Who Should Attend
Successful Azure Architects begin this role with experience on operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, networking, applications and databases.
Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.
Understanding of Applications development and APIs.
Understanding of Databases, both SQL such as MS SQL, MySQL or Postgres, and Non-SQL databases like MongoDB.
Understanding of decoupling Applications and services, for example, Queues, tables, Cache.
Understanding of Security concepts to protect your environment, like encryption at rest, encryption in transit, SSL, TLS.
Prerequisite Courses (or equivalent knowledge):
Free online: Azure Fundamentals (https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/)
Instructor-led course: AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals (https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/certifications/courses/az-900t01)
Prerequisites for Azure administrators (https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/az-104-administrator-prerequisites/