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:

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