This blog post covers Hands-On Labs that you must perform in order to learn AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design & clear the Azure Solution Architect Certification.
The AZ-304 Exam meshes towards those who advise collaborators and translate business requirements into scalable, protected, and well-founded solutions.
This post helps you with your self-paced learning as well as for your team learning. There are 13 Hands-On Labs in this course of Azure Architect Design by Microsoft.
- Migrating Hyper-V VMs to Azure by using Azure Migrate
- Implementing Azure SQL Database-Based Applications
- Managing budgets and alerts in Azure Cost Management
- Implement Azure Logic Apps Integration with Azure Event Grid
- Creating and managing secrets in Azure Key Vault
- Creating a Virtual Network using Azure Portal & PowerShell
- VNet Peering Using Azure Portal
- VNet-VNet VPN Gateway Connection
- Load Balancer And Traffic Manager In Azure
- Implementing user-assigned managed identities for Azure resources
- Microsoft Azure Directory Synchronisation
- Network Watcher In Azure
- Virtual Machine Replication via Azure Site Recovery
Here’s the quick sneak-peak of how to start learning Azure Architect Designing & to clear AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design by doing Hands-on.
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1) Migrating Hyper-V VMs To Azure By Using Azure Migrate
In Microsoft Azure Architect Design, you will see how to migrate on-premises Hyper-V VMs to Azure with the Azure Migrate: Server Migration tool, and you will learn these also:
- Put on the Azure Migration: Server Migration tool.
- Locate VMs you want to migrate.
- Start replicating VMs.
- Implement a test migration to make sure everything’s working as expected.
- Run a full VM migration.
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2) Implementing Azure SQL Database-Based Applications
Azure SQL Database is the clever, extensible, relational database service built for the cloud. It is endless and always up to date, with AI-powered and computerized features that enhance performance and longevity for you.
So you can concentrate on building new applications without worrying about storage size or resource management. Fasten your application development on the only cloud with endless SQL using the latest SQL Server capabilities and never worry about updates, upgrades or end of support again.
3) Managing Budgets And Alerts In Azure Cost Management
In this, you will understand and use Cost Administration alerts to monitor your Azure usage and spending. Cost alerts are intensively generated based on when Azure resources are consumed. Alerts show all active cost administration and billing alerts together in one place.
4) Implement Azure Logic Apps Integration With Azure Event Grid
In Microsoft Azure Architect Design the event grid is a new app-service that connects applications so that applications talk to each other in a distributed environment. This way of working decouple application components, which enables more scalability, maintainability, and extensibility. Normally it’s similar to a message queue service, like Azure Service Bus Topics, that enables a publish/subscribe model.
Azure Event Grid is a heterogeneous kind of messaging service that’s built to enable event-based architectures like those use with Microservices architectures to be built more easily.
5) Creating And Managing Secrets In Azure Key Vault
Your application needs service passwords, connection strings, and other secret configuration values to do its job. Reserving and handling secret values is risky, and every usage presents the possibility of leakage. Azure Key Vault, in combination with managed identities for Azure resources, enables your Azure web app to access secret configuration values easily and securely without needing to store any secrets in your source control or configuration.
In this module, you will:
- Inspect what types of information can be stored in Azure Key Vault
- Develop an Azure Key Vault and use it to store secret configuration values
- Permit secure access to the vault from an Azure App Service web app with managed identities for Azure resources
- Deploy a web application that retrieves secrets from the vault
6) Creating a Virtual Network using Azure Portal & PowerShell
In this guide, you will see how to create a virtual network using the Azure portal and PowerShell. Azure Virtual Network (VNet) is the fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. VNet enables many types of Azure resources, such as Azure Virtual Machines (VM), to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks. VNet is similar to a traditional network that you’d operate in your own data centre but brings with it additional benefits of Azure’s infrastructure such as scale, availability, and isolation. In this, you will also learn how to create a virtual network using the Azure portal
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7) VNet Peering Using Azure Portal
In this guide, you will see how you can connect virtual networks to each other with virtual network peering. These virtual networks can be in the same region or different regions (also known as Global VNet peering). Once virtual networks peer, resources in both virtual networks are able to communicate with each other.
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8) VNet-VNet VPN Gateway Connection
This guide helps you connect virtual networks (VNets) by using the VNet-to-VNet connection type. Virtual networks can be in different regions and from different subscriptions. Configuring a VNet-to-VNet connection is a simple way to connect VNets. When you connect a virtual network to another virtual network with a VNet-to-VNet connection type (VNet2VNet)
9) Load Balancer And Traffic Manager In Azure
In this guide, you will see how to create a load balancer and traffic manager in Azure. Load balancing refers to evenly distributing load (incoming network traffic) across a group of backend resources or servers. Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer that enables you to distribute traffic optimally to services across global Azure regions while providing high availability and responsiveness.
10) Implementing user-assigned managed identities for Azure resources
Managed identities for Azure resources provide Azure services with a managed identity in Azure Active Directory. You can use this identity to authenticate to services that support Azure AD authentication, without needing credentials in your code.
11) Microsoft Azure Directory Synchronisation
Azure Active Directory (also known as Azure AD) is a fully managed multi-tenant service from Microsoft that offers identity and access capabilities for applications running in Microsoft Azure and for applications running in an on-premises environment. Its name leads some to make incorrect conclusions about what Azure AD really is. Therefore, to avoid any confusion with Windows Server Active Directory that you may already be familiar with in an on-premises environment, understand that Azure AD is not Windows Server Active Directory running on Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure.
12) Network Watcher In Azure
Azure Network Watcher provides tools to monitor, diagnose, view metrics, and enable or disable logs for resources in an Azure virtual network. Network Watcher is designed to monitor and repair the network health of IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) products which includes Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Application Gateways, Load balancers, etc. Note: It is not intended for and will not work for PaaS monitoring or Web analytics.
13) Virtual Machine Replication via Azure Site Recovery
The Azure Site Recovery service contributes to your business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategy by keeping your business applications online during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery manages and orchestrates disaster recovery of on-premises machines and Azure virtual machines (VM), including replication, failover, and recovery.
This quickstart describes how to set up disaster recovery for an Azure VM by replicating it to a secondary Azure region. In general, default settings are used to enable replication.
Next Task For You
Once you have practised all the listed hands-on for Microsoft Azure Architect Design, you should appear for the Microsoft Azure AZ301 certification. Click here to know all about the Microsoft Azure AZ-304 examination.
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