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Description
Advance your cloud architecture skills with our Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Training & Certification 5-Day Boot Camp. This intensive, live instructor-led Azure Solutions Architect Expert training focuses on the real-world skills required to design, implement, and recommend secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Microsoft Azure cloud solutions.
Throughout this hands-on AZ-305 certification boot camp, students learn how to evaluate business and technical requirements, advise stakeholders, and translate organizational needs into effective Azure cloud architectures. Training covers essential solution architecture topics, including Azure governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networking, business continuity, disaster recovery, and cloud migration strategies.
The course combines instructor-led lectures, practical scenarios, and Azure architecture case studies to demonstrate fundamental cloud design principles and help students understand how to select the right Azure services for specific business and technical requirements. Students also explore architectural considerations for building secure, highly available, resilient, scalable, and optimized Azure environments.
EXAMS INCLUDED
AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and conceptual knowledge of:
Microsoft Entra.
Azure compute technologies such as VMs (Virtual Machines), containers, and serverless solutions.
Azure virtual networking to include load balancers.
Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases).
General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability.
Why Choose Us
CAREER CAMPS DIFFERENCE
Career Camps provides an in-depth hands on learning environment. Our instructors teach using demonstrations and explain concepts beyond the scope of the courseware. The best instructors are contracted from all across the US. These professionals are real world consultants who actually implement these technologies. Career Camps knows our clients work in the “real world” and it only makes sense to have an instructor with the experience in the real world.
Facilities – Many of our competitors over-crowd classrooms by placing 2 to 3 students per desk and 20+ students per instructor. Often these companies “extend” the life of very old equipment with slow performance on the software used today. Our average class size is 8 students. Our facilities have the best equipment with the most comfortable, focused environment for learning.
Instructors – Our CEO holds one of the rarest Microsoft Certifications – the Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant (MCLC) Certification. This certification reflects a commitment to make sure our instructors are also actively engaged in real world consulting projects. Students expect a professional who can answer questions and demonstrate the technology.
Face to Face Training – We believe the best way to interact and learn is face to face training.  Many of our competitors which offer local training are simply providing students with headphones/mic to attend class with an instructor at a remote location.
Test Pass – We offer a free retake voucher (if needed) for each of the exams required for certification. Any training center offering a “100% pass guarantee” would have to use unethical practices or unlimited test vouchers (which is not likely or practical).
Distractions – Students often look for a “local” training center so they can be close to home and work. Boot camp requires a tremendous time commitment during the program. Long class hours combined with self study each evening. The goal of boot camp is to achieve certification in a fraction of the time. We strongly recommend students attend camp away from home and work in a focused, distraction free environment.
Boot Camp – Boot camp is an accelerated training focused on teaching technology and testing students on the official exams. Most training providers “added” boot camps to the existing standard training classes they offer.  These training centers think a boot camp is just a regular class where you send the student home with a voucher on the last day.  Career Camps  administers exams throughout the camp. Equally important – not every trainer can teach a boot camp and not all courseware is designed for boot camp format.  Our trainers know the boot camp format and our courseware is designed for accelerated learning.
Florida – Career Camps has one of the most scenic locations boasting some of the best weather in US. We believe students should have a comfortable and inviting atmosphere while attending these otherwise intense programs. We place our location, facilities and amenities up against that any competitor.
What You'll Learn
- Design governance, computing, and data integration solutions.
- Design an application architecture.
- Design non-relational and relational storage.
- Design authentication, authorization, and identity solutions.
- Design network and monitoring solutions.
- Design high availability solutions.
- Design backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Design migration solutions.
Course Outline
Describe the core architectural components of Azure
- Describe Azure regions, region pairs, and sovereign regions
- Describe Availability Zones
- Describe Azure datacenters
- Describe Azure resources and Resource Groups
- Describe subscriptions
- Describe management groups
- Describe the hierarchy of resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups
- What is Microsoft Azure
- Get started with Azure accounts
- Exercise – Explore the Learn sandbox
- Describe Azure physical infrastructure
- Describe Azure management infrastructure
- Exercise – Create an Azure resource
Describe Azure compute and networking services
- Compare compute types, including container instances, virtual machines, and functions
- Describe virtual machine (VM) options, including VMs, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, availability sets, Azure Virtual Desktop
- Describe resources required for virtual machines
- Describe application hosting options, including Azure Web Apps, containers, and virtual machines
- Describe virtual networking, including the purpose of Azure Virtual Networks, Azure virtual subnets, peering, Azure DNS, VPN Gateway, and ExpressRoute
- Define public and private endpoints
- Describe Azure virtual machines
- Exercise – Create an Azure virtual machine
- Describe Azure virtual desktop
- Describe Azure containers
- Describe Azure functions
- Describe application hosting options
- Describe Azure virtual networking
- Exercise – Configure network access
- Describe Azure virtual private networks
- Describe Azure ExpressRoute
- Describe Azure DNS
Describe azure storage services
- Compare Azure storage services
- Describe storage tiers
- Describe redundancy options
- Describe storage account options and storage types
- Identify options for moving files, including AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, and Azure File Sync
- Describe migration options, including Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box
- Describe Azure storage accounts
- Describe Azure storage redundancy
- Describe Azure storage services
- Exercise – Create a storage blob
- Identify Azure data migration options
- Identify Azure file movement options
Describe Azure identity, access, and security
- Describe directory services in Azure, including Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Entra Domain Services
- Describe authentication methods in Azure, including single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), and passwordless
- Describe external identities and guest access in Azure
- Describe Microsoft Entra Conditional Access
- Describe Azure Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Describe the concept of Zero Trust
- Describe the purpose of the defense in depth model
- Describe the purpose of Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Describe Azure directory services
- Describe Azure authentication methods
- Describe Azure external identities
- Describe Azure conditional access
- Describe Azure role-based access control
- Describe zero trust model
- Describe defense-in-depth
- Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Learn how to leverage the Cloud Adoption Framework to identify where your organization is in the digital transformation journey.
- Identify triggers and opportunities for cloud adoption.
- Recognize the components needed to develop a digital transformation strategy around your business, people, and technology.
- Define strategy
- Plan
- Ready
- Adopt
- Govern and manage
Introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Describe the pillars of the Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Identify key principles for creating a solid architectural foundation
- Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
- Cost optimization
- Operational excellence
- Performance efficiency
- Reliability
- Security
Design governance
- Design for governance.
- Design for management groups.
- Design for Azure subscriptions.
- Design for resource groups.
- Design for resource tagging.
- Design for Azure Policy.
- Design for Azure role-based access control.
- Design for Azure landing zones.
- Design for governance
- Design for management groups
- Design for subscriptions
- Design for resource groups
- Design for resource tags
- Design for Azure Policy
- Design for role-based access control (RBAC)
- Design for Azure landing zones
Design authentication and authorization solutions
- Design for identity and access management.
- Design for Microsoft Entra ID.
- Design for Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B).
- Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer).
- Design for conditional access.
- Design for identity protection.
- Design for access reviews.
- Design for managed identities.
- Design for service principals for applications.
- Design for Azure Key Vault.
- Design for identity and access management (IAM)
- Design for Microsoft Entra ID
- Design for Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B)
- Design for Azure Active Directory B2C (business-to-customer)
- Design for conditional access
- Design for identity protection
- Design for access reviews
- Design service principals for applications
- Design managed identities
- Design for Azure Key Vault
Design a solution to log and monitor Azure resources
- Design for Azure Monitor data sources
- Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
- Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
- Design for Azure Data Explorer
- Design for Azure Monitor data sources
- Design for Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) workspaces
- Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure insights
- Design for Azure Data Explorer
Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies
- Define recovery time objective and recovery point objective
- Explore the available high availability and disaster recovery options for both IaaS and PaaS
- Devise an appropriate high availability and disaster recovery strategy
- Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
- Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
- Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
- Describe high availability and disaster recovery options for PaaS deployments
- Explore an IaaS high availability and disaster recovery solution
- Describe hybrid solutions
Design a solution for backup and disaster recovery
- Design for backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure Backup.
- Design for Azure blob backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure Files backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery.
- Design for Azure Site Recovery.
- Design for backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Backup
- Design for Azure blob backup and recovery
- Design for Azure files backup and recovery
- Design for Azure virtual machine backup and recovery
- Design for Azure SQL backup and recovery
- Design for Azure Site Recovery
Design a data storage for non-relational data
- Design for data storage.
- Design for Azure storage accounts.
- Design for Azure blob storage.
- Design for data redundancy.
- Design for Azure files.
- Design an Azure disk solution.
- Design for storage security.
- Design for data storage
- Design for Azure storage accounts
- Design for data redundancy
- Design for Azure Blob Storage
- Design for Azure Files
- Design for Azure managed disks
- Design for storage security
Design a data storage solution for relational data
- Design for Azure SQL Database.
- Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance.
- Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines.
- Recommend a solution for database scalability.
- Recommend a solution for database availability.
- Design protection for data at rest, data in transmission, and data in use.
- Design for Azure SQL Edge.
- Design for Azure Cosmos DB.
- Design for Azure Table Storage.
- Design for Azure SQL Database
- Design for Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Design for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
- Recommend a solution for database scalability
- Recommend a solution for database availability
- Design security for data at rest, data in motion, and data in use
- Design for Azure SQL Edge
- Design for Azure Cosmos DB and Table Storage
Design data integration
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory.
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake.
- Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Databricks.
- Design a data integration and analytics solution with Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths.
- Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis.
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Factory
- Design a data integration solution with Azure Data Lake
- Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Databricks
- Design a data integration and analytic solution with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Design strategies for hot, warm, and cold data paths
- Design an Azure Stream Analytics solution for data analysis
Design an Azure compute solution
- Choose an Azure compute service.
- Design for Azure Virtual Machines solutions.
- Design for Azure Batch solutions.
- Design for Azure App Service solutions.
- Design for Azure Container Instances solutions.
- Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions.
- Design for Azure Functions solutions.
- Design for Azure Logic Apps solutions.
- Choose an Azure compute service
- Design for Azure Virtual Machines solutions
- Design for Azure Batch solutions
- Design for Azure App Service solutions
- Design for Azure Container Instances solutions
- Design for Azure Kubernetes Service solutions
- Design for Azure Functions solutions
- Design for Azure Logic Apps solutions
Design an application architecture
- Describe message and event scenarios.
- Design a messaging solution.
- Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution.
- Design an event-driven solution.
- Design an automated app deployment solution.
- Design API integration.
- Design an application configuration management solution.
- Design a caching solution.
- Describe message and event scenarios
- Design a messaging solution
- Design an Azure Event Hubs messaging solution
- Design an event-driven solution
- Design a caching solution
- Design API integration
- Design an automated app deployment solution
- Design an app configuration management solution
Design network solutions
- Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
- Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
- Design for Azure network connectivity services
- Design for application delivery services
- Design for application protection services
- Recommend a network architecture solution based on workload requirements
- Design patterns for Azure network connectivity services
- Design outbound connectivity and routing
- Design for on-premises connectivity to Azure Virtual Network
- Choose an application delivery service
- Design for application delivery services
- Design for application protection services
Design migrations
- Evaluate migration with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Describe the Azure Migration and Modernization Program (Azure Migration Framework)
- Assess your on-premises workloads
- Select a migration tool
- Migrate your databases
- Select an online storage migration tool
- Migrate offline data
- Evaluate migration with the Cloud Adoption Framework
- Describe the Azure migration framework
- Assess your on-premises workloads
- Select a migration tool
- Migrate your structured data in databases
- Select an online storage migration tool for unstructured data
- Migrate offline data
Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Cost Optimization
- Build a team culture that has awareness of budget, expenses, reporting, and cost tracking
- Spend only on what you need to achieve the highest return on your investments
- Maximize the use of resources and operations
- Increase efficiency without redesigning, renegotiating, or sacrificing requirements
- Continuously right-size investment as your workload evolves
- Develop cost-management discipline
- Design with a cost-efficiency mindset
- Design for usage optimization
- Design for rate optimization
- Monitor and optimize over time
Micrososft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Operational excellence
- Apply modern practices to design, build, and orchestrate resources on Azure
- Gain operational insights by using monitoring and analytics
- Reduce effort and error by using automation
- Identify issues and improve quality in your application by using tests
- Embrace DevOps culture
- Establish development standards
- Evolve operations with observability
- Deploy with confidence
- Automate for efficiency
- Adopt safe deployment practices
Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Performance efficiency
- Scale your capacity based on workload.
- Optimize network performance.
- Optimize storage and database performance.
- Improve application performance by identifying bottlenecks.
- Negotiate realistic performance targets
- Design to meet capacity requirements
- Achieve and sustain performance
- Improve efficiency through optimization
Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Reliability
- Determine the reliability requirements from the business and apply those requirements to your workload design.
- Design your workload to be fault-tolerant and able to degrade gracefully.
- Design your workload to recover from malfunctions ranging from component-level faults to disasters.
- Build observability and testing into your workload design and operations practices.
- Design your workload with a focus on simplicity to minimize risks.
- Design for business requirements
- Design for resilience
- Design for recovery
- Design for operations
- Keep it simple
Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework - Security
- Create a security readiness plan that’s aligned with business priorities.
- Properly handle confidentiality requirements.
- Strengthen the integrity of your workload against security risks.
- Strengthen the availability of your workload against security incidents.
- Continuously maintain and improve your workload’s security posture
- Plan your security readiness
- Design to protect confidentiality
- Design to protect integrity
- Design to protect availability
- Sustain and evolve your security posture
Getting started with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Understand common roadblocks that prevent adoption success.
- Evaluate one or more guides that can help you get things started or move faster.
- Get started on the proper course of action by using shared guidance and related Learn modules.
- Customer narrative
- Common blockers
Prepare for successful cloud adoption with a well-defined strategy
- Create clarity for a corporate strategy to ensure that all team members are working toward common goals.
- Establish metrics to create clarity, help the team learn, and systematically work toward your organizational objectives.
- Evaluate financial considerations to understand the value of cloud adoption.
- Assess your strategy using the Cloud Adoption Strategy.
- Evaluate technical considerations to help the team prepare for successful cloud adoption projects.
- Customer narrative
- Capture strategic motivation
- Define objectives and key results
- Evaluate financial considerations
- Understand technical considerations
- Create a business case
Prepare for cloud adoption with a data-driven plan
- Create an actionable cloud adoption plan.
- Understand your digital estate.
- Assess the digital estate with Azure Migrate and refine your plan.
- Exercise – Deploy your first cloud adoption plan
- Exercise – Assess your digital estate
- Exercise – Customize your cloud adoption plan
Choose the best Azure landing zone to support your requirements for cloud operations
- Compare your management, governance, and security requirements for operations to common operating models.
- Evaluate options for implementing Azure landing zones against your short-term and long-term requirements.
- Choose the best Azure landing zone and Learn modules to support your needs for cloud adoption.
- Common operating models
- Design areas for Azure landing zones
- Design principles for Azure landing zones
- Journey to the target architecture
- Choose an Azure landing zone option
- Deploy the Azure landing zone accelerator
- Enhance your landing zone
Migrate to Azure through repeatable processes and common tools
- Understand the tools commonly used in migration
- Learn about the migration processes required to migrate effectively
- Demonstrate a migration (hands-on if possible)
- Understand options for properly migrating various platforms and workloads
- Choose the best learning path to continue on with migrating a specific platform or workload
- Migration process
- Migration tools
- Common tech platforms
- Exercise – Migration and modernization
Address tangible risks with the Govern methodology of the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Establish processes to properly govern cloud adoption.
- Classify tangible risks based on the reference cloud adoption plan.
- Integrate corporate policies to mitigate tangible risks.
- List implementation strategies to mitigate risks.
- Demonstrate Azure Policy additions that implement risk mitigation strategies.
- Prioritize future governance investments.
- Govern methodology
- Corporate policies
- Governance disciplines
- Knowledge check
- Deploy a cloud governance foundation
- The Cost Management discipline
Ensure stable operations and optimization across all supported workloads deployed to the cloud
- Evaluate levels of business commitment across your portfolio of workloads
- Deploy an operations baseline
- Customize the baseline to meet operations needs
- Centralize operations for core platforms
- Partner with workload teams for richer decentralized operations
- Establish business commitments
- Deploy an operations baseline
- Protect and recover
- Enhance an operations baseline
- Manage platform and workload specialization
Innovate applications by using Azure Cloud technologies
- Understand the innovation cycle
- Map Azure services to the phases of the innovation cycle
- Correlate technologies to business outcomes of innovation
- Follow the innovation lifecycle
- Azure technologies for the build process
- Infuse your applications with AI
- Azure technologies for measuring business impact
- Azure technologies for the learn process
Prepare for cloud security by using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Understand cloud security methodology.
- Identify security roles and responsibilities.
- Assess cultural and role and responsibility changes that typically come with cloud adoption.
- Learn how to simplify compliance and security implementation in the cloud.
- Methodology
- Security roles and responsibilities
- Simplify compliance and security
- Simplify security implementation
- Security tools and policies
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the AZ-305 Boot Camp?
The Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) Boot Camp is an intensive, instructor-led certification training program focused on designing advanced Microsoft Azure infrastructure and cloud solutions. Students learn how to translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Azure architectures.
Who should take AZ-305 training?
AZ-305 is designed for Azure Solutions Architects, cloud architects, Azure administrators, cloud engineers, infrastructure engineers, IT architects, systems administrators, and experienced IT professionals responsible for designing Azure solutions.
Do I need previous Azure experience for AZ-305?
Yes. AZ-305 is an advanced Azure certification exam. Students should have experience with Azure administration, networking, compute, storage, security, identity, governance, and cloud infrastructure. Experience with AZ-104-level Azure administration is highly recommended.
What will I learn in the AZ-305 Boot Camp?
Students learn how to design Azure solutions involving identity, governance, data storage, business continuity, infrastructure, networking, security, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery. The course emphasizes architectural decision-making and selecting the appropriate Azure services for specific business requirements.
What is the difference between AZ-104 and AZ-305?
AZ-104 focuses on administering Microsoft Azure environments, while AZ-305 focuses on designing Azure infrastructure and solutions. In simple terms, an Azure Administrator manages the environment, while a Solutions Architect determines how the Azure environment should be designed to meet business and technical requirements.
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