AZ-305T00 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305 Exam Prep)
Are your Azure solutions truly built to scale, recover, and adapt to enterprise demands? Too many cloud architectures fall short because they weren't designed with the full picture in mind, governance, performance, security, and cost optimization.
This instructor-led course gives you the tools and frameworks to design robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure. Through hands-on labs, real-world case studies, and coverage of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework, you’ll learn how to evaluate requirements and make architecture decisions that align with business and technical goals.
You'll also gain the skills needed to confidently prepare for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam, a key step toward earning your Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert credential.
After completing this course, you’ll be able to design secure, scalable, and resilient Azure infrastructure solutions tailored to enterprise needs.
- Translate business and technical requirements into Azure architecture
- Design governance and identity solutions using Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC
- Plan for hybrid networking, availability, migration, and disaster recovery
- Design data storage, compute, and monitoring strategies
- Align with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework
- Prepare thoroughly for the AZ-305 certification exam
Successful students have experience and knowledge in IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Students also have experience designing and architecting solutions.
Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and conceptual knowledge of:
- Azure Active Directory
- Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions
- Azure virtual networking to include load balancers
- Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases)
- General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability
- Azure overview, accounts, physical and management infrastructure
- VMs, Virtual Desktop, Containers, Functions, App hosting
- Virtual networking, VPNs, ExpressRoute, DNS
- Storage accounts, redundancy, Blob, Files, managed disks
- Data migration and file movement options
- Directory services, authentication methods, Entra ID, B2B, B2C
- Conditional Access, RBAC, Zero Trust, Defender for Cloud
- Cloud Adoption Framework (strategy, plan, readiness, adoption, govern, manage)
- Governance design: management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, tags, Azure Policy, RBAC, Landing Zones
- Pillars: Cost, Operations, Performance, Reliability, Security
- Azure Monitor data sources, Logs (Log Analytics), Workbooks, Insights, Data Explorer
- RTO/RPO concepts
- HA/DR for IaaS and PaaS
- Azure Backup (VMs, SQL, Files, Blobs)
- Azure Site Recovery and hybrid solutions
- Relational data: Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, SQL on VMs, Cosmos DB, Table Storage
- Non-relational data storage and security
- Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Synapse Analytics, Stream Analytics
- App Services, Kubernetes, Container Instances, Batch, Functions, Logic Apps
- Application messaging, events, Event Hubs, event-driven and caching solutions
- Deployment automation and app configuration
- Network design patterns and connectivity
- On-premises connectivity, routing, application delivery and protection
- Azure Migration framework, tools, and processes
- Migrating structured/unstructured/offline data
- Innovation lifecycle with Azure, AI-enabled apps, business impact measurement