
Discover Azure Monitor as the centralized repository for diagnostics and logs, sending data to Log Analytics workspace, and use queries, alerts, and dashboards to monitor virtual machines, apps, and more.
Monitor storage accounts with Azure Monitor insights, tracking ingress and egress, latency, requests, and client errors. View failures, set alerts, analyze logs, and spot misbehaving accounts.
Learn identity management with Azure Active Directory, compare it to on-premises Active Directory, create tenants and users, assign permissions, and switch between multiple tenants (Entra ID future).
Create a new Azure AD tenant as a global administrator, choose Azure AD (not B2C), set a unique onmicrosoft.com domain with Europe data residency.
Explore how IPSec encrypts data at the IP layer with authentication header signing to secure traffic and enable site-to-site and remote VPNs, not limited to HTTP.
Enable self-service password reset in Azure AD for all users on premium plans, allowing password changes from any device while enforcing two authentication methods for admins, with optional on-premises write-back.
Explore how authorization determines what a user or app can do after authentication, comparing role-based and claims-based models, with granular permissions, batch jobs, and third-party access in Azure Active Directory.
enable just-in-time access for virtual machines by temporarily opening RDP or SSH ports via azure defender, using RBAC checks and dynamic firewall and NSG changes to limit exposure.
Azure blueprints are deprecated; adopt template specs and deployment stacks to standardize and share ARM templates and Bicep files, grouping them for subscription provisioning.
Explore Azure SQL Database pricing by comparing vcore and DTU models; DTUs, or database transaction units, provide a relative performance measure while you forgo hardware controls.
Explore Cosmos DB pricing by storage and provisioned throughput, measured in ru/s, and learn how reserving capacity affects performance for different data models and APIs.
Explore availability, consistency, and durability in databases, including regional replication, latency trade-offs, and business critical SQL tiers promising five seconds of data loss and 30-second failover.
Use a data warehouse for analytical and reporting needs by consolidating data from multiple sources into a single, read-only dataset optimized for analysis; avoid transactional workloads and enable Power BI.
Secure Azure data by using network isolation and firewalls to restrict access. Implement virtual network service endpoints and Azure AD authentication to control access to SQL databases and Cosmos DB.
Explore Azure database monitoring in the portal, using metrics, query performance insight, and advisor recommendations; enable intelligent insights and diagnostic logs, and analyze results in Azure Monitor with SQL Analytics.
Plan for business continuity with Azure Site Recovery to back up, replicate, and fail over to a standby region like Central US using a Recovery Services vault.
Complete preparation for the Azure AZ-305 exam.
COURSE BONUS: Free study guide PDF available for download inside the course.
Microsoft Azure is a skill in high demand in today's large business marketplace.
According to Microsoft, Azure is being used by 85% of the Fortune 500 companies, particularly with their hot Office 365 suite
Use of Azure has grown 51% year-over-year
Salary survey sites report that Azure Architects earn up to US$170,000 per year across the United States
Microsoft has more than 100 data centers, across 60+ regions and 10 geos, making it one of the largest data centers in the world.
This course also goes through the requirements of the Azure AZ-305 exam: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, section by section.
I'm quite confident that this is the most complete training course targeted specifically at the exam.
While the technology world is full of "buzzwords" and "flavors of the month", the cloud is a real paradigm shift in the way solutions are designed and architected. There are now so many reasons why you should include Azure cloud technology in the design of your solution that there are almost no reasons why not to do it.
Cost savings is the one that catches the attention of businesses. Some companies are spending millions of dollars per month of their IT infrastructure, and every few years that hardware needs to be repaired and upgraded. Being able to reduce capital investment and essentially rent powerful equipment on demand is quite a lot of upfront savings.
If you add in the scalability, flexibility, and worldwide reach of the cloud and the technology group sees the potential as well. You can truly do more with less.
This course goes through all of the requirements of the Microsoft exam AZ-305 exam: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions. Multiple videos are devoted to each sub-objective, and we cover the topic thoroughly.
Most of the courses and content you find online assume you already have expert knowledge of Azure and just tells you what to study, spending only seconds covering entire objectives. I can confidently say this course goes deep on everything you need to know.
If you ARE already an expert at many Azure topics, you can easily skip the sections that you already know and focus on the ones you have not yet had much exposure also. This is the benefit of having the complete course.
Each section has additional web-based resources for you to do further research and expand your knowledge beyond the requirements of the exam.
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Version history
V1.0 Launched Aug 2019
V1.1 OCT 2019 - Updates to audio quality. English closed captions added.
V1.2 DEC 2019 - Review of exam updates. Course updated for the latest requirements.
V2.0 SEP 2020 - AZ-304 updates have started. New and updated videos being added.
V2.1 JAN 2021 - New videos added - JIT access, Azure Policy, Azure Blueprint, Resource Graph, Storage Migration Service.
V2.2 MAY 2021 - Course update with new content - Cost Optimization, Storage Management, Maintainability.
V3.0 NOV 2021 - Updated with AZ-305 content.
V3.1 JUN 2022 - Updated
V3.2 AUG 2023 - Updated
V3.3 SEP 2023 - Updated
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