Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

This intermediate AZ-305 training prepares learners to design and manage a network infrastructure that balances all of an organization's needs with all appropriate Microsoft Azure solutions.

Microsoft Azure is more than just a cloud storage service — Microsoft has been spending staggering amounts of money to ensure that it's a complete package. The dream for Microsoft is to have companies of all shapes and sizes turn to Azure when they need a network solution of any level of complexity.

Earning this certification will validate you are able to:

• Implement and monitor an Azure infrastructure
• Implement management and security solutions
• Implement solutions for apps
• Implement and manage data platforms
• Design monitoring
• Design identity and security
• Design data storage
• Design business continuity
• Design infrastructure

• Design an Azure Logging Solution
• Implement and manage a Microsoft 365 Tenant
• Design for Governance, Authentication, and Authorization
• Design for Relational Data Resources
• Design Data Ingestion and Integration
• Design Azure Solutions with Non-Relational Databases
• Design for Disaster Recovery
• Design for High Availability
• Recommend Azure Compute Solutions
• Design Azure Application Architectures
• Design for Migrations to Azure
• Recommend a Networking Solution

Benefits include validation of your skills, increased job opportunities, professional growth, and the ability to design and implement advanced Azure solutions. It also demonstrates your commitment to staying current with industry standards and best practices.

• This is a good course for new systems administrators because it gives them a narrow skill set where they can carve out a name for themselves.
• Learn to configure and manage Microsoft 365 tenants: it's a foundation for building a whole career in enterprise network administration.
• Experienced systems admins. If you've been working as an enterprise sysadmin for several years, this course will either show you a section of your career you may not have had time for yet (Microsoft 365 tenant administration) or help you document your expertise and advance your career. Take this course and springboard your way to promotion

To become a Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, you must earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification.

The Azure Solutions Architect Expert cert is worth it: Azure is one of the leading cloud platforms globally and organizations of all sizes are migrating their infrastructure to it. The credential proves your ability to design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure Azure solutions for them. As a credential, it represents the trust that organizations can put in you, knowing you can take their business needs and actualize them in their Azure network.

The Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is highly sought after due to the increasing demand for cloud computing skills. With companies actively seeking certified architects, professionals have abundant opportunities in Azure-related roles.

Some of the notable job opportunities are as follows:

• Cloud Solution Architect
• Azure DevOps Engineer
• Azure Administrator
• Cloud Developer
• Data Engineer
• AI Engineer

• Languages:English Japanese Chinese (Simplified)Korean German French Spanish Portuguese (Brazil)Arabic (Saudi Arabia)Russian Chinese (Traditional)Italian Indonesian (Indonesia)
• This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions; design data storage solutions; design business continuity solutions; and design infrastructure solutions.
• Exam Duration: 120 Minutes
• Passing Criteria: A passing score is 700or greater.