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Case studies dominate this exam and defeat unprepared candidates regardless of their Azure knowledge. Each presents a long business scenario and requires several interconnected design decisions under time pressure, and practising standalone questions alone reportedly costs candidates ten percentage points or more. Case study technique is therefore taught as a skill in its own right, not left to the mock exam at the end.

Identity and governance receives the heaviest treatment. It is the largest domain and consistently the one candidates underprepare, because Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Policy at enterprise scale are genuinely complex and rarely encountered in full by administrators working on a single subscription.

Microsoft's own reference architectures are used as course material throughout. They function as an unofficial exam blueprint, and delegates who can recognise a reference pattern in a case study answer faster and more accurately than those reasoning from first principles.

Cost appears in nearly every case study. Delegates learn to treat cost-effectiveness as a design constraint present in every decision rather than a separate topic examined once.

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₹15,000
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Pay in full ₹15,000
  • ○ Lessons, videos and quizzes from ₹5,000
  • 🔒 Lab recordings at ₹15,000
  • 🔒 Certification exam at full payment
  • ○ Optional real lab: ₹5,000 per month (after full payment)
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Last Update 10/11/2026
Completion Time 1 day 10 hours
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Career Courses Hot Skills Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Module 1 — Architecting on Azure (empty)
    5Lessons · 2 hr 30 min
    • The architect role against the administrator role
    • Azure Well-Architected Framework pillars
    • Cloud Adoption Framework and landing zones
    • Using the Azure Architecture Center
    • Requirements gathering and defending design choices
  • Module 2 — Identity and access (empty)
    7Lessons · 3 hr 30 min
    • Microsoft Entra ID: tenants, domains and hybrid identity
    • Entra Connect and synchronisation topologies
    • Conditional Access and multi-factor authentication design
    • Privileged Identity Management and just-in-time access
    • Managed identities and service principals
    • B2B and B2C scenarios
    • Application authentication patterns
  • Module 3 — Governance (empty)
    6Lessons · 3 hr
    • Management groups, subscriptions and resource hierarchy
    • Azure Policy: definitions, initiatives and remediation
    • Role-based access control design
    • Resource locks, tags and naming standards
    • Cost management, budgets and chargeback
    • Blueprints and landing zone governance
  • Module 4 — Monitoring and operations (empty)
    5Lessons · 2 hr 30 min
    • Azure Monitor architecture and data sources
    • Log Analytics workspace design and retention
    • Application Insights and distributed tracing
    • Alerting, action groups and automated response
    • Designing for operational visibility across subscriptions
  • Module 5 — Data storage design (empty)
    7Lessons · 3 hr 30 min
    • Selecting between relational and non-relational stores
    • Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance and SQL on VMs
    • Cosmos DB: APIs, consistency levels and partitioning
    • Blob Storage tiers, lifecycle and immutability
    • Azure Files, NetApp Files and Data Lake Storage
    • Storage security, encryption and private endpoints
    • Data integration and migration approaches
  • Module 6 — Infrastructure design: compute (empty)
    5Lessons · 2 hr 30 min
    • Virtual machines, scale sets and availability options
    • App Service and platform hosting
    • Azure Kubernetes Service and container strategy
    • Azure Functions and serverless design
    • Choosing a compute model against requirements
  • Module 7 — Infrastructure design: networking (empty)
    6Lessons · 3 hr
    • Virtual network topology: hub and spoke, Virtual WAN
    • Network security groups, Azure Firewall and application security groups
    • Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Front Door and Traffic Manager
    • ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway for hybrid connectivity
    • Private Link and service endpoints
    • DNS design across hybrid environments
  • Module 8 — Application architecture (empty)
    6Lessons · 3 hr
    • Messaging: Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs and Queue Storage
    • Choosing between events and messages
    • Logic Apps and workflow integration
    • API Management and API strategy
    • Caching with Azure Cache for Redis
    • Microservices and decoupling patterns
  • Module 9 — Business continuity (empty)
    6Lessons · 3 hr
    • Recovery time and recovery point objectives as design inputs
    • High availability across zones and regions
    • Azure Backup strategy and retention design
    • Azure Site Recovery and failover planning
    • Geo-redundancy options across services
    • Testing and validating a recovery plan
  • Module 10 — Migration and infrastructure as code (empty)
    5Lessons · 2 hr 30 min
    • Azure Migrate and assessment tooling
    • Migration strategies and workload sequencing
    • ARM templates and Bicep
    • Terraform on Azure
    • Deployment pipelines and environment promotion
  • Module 11 — Security design (empty)
    5Lessons · 2 hr 30 min
    • Defender for Cloud and secure score
    • Microsoft Sentinel and security operations
    • Key Vault, secrets and certificate management
    • Encryption at rest and in transit across services
    • Zero trust design principles on Azure
  • Exam preparation (empty)
    5Lessons · 2 hr 30 min
    • Case study technique: reading, extracting requirements, sequencing decisions
    • Domain-by-domain review with weighting toward identity and governance
    • Reference architecture recognition drills
    • Timed mock exams against the 700 of 1000 threshold
    • Guidance on AZ-104 sequencing for delegates without it

Who should attend

Aimed at practitioners who will design Azure solutions and defend those designs to stakeholders.

  • Azure administrators moving into architecture
  • Solution architects adding Azure to an existing cloud background
  • Infrastructure leads responsible for landing zone design
  • Senior engineers making informal architecture decisions already
  • Consultants and pre-sales staff needing defensible Azure knowledge
  • Delegates building toward multicloud capability

Assumed knowledge: substantial hands-on Azure administration covering compute, networking, storage and identity. Microsoft positions this at expert level and suggests two to three years of deep Azure experience. Delegates must hold an active AZ-104 certification to receive the Solutions Architect Expert credential; those without it should discuss sequencing with us before booking, since an expired AZ-104 does not satisfy the requirement.

Delivery

Duration
40 hours, delivered as weekday evenings or weekend sessions.

Format
Live instructor-led online, with recordings available to delegates for the duration of the programme. On-site corporate delivery available on request.

Lab environment
Each delegate works in their own Azure subscription for the duration of the course and for four weeks afterwards, with guidance on staying within free credit limits.

Included
Course notes, lab guides, exercise solutions and a certificate of completion.

How to enroll

Enrol and pay online on this page. The full fee is ₹15,000 (US$170). You can start with ₹5,000 (US$60) and pay the balance in instalments within 3 months. Pay by card, UPI or net banking, or by PayPal in US dollars. Go to payment. For corporate, on-site or one-to-one training, contact contact@appsolworld.com or call +91 92051 38405.