AZURE - AZ-303 Exam

In order to achieve the Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification, you must pass two below individual exams:

AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies.

AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design.

In this article, we will be going to discuss only the course content in-depth on AZ-303 so that It could be easy for you to learn from different channels if you already don't have purchase this course or don't want to join any academy to learn the same.

Starting with Azure:

Azure Free Account

Tour of the Azure Portal

Resources and Resource Groups

What are subscriptions

What is Azure AD

Implement and monitor an Azure Infrastructure

What are storage accounts?

Account Storage - Service Types

More on storage accounts

Creating a storage account

Working with the Blob service

Using Azure Storage Explorer

Using Access Keys

Shared Access Signatures

Storage account replication

Premium Performance for Blobs

Azure Storage Accounts - Queue service

Command Line - Using Powershell

Command Line - Using Azure Command Line Interface

 Command Line - Using Azure Cloud Shell

The Virtual Machine service

Deploying Virtual Machines

Building Windows Virtual Machine

Connecting to the Virtual machine

Generation 1 and Generation 2 Virtual Machines

State of the Virtual Machine

Deploying Linux Virtual Machines

Disks for Azure Virtual Machines

Adding data disks

Adding a secondary network interface

Resizing a virtual machine

Creating a virtual machine image

Terminating resources

Virtual Machine Service Level Agreement

Availability Sets

Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Availability Zones

Azure Virtual Networks

The Network Interface

Network Security Groups

Application Security Groups 

Using a jump server

Azure Bastion Host

Service Endpoints

Custom Routing

Virtual Network Peering

Point to Site VPN Connection

Site-to-Site VPN Connections

Azure Resource Manager templates

Creating a storage account

Azure Backup Service for Azure

Virtual Machines

What is Azure AD

A quick look at creating users in Azure AD

Azure AD Custom Domains

Azure AD Licences

Azure AD and subscriptions

Multi-Factor Authentication

Conditional Access Policies

Azure AD Identity Protection

Working with multiple directories

What is Azure AD Connect

Active Directory Implementation

 Azure AD Connect - Using Password Hash Synchronization

The benefit of Azure AD Connect

AZ-300/303 - Going through the Azure AD Connect settings

Azure AD Connect - Pass-through Authentication.

Azure AD Connect - Single Sign-on

Azure AD Connect - Password writeback

Azure AD Connect - Domain-OU Filtering

Azure AD Connect Health

Introduction to Resource tags

Implement Management and Security Solutions

What is the Azure Migrate Service?

What is the Azure Site Recovery Service

Azure Site Recovery for Virtual Machines

Azure Migrate for Hyper-V 

Azure Service Bus

Azure Service Bus Queue

Azure Service Bus Topics

Azure Functions

Azure Logic App Service

Azure Load Balancer 

Azure Application Gateway Service

Azure Application Gateway 

Azure Application Gateway - URL Routing

Azure Application Gateway - Web Application Firewall

Difference between Azure Load Balancer and the Application Gateway

 Azure Traffic Manager

Setting up Visual Studio

Azure Front Door Service

What is Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall - NAT Rule collection

Azure Firewall - Application Rules

Role-based access control

Custom Role-Based Access Control

Azure Policies

Azure AD Authentication for Blob Service

Implement Solutions for Apps

Azure Web App Service

Azure App Service Plan

Azure App Service Plan - Linux

Azure Web Apps - From GitHub

Azure Web Apps - Web Jobs

Azure Web Apps - App Service Logs 

 Azure Web Apps - Autoscaling

Azure Web App - Deployment Slots

Primer on Docker Containers

Understanding how to deploy the docker container

Deploying a .Net core application to a Linux VM

Azure Container Registry

Azure Container Instance

What is Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes

Creating a Kubernetes cluster

Understanding of application deployment to a Kubernetes cluster

What is a service principal?

Deploying Nginx onto the Kubernetes cluster

Implement and Manage Data Platforms

Azure SQL Database Service

SQL Elastic Pools

A quick primer on NoSQL Databases

introduction to Azure CosmosDB

CosmosDB - Partition Key

Cosmos DB - Understanding the item id

CosmosDB - Consistency Levels

CosmosDB - Consistency Levels - Setting the level

More on Security

Encryption Techniques Overview

The Azure Key Vault Service

The service principal - revisited

Managing Azure Key Vault secrets

Managed Service Identity

Working with the Key Vault - .Net -Managed Service Identity

More on Monitoring and Diagnostics

What is the Azure Monitor Service

What is a Log Analytics Workspace

What is Update Management

Azure Monitor pricing

Diagnostics for your resources

Azure Function - Metrics

Azure Functions - Diagnostics

Azure Web Apps - Metrics

Azure Web Apps - Diagnostics

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Exam Pattern:

Implement and monitor an Azure infrastructure (50-55%)

Implement management and security solutions (25-30%)

Implement solutions for apps (10-15%)

Implement and manage data platforms (10-15%)