AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Study Group

Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage (15-20%)

Configure a message-based integration architecture

• configure an app or service to send emails
  • How to Send Email Using SendGrid with Azure
  • Logic Apps: How to send a well-formatted HTML Email notification with Office 365 Outlook connector
• configure Event Grid
  • What is Azure Event Grid?
  • Quickstart: Route custom events to web endpoint with the Azure portal and Event Grid
• configure the Azure Relay service
  • What is Azure Relay?
  • Get started with Relay Hybrid Connections HTTP requests in .NET
• create and configure a Notification Hub
  • What is Azure Notification Hubs?
  • Create an Azure notification hub in the Azure portal
• create and configure an Event Hub
  • Azure Event Hubs — A big data streaming platform and event ingestion service
  • Quickstart: Create an event hub using Azure portal
• create and configure a Service Bus
  • What is Azure Service Bus?
  • Quickstart: Use Azure portal to create a Service Bus queue
  • Quickstart: Use the Azure portal to create a Service Bus topic and subscriptions to the topic
• configure queries across multiple products
  • TBD

Develop for autoscaling

• implement autoscaling rules and patterns (schedule, operational/system metrics)
  • Overview of autoscale in Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, and Web Apps
  • Autoscaling
  • Best practices for Autoscale
  • Overview of autoscale with Azure virtual machine scale sets
• implement code that addresses singleton application instances
  • Design to scale out
• implement code that addresses transient state
  • Transient fault handling

Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage

• create, read, update, and delete data by using appropriate APIs
  • Welcome to Azure Cosmos DB
  • Understanding the differences between NoSQL and relational databases
  • SQL API
  • Cassandra API
  • MongoDB API
  • Gremlin API
  • Table Storage API
• implement partitioning schemes
  • Partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB
  • Partitioning and horizontal scaling in Azure Cosmos DB
• set the appropriate consistency level for operations
  • Consistency levels in Azure Cosmos DB
  • Consistency, availability, and performance tradeoffs

Develop solutions that use a relational database

• provision and configure relational databases
  • Choose the right deployment option in Azure SQL
  • What is the Azure SQL Database service?
  • Getting started with single databases in Azure SQL Database
• configure elastic pools for Azure SQL Database
  • Elastic pools help you manage and scale multiple Azure SQL databases
• implement Azure SQL Database managed instances
  • Getting started with Azure SQL Database managed instance
• create, read, update, and delete data tables by using code
  • Build an app using SQL Server

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