Azure Cloud Architect

Description

An Azure architect is a specialised cloud architect for developing solutions for Microsoft Azure cloud. The Azure architects understand all phases of a software project life cycle along with its detailed technical implementation, management, and team roles.

Course Content 

1: Create Azure App Service web apps

• Explore Azure App Service
• Configure web app settings
• Scale apps in Azure App Service
• Explore Azure App Service deployment slots

2: Implement Azure functions

• Explore Azure Functions
• Develop Azure Functions
• Implement Durable Functions

3: Develop solutions that use Blob storage

• Explore Azure Blob storage
• Manage the Azure Blob storage life cycle
• Work with Azure Blob storage

4: Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB

• Explore Azure Cosmos DB
• Implement partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB
• Work with Azure Cosmos DB

5: Implement infrastructure as a service solutions

• Provision virtual machines in Azure-fundamentals
• Create and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates
• Manage container images in Azure Container Registry
• Run container images in Azure Container Instances

6: Implement user authentication and authorization

• Explore the Microsoft identity platform
• Implement authentication by using the Microsoft Authentication Library
• Implement shared access signatures
• Explore Microsoft Graph

7: Implement secure cloud solutions

• Implement Azure Key Vault
• Implement managed identities
• Implement Azure App Configuration

8: Implement API Management

• Explore API Management

9: Develop event-based solutions

• Explore Azure Event Grid
• Explore Azure Event Hubs

10: Develop message-based solutions

• Discover Azure message queues

11: Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging

• Monitor app performance

12: Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions

• Develop for Azure Cache for Redis
• Develop for storage on CDNs