AZ-305 — Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
Bootcamp Certificate Track
Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions. Design data storage and business continuity solutions. Design infrastructure solutions. Estimated effort: 120–160 hours.
🔗 Official Certification PageWho This Is For?
- Azure Solutions Architects
- Senior cloud infrastructure engineers
- Technical leaders designing Azure solutions
What You'll Achieve
- Expert-level Azure architecture design skills
- Confidence designing enterprise-scale solutions
- Strong governance and compliance capabilities
Full Curriculum Outline (Exam-Aligned)
Comprehensive coverage of all exam objectives with hands-on practice
6-Week Bootcamp Curriculum
Deep-dive architecture design training with hands-on labs and capstone project
Week 1 — Identity, Authentication & Monitoring Architecture
Skills Area: Identity and monitoring (part of 25–30%)
What You'll Learn
- Design logging architectures: Centralized logging, Log routing strategies
- Recommend monitoring solutions for infrastructure, applications, and platform services
- Design authentication strategies
- Design identity management solutions
- Design authorization models for Azure resources and on-premises resources
- Design secrets, certificates, and key management
Hands-On Labs
- Design a centralized Azure monitoring and logging architecture
- Implement identity and authentication design using Microsoft Entra ID
- Design RBAC and access strategies for Azure and hybrid environments
- Design Key Vault–based secrets and certificate management
Week 2 — Governance, Compliance & Identity Governance
Skills Area: Governance (part of 25–30%)
What You'll Learn
- Design management group, subscription, and resource group hierarchies
- Design tagging strategies for cost, ownership, and compliance
- Design compliance management solutions
- Design identity governance strategies: Access reviews, Lifecycle management
Hands-On Labs
- Design an enterprise Azure management group and subscription model
- Define tagging and governance standards
- Design compliance enforcement using Azure Policy
- Design identity governance workflows
Week 3 — Data Storage & Data Integration Architecture
Skills Area: Data storage solutions (20–25%)
What You'll Learn
- Design relational data solutions: Service selection, Compute and tier sizing, Scalability strategies
- Design data protection for databases
- Design semi-structured and unstructured data storage
- Balance storage features, performance, and cost
- Design durability and protection strategies
- Design data integration solutions
- Design data analytics solutions
Hands-On Labs
- Design relational data architectures (Azure SQL, managed databases)
- Design scalable and protected database architectures
- Design storage architectures for blob and file data
- Design data integration and analytics architecture
Week 4 — Business Continuity, Backup & High Availability
Skills Area: Business continuity (15–20%)
What You'll Learn
- Design disaster recovery strategies for Azure workloads and hybrid workloads
- Design backup and recovery solutions for compute, databases, and unstructured data
- Design high-availability solutions for compute workloads, relational databases, and semi-structured/unstructured data
Hands-On Labs
- Design an enterprise backup and recovery architecture
- Design Azure Site Recovery–based DR solutions
- Design high-availability compute and database architectures
- Validate RTO and RPO against business requirements
Week 5 — Compute & Application Architecture
Skills Area: Infrastructure solutions (part of 30–35%)
What You'll Learn
- Specify compute components based on workload requirements
- Recommend VM-based solutions, container-based solutions, serverless solutions, and batch processing solutions
- Design application architectures: Messaging, Event-driven systems, API integration, Caching, Configuration management, Automated deployment
Hands-On Labs
- Design workload-specific compute architectures
- Design container and serverless architectures
- Design event-driven and messaging-based applications
- Design caching and configuration management strategies
Week 6 — Migration, Networking & Capstone Architecture
Skills Area: Infrastructure solutions (part of 30–35%)
What You'll Learn
- Evaluate migration strategies using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
- Assess on-premises servers, applications, and data for migration
- Design migration solutions for IaaS, PaaS, databases, and unstructured data
- Design network architectures: Internet connectivity, Hybrid connectivity, Performance optimization, Security optimization, Load balancing and routing
Hands-On Labs
- Design a CAF-aligned migration strategy
- Design workload migration plans for IaaS and PaaS
- Design hybrid and cloud network architectures
- Design secure, performant load-balancing solutions
Capstone Project
- Design a full enterprise Azure solution architecture covering: Identity and governance, Data and storage, Business continuity, Compute and applications, Networking and migration
- Architecture review and defense session with instructor
Certification Outcome
By completing this bootcamp, learners will be able to:
- Design enterprise-grade Azure architectures
- Make informed architecture trade-offs (cost, scale, security)
- Confidently sit the AZ-305 certification exam
- Perform effectively in Azure Solution Architect roles
Need a Custom Learning Path?
If you are new to cloud, we recommend starting with Cloud Foundation — Live Bootcamp before AZ-305.
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Begin Your Azure Architecture Journey
This comprehensive bootcamp takes you from fundamentals to expert-level Azure infrastructure design with enterprise-scale solutions.