AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design Authentication Part 3

1. Introduction to Authorization So in this section of the course, we’re going to switch over to the concept of authorization. Now, we talked about authentication being more than just user ID and password. You could include the concept of multifactor authentication. We know with some certainty, or even 100% certainty that you are who… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design Authentication Part-2

1. Intro to Authentication So in this section of the course we’re going to be talking about authentication. Now one of the key concepts of the exam in terms of identity is understanding the difference between authentication and authorization. Now authentication is proving who you are. So if you are able to show your driver’s… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design authentication

1. Design Identity and Security (25-30%) The second major section of this exam says Design Identity and Security. And as you can see, it is worth a significant percentage of the exam score. So put a lot of emphasis on this. Identity. Within Microsoft Azure is usually we’re talking about Microsoft Azure Active Directory as… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a solution for logging and monitoring Part 2

5. Monitoring Storage Accounts Now we’re in the storage account section of Azure Monitor and we can see a selection of our storage accounts. Not all of them have got auto selected, but most of them have. And at a glance we can see over the past 4 hours how many transactions each storage account… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a solution for logging and monitoring

1. Group Resources Using Tags So in this section of the course, we’re going to be talking about designing, auditing and monitoring strategy. Now again, this is a very strategic thing as opposed to the technologies. One thing you have to understand about auditing and monitoring is that it’s things are getting a lot easier… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a Site Recovery Strategy

1. Design Business Continuity (10-15%) The fourth section of the exam says Design Business Continuity as worth ten to 15% of the exam score. Underneath the topic of Business Continuity are two subtopics. One is Backup and Recovery and the other is High availability. Now, we should deal with these together because obviously not going… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a Networking Strategy Part 2

5. Azure Private DNS Now the private DNS zone on the other hand, is actually pretty interesting. It is a DNS service only accessible to your Azure resources. And so instead of it being a domain name that you go and register with a registrar and anyone in the world can use that domain name.… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a Networking Strategy

1. Overview of Networking in Azure So in this section of the course we’re going to be discussing the topics underneath the design and network solution section of the exam objectives. We can see on screen the exam objectives and there are seven sub objectives in this section. So in this video we’re going to… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a Monitoring Strategy for the Data Platform

1. Data Monitoring Strategy So let’s look at the ways that you can do various monitoring within your databases. When we were running SQL Server on our local environments within our data centers, we certainly knew that there were places to look, little hidden corners of SQL Server to find out the performance aspects of… Read More »

AZ-304 Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Design a Monitoring Strategy for Identity and Security

1. Using Privileged Identity Management Alerts So let’s wrap up the discussion of identity and security with a discussion of monitoring identity and security. Now monitoring is always going to be a key feature. We’ll talk about it when we’re talking about data. We’re going to talk about it in other sections of this course.… Read More »