Exam Az-305 - Designing Azure Infrastructure Solutions 2022

Exam AZ-305 - Designing Azure Infrastructure Solutions - Preparation course

What you'll learn
Be in a better position in taking the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam
Understand all the details required for understanding the various objectives for the exam
Understand different aspects that go into using designing applications that use Azure technologies
Have a review of key Azure services that are important from an exam perspective
Requirements
Students should have prior knowledge on the Azure platform
Students who have taken Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
Description
Update historyv 4.0 - January 2022Updated course so that students can use the material for preparing for both the AZ-304 exam or the AZ-305 examAdded more practice test questions to the courseUpdated/Added videos that includeApplication Insights and working with Application InsightsMicrosoft Defender for CloudAzure PoliciesAzure BlueprintsAzure AD Application Proxyv 3.0 - June 2021Revised a whole lot of chapters based on the revised objectives of the exam. Some of the revised chapters include the followingAzure AD Privileged Identity Management - Here we see the benefit of Azure AD Privileged Identity Management when it comes to Azure AD roles. And how we can perform Access ReviewsMore on containers - We will now look at an example on how to deploy a web application onto Azure Kubernetes with the use of containers. This helps students get a better idea on how to deploy containerized-based applications.Better examples on the use of Active-geo replication and Auto-Failover groups when it comes to redundancy for Azure SQL databasesAdded new chapters which includeA overview and simple working on Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Databricks. How to transfer data using Azure Data Factory.A look at services such as Azure Event Grid and Azure Event Hubs. This helps the students understand how these services can better fit into the entire application architecture picture.A quick look at the Azure DevOps set of tools.v 2.0 - September 2020Additional chapters added to help students pass either the AZ-301/304 examThis course will make students be prepared to take on the following examExam AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect DesignAll concepts covered in this course are aligned to the following Exam ObjectivesDetermine workload requirementsDesign for identity and securityDesign a data platform solutionDesign a business continuity strategyDesign for deployment, migration, and integrationDesign an infrastructure strategy

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Important Course Instructions

Lecture 2 PDF Download

Section 2: Design Monitoring

Lecture 3 Section Introduction - Design Monitoring

Lecture 4 Review - Let's create an Azure virtual machine

Lecture 5 Review - Let's create an Azure virtual machine - Completion

Lecture 6 Review - Let's create an Azure storage account

Lecture 7 UPDATED - Review - Let's create an Azure SQL database

Lecture 8 UPDATED - Lets build a simple web application - Setting up the application

Lecture 9 NEW - Installing Visual Studio 2022

Lecture 10 UPDATED - Lets build a simple web application - Setup Database and Storage

Lecture 11 Lets build a simple web application - Setup Database and Storage - Resource

Lecture 12 UPDATED- Lets build a simple web application - Running the program locally

Lecture 13 UPDATED - Lab - Publishing our web application onto Azure VM - Server Setup

Lecture 14 UPDATED - Lab - Publishing our web application onto Azure VM - Publish

Lecture 15 UPDATED - Let's deploy to an Azure Web App

Lecture 16 NEW - Some key take aways

Lecture 17 Review - Azure Monitor

Lecture 18 Review - Monitoring - Log Analytics workspace - Azure VM's

Lecture 19 Lab - Monitoring - Network Security Group - Flow logs

Lecture 20 Lab - Monitoring - Traffic Analysis

Lecture 21 Lab - Monitoring - Azure Service Map

Lecture 22 Lab - Monitoring - Azure Service Map - Resources

Lecture 23 Review - Monitoring - Azure SQL Diagnostics

Lecture 24 Monitoring - Azure AD Sign-ins - Direct logs to Log Analytics

Lecture 25 Costing - Using the pricing calculator

Lecture 26 Costing - Using Cost Analysis

Lecture 27 Optimizing costs

Lecture 28 Costing - Reserved Instances

Lecture 29 UPDATED - Resource tagging

Lecture 30 UPDATED - Application Insights

Lecture 31 UPDATED - Example on using Application Insights

Lecture 32 UPDATED - What is Azure Sentinel

Lecture 33 Azure Sentinel - Setting up the workspace

Lecture 34 Azure Sentinel - Collect data

Lecture 35 Azure Sentinel - Looking at workbooks

Section 3: Design Identity and Security

Lecture 36 Section Introduction - Design Identity and Security

Lecture 37 Authentication and Authorization

Lecture 38 Authorization hierarchy

Lecture 39 Overview on Azure Active Directory

Lecture 40 Review - Azure AD - Relationship to subscription

Lecture 41 Role Based Access Control Review

Lecture 42 Lab - Assigning an Azure AD Role to a user

Lecture 43 UPDATED - What is Azure AD Privileged Identity Management

Lecture 44 Azure AD Privileged Identity Management - Azure AD Role settings

Lecture 45 Azure AD Privileged Identity Management - Activating a role

Lecture 46 UPDATED - What are Azure AD Access Reviews

Lecture 47 Azure AD Privileged Identity Management - Access Reviews

Lecture 48 Azure Privileged Identity - Azure Resources

Lecture 49 Review - Azure AD Identity Protection

Lecture 50 Review - Access Reviews

Lecture 51 UPDATED - What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Lecture 52 UPDATED - Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Just-In-Time VM Access

Lecture 53 PIM vs Azure Identity vs JIT

Lecture 54 Review - Multi-Factor Authentication in Azure AD

Lecture 55 Review - Azure - Conditional Access Policies

Lecture 56 UPDATED - Lab - Azure Resource Locks

Lecture 57 UPDATED - Lab - Azure Policies

Lecture 58 UPDATED - Azure Blueprints

Lecture 59 Lab - Azure Blueprints - Definition

Lecture 60 Lab - Azure Blueprints - Assignment

Lecture 61 Lab - Azure Blueprints - Resource Locks

Lecture 62 Azure AD - Application Objects

Lecture 63 An example on making use of Application Objects

Lecture 64 Example on Application Objects - User sign-in

Lecture 65 REVIEW - Overview of the Azure Key vault

Lecture 66 Azure Key Vault - Getting a secret

Lecture 67 Managed Service Identity

Lecture 68 Lab - Azure Managed Identity

Lecture 69 Data Protection - Azure Virtual Machine Disks

Lecture 70 Overview of Microsoft Active Directory

Lecture 71 Review - Azure AD Connect

Lecture 72 Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Lecture 73 Example on creating Azure Active Directory Domain Services resource

Lecture 74 NEW - Azure AD Application Proxy

Section 4: Design Data Storage

Lecture 75 Section Introduction - Design Data Storage

Lecture 76 Different data stores overview

Lecture 77 Azure Storage Accounts - Different authorization techniques - Review

Lecture 78 Review - Azure Storage Account - Using Account access keys

Lecture 79 Review - Azure Storage Account - Using Shared Access Signatures

Lecture 80 Review - Azure Storage Account - Using Azure Active Directory

Lecture 81 Azure Blob Storage tiering

Lecture 82 Azure Storage Account - Encryption

Lecture 83 Azure Storage Accounts - Stored Access Policies

Lecture 84 NEW - Other storage account types

Lecture 85 UPDATED - Azure SQL Database - Deployment Options

Lecture 86 Azure SQL Database - Pricing options

Lecture 87 Lab - SQL Server on an Azure VM

Lecture 88 SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine

Lecture 89 UPDATED - Azure SQL Database - Auditing

Lecture 90 Azure SQL Database - Diagnostic setting

Lecture 91 UPDATED - Lab - Azure SQL - Data Masking

Lecture 92 Azure SQL - Transparent Data Encryption

Lecture 93 UPDATED - SQL Database - Always Encrypted Feature

Lecture 94 Lab - SQL Database - Always Encrypted Feature

Lecture 95 Going through the process of creating a SQL Managed Instance

Lecture 96 Quick Note - Performance Insight , Automatic Tuning

Lecture 97 Azure Redis Cache

Lecture 98 Lab - Azure Cache for Redis

Lecture 99 Azure Cache for Redis - Using an application

Lecture 100 Azure Cosmos DB Review

Lecture 101 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

Lecture 102 What is Azure Databricks

Lecture 103 UPDATED - Lab - Azure Databricks - Let's create a workspace

Lecture 104 Lab - Azure Databricks - Let's create a cluster

Lecture 105 Lab - Azure Databricks - Let's create a notebook

Lecture 106 Lab - Azure Databricks - Reading csv file from Azure Blob Storage

Lecture 107 Lab-Azure Databricks - Reading csv file from Azure Blob Storage - Resources

Lecture 108 What is Azure Synapse Analytics

Lecture 109 Lab - Azure Synapse - Creating a secondary Azure SQL database

Lecture 110 Lab - Azure Synapse - Creating a workspace

Lecture 111 Lab - Azure Synapse - Lets create a dedicated SQL pool

Lecture 112 UPDATED - What is Azure Data Factory

Lecture 113 Lab - Starting with Azure Data Factory

Lecture 114 Lab - Azure Synapse - Using Azure Data Factory to copy SQL database

Lecture 115 Data Analytics Architecture

Section 5: Design Business Continuity

Lecture 116 Section Introduction - Design Business Continuity

Lecture 117 UPDATED - RTO and RPO

Lecture 118 Azure SQL Database - Backup

Lecture 119 Azure SQL SQL Database - Point in time restore

Lecture 120 Azure SQL Database - Point in time restore - Deleted database

Lecture 121 Azure SQL Database - Zone Redundancy

Lecture 122 Azure SQL geo-replication and failover-groups

Lecture 123 Lab - Example on Azure SQL Database - Active Geo-Replication

Lecture 124 Lab - Example on Azure SQL Database - Auto-failover groups

Lecture 125 Azure Storage Account Redundancy

Lecture 126 Azure Storage Account - Replication Notes

Lecture 127 Azure Virtual Machine - SLA

Lecture 128 Review - Azure Virtual Machine - Backup - Quick Note

Lecture 129 Review - Azure Site Recovery

Lecture 130 Disaster recovery for Azure virtual machine

Lecture 131 Disaster recovery for Azure virtual machine - Implementation review

Lecture 132 Disaster recovery for Azure virtual machine - Notes

Lecture 133 UPDATED - Azure Site Recovery - Hyper-V

Lecture 134 Azure Site Recovery - Hyper-V - Example

Lecture 135 Azure Key Vault availability

Lecture 136 Lab - Azure Key Vault - Backup and restore

Lecture 137 Lab - Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Lecture 138 Availability Sets Review

Lecture 139 Availability Zones - Review

Lecture 140 Quick review on Availability Sets and Zones

Section 6: Design Infrastructure

Lecture 141 Section Introduction - Design Infrastructure - Design Compute

Lecture 142 Azure VM's vs Azure Web Apps

Lecture 143 Azure VM's vs Azure Functions

Lecture 144 An example on using Azure Functions

Lecture 145 UPDATED - The different VM sizes

Lecture 146 UPDATED - What is Azure Batch

Lecture 147 Lab - Azure Batch

Lecture 148 The need for containers

Lecture 149 The different container deployment options

Lecture 150 Microservices Architecture

Lecture 151 Working with containers - What we want to achieve

Lecture 152 Lab - Deploying a Docker host

Lecture 153 Lab - Deploying a Docker host - Resources

Lecture 154 Lab - Let's build a custom MySQL image

Lecture 155 Lab - Let's build a custom MySQL image - Resources

Lecture 156 Lab - Lets create an Azure container registry

Lecture 157 Lab - Lets create an Azure container registry - Resources

Lecture 158 Lab - Deploy the MySQL image to Azure container instance

Lecture 159 Lab - Let's build our application image

Lecture 160 Lab - Let's build our application image - Resources

Lecture 161 UPDATED - Using Kubernetes

Lecture 162 Lab - Azure Kubernetes - Let's deploy our application

Lecture 163 Lab - Azure Kubernetes - Let's deploy our application - Resources

Lecture 164 NEW - Note on Azure Kubernetes Autoscaler

Lecture 165 UPDATED - Azure Service Fabric

Lecture 166 Section Introduction - Design Infrastructure - Design Network

Lecture 167 Review - Azure Virtual Networks

Lecture 168 Review - Virtual Network Peering

Lecture 169 Virtual Network Peering Connection - Implementation Review

Lecture 170 Review - Point-to-Site VPN connections

Lecture 171 Point to Site VPN Connections Implementation overview

Lecture 172 Review - Site-to-Site VPN connections

Lecture 173 Site to Site VPN Connections - Implementation review

Lecture 174 NEW - Azure ExpressRoute Review

Lecture 175 NEW - Azure VirtualWAN Review

Lecture 176 Review - Azure Firewall

Lecture 177 UPDATED - Service Endpoints

Lecture 178 UPDATED - Network Watcher

Lecture 179 Lab - Azure Network Watcher

Lecture 180 UPDATED - Azure Content Delivery Network - Introduction

Lecture 181 UPDATED - Azure Content Delivery Network - Demo

Lecture 182 Network Solutions - Different routing solutions

Lecture 183 UPDATED - Azure Load Balancer - Review

Lecture 184 Azure Application Gateway Service - Quick Review - Part 1

Lecture 185 Azure Application Gateway Service - Quick Review - Part 2

Lecture 186 Azure Application Gateway - Using an on-premise backend

Lecture 187 Routing - Lab - Azure Application Gateway - Multiple Sites - Setup

Lecture 188 Routing - Lab - Azure Application Gateway - Multiple Sites - Gateway setup

Lecture 189 Routing - Lab - Azure Application Gateway - Multiple Sites - Implementation

Lecture 190 Lab - Azure Application Gateway - Web Application Firewall

Lecture 191 Azure Traffic Manager - Quick Review

Lecture 192 Azure Traffic Manager - Routing methods

Lecture 193 Lab - Azure Traffic Manager - Performance Routing Method

Lecture 194 Azure Front Door Service - Overview

Lecture 195 Lab - Azure Front Door - Part 1

Lecture 196 Lab - Azure Front Door - Part 2

Lecture 197 Lab - Azure Front Door - Part 3

Lecture 198 Section Introduction - Design Infrastructure - Design Application Architecture

Lecture 199 The need for a queue service

Lecture 200 Review - Azure Service Bus

Lecture 201 Review - Azure Logic Apps

Lecture 202 Lab - Use case scenario - Azure Logic Apps

Lecture 203 What are Azure Event Hubs

Lecture 204 Azure Event Hubs - Sending and Receiving Events

Lecture 205 Lab - Use case scenario - Azure Service Bus Queue - Setup

Lecture 206 Lab - Use case scenario - Azure Service Bus Queue - Implementation

Lecture 207 Lab - Use case scenario - Azure Event Hubs

Lecture 208 What is the Azure Event Grid Service

Lecture 209 Lab - An Example with the Azure Event Grid service

Lecture 210 Review - ARM Templates

Lecture 211 Lab - ARM Templates - Use case

Lecture 212 Lab - ARM Templates - Use case - Resources

Lecture 213 UPDATED - Azure API Management Service

Lecture 214 Lab - Azure API Management - Creating an instance

Lecture 215 Lab - Azure API Management - Adding the API to an Azure Web App

Lecture 216 Lab - Azure API Management - Adding an API

Lecture 217 Azure API Management - Virtual Network connectivity

Lecture 218 Lab - Azure API Management - Virtual Network Connectivity - Setup

Lecture 219 Lab - Azure API Management - Virtual Network Connectivity - Implementation

Lecture 220 Azure DevOps set of tools

Lecture 221 Azure DevOps - Quick look at Azure Boards

Lecture 222 Azure DevOps - Quick look at Azure Repos

Lecture 223 Azure DevOps - Quick look at Azure Build Pipelines

Lecture 224 Azure DevOps - Quick look at Azure Release Pipelines

Lecture 225 Section Introduction - Design Infrastructure - Design Migrations

Lecture 226 Migration Patterns

Lecture 227 UPDATED - Transferring data from an on-premise environment

Lecture 228 UPDATED - The AzCopy tool

Lecture 229 Lab - Database Migration Service

Lecture 230 UPDATED - Migrating to CosmosDB

Lecture 231 Azure Data Box

Lecture 232 Data Migrations

Lecture 233 Review - Azure Migrate

Lecture 234 Lab - Azure Migrate - Web Applications

Lecture 235 Azure File Sync service

Lecture 236 Lab - Azure File Sync service - Setup

Lecture 237 Lab - Azure File Sync service - Add data disk

Lecture 238 Lab - Azure File Sync service - Implementation

Section 7: Practice Section

Lecture 239 Bonus Lecture

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