Overview

Candidates for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification should have subject matter expertise in designing and implementing solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including aspects like compute, network, storage, and security.

Responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions.

An Azure Solutions Architect partners with cloud administrators, cloud DBAs, and clients to implement solutions.

A candidate for this certification should have advanced experience and knowledge across various aspects of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance–this role should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, this role should be proficient in at least one of these Azure knowledge domains: administration, development, or DevOps.

Job role: Solutions Architect

Required exams: AZ-300AZ-301

Skills measured

• Deploy and configure infrastructure
• Implement workloads and security
• Create and deploy apps
• Implement authentication and secure data
• Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage
• Determine workload requirements
• Design for identity and security
• Design a data platform solution
• Design a business continuity strategy
• Design for deployment, migration, and integration
• Design an infrastructure strategy