Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions (DP-300 Exam Prep/DP-300T00)
Did you know that over 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Azure to manage their cloud infrastructure? Are you equipped to administer critical SQL workloads in the cloud?
In this course, you’ll learn to administer SQL Server databases across IaaS, Azure SQL Database in PaaS, and hybrid environments. You’ll configure high availability, secure sensitive data, migrate workloads, and fine-tune performance, skills that directly support>real-world database administration success.
This course also gets you ready for the DP-300 exam, a key step toward earning your Microsoft Certified Azure Database Administrator Associate credential, which proves you have the skills to manage modern database solutions on the Microsoft data platform.
This course provides practical training for database administrators and data professionals responsible for administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. It supports preparation for exam DP-300 and helps build real-world skills in managing SQL Server database infrastructure and Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings.
- Administer SQL Server and Azure SQL Database
- Deploy and manage Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Managed solutions
- Secure and monitor database solutions across hybrid environments
- Automate routine database administration tasks
- Support high availability and recovery for server database infrastructure for cloud
The audience for this course is data professionals managing data and databases who want to learn about administering the data platform technologies that are available on Microsoft Azure. This course is also valuable for data architects and application developers who need to understand what technologies are available for the data platform with Azure and how to work with those technologies through applications.
In addition to their professional experience, students who take this training should have technical knowledge equivalent to the following courses:
- AZ-900T00 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- DP-900T00 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
- Azure data platform roles and responsibilities
- Overview of Azure database options (SQL Server VM, Managed Instance, Azure SQL Database)
- Understanding SQL Server compatibility levels
- Azure preview features and additional platforms (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Lab: Provision a SQL Server VM and restore a backup using Azure Portal and SSMS
- Deploying SQL Server using IaaS and PaaS
- Hosting PostgreSQL and MySQL on Azure
- High availability and disaster recovery (HADR) considerations
- Lab: Deploy Azure SQL Database, PostgreSQL, or MySQL; validate connectivity
- Configure authentication and authorization
- Implement data protection (at rest and in transit)
- Enforce compliance controls
- Lab: Set firewall rules, integrate with Azure AD, enable classification and manage object access
- Performance monitoring tools and baselining
- Diagnosing performance issues
- Configuring resources for peak efficiency
- Performing performance-related maintenance
- Lab: Detect CPU bottlenecks, identify blocking, and fix fragmentation
- Analyze and interpret SQL Server query execution plans
- Implement performance-driven database design
- Evaluate and tune performance improvements
- Lab: Use Query Store, isolate slow queries, apply query hints, and redesign schema issues
- Automate database tasks and scheduled operations
- Use Azure automation tools, extended events, and elastic jobs
- Lab: Use GitHub ARM templates, set up metric-based alerts, deploy Runbooks
- Design HADR for IaaS and PaaS solutions
- Understand RTO/RPO requirements
- Configure and test failover and disaster recovery plans
- Lab: Set up and validate HADR strategies in Azure environments