This series helps you crack Azure – 300 by – learning to enjoy architecture in Azure technologies.

Why this series (in progress)?

• To keep it concise, without repetition.
• To be intuitive and give power bytes to grab concepts.
• Keep it short with further references to detailed articles.
• Will walk you through each topic, to quickly over through the concepts.

Azure 300 – certification measures the following skills –

Series links –

• Deploy and configure infrastructure
  • Analyze resource utilization and consumption
    • configure diagnostic settings on resources
    • create baseline for resources
      • The idea is recreate all azure resources to redeploy or recover in an automated fashion this can be done via powershell or ARM Templates saved in GIT.
      • Export Template for existing resources by –
        • Resource groups -> deployments
        • Resource -> export templates
    • create and test alerts
    • analyze alerts across subscription
    • analyze metrics across subscription
    • create action groups
    • monitor for unused resources
    • monitor spend
    • report on spend
    • utilize Log Search query functions
    • view Alerts in Azure Monitor logs
    • visualize diagnostics data using Azure Monitor Workbooks
  • Create and configure storage accounts
    • configure network access to the storage account
    • create and configure storage account
    • generate Shared access signature
    • implement Azure AD authentication for storage
    • install and use Azure Storage Explorer
    • manage access keys
    • monitor Activity log by using Azure Monitor logs
    • implement Azure storage replication
    • implement Azure storage account failover
  • Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux
    • configure High Availability
    • configure Monitoring
    • configure Networking
    • configure Storage
    • configure Virtual Machine Size
    • implement dedicated hosts
    • deploy and configure scale sets
  • Automate deployment of VMs
    • modify Azure Resource Manager template
    • configure Location of new VMs
    • configure VHD template
    • deploy from template
    • save a deployment as an Azure Resource Manager template
    • deploy Windows and Linux VMs
  • Create connectivity between virtual networks
    • create and configure Vnet peering
    • create and configure Vnet to Vnet connections
    • verify virtual network connectivity
    • create virtual network gateway
  • Implement and manage virtual networking
    • configure private IP addressing
    • configure public IP addresses
    • create and configure network routes
    • create and configure network interface
    • create and configure subnets
    • create and configure virtual network
    • create and configure Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups
  • Manage Azure Active Directory
    • add custom domains
    • configure Azure AD Identity Protection
    • configure Azure AD Join
    • configure self-service password reset
    • implement conditional access policies
    • manage multiple directories
    • perform an access review
  • Implement and manage hybrid identities
    • install and configure Azure AD Connect
    • configure federation
    • configure single sign-on
    • manage and troubleshoot Azure AD Connect
    • troubleshoot password sync and writeback
  • Implement solutions that use virtual machines (VM)
    • provision VMs
    • create Azure Resource Manager templates
    • configure Azure Disk Encryption for VMs
    • implement Azure Backup for VMs
• Implement workloads and security
  • Migrate servers to Azure
    • migrate servers using Azure Migrate
  • Configure serverless computing
    • create and manage objects
    • manage a Logic App Resource
    • manage Azure Function app settings
    • manage Event Grid
    • manage Service Bus
  • Implement application load balancing
    • configure application gateway
    • configure Azure Front Door service
    • configure Azure Traffic Manager
  • Integrate on premises network with Azure virtual network
    • create and configure Azure VPN Gateway
    • create and configure site to site VPN
    • configure ExpressRoute
    • configure Virtual WAN
    • verify on premises connectivity
    • troubleshoot on premises connectivity with Azure
  • Implement multi factor authentication
    • configure user accounts for MFA
    • configure fraud alerts
    • configure bypass options
    • configure Trusted IPs
    • configure verification methods
  • Manage role-based access control
    • create a custom role
    • configure access to Azure resources by assigning roles
    • configure management access to Azure
    • troubleshoot RBAC
    • implement Azure Policies
    • assign RBAC Roles
• Create and deploy apps
  • Create web apps by using PaaS
    • create an Azure app service Web App
    • create documentation for the API
    • create an App Service Web App for Containers
    • create an App Service background task by using WebJobs
    • enable diagnostics logging
  • Design and develop apps that run in containers
    • configure diagnostic settings on resources
    • create a container image by using a Dockerfile
    • create an Azure Kubernetes Service
    • publish an image to the Azure Container Registry
    • implement an application that runs on an Azure Container Instance
    • manage container settings by using code
• Implement authentication and secure data
  • Implement authentication
    • implement authentication by using certificates, forms-based authentication, tokens, or
      Windows-integrated authentication
    • implement multi-factor authentication by using Azure AD
    • implement OAuth2 authentication
    • implement Managed Identities for Azure resources Service Principal authentication
  • Implement secure data solutions
    • encrypt and decrypt data at rest and in transit
    • encrypt data with Always Encrypted
    • implement Azure Confidential Compute
    • implement SSL/TLS communications
    • create, read, update, and delete keys, secrets, and certificates by using the KeyVault API
• Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage
  • Configure a message-based integration architecture
    • configure an app or service to send emails
    • configure Event Grid
    • configure the Azure Relay service
    • create and configure a Notification Hub
    • create and configure an Event Hub
    • create and configure a Service Bus
  • Develop for autoscaling
    • implement autoscaling rules and patterns (schedule, operational/system metrics)
    • implement code that addresses singleton application instances
    • implement code that addresses transient state
  • Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage
    • create, read, update, and delete data by using appropriate APIs
    • implement partitioning schemes
    • set the appropriate consistency level for operations
  • Develop solutions that use a relational database
    • provision and configure relational databases
    • configure elastic pools for Azure SQL Database
    • implement Azure SQL Database managed instances
    • create, read, update, and delete data tables by using code