Mastering Microsoft Azure Cloud Architecture for Future-Proof Careers
You're not behind because you're not trying. You're behind because the cloud moves fast, the demands are high, and the roadmap to true mastery is buried under outdated content, vague guides, and tools that don't reflect real-world complexity. Talent is no longer enough. Employers aren't just looking for Azure familiarity. They're demanding proven, structured expertise in scalable, secure, and cost-optimised cloud architecture - and they're rewarding those who can deliver with salaries, promotions, and leadership roles. Mastering Microsoft Azure Cloud Architecture for Future-Proof Careers is the only program designed to take you from uncertainty to boardroom-ready confidence in just 30 days. Not theory. Not piecemeal knowledge. This is a results-driven blueprint for delivering end-to-end cloud architectures that align with enterprise strategy and generate real business value. We’ve seen DevOps engineers gain immediate promotion after redesigning their company's resilience framework using the exact modules in this course. One architect in Dublin reported closing a $2.3M multi-region migration proposal within two weeks of completing the certification. These aren’t outliers. They’re the expected outcome. The cloud won’t wait. Your competition won’t pause. You don’t need more videos. You need clarity, structure, and a proven path. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Self-Paced, On-Demand Learning - With Zero Time Pressure
This program is entirely self-paced, with full on-demand access from the moment you enrol. There are no fixed dates, no live sessions to schedule around, and no expiration on your progress. Whether you advance in 30 days or over several months, your journey remains uninterrupted. Most learners report completing core architectural design projects in under 3 weeks and achieving certification readiness within 30 days. Because the content is structured in focused, hands-on modules, you immediately apply what you learn to real enterprise-grade scenarios. Lifetime Access, Full Updates, Complete Flexibility
- You receive lifetime access to all course materials.
- Future updates - including new Azure services, compliance changes, and architecture best practices - are included at no additional cost.
- Access is available 24/7 from any device, anywhere in the world.
- Mobile-optimised formatting ensures seamless learning whether you’re on your commute, between meetings, or working remotely.
Direct Instructor Support & Guided Implementation
You’re not learning alone. Each module includes direct pathways for structured feedback, scenario validation, and expert guidance. Your progress is supported through annotated architecture templates, peer-reviewed design exercises, and instructor-curated checkpoints proven to deepen retention and confidence. Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
Upon successful completion, you earn a globally recognised Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. This credential is trusted by enterprises, audited by hiring managers, and respected across IT, cloud, and enterprise architecture communities worldwide. No Hidden Fees. Clear, Transparent Pricing.
The investment is straightforward, with no recurring charges, upsells, or surprise costs. What you see is exactly what you get - full access, complete resources, and certification eligibility included. Accepted Payment Methods
- Visa
- Mastercard
- PayPal
100% Satisfied or Refunded - Zero Risk Guarantee
If you complete the first three modules and feel this course isn’t delivering the clarity, structure, and career momentum you expected, simply request a full refund. No questions, no hassle. Your only risk is staying where you are. What Happens After Enrolment?
After registration, you’ll receive a confirmation email. Once your course access is fully configured, you’ll receive a separate notification with login details and next steps. No automated instant access, no broken links - just secure, verified entry when your learning environment is ready. Will This Work For Me?
Absolutely - even if you’ve tried other Azure courses and still feel unprepared for real design decisions. Even if you’re not a full-time cloud architect yet. Even if your current role doesn’t reflect your ambitions. This works if you’re a systems administrator aiming to transition into cloud design. It works if you’re a developer who needs to speak fluently with infrastructure teams. It works if you're a solutions architect tired of reactive fixes and ready to lead strategic initiatives. We’ve had network engineers secure cloud lead roles after applying the cost-modelling and governance frameworks taught in Module 5. A project manager in Singapore used the risk-assessment templates from Module 8 to fast-track a compliance-critical migration approved by her CISO. This is not about abstract knowledge. It’s about repeatable methodology, documented decisions, and deliverables that stand up in audit, review, and boardrooms.
Extensive and Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of Microsoft Azure Cloud Architecture - Understanding the cloud maturity model and architectural evolution
- Core principles of Azure cloud: scalability, elasticity, and pay-per-use
- Comparing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models in enterprise context
- Key differences between on-premises and cloud-native design
- Role of identity and access in cloud architecture
- Azure subscription and resource group best practices
- Designing naming conventions for traceability and governance
- Overview of Azure regions, availability zones, and geographic distribution
- Understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and deployment models
- Introduction to cloud operating models and team responsibilities
- Mapping business goals to cloud capabilities
- Case study: Migrating a legacy ERP system to Azure
- Hands-on exercise: Building a foundational Azure landing zone
- Architecture decision records and documentation standards
Module 2: Core Azure Services for Enterprise Architecture - Azure Virtual Machines: sizing, scaling, and lifecycle management
- Azure Blob, File, and Data Lake Storage: use cases and performance
- Virtual networks (VNet), subnets, and network segmentation
- Private vs public IP addressing in Azure
- Load Balancer and Application Gateway: selection criteria
- Azure DNS and Traffic Manager for global routing
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) architecture and deployment patterns
- Azure Functions and serverless design principles
- Azure SQL Database: DTUs, vCores, and elasticity options
- Managed Disks and availability set configurations
- Azure Bastion and Just-In-Time VM access security
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics setup for infrastructure
- Cost estimation using Azure Pricing Calculator
- Architecture review checklist for service alignment
- Labs: Deploying a multi-tier application on Azure
Module 3: Security, Compliance, and Identity Architecture - Zero Trust principles in Azure cloud design
- Identity design with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and conditional access policies
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) at scale
- Designing least privilege access across teams
- Azure Key Vault: secrets, keys, and certificate management
- Private Link and Service Endpoints for secure connectivity
- NSG and Azure Firewall rules for micro-segmentation
- Secure hybrid connectivity with ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway
- Azure Security Center: policies, recommendations, and remediation
- Defining compliance posture using Azure Policy
- GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 implications in design
- Architecture for audit logging and forensic readiness
- Designing data classification and tagging strategies
- Hands-on: Security hardening a production environment
Module 4: Scalable and Resilient Design Patterns - Designing for high availability vs disaster recovery
- Availability Sets, Availability Zones, and region pairs
- Multi-region architecture patterns and active-passive designs
- Active-active architectures with geo-redundant databases
- Auto-scaling patterns for VMs and app services
- Designing stateless applications for elasticity
- Caching strategies with Azure Cache for Redis
- Content delivery using Azure CDN
- Message queuing and decoupling with Azure Service Bus
- Event-driven architecture using Azure Event Grid
- Designing retry policies and circuit breakers
- SLA planning and uptime requirements alignment
- Designing for graceful degradation
- Labs: Building a fault-tolerant web application
Module 5: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding Azure billing models and cost drivers
- Reserved Instances vs Pay-As-You-Go vs Spot Instances
- Right-sizing virtual machines and storage tiers
- Identifying and eliminating zombie resources
- Using Azure Cost Management and Advisor
- Setting budgets and alerts at subscription level
- Tagging strategies for cost allocation by project or department
- Designing with total cost of ownership (TCO) in mind
- Comparing lift-and-shift vs rearchitecting costs
- Serverless cost models and optimisation
- Architectural trade-offs between performance and cost
- Negotiating with procurement using architecture proposals
- Creating business cases with ROI calculations
- Hands-on: Optimising a bloated environment
Module 6: Data Architecture and Management - Choosing the right data store: relational vs NoSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB: partitioning, consistency, and throughput
- Azure Synapse Analytics for enterprise data warehousing
- Data Lake Storage Gen2 and hierarchical namespace
- Designing for data ingestion at scale
- ETL vs ELT patterns in Azure
- Azure Data Factory: orchestration and pipeline design
- Stream processing with Azure Stream Analytics
- Data lifecycle and retention policies
- Designing for data sovereignty and residency
- Backup and recovery strategies using Azure Backup
- Point-in-time restore and geo-replication
- Hands-on: Designing a scalable data pipeline
- Audit and certification readiness for data handling
Module 7: Modern Application Architecture - Transitioning from monolithic to microservices
- Domain-Driven Design principles in cloud context
- API management with Azure API Management
- Versioning, throttling, and securing APIs
- Container registry and image lifecycle management
- AKS cluster design: node pools, auto-scaling, upgrades
- Service discovery and internal traffic routing
- CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Blue-green and canary deployments in production
- Monitoring application health and performance
- Designing observability into applications
- Serverless backend patterns with Azure Functions
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns
- Labs: Deploying a microservices-based application
Module 8: Governance, Operations, and Automation - Designing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
- Role of platform teams vs development teams
- Creating guardrails with Azure Blueprints
- Policies as code and drift management
- Designing operations playbooks and runbooks
- Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Bicep
- Terraform for Azure: state management and collaboration
- Automated compliance checks and audit trails
- Monitoring KPIs and SLOs across services
- Alerting strategies to prevent downtime
- Root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
- Change management in regulated environments
- Disaster recovery planning and failover drills
- Hands-on: Automating an entire environment build
Module 9: Migration and Modernisation Strategy - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Refactor, Replatform, etc.
- Assessment tools: Azure Migrate and Discovery assessments
- Dependency mapping and application grouping
- Planning phased migration waves
- Data migration challenges and strategies
- Network redesign for hybrid and cloud-native
- Security continuity during migration
- Testing strategy: performance, security, failover
- Backout plans and rollback procedures
- Stakeholder communication and change management
- Business case preparation with cost-benefit analysis
- Migration readiness checklist
- Case study: Full enterprise finance system migration
- Labs: Designing a migration plan for a legacy app
Module 10: Advanced Architectural Patterns - Hybrid cloud architecture with Azure Arc
- Multi-cloud design considerations and integration
- AI/ML integration with Azure Machine Learning
- IoT architecture with Azure IoT Hub and Edge
- Blockchain solutions on Azure with Azure Blockchain Service
- Big data pipelines using Databricks on Azure
- Real-time analytics with Power BI and Event Hubs
- Designing secure developer sandboxes
- Architecture for DevSecOps integration
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery
- Security automation and policy enforcement
- Designing for quantum-readiness and future tech
- Optimising for AI-driven operations
- Case study: Integrating AI into core operations
Module 11: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course topics to Azure certification paths
- Choosing between AZ-305 and AZ-104 based on career goals
- Study strategy for exam success
- Common exam domains and question types
- Practice scenario walkthroughs
- Time management during exams
- Using the Certificate of Completion in your resume
- Leveraging LinkedIn for visibility
- Building a cloud architecture portfolio
- Writing technical case studies from real projects
- Networking with cloud communities
- Using GitHub to showcase IaC templates
- Talking to hiring managers about cloud ROI
- Presenting your architecture decisions effectively
Module 12: Capstone Project and Real-World Implementation - Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies
Module 1: Foundations of Microsoft Azure Cloud Architecture - Understanding the cloud maturity model and architectural evolution
- Core principles of Azure cloud: scalability, elasticity, and pay-per-use
- Comparing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models in enterprise context
- Key differences between on-premises and cloud-native design
- Role of identity and access in cloud architecture
- Azure subscription and resource group best practices
- Designing naming conventions for traceability and governance
- Overview of Azure regions, availability zones, and geographic distribution
- Understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and deployment models
- Introduction to cloud operating models and team responsibilities
- Mapping business goals to cloud capabilities
- Case study: Migrating a legacy ERP system to Azure
- Hands-on exercise: Building a foundational Azure landing zone
- Architecture decision records and documentation standards
Module 2: Core Azure Services for Enterprise Architecture - Azure Virtual Machines: sizing, scaling, and lifecycle management
- Azure Blob, File, and Data Lake Storage: use cases and performance
- Virtual networks (VNet), subnets, and network segmentation
- Private vs public IP addressing in Azure
- Load Balancer and Application Gateway: selection criteria
- Azure DNS and Traffic Manager for global routing
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) architecture and deployment patterns
- Azure Functions and serverless design principles
- Azure SQL Database: DTUs, vCores, and elasticity options
- Managed Disks and availability set configurations
- Azure Bastion and Just-In-Time VM access security
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics setup for infrastructure
- Cost estimation using Azure Pricing Calculator
- Architecture review checklist for service alignment
- Labs: Deploying a multi-tier application on Azure
Module 3: Security, Compliance, and Identity Architecture - Zero Trust principles in Azure cloud design
- Identity design with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and conditional access policies
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) at scale
- Designing least privilege access across teams
- Azure Key Vault: secrets, keys, and certificate management
- Private Link and Service Endpoints for secure connectivity
- NSG and Azure Firewall rules for micro-segmentation
- Secure hybrid connectivity with ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway
- Azure Security Center: policies, recommendations, and remediation
- Defining compliance posture using Azure Policy
- GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 implications in design
- Architecture for audit logging and forensic readiness
- Designing data classification and tagging strategies
- Hands-on: Security hardening a production environment
Module 4: Scalable and Resilient Design Patterns - Designing for high availability vs disaster recovery
- Availability Sets, Availability Zones, and region pairs
- Multi-region architecture patterns and active-passive designs
- Active-active architectures with geo-redundant databases
- Auto-scaling patterns for VMs and app services
- Designing stateless applications for elasticity
- Caching strategies with Azure Cache for Redis
- Content delivery using Azure CDN
- Message queuing and decoupling with Azure Service Bus
- Event-driven architecture using Azure Event Grid
- Designing retry policies and circuit breakers
- SLA planning and uptime requirements alignment
- Designing for graceful degradation
- Labs: Building a fault-tolerant web application
Module 5: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding Azure billing models and cost drivers
- Reserved Instances vs Pay-As-You-Go vs Spot Instances
- Right-sizing virtual machines and storage tiers
- Identifying and eliminating zombie resources
- Using Azure Cost Management and Advisor
- Setting budgets and alerts at subscription level
- Tagging strategies for cost allocation by project or department
- Designing with total cost of ownership (TCO) in mind
- Comparing lift-and-shift vs rearchitecting costs
- Serverless cost models and optimisation
- Architectural trade-offs between performance and cost
- Negotiating with procurement using architecture proposals
- Creating business cases with ROI calculations
- Hands-on: Optimising a bloated environment
Module 6: Data Architecture and Management - Choosing the right data store: relational vs NoSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB: partitioning, consistency, and throughput
- Azure Synapse Analytics for enterprise data warehousing
- Data Lake Storage Gen2 and hierarchical namespace
- Designing for data ingestion at scale
- ETL vs ELT patterns in Azure
- Azure Data Factory: orchestration and pipeline design
- Stream processing with Azure Stream Analytics
- Data lifecycle and retention policies
- Designing for data sovereignty and residency
- Backup and recovery strategies using Azure Backup
- Point-in-time restore and geo-replication
- Hands-on: Designing a scalable data pipeline
- Audit and certification readiness for data handling
Module 7: Modern Application Architecture - Transitioning from monolithic to microservices
- Domain-Driven Design principles in cloud context
- API management with Azure API Management
- Versioning, throttling, and securing APIs
- Container registry and image lifecycle management
- AKS cluster design: node pools, auto-scaling, upgrades
- Service discovery and internal traffic routing
- CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Blue-green and canary deployments in production
- Monitoring application health and performance
- Designing observability into applications
- Serverless backend patterns with Azure Functions
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns
- Labs: Deploying a microservices-based application
Module 8: Governance, Operations, and Automation - Designing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
- Role of platform teams vs development teams
- Creating guardrails with Azure Blueprints
- Policies as code and drift management
- Designing operations playbooks and runbooks
- Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Bicep
- Terraform for Azure: state management and collaboration
- Automated compliance checks and audit trails
- Monitoring KPIs and SLOs across services
- Alerting strategies to prevent downtime
- Root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
- Change management in regulated environments
- Disaster recovery planning and failover drills
- Hands-on: Automating an entire environment build
Module 9: Migration and Modernisation Strategy - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Refactor, Replatform, etc.
- Assessment tools: Azure Migrate and Discovery assessments
- Dependency mapping and application grouping
- Planning phased migration waves
- Data migration challenges and strategies
- Network redesign for hybrid and cloud-native
- Security continuity during migration
- Testing strategy: performance, security, failover
- Backout plans and rollback procedures
- Stakeholder communication and change management
- Business case preparation with cost-benefit analysis
- Migration readiness checklist
- Case study: Full enterprise finance system migration
- Labs: Designing a migration plan for a legacy app
Module 10: Advanced Architectural Patterns - Hybrid cloud architecture with Azure Arc
- Multi-cloud design considerations and integration
- AI/ML integration with Azure Machine Learning
- IoT architecture with Azure IoT Hub and Edge
- Blockchain solutions on Azure with Azure Blockchain Service
- Big data pipelines using Databricks on Azure
- Real-time analytics with Power BI and Event Hubs
- Designing secure developer sandboxes
- Architecture for DevSecOps integration
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery
- Security automation and policy enforcement
- Designing for quantum-readiness and future tech
- Optimising for AI-driven operations
- Case study: Integrating AI into core operations
Module 11: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course topics to Azure certification paths
- Choosing between AZ-305 and AZ-104 based on career goals
- Study strategy for exam success
- Common exam domains and question types
- Practice scenario walkthroughs
- Time management during exams
- Using the Certificate of Completion in your resume
- Leveraging LinkedIn for visibility
- Building a cloud architecture portfolio
- Writing technical case studies from real projects
- Networking with cloud communities
- Using GitHub to showcase IaC templates
- Talking to hiring managers about cloud ROI
- Presenting your architecture decisions effectively
Module 12: Capstone Project and Real-World Implementation - Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies
- Azure Virtual Machines: sizing, scaling, and lifecycle management
- Azure Blob, File, and Data Lake Storage: use cases and performance
- Virtual networks (VNet), subnets, and network segmentation
- Private vs public IP addressing in Azure
- Load Balancer and Application Gateway: selection criteria
- Azure DNS and Traffic Manager for global routing
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) architecture and deployment patterns
- Azure Functions and serverless design principles
- Azure SQL Database: DTUs, vCores, and elasticity options
- Managed Disks and availability set configurations
- Azure Bastion and Just-In-Time VM access security
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics setup for infrastructure
- Cost estimation using Azure Pricing Calculator
- Architecture review checklist for service alignment
- Labs: Deploying a multi-tier application on Azure
Module 3: Security, Compliance, and Identity Architecture - Zero Trust principles in Azure cloud design
- Identity design with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA) and conditional access policies
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) at scale
- Designing least privilege access across teams
- Azure Key Vault: secrets, keys, and certificate management
- Private Link and Service Endpoints for secure connectivity
- NSG and Azure Firewall rules for micro-segmentation
- Secure hybrid connectivity with ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway
- Azure Security Center: policies, recommendations, and remediation
- Defining compliance posture using Azure Policy
- GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 implications in design
- Architecture for audit logging and forensic readiness
- Designing data classification and tagging strategies
- Hands-on: Security hardening a production environment
Module 4: Scalable and Resilient Design Patterns - Designing for high availability vs disaster recovery
- Availability Sets, Availability Zones, and region pairs
- Multi-region architecture patterns and active-passive designs
- Active-active architectures with geo-redundant databases
- Auto-scaling patterns for VMs and app services
- Designing stateless applications for elasticity
- Caching strategies with Azure Cache for Redis
- Content delivery using Azure CDN
- Message queuing and decoupling with Azure Service Bus
- Event-driven architecture using Azure Event Grid
- Designing retry policies and circuit breakers
- SLA planning and uptime requirements alignment
- Designing for graceful degradation
- Labs: Building a fault-tolerant web application
Module 5: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding Azure billing models and cost drivers
- Reserved Instances vs Pay-As-You-Go vs Spot Instances
- Right-sizing virtual machines and storage tiers
- Identifying and eliminating zombie resources
- Using Azure Cost Management and Advisor
- Setting budgets and alerts at subscription level
- Tagging strategies for cost allocation by project or department
- Designing with total cost of ownership (TCO) in mind
- Comparing lift-and-shift vs rearchitecting costs
- Serverless cost models and optimisation
- Architectural trade-offs between performance and cost
- Negotiating with procurement using architecture proposals
- Creating business cases with ROI calculations
- Hands-on: Optimising a bloated environment
Module 6: Data Architecture and Management - Choosing the right data store: relational vs NoSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB: partitioning, consistency, and throughput
- Azure Synapse Analytics for enterprise data warehousing
- Data Lake Storage Gen2 and hierarchical namespace
- Designing for data ingestion at scale
- ETL vs ELT patterns in Azure
- Azure Data Factory: orchestration and pipeline design
- Stream processing with Azure Stream Analytics
- Data lifecycle and retention policies
- Designing for data sovereignty and residency
- Backup and recovery strategies using Azure Backup
- Point-in-time restore and geo-replication
- Hands-on: Designing a scalable data pipeline
- Audit and certification readiness for data handling
Module 7: Modern Application Architecture - Transitioning from monolithic to microservices
- Domain-Driven Design principles in cloud context
- API management with Azure API Management
- Versioning, throttling, and securing APIs
- Container registry and image lifecycle management
- AKS cluster design: node pools, auto-scaling, upgrades
- Service discovery and internal traffic routing
- CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Blue-green and canary deployments in production
- Monitoring application health and performance
- Designing observability into applications
- Serverless backend patterns with Azure Functions
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns
- Labs: Deploying a microservices-based application
Module 8: Governance, Operations, and Automation - Designing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
- Role of platform teams vs development teams
- Creating guardrails with Azure Blueprints
- Policies as code and drift management
- Designing operations playbooks and runbooks
- Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Bicep
- Terraform for Azure: state management and collaboration
- Automated compliance checks and audit trails
- Monitoring KPIs and SLOs across services
- Alerting strategies to prevent downtime
- Root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
- Change management in regulated environments
- Disaster recovery planning and failover drills
- Hands-on: Automating an entire environment build
Module 9: Migration and Modernisation Strategy - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Refactor, Replatform, etc.
- Assessment tools: Azure Migrate and Discovery assessments
- Dependency mapping and application grouping
- Planning phased migration waves
- Data migration challenges and strategies
- Network redesign for hybrid and cloud-native
- Security continuity during migration
- Testing strategy: performance, security, failover
- Backout plans and rollback procedures
- Stakeholder communication and change management
- Business case preparation with cost-benefit analysis
- Migration readiness checklist
- Case study: Full enterprise finance system migration
- Labs: Designing a migration plan for a legacy app
Module 10: Advanced Architectural Patterns - Hybrid cloud architecture with Azure Arc
- Multi-cloud design considerations and integration
- AI/ML integration with Azure Machine Learning
- IoT architecture with Azure IoT Hub and Edge
- Blockchain solutions on Azure with Azure Blockchain Service
- Big data pipelines using Databricks on Azure
- Real-time analytics with Power BI and Event Hubs
- Designing secure developer sandboxes
- Architecture for DevSecOps integration
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery
- Security automation and policy enforcement
- Designing for quantum-readiness and future tech
- Optimising for AI-driven operations
- Case study: Integrating AI into core operations
Module 11: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course topics to Azure certification paths
- Choosing between AZ-305 and AZ-104 based on career goals
- Study strategy for exam success
- Common exam domains and question types
- Practice scenario walkthroughs
- Time management during exams
- Using the Certificate of Completion in your resume
- Leveraging LinkedIn for visibility
- Building a cloud architecture portfolio
- Writing technical case studies from real projects
- Networking with cloud communities
- Using GitHub to showcase IaC templates
- Talking to hiring managers about cloud ROI
- Presenting your architecture decisions effectively
Module 12: Capstone Project and Real-World Implementation - Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies
- Designing for high availability vs disaster recovery
- Availability Sets, Availability Zones, and region pairs
- Multi-region architecture patterns and active-passive designs
- Active-active architectures with geo-redundant databases
- Auto-scaling patterns for VMs and app services
- Designing stateless applications for elasticity
- Caching strategies with Azure Cache for Redis
- Content delivery using Azure CDN
- Message queuing and decoupling with Azure Service Bus
- Event-driven architecture using Azure Event Grid
- Designing retry policies and circuit breakers
- SLA planning and uptime requirements alignment
- Designing for graceful degradation
- Labs: Building a fault-tolerant web application
Module 5: Cost Optimisation and Financial Governance - Understanding Azure billing models and cost drivers
- Reserved Instances vs Pay-As-You-Go vs Spot Instances
- Right-sizing virtual machines and storage tiers
- Identifying and eliminating zombie resources
- Using Azure Cost Management and Advisor
- Setting budgets and alerts at subscription level
- Tagging strategies for cost allocation by project or department
- Designing with total cost of ownership (TCO) in mind
- Comparing lift-and-shift vs rearchitecting costs
- Serverless cost models and optimisation
- Architectural trade-offs between performance and cost
- Negotiating with procurement using architecture proposals
- Creating business cases with ROI calculations
- Hands-on: Optimising a bloated environment
Module 6: Data Architecture and Management - Choosing the right data store: relational vs NoSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB: partitioning, consistency, and throughput
- Azure Synapse Analytics for enterprise data warehousing
- Data Lake Storage Gen2 and hierarchical namespace
- Designing for data ingestion at scale
- ETL vs ELT patterns in Azure
- Azure Data Factory: orchestration and pipeline design
- Stream processing with Azure Stream Analytics
- Data lifecycle and retention policies
- Designing for data sovereignty and residency
- Backup and recovery strategies using Azure Backup
- Point-in-time restore and geo-replication
- Hands-on: Designing a scalable data pipeline
- Audit and certification readiness for data handling
Module 7: Modern Application Architecture - Transitioning from monolithic to microservices
- Domain-Driven Design principles in cloud context
- API management with Azure API Management
- Versioning, throttling, and securing APIs
- Container registry and image lifecycle management
- AKS cluster design: node pools, auto-scaling, upgrades
- Service discovery and internal traffic routing
- CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Blue-green and canary deployments in production
- Monitoring application health and performance
- Designing observability into applications
- Serverless backend patterns with Azure Functions
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns
- Labs: Deploying a microservices-based application
Module 8: Governance, Operations, and Automation - Designing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
- Role of platform teams vs development teams
- Creating guardrails with Azure Blueprints
- Policies as code and drift management
- Designing operations playbooks and runbooks
- Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Bicep
- Terraform for Azure: state management and collaboration
- Automated compliance checks and audit trails
- Monitoring KPIs and SLOs across services
- Alerting strategies to prevent downtime
- Root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
- Change management in regulated environments
- Disaster recovery planning and failover drills
- Hands-on: Automating an entire environment build
Module 9: Migration and Modernisation Strategy - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Refactor, Replatform, etc.
- Assessment tools: Azure Migrate and Discovery assessments
- Dependency mapping and application grouping
- Planning phased migration waves
- Data migration challenges and strategies
- Network redesign for hybrid and cloud-native
- Security continuity during migration
- Testing strategy: performance, security, failover
- Backout plans and rollback procedures
- Stakeholder communication and change management
- Business case preparation with cost-benefit analysis
- Migration readiness checklist
- Case study: Full enterprise finance system migration
- Labs: Designing a migration plan for a legacy app
Module 10: Advanced Architectural Patterns - Hybrid cloud architecture with Azure Arc
- Multi-cloud design considerations and integration
- AI/ML integration with Azure Machine Learning
- IoT architecture with Azure IoT Hub and Edge
- Blockchain solutions on Azure with Azure Blockchain Service
- Big data pipelines using Databricks on Azure
- Real-time analytics with Power BI and Event Hubs
- Designing secure developer sandboxes
- Architecture for DevSecOps integration
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery
- Security automation and policy enforcement
- Designing for quantum-readiness and future tech
- Optimising for AI-driven operations
- Case study: Integrating AI into core operations
Module 11: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course topics to Azure certification paths
- Choosing between AZ-305 and AZ-104 based on career goals
- Study strategy for exam success
- Common exam domains and question types
- Practice scenario walkthroughs
- Time management during exams
- Using the Certificate of Completion in your resume
- Leveraging LinkedIn for visibility
- Building a cloud architecture portfolio
- Writing technical case studies from real projects
- Networking with cloud communities
- Using GitHub to showcase IaC templates
- Talking to hiring managers about cloud ROI
- Presenting your architecture decisions effectively
Module 12: Capstone Project and Real-World Implementation - Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies
- Choosing the right data store: relational vs NoSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB: partitioning, consistency, and throughput
- Azure Synapse Analytics for enterprise data warehousing
- Data Lake Storage Gen2 and hierarchical namespace
- Designing for data ingestion at scale
- ETL vs ELT patterns in Azure
- Azure Data Factory: orchestration and pipeline design
- Stream processing with Azure Stream Analytics
- Data lifecycle and retention policies
- Designing for data sovereignty and residency
- Backup and recovery strategies using Azure Backup
- Point-in-time restore and geo-replication
- Hands-on: Designing a scalable data pipeline
- Audit and certification readiness for data handling
Module 7: Modern Application Architecture - Transitioning from monolithic to microservices
- Domain-Driven Design principles in cloud context
- API management with Azure API Management
- Versioning, throttling, and securing APIs
- Container registry and image lifecycle management
- AKS cluster design: node pools, auto-scaling, upgrades
- Service discovery and internal traffic routing
- CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Blue-green and canary deployments in production
- Monitoring application health and performance
- Designing observability into applications
- Serverless backend patterns with Azure Functions
- Event sourcing and CQRS patterns
- Labs: Deploying a microservices-based application
Module 8: Governance, Operations, and Automation - Designing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
- Role of platform teams vs development teams
- Creating guardrails with Azure Blueprints
- Policies as code and drift management
- Designing operations playbooks and runbooks
- Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Bicep
- Terraform for Azure: state management and collaboration
- Automated compliance checks and audit trails
- Monitoring KPIs and SLOs across services
- Alerting strategies to prevent downtime
- Root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
- Change management in regulated environments
- Disaster recovery planning and failover drills
- Hands-on: Automating an entire environment build
Module 9: Migration and Modernisation Strategy - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Refactor, Replatform, etc.
- Assessment tools: Azure Migrate and Discovery assessments
- Dependency mapping and application grouping
- Planning phased migration waves
- Data migration challenges and strategies
- Network redesign for hybrid and cloud-native
- Security continuity during migration
- Testing strategy: performance, security, failover
- Backout plans and rollback procedures
- Stakeholder communication and change management
- Business case preparation with cost-benefit analysis
- Migration readiness checklist
- Case study: Full enterprise finance system migration
- Labs: Designing a migration plan for a legacy app
Module 10: Advanced Architectural Patterns - Hybrid cloud architecture with Azure Arc
- Multi-cloud design considerations and integration
- AI/ML integration with Azure Machine Learning
- IoT architecture with Azure IoT Hub and Edge
- Blockchain solutions on Azure with Azure Blockchain Service
- Big data pipelines using Databricks on Azure
- Real-time analytics with Power BI and Event Hubs
- Designing secure developer sandboxes
- Architecture for DevSecOps integration
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery
- Security automation and policy enforcement
- Designing for quantum-readiness and future tech
- Optimising for AI-driven operations
- Case study: Integrating AI into core operations
Module 11: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course topics to Azure certification paths
- Choosing between AZ-305 and AZ-104 based on career goals
- Study strategy for exam success
- Common exam domains and question types
- Practice scenario walkthroughs
- Time management during exams
- Using the Certificate of Completion in your resume
- Leveraging LinkedIn for visibility
- Building a cloud architecture portfolio
- Writing technical case studies from real projects
- Networking with cloud communities
- Using GitHub to showcase IaC templates
- Talking to hiring managers about cloud ROI
- Presenting your architecture decisions effectively
Module 12: Capstone Project and Real-World Implementation - Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies
- Designing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
- Role of platform teams vs development teams
- Creating guardrails with Azure Blueprints
- Policies as code and drift management
- Designing operations playbooks and runbooks
- Infrastructure as Code using ARM templates and Bicep
- Terraform for Azure: state management and collaboration
- Automated compliance checks and audit trails
- Monitoring KPIs and SLOs across services
- Alerting strategies to prevent downtime
- Root cause analysis and post-mortem documentation
- Change management in regulated environments
- Disaster recovery planning and failover drills
- Hands-on: Automating an entire environment build
Module 9: Migration and Modernisation Strategy - The 6 Rs of cloud migration: Rehost, Refactor, Replatform, etc.
- Assessment tools: Azure Migrate and Discovery assessments
- Dependency mapping and application grouping
- Planning phased migration waves
- Data migration challenges and strategies
- Network redesign for hybrid and cloud-native
- Security continuity during migration
- Testing strategy: performance, security, failover
- Backout plans and rollback procedures
- Stakeholder communication and change management
- Business case preparation with cost-benefit analysis
- Migration readiness checklist
- Case study: Full enterprise finance system migration
- Labs: Designing a migration plan for a legacy app
Module 10: Advanced Architectural Patterns - Hybrid cloud architecture with Azure Arc
- Multi-cloud design considerations and integration
- AI/ML integration with Azure Machine Learning
- IoT architecture with Azure IoT Hub and Edge
- Blockchain solutions on Azure with Azure Blockchain Service
- Big data pipelines using Databricks on Azure
- Real-time analytics with Power BI and Event Hubs
- Designing secure developer sandboxes
- Architecture for DevSecOps integration
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery
- Security automation and policy enforcement
- Designing for quantum-readiness and future tech
- Optimising for AI-driven operations
- Case study: Integrating AI into core operations
Module 11: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course topics to Azure certification paths
- Choosing between AZ-305 and AZ-104 based on career goals
- Study strategy for exam success
- Common exam domains and question types
- Practice scenario walkthroughs
- Time management during exams
- Using the Certificate of Completion in your resume
- Leveraging LinkedIn for visibility
- Building a cloud architecture portfolio
- Writing technical case studies from real projects
- Networking with cloud communities
- Using GitHub to showcase IaC templates
- Talking to hiring managers about cloud ROI
- Presenting your architecture decisions effectively
Module 12: Capstone Project and Real-World Implementation - Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies
- Hybrid cloud architecture with Azure Arc
- Multi-cloud design considerations and integration
- AI/ML integration with Azure Machine Learning
- IoT architecture with Azure IoT Hub and Edge
- Blockchain solutions on Azure with Azure Blockchain Service
- Big data pipelines using Databricks on Azure
- Real-time analytics with Power BI and Event Hubs
- Designing secure developer sandboxes
- Architecture for DevSecOps integration
- Feature flagging and progressive delivery
- Security automation and policy enforcement
- Designing for quantum-readiness and future tech
- Optimising for AI-driven operations
- Case study: Integrating AI into core operations
Module 11: Certification Preparation and Career Advancement - Mapping course topics to Azure certification paths
- Choosing between AZ-305 and AZ-104 based on career goals
- Study strategy for exam success
- Common exam domains and question types
- Practice scenario walkthroughs
- Time management during exams
- Using the Certificate of Completion in your resume
- Leveraging LinkedIn for visibility
- Building a cloud architecture portfolio
- Writing technical case studies from real projects
- Networking with cloud communities
- Using GitHub to showcase IaC templates
- Talking to hiring managers about cloud ROI
- Presenting your architecture decisions effectively
Module 12: Capstone Project and Real-World Implementation - Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies
- Project brief: Design a cloud architecture for a global retail company
- Defining business requirements and constraints
- Selecting appropriate Azure services
- Designing high-level and detailed architecture diagrams
- Writing a comprehensive architecture decision record
- Incorporating security, scalability, and cost controls
- Building a TCO model and cost forecast
- Developing a migration roadmap
- Creating a governance and operations plan
- Preparing a compliance checklist
- Peer review process with structured feedback
- Final submission and instructor evaluation
- Receiving the Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service
- Next steps: career coaching and job placement strategies