AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies Study Group

Deploy and configure infrastructure (40-45%)

Analyze resource utilization and consumption

configure diagnostic settings on resources
- Overview of Azure platform logs
create baseline for resources
- Azure Monitor overview
create and test alerts
- Create, view, and manage metric alerts using Azure Monitor
- Introduction to Azure Advisor
analyze alerts across subscription
- Overview of alerts in Microsoft Azure
- Exciting advances in Azure Alerts – From better alert management to Smart Groups
analyze metrics across subscription
- Collect and analyze Azure activity logs in Log Analytics workspace in Azure Monitor
- Understand how metric alerts work in Azure Monitor
create action groups
- Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal
monitor for unused resources
- Prevent unexpected charges with Azure billing and cost management
monitor spend
- What is Azure Cost Management and Billing?
- Pricing calculator
report on spend
- Advanced features of Azure Metrics Explorer
utilize Log Search query functions
- Get started with log queries in Azure Monitor
view alerts in Azure Monitor logs
- Create, view, and manage log alerts using Azure Monitor
visualize diagnostics data using Azure Monitor Workbooks
- Azure Monitor Workbooks

Create and configure storage accounts

configure network access to the storage account
- Configure Azure Storage firewalls and virtual networks
create and configure storage account
- Create an Azure Storage account
generate shared access signature
- Grant limited access to Azure Storage resources using shared access signatures (SAS)
implement Azure AD authentication for storage
- Authorize access to blobs and queues using Azure Active Directory
install and use Azure Storage Explorer
manage access keys
- Manage storage account access keys
monitor activity log by using Azure Monitor logs
- Azure Storage metrics in Azure Monitor
implement Azure storage replication
- Azure Storage redundancy
implement Azure storage account failover
- Disaster recovery and account failover

Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux

configure high availability
- Manage the availability of Windows virtual machines in Azure
configure monitoring
- How to monitor virtual machines in Azure
configure networking
- Virtual networks and virtual machines in Azure
configure storage
- Introduction to Azure managed disks
configure virtual machine size
- Resize a Windows VM
implement dedicated hosts
- Azure Dedicated Hosts
deploy and configure scale sets
- What are virtual machine scale sets?

Automate deployment of VMs

modify Azure Resource Manager template
- Understand the structure and syntax of Azure Resource Manager templates
configure location of new VMs
- Set resource location in Resource Manager template
configure VHD template
- Create a managed image of a generalized VM in Azure
deploy from template
- Create a VM from a managed image
save a deployment as an Azure Resource Manager template
- Single and multi-resource export to a template in Azure portal
deploy Windows and Linux VMs
- Create a Windows virtual machine from a Resource Manager template
- How to create a Linux virtual machine with Azure Resource Manager templates

Create connectivity between virtual networks

create and configure Vnet peering
- Virtual network peering
- Create, change, or delete a virtual network peering
create and configure Vnet to Vnet connections
- Configure a VNet-to-VNet VPN gateway connection using PowerShell
verify virtual network connectivity
- Configure a VNet-to-VNet VPN gateway connection using PowerShell: How to verify a connection
create virtual network gateway
- Create a route-based VPN gateway using the Azure portal

Implement and manage virtual networking

configure private IP addressing
- IP address types and allocation methods in Azure
- Configure private IP addresses for a virtual machine using the Azure portal
configure public IP addresses
- Create a virtual machine with a static public IP address using the Azure portal
- Assign multiple IP addresses to virtual machines using PowerShell
create and configure network routes
- Virtual network traffic routing
create and configure network interface
- Create and manage a Windows virtual machine that has multiple NICs
create and configure subnets
- Add, change, or delete a virtual network subnet
create and configure virtual network
- Create, change, or delete a virtual network
create and configure Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups
- Security groups
- Create, change, or delete a network security group

Manage Azure Active Directory

add custom domains
- Add your custom domain name using the Azure Active Directory portal
configure Azure AD Identity Protection
- What is Azure Active Directory Identity Protection?
configure Azure AD Join
- How to: Plan your Azure AD join implementation
configure self-service password reset
- Tutorial: Complete an Azure AD self-service password reset pilot roll out
implement conditional access policies
- What is Conditional Access?
- Quickstart: Require MFA for specific apps with Azure Active Directory Conditional Access
manage multiple directories
- Understand how multiple Azure Active Directory tenants interact
perform an access review
- Review access to groups and applications in Azure AD access reviews

Implement and manage hybrid identities

install and configure Azure AD Connect
- Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect Health installation roadmap
configure federation
- Manage and customize Active Directory Federation Services by using Azure AD Connect
configure single sign-on
- Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On: Quick start
manage and troubleshoot Azure AD Connect
- Troubleshoot Azure AD connectivity with the ADConnectivityTool PowerShell module
troubleshoot password sync and writeback

Implement solutions that use virtual machines (VM)

provision VMs
- Quickstart: Create a Windows virtual machine in the Azure portal
- Quickstart: Create a Linux virtual machine in the Azure portal
create Azure Resource Manager templates
- Quickstart: Create and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates by using the Azure portal
configure Azure Disk Encryption for VMs
- Azure Disk Encryption for Windows VMs
- Azure Disk Encryption for Linux VMs
implement Azure Backup for VMs
- Tutorial: Back up and restore files for Windows virtual machines in Azure
- Tutorial: Back up and restore files for Linux virtual machines in Azure