Determine Workload Requirements (10-15%)
This particular exam objective is very broad in nature, thus it is very difficult for us to list materials to review that align to exam objectives in a 1:1 nature.
We recommend you read and become familiar with the following:
- Azure Architecture Center
- Azure Architecture Framework
- Develop a cloud adoption strategy
- Cloud Design Patterns (Read all challenges)
- Solution Ideas
Gather information and requirements
- identify compliance requirements
- identify identity and access management infrastructure
- identify service-oriented architectures
- identify accessibility requirements
- identify availability requirements
- identify capacity planning and scalability requirements
- identify deployability requirements
- identify configurability
- identify governance requirements
- identify maintainability requirements
- identify security requirements
- identify sizing requirements
- recommend changes during project execution
- evaluate products and services to align with solution
- create testing scenarios
Optimize consumption strategy
- optimize app service costs
- optimize compute costs
- optimize identity costs
- optimize network costs
- optimize storage costs
Design an auditing and monitoring strategy
- define logical groupings (tags) for resources to be monitored
- determine levels and storage locations for logs
- plan for integration with monitoring tools
- recommend appropriate monitoring tool(s) for a solution
- specify mechanism for event routing and escalation
- design auditing for compliance requirements
- design auditing policies and traceability requirements