AZ-302

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-az-302.aspx

Multichannel learning

Azure updates & announcements

• Microsoft learning portal
  • search for solution architecture content
• Microsoft handson labs
  • search for Azure
• Microsoft documentation for Azure
• Azure Citadel
• Microsoft Azure Youtube Channel
• Azure Github repository
• Azure REST API browser
• Architect great Azure solutions

Determine Workload Requirements (15-20%)

Determine feasibility and refine requirments

• POC
• Pilot project (reduce risks)
• Agile - refine user stories
• Handle change during execution

Optimize Consumption Stategy

• Save money
• Right size to the correct plan size
• Turn off resources when not used
• Auto-Scaling
• Azure Advisor
• Cost management and optimization tools
• Reports, alerts
• Rearchitecting to use cheaper methods Paas, Serverless

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Design for Identity and Security (5-10%)

• Authorization Approach
• RBAC
• Azure AD Conditional Access
• Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
• Azure Key Vault for secrets
  • API keys
  • Devs don't see keys
  • Certificates

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Design a Business Continuity Strategy (15-20%)

Design a Site Recovery Strategy

• BC is about from a terrible disaster
• Data center is not accessible
• Should never happen
• Azure Site Recovery (ASR)! You will be down for some time.
  • Azure to Azure, On-Prem to Azure
• Have everything ready in case of disaster

Design for High Availability

• Protect against single point of failure
• Everything redundant
• Autoscaling
• No human intervention

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Implement Workloads and Security (5-10%)

Configure serverless computing

• Logic apps
• Functions
• Event Grid
• Service Bus

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Implement Authentication and Secure Data (5-10%)

Implement secure data solutions

• Azure Key Vault
• Encrypt data at rest
• Azure Confidential Compute - encrypt data while in use

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Develop for the Cloud (25-30%)

Configure a message-based integration architecture

• Emails
• By message or by event
  • Message has content -> reader wil act
  • Event does not contain data, only the link
• Queue Storage
• Service Bus
• Event Grid makes it easy to connect events to serverless applications

Develop for autoscaling

• Scale by
  • cpu
  • weekdays / weekends
  • holidays
  • custom metric (Application Insights)

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