This blog post gives a walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of the Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies AZ-303 Training program that you must perform to learn this course. You can visit our blog If you think you need to learn more about Microsoft Azure Solution Architect
The AZ-303 exams mesh towards those who advise collaborators and translate business requirements into scalable, protected, and well-founded solutions.
The walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of the Azure Architect Technologies AZ-303 Training program will prepare you thoroughly for the AZ-303 certifications.
- Create A Virtual Machine With Custom VM Images
- Deploy A Virtual Machine Scale Set
- Exploring Monitoring Capabilities In Azure
- Create and Deploy an ARM Template
- Encrypt A Virtual Machine
- Configuring VNET Peering
- Load Balancer And Traffic Manager In Azure
- Creating Storage Accounts and accessing them via Storage Explorer
- Create an Azure Bastion host
- Governance and compliance
- Virtual machine replication via ASR
- How to Implement Azure Functions
- Implementing Custom Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Create An Azure Kubernetes Service
- Deploy Database Instances In Azure
- Implementing Azure Logic Apps
- Role-Based Access Control In Azure
- Configuring a message-based integration architecture
- Implementing user-assigned managed identities for Azure resources
- Implementing an Azure App Service Web App with a Staging Slot
- Implementing Highly Available Azure IaaS Compute Architecture
- Implementing and Configuring Azure Storage File and Blob Services
- Protecting Hyper-V VMs by using Azure Site Recovery
- Create an Application Gateway
- Create an Azure Front Door
Here’s the quick sneak-peak of how to start learning Azure Architect Technologies & to clear AZ-303 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies by doing Hands-on.
Overview of Azure storage account, Storage account types, Storage account services, how to create a storage account and how to delete a storage account
1) Create A Virtual Machine With Custom VM Images
You can create your custom VM images in this Activity Guide using a Packer Template. We will be configuring a Packer template & building our Packer-based image. Then we will be deploying a Virtual Machine based on that custom image and validate its deployment.
Note: Read more about Virtual Machine
2) Deploy A Virtual Machine Scale Set
Azure virtual machine scale sets let you create and manage a group of identical, load-balanced VMs. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease in response to demand or a defined schedule. Scale sets provide high availability to your applications and allow you to centrally manage, configure, and update a large number of VMs.
This guide will cover the deployment of the Azure VM Scale Set using the Azure QuickStart template.
Note: Read more about Azure Scale Set
3) Exploring Monitoring Capabilities In Azure
In this Activity Guide, we will cover how to deploy Virtual Machine scale sets and then implement monitoring & alerting using the Azure Monitor. Moreover, you’ll learn how to set-up metric-based alerts, autoscaling-based notifications, and testing.
Note: Read more about Monitoring services of Azure
4) Create and Deploy an ARM Template
In this guide, you will see major aspects of deployment and configuration of resources. In this, we have covered Azure resource manager templates, Saving template for VM, Evaluate the location of new resources. ARM is an Azure Resource Manager. It is an interface for managing and organizing cloud resources. The Azure Resource Manager(ARM) is what organizes the resource group that lets you deploy, manage, and delete all of the resources together in a single action.
Note: Read more about Azure ARM Templates
5) Encrypt A Virtual Machine
In Microsoft Azure Architect, we will learn how to safeguard our VM’s data. We will be using Azure Disk Encryption to do so. Azure Disk encryption can be applied to both Linux and Windows virtual machines, as well as to virtual machine scale sets.
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6) Configuring VNET Peering, Service Chaining
Virtual network peering enables you to connect networks in Azure Virtual Network seamlessly.
Azure supports the following types of peering:
- Virtual network peering: Connect virtual networks within the same Azure region.
- Global virtual network peering: Connecting virtual networks across Azure regions.
Service chaining enables you to direct traffic from one virtual network to a virtual appliance or gateway in a peered system through user-defined routes.
Note: Read more about VNet Peering
7) Load Balancer And Traffic Manager In Azure
In Microsoft Azure Architect With Standard Load Balancer, you can scale your applications and create highly available services. The load balancer supports both inbound and outbound scenarios.
In this segment, we will be implementing inbound load balancing and NAT by using the Azure Load Balancer Standard. Then we will configure outbound SNAT traffic and test it by using Azure Load Balancer Standard.
8) Creating Storage Accounts and accessing them via Storage Explorer
Here, we will be creating a container on our storage account and will be uploading data on it by using the Azure Portal. Additionally, we will be accessing the content of our storage account by using a SAS Token. This guide will provide you with step-by-step procedures on how you can do so.
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9) Create an Azure Bastion host
This guide will show you how to configure Azure Bastion based on your VM settings, and then connect to your VM through the portal. The VM doesn’t need a public IP address, client software, agent, or a special configuration. Once the service is provisioned, the RDP/SSH experience is available to all of the virtual machines in the same virtual network.
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10) Governance and compliance
As you establish corporate policy and plan your governance strategies, you can use tools and services like Azure Policy, Azure Blueprints, and Azure Security Center to enforce and automate your organization’s governance decisions.
11) Virtual machine replication via ASR
As an organization, you need to adopt a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy that keeps your data safe and your apps and workloads online when planned and unplanned outages occur.
Site Recovery helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages. Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site to a secondary location.
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12) How to Implement Azure Functions
You must have a function app to host the execution of your functions. A function app lets you group functions as a logical unit for easier management, deployment, scaling, and sharing of resources. To sum up, you’ll learn how to create and group functions inside the function app.
Note: Read more about Azure Functions
13) Implementing Custom Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Azure role-based access control (RBAC) is an identity and access management (IAM) system for Azure resources. Using Azure RBAC, you can segregate duties within your team and grant only the amount of access to users that they need to perform their jobs.
Therefore, here we will be defining and assigning a custom role-based access control to delegate permissions to start and stop Azure VMs.
14) Create An Azure Kubernetes Service
Modern applications are increasingly built using containers, which are microservices packaged with their dependencies and configurations. Kubernetes is open-source software for deploying and managing those containers at scale. Furthermore, Azure Kubernetes Cluster lets you do just that for the microservices you run on the Azure cloud.
Therefore, in this Activity Guide, we will walk you through the steps to browse through the Azure Portal and how to setup AKS and manage your microservices without hassles on the cloud.
Note: Read more about Azure Kubernetes Service
15) Deploying Database Instances In Azure
In this section, we’ll see the different types of deployment options for our database and then you’ll learn how you can use it to deploy your database.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates are the simplest way of deploying Infrastructure-as-a-code.
ARM lets you deploy several resources together in a single unit, and the deployments are idempotent in that the user declares the type of resource, what name to use, and which properties it should have.
16) Implementing Azure Logic Apps
Azure Logic Apps is a cloud service that helps you in building, hosting, scaling, managing, maintaining, and monitoring your apps. Logic Apps handles these concerns for you. In this guide, you’ll learn how to implement an Azure Logic App.
17) Role-Based Access Control In Azure
In this guide, you will see hands-on on RBAC. Access management for cloud resources is a critical function for any organization that is using the cloud. Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) helps you manage who has access to Azure resources, what they can do with those resources, and what areas they have access to.
Azure RBAC is an authorization system built on Azure Resource Manager that provides fine-grained access management of Azure
18) Configuring a message-based integration architecture
In this guide, you will learn how to configure a message-based integration architecture. This reference architecture integrates enterprise backend systems, using message queues and events to decouple services for greater scalability and reliability. The backend systems may include software as a service (SaaS) systems, Azure services, and existing web services in your enterprise.
19) Implementing user-assigned managed identities for Azure resources
In this guide, you will see the implementation of user-assigned managed identities for Azure resources. On Azure, managed identities eliminate the need for developers having to manage credentials by providing an identity for the Azure resource in Azure AD and using it to obtain Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tokens.
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20) Implementing an Azure App Service Web App with a Staging Slot
In this guide, you will learn how to create a deployment slot as a staging environment in App Service.
21) Implementing Highly Available Azure IaaS Compute Architecture
In this guide, you will see building solutions for high availability using Availability Zones. High availability refers to a set of technologies that minimize IT disruptions by providing business continuity of IT services through redundant, fault-tolerant, or failover-protected components inside the same data centre. In our case, the data center resides within one Azure region.
22) Implementing and Configuring Azure Storage File and Blob Services
In this guide, you will see how to implement and configure Azure storage services Blob and File share. The Azure Storage platform is Microsoft’s cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios. Core storage services offer a massively scalable object store for data objects, disk storage for Azure virtual machines (VMs), a file system service for the cloud, a messaging store for reliable messaging, and a NoSQL store.
- Azure Blobs: A massively scalable object store for text and binary data. This is ideal when you have storage solutions for file, videos, log files and images
- Azure Files: Microsoft Azure File storage is a type of Azure service that was designed to support the needs of the Azure VM environment.
23) Protecting Hyper-V VMs by using Azure Site Recovery
In this guide, you will learn how to set up disaster recovery of on-premises Hyper-V VMs to Azure, Select your replication source and target, Enable replication for a VM. The Azure Site Recovery service contributes to your disaster-recovery strategy by managing and orchestrating replication, failover, and failback of on-premises machines and Azure virtual machines (VMs).
24) Create an Application Gateway
In this guide, you will use the Azure portal to create an application gateway. Then you test it to make sure it works correctly. The application gateway directs application web traffic to specific resources in a backend pool. You assign listeners to ports, create rules, and add resources to a backend pool.
25) Create an Azure Front Door
In this guide, Azure Front Door pools two instances of a web application that run in different Azure regions. You create a Front Door configuration based on equal-weighted and same priority backends. This configuration directs traffic to the nearest site that runs the application.
Azure Front Door continuously monitors the web application. The service provides automatic failover to the next available site when the nearest site is unavailable.
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RK says
Hi Atul
Thank you for the mail. Where can I find these hands on labs?
Rahul Dangayach says
Hi RK,
All the AGs are available in the AZ-300 course provided by K21 Academy.
If you would like to join the course, please join our free masterclass of AZ-300 through the below link:
https://k21academy.com/az30002
Thanks and Regards
Rahul Dangayach
Team K21
alfiya says
HII..
After reading your blog I just want to know what is the benefits on doing AZ 303 and 303 & what are the jobs that i can get with how much starting salary
Utkarsh Agarwal Agarwal says
Hello Alfiya,
In response to your query, I would like to inform you that AZ-303/ AZ-304 combined is an Azure Solution Architect expert-level certification, after gaining the knowledge and Hands-on experience from this training you can try applying for a Cloud Architect profile jobs, there are several benefits of this certification as this an expert level certification and the salary depends on the knowledge and the region in which you are applying.
Read our blog https://k21academy.com/azuresa11 which will cover everything you need to know about the Microsoft Azure Solution Architect certification.
If you would like to join the course, please join our free masterclass of AZ-300 through the below link:
https://k21academy.com/az30002
Thanks and Regards
Utkarsh Agarwal
Team K21