learning path - Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect storage infrastructure in
Azure
Learn how to architect storage solutions for
your applications in Azure.

Architect storage infrastructure in Azure

learning path - Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect compute infrastructure in
Azure
Learn how to architect compute infrastructure
and solutions to automate your business
processes in Azure.
Architect compute infrastructure in Azure
learning path - Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect infrastructure operations in
Azure
Learn how to monitor, analyze, and manage the
ongoing operation of your infrastructure in
Azure.

Architect infrastructure operations in Azure

learning path - Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect a data platform in Azure
Learn how to architect a data platform in Azure
and build solutions to store relational and
NoSQL data.

Architect a data platform in Azure learning path

- Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect message brokering and
serverless applications in Azure
Learn how to create reliable messaging for your
applications, and how to take advantage of
serverless application services in Azure.

Architect message brokering and serverless

applications in Azure learning path - Learn |
Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect modern applications in Azure
Learn how to build modern applications using
PaaS services for applications, caching,
containers and Kubernetes in Azure.

Architect modern applications in Azure learning

path - Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect API integration in Azure
Learn how to architect API integration in Azure,
and provide secure, scalable API access for your
applications.

Architect modern applications in Azure learning

path - Learn | Microsoft Docs
AZ-304: Architect migration, business
continuity, and disaster recovery in Azure
Learn how to migrate resources to Azure, how
to provide site recovery for your applications in
Azure and on-premises, and how to your
applications are available through service
interruptions and changes in load.

Architect migration, business continuity, and

disaster recovery in Azure learning path - Learn
| Microsoft Docs
Practice exams

Those are practice exams and not dumps. I do not encourage dumps as they ruin the certification
value for everyone.

Whizlabs – Microsoft Azure Exam AZ-304

Practice Tests
AZ-304: Azure Architect Technologies exam is
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with Azure AZ-304 training course and get ready
to become a Microsoft Certified Azure
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What's Inside:

• 3 Full-Length Mock Exams (165 Unique

Questions)
• 1 Section Test (20 unique questions)
• Objective-based Practice Tests
• Exhaustive Explanation with every
question
• Reports to assess strengths &
weaknesses
• Unlimited Access

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This guide is divided up into the following sections and is also part of the exam:

• Design monitoring (10-15%)

• Design identity and security (25-30%)
• Design data storage (15-20%)
• Design business continuity (10-15%)
• Design infrastructure (25-30%)

Feel free to join our Facebook Azure Study Group, or check out the Azure courses on Udemy. Errors
and suggestions can also be reported in the Azure Group on Facebook.

Thank you,

Software Architect Team

Jordi Koenderink
Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 1
1. Design Monitoring (10-15%) ........................................................................................................... 8
Design for cost optimization ............................................................................................................... 8
Recommend a solution for cost management and cost reporting ..................................................... 8
Recommend solutions to minimize costs ............................................................................................ 8
Design a solution for logging and monitoring ..................................................................................... 8
Determine levels and storage locations for logs ................................................................................. 8
Plan for integration with monitoring tools including Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel .................. 8
Recommend appropriate monitoring tool(s) for a solution ................................................................ 8
Choose a mechanism for event routing and escalation ...................................................................... 8
Recommend a logging solution for compliance requirements ........................................................... 8
2. Design Identity and Security (25-30%) ............................................................................................ 9
Design authentication ......................................................................................................................... 9
Recommend a solution for single-sign on ........................................................................................... 9
Recommend a solution for authentication ......................................................................................... 9
Recommend a solution for Conditional Access, including multi-factor authentication ..................... 9
Recommend a solution for network access authentication ............................................................... 9
Recommend a solution for a hybrid identity including Azure AD Connect and Azure AD .................. 9
Connect Health .................................................................................................................................... 9
Recommend a solution for user self-service ....................................................................................... 9
Recommend and implement a solution for B2B integration .............................................................. 9
Design authorization ........................................................................................................................... 9
Choose an authorization approach ..................................................................................................... 9
Recommend a hierarchical structure that includes management groups, subscriptions and
resource groups ................................................................................................................................. 10
Recommend an access management solution including RBAC policies, access reviews, ................. 10
role assignments, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure AD Identity Protection, Just In
Time (JIT) access ................................................................................................................................ 10
Design governance ............................................................................................................................ 10
Recommend a strategy for tagging ................................................................................................... 10
Recommend a solution for using Azure Policy .................................................................................. 10
Recommend a solution for using Azure Blueprint ............................................................................ 10
Recommend a solution that leverages Azure Resource Graph ......................................................... 10
Design security for applications ........................................................................................................ 10
Recommend a solution that includes KeyVault ................................................................................ 10
 Recommend a solution that includes Managed Identities ............................................................... 10
Recommend a solution for integrating applications into Azure AD .................................................. 11
3. Design Data Storage (15-20%) ....................................................................................................... 11
Design a solution for databases ........................................................................................................ 11
Select an appropriate data platform based on requirements .......................................................... 11
Recommend database service tier sizing .......................................................................................... 11
Recommend a solution for database scalability ............................................................................... 11
Recommend a solution for encrypting data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use ............. 11
Design data integration ..................................................................................................................... 11
Recommend a data flow to meet business requirements ................................................................ 11
Recommend a solution for data integration, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data ................. 11
Bricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics ............................................................................ 11
Select an appropriate storage account ............................................................................................. 11
Choose between storage tiers........................................................................................................... 11
Recommend a storage access solution ............................................................................................. 11
Recommend storage management tools .......................................................................................... 12
4. Design Business Continuity (10-15%) ............................................................................................ 12
Design a solution for backup and recovery ....................................................................................... 12
Recommend a recovery solution for Azure hybrid and on-premises workloads that meets Recovery
objectives (RTO, RLO, RPO) ............................................................................................................... 12
Design and Azure Site Recovery solution .......................................................................................... 12
Recommend a solution for recovery in different regions ................................................................. 12
Recommend a solution for geo-redundancy of workloads ............................................................... 12
Recommend a solution for Azure Backup management................................................................... 12
Design a solution for data archiving and retention ........................................................................... 12
Design for high availability ................................................................................................................ 13
Recommend a solution for application and workload redundancy, including compute, ................. 13
Database, and storage....................................................................................................................... 13
Recommend a solution for autoscaling............................................................................................. 13
Identify resources that require high availability ............................................................................... 13
Identify storage types for high availability ........................................................................................ 13
5. Design Infrastructure (25-30%) ..................................................................................................... 13
Design a compute solution ................................................................................................................ 13
Recommend a solution for compute provisioning ............................................................................ 13
Determine appropriate compute technologies, including virtual machines, App Services, Service
Fabric, Azure Functions, Windows Virtual Desktop, Batch, HPC and containers.............................. 13
Recommend a solution for containers .............................................................................................. 13
Recommend a solution for automating compute management ...................................................... 14
Design a network solution ................................................................................................................. 14
Recommend a solution for network addressing and name resolution ............................................. 14
Recommend a solution for network provisioning ............................................................................. 14
Recommend a solution for network connectivity to the Internet, on-premises networks, and other
Azure virtual networks ...................................................................................................................... 14
Recommend a solution for automating network management ....................................................... 14
Recommend a solution for load balancing and traffic routing ......................................................... 14
Design an application architecture ................................................................................................... 15
Recommend a microservices architecture including Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Storage
Queues, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Fabric, AKS, Azure App............................................. 15
Configuration and webhooks ............................................................................................................ 15
Recommend an orchestration solution for deployment and maintenance of applications including
ARM templates, Azure Automation, Azure Pipelines, Logic Apps, or Azure Functions .................... 15
Recommend a solution for API integration ....................................................................................... 15
Design migrations .............................................................................................................................. 15
Assess and interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration............................. 15
Recommend a solution for migrating applications and VMs ............................................................ 15
Recommend a solution for migration of databases .......................................................................... 15
Determine migration scope, including redundant, related, trivial, and outdated data ................... 16
1. Design Monitoring (10-15%)
Design for cost optimization
Recommend a solution for cost management and cost reporting
• Azure Cost Management + Billing | Microsoft Docs
• Overview of Azure Cost Management + Billing | Microsoft Docs
• Quickstart - Explore Azure costs with cost analysis | Microsoft Docs

Recommend solutions to minimize costs

• Reduce service costs using Azure Advisor - Azure Advisor | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances | Microsoft Azure
• What are Azure Reservations? | Microsoft Docs
• How to Reduce the Costs of your Azure IaaS VMs - Thomas Maurer

Design a solution for logging and monitoring

Determine levels and storage locations for logs
• Azure Monitor Logs - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Docs
• Diagnostic logs - Azure Content Delivery Network | Microsoft Docs
• Enable diagnostics logging - Azure App Service | Microsoft Docs
• Create diagnostic settings to send platform logs and metrics to different destinations - Azure
Monitor | Microsoft Docs

Plan for integration with monitoring tools including Azure Monitor and Azure Sentinel
• Azure Monitor overview - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Docs
• Collect resource logs from an Azure Resource and analyze with Azure Monitor - Azure
Monitor | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Sentinel? | Microsoft Docs
• Quickstart: Onboard in Azure Sentinel | Microsoft Docs

Recommend appropriate monitoring tool(s) for a solution

• Azure Monitor overview - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Docs
• Monitoring and diagnostics guidance - Best practices for cloud applications | Microsoft Docs

Choose a mechanism for event routing and escalation

• What is Azure Event Grid? - Azure Event Grid | Microsoft Docs
• Stream Azure monitoring data to event hub and external partners - Azure Monitor |
Microsoft Docs
• Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a logging solution for compliance requirements

• Azure security logging and auditing | Microsoft Docs
• Management and monitoring security features - Microsoft Azure | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Security Center? | Microsoft Docs
2. Design Identity and Security (25-30%)
Design authentication
Recommend a solution for single-sign on
• Azure AD Connect: Seamless Single Sign-On | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure single sign-on (SSO)? | Microsoft Docs
• Configure SaaS apps for B2B collaboration - Azure AD | Microsoft Docs
• Azure AD Connect: Seamless Single Sign-On - quickstart | Microsoft Docs
• Azure AD Connect: Seamless Single Sign-On - Frequently asked questions | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for authentication

• Authentication vs. authorization - Microsoft identity platform | Microsoft Docs
• Microsoft identity platform authentication flows & app scenarios | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for Conditional Access, including multi-factor authentication

• Conditional Access - Require MFA for all users - Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Docs
• Sign-in risk-based Conditional Access - Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Docs
• Enable Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for network access authentication

• Configure named locations in Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Docs
• Location condition in Azure Active Directory Conditional Access | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for a hybrid identity including Azure AD Connect and Azure AD
Connect Health
• Customize an installation of Azure Active Directory Connect | Microsoft Docs
• Azure AD Connect: Select your installation type | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Active Directory Connect Health operations | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure AD Connect and Connect Health. | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for user self-service

• Deployment considerations for Azure Active Directory self-service password reset |
Microsoft Docs

Recommend and implement a solution for B2B integration

• What is B2B collaboration in Azure Active Directory? | Microsoft Docs
• Compare External Identities - Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Docs

NOT: federation with ADFS or PingFederate

Design authorization
Choose an authorization approach
• Authentication vs. authorization - Microsoft identity platform | Microsoft Docs
Recommend a hierarchical structure that includes management groups, subscriptions
and resource groups
• Azure Management Overview - Azure Governance | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Resource Manager overview - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Docs
• Organize your resources with management groups - Azure Governance - Azure governance |
Microsoft Docs
• Quickstart: Create a management group with portal - Azure governance | Microsoft Docs
• Manage resource groups - Azure portal - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Docs
• Azure subscription limits and quotas - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Docs

Recommend an access management solution including RBAC policies, access reviews,

role assignments, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure AD Identity Protection,
Just In Time (JIT) access
• Assign Azure roles using the Azure portal - Azure RBAC | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)? | Microsoft Docs
• Quickstart - Check access for a user to Azure resources - Azure RBAC | Microsoft Docs
• What are access reviews? - Azure Active Directory | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Active Directory Identity Protection? | Microsoft Docs
• Just-in-time virtual machine access in Azure Security Center | Microsoft Docs
• What is Privileged Identity Management? - Azure AD | Microsoft Docs

Design governance
Recommend a strategy for tagging
• Tag resources, resource groups, and subscriptions for logical organization - Azure Resource
Manager | Microsoft Docs
• Use Azure Tags to organize Resources - Thomas Maurer

Recommend a solution for using Azure Policy

• Overview of Azure Policy - Azure Policy | Microsoft Docs
• Tutorial: Build policies to enforce compliance - Azure Policy | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for using Azure Blueprint

• Overview of Azure Blueprints - Azure Blueprints | Microsoft Docs
• Quickstart: Create a blueprint in the portal - Azure Blueprints | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution that leverages Azure Resource Graph

• Overview of Azure Resource Graph - Azure Resource Graph | Microsoft Docs

Design security for applications

Recommend a solution that includes KeyVault
• Azure Key Vault Overview - Azure Key Vault | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Key Vault Keys, Secrets, and Certificates Overview | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution that includes Managed Identities

• Managed identities for Azure resources | Microsoft Docs
• Tutorial`:` Use managed identity to access Azure Resource Manager - Windows - Azure AD |
Microsoft Docs
Recommend a solution for integrating applications into Azure AD
• Tutorial: Register an application - Azure AD B2C | Microsoft Docs

3. Design Data Storage (15-20%)

Design a solution for databases
Select an appropriate data platform based on requirements
• What is the Azure SQL Database service? - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure SQL? - Azure SQL | Microsoft Docs

Recommend database service tier sizing

• General purpose and business critical service tiers - Azure SQL Database & SQL Managed
Instance | Microsoft Docs
• General Purpose service tier - Azure SQL Database & Azure SQL Managed Instance |
Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for database scalability

• Scale resources - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for encrypting data at rest, data in transmission, and data in
use
• Azure Data Encryption-at-Rest - Azure Security | Microsoft Docs
• Azure encryption overview | Microsoft Docs
• Transparent data encryption - Azure SQL Database & SQL Managed Instance & Azure Synapse
Analytics | Microsoft Docs

Design data integration

Recommend a data flow to meet business requirements
• Create a mapping data flow - Azure Data Factory | Microsoft Docs
• Source transformation in mapping data flow - Azure Data Factory | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for data integration, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data
Bricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics
• Introduction to Azure Data Factory - Azure Data Factory | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Databricks? | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1? | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Introduction | Microsoft Docs
• What is dedicated SQL pool (formerly SQL DW)? - Azure Synapse Analytics | Microsoft Docs

Select an appropriate storage account

Choose between storage tiers
• Access tiers for Azure Blob Storage - hot, cool, and archive | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a storage access solution

• Manage account access keys - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
• Introduction to Azure Storage - Cloud storage on Azure | Microsoft Docs
• Authorize access to blobs and queues using Active Directory - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
Recommend storage management tools
• Microsoft client tools for working with Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
• Copy or move data to Azure Storage by using AzCopy v10 | Microsoft Docs

4. Design Business Continuity (10-15%)

Design a solution for backup and recovery
Recommend a recovery solution for Azure hybrid and on-premises workloads that
meets Recovery objectives (RTO, RLO, RPO)
• About Azure Site Recovery - Azure Site Recovery | Microsoft Docs
• General questions about the Azure Site Recovery service - Azure Site Recovery | Microsoft
Docs
• Common questions about VMware disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery - Azure Site
Recovery | Microsoft Docs
• Common questions for Hyper-V disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery - Azure Site
Recovery | Microsoft Docs
• Architecture Overview - Azure Backup | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Backup? - Azure Backup | Microsoft Docs
• MABS (Azure Backup Server) V3 UR1 protection matrix - Azure Backup | Microsoft Docs

Design and Azure Site Recovery solution

• About Azure Site Recovery - Azure Site Recovery | Microsoft Docs
• General questions about the Azure Site Recovery service - Azure Site Recovery | Microsoft
Docs

Recommend a solution for recovery in different regions

• Set up Azure VM disaster recovery to a secondary region with Azure Site Recovery - Azure
Site Recovery | Microsoft Docs
• Data redundancy - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
• Disaster recovery and storage account failover - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
• Use geo-redundancy to design highly available applications - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for geo-redundancy of workloads

• Data redundancy - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Traffic Manager | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for Azure Backup management

• Manage Azure Recovery Services vaults and servers - Azure Backup | Microsoft Docs
• Architecture Overview - Azure Backup | Microsoft Docs

Design a solution for data archiving and retention

• Optimize costs by automating Azure Blob Storage access tiers | Microsoft Docs
• Access tiers for Azure Blob Storage - hot, cool, and archive | Microsoft Docs
Design for high availability
Recommend a solution for application and workload redundancy, including compute,
Database, and storage
• Cloud business continuity - database recovery - Azure SQL Database & SQL Managed Instance
| Microsoft Docs
• High availability - Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance | Microsoft Docs
• Data redundancy - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
• Tutorial - High availability for Windows VMs in Azure - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft
Docs
• Regions and Availability Zones in Azure | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for autoscaling

• Azure virtual machine scale sets overview - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft
Docs
• Autoscaling guidance - Best practices for cloud applications | Microsoft Docs
• Autoscale in Microsoft Azure - Azure Monitor | Microsoft Docs
• Scale resources - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs
• Scaling out - Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs

Identify resources that require high availability

• Review your data options - Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Docs
• Enabling Data Residency and Data Protection in Microsoft Azure Regions

Identify storage types for high availability

• Disaster recovery and storage account failover - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs

5. Design Infrastructure (25-30%)

Design a compute solution
Recommend a solution for compute provisioning
• Choosing an Azure compute service - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs

Determine appropriate compute technologies, including virtual machines, App

Services, Service Fabric, Azure Functions, Windows Virtual Desktop, Batch, HPC and
containers
• What is Windows Virtual Desktop? - Azure | Microsoft Docs
• Virtual machines in Azure - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs
• Overview of Azure Service Fabric - Azure Service Fabric | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Functions Overview | Microsoft Docs
• Serverless containers in Azure - Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Batch runs large parallel jobs in the cloud - Azure Batch | Microsoft Docs
• Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Docs
• Azure App Service documentation - Azure App Service | Microsoft Docs
• Choosing an Azure compute service - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for containers

• Managed container registries - Azure Container Registry | Microsoft Docs
 • Serverless containers in Azure - Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Docs
• Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for automating compute management

• An introduction to Azure Automation | Microsoft Docs
• Overview for Azure Logic Apps - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Docs

Design a network solution

Recommend a solution for network addressing and name resolution
• Name resolution for resources in Azure virtual networks | Microsoft Docs
• Integrate Azure DNS with your Azure resources - Azure DNS | Microsoft Docs
• Tutorial: Host your domain and subdomain - Azure DNS | Microsoft Docs
• Quickstart - Create an Azure private DNS zone using the Azure portal | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for network provisioning

• Azure virtual network service endpoints | Microsoft Docs
• Azure virtual network service endpoint policies | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Virtual Network | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for network connectivity to the Internet, on-premises

networks, and other Azure virtual networks
• Azure ExpressRoute Overview: Connect over a private connection | Microsoft Docs
• About Azure VPN Gateway | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for automating network management

• Azure Virtual Network | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for load balancing and traffic routing

• What is Azure Load Balancer? - Azure Load Balancer | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Application Gateway | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Traffic Manager | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Front Door | Microsoft Docs
• Overview of Azure load-balancing options - Azure Application Architecture Guide | Microsoft
Docs
Design an application architecture
Recommend a microservices architecture including Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service
Bus, Storage Queues, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Fabric, AKS, Azure App
Configuration and webhooks
• Start an Azure Automation runbook from a webhook | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Functions Overview | Microsoft Docs
• Overview for Azure Logic Apps - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Docs
• Introduction to Azure Queue Storage - Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Service Bus messaging overview - Azure Service Bus | Microsoft Docs
• Overview of features - Azure Event Hubs - Azure Event Hubs | Microsoft Docs
• What is Azure Event Grid? - Azure Event Grid | Microsoft Docs
• Microservices architecture style - Azure Application Architecture Guide | Microsoft Docs

Recommend an orchestration solution for deployment and maintenance of

applications including ARM templates, Azure Automation, Azure Pipelines, Logic Apps,
or Azure Functions
• Azure Functions Overview | Microsoft Docs
• Overview for Azure Logic Apps - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Docs
• Tutorial - Create & deploy template - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Docs
• Templates overview - Azure Resource Manager | Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for API integration

• Basic enterprise integration on Azure - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs
• API Management | Microsoft Azure
• Azure Integration Services | Microsoft Azure

Design migrations
Assess and interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
• Assess SQL Server readiness to migrate to Azure SQL Database - Data Migration Assistant |
Microsoft Docs
• Azure VM assessments in Azure Migrate Server Assessment - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs
• Assess VMware VMs for migration to Azure VMs with Server Assessment in Azure Migrate -
Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs
• Discover servers running in VMware environment with Azure Migrate:Server Assessment -
Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs
• About Azure Migrate - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs
• Azure Migration Center | Microsoft Azure

Recommend a solution for migrating applications and VMs

• About Azure Migrate - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Docs
• Select a VMware migration option with Azure Migrate Server Migration - Azure Migrate |
Microsoft Docs

Recommend a solution for migration of databases

• Assess SQL Server readiness to migrate to Azure SQL Database - Data Migration Assistant |
Microsoft Docs
• SQL Server Migration Assistant - SQL Server | Microsoft Docs
Determine migration scope, including redundant, related, trivial, and outdated data
• Overview of platform-supported migration of IaaS resources from classic to Azure Resource
Manager - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Docs