Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

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2024-04-03
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Passed

Today I took and passed obtaining the Azure Solutions Architect Expert accreditation.

Exam

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions; design data storage solutions; design business continuity solutions; and design infrastructure solutions.

Skills measured

Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%)
Design data storage solutions (20–25%)
Design business continuity solutions (15–20%)
Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%)

As a Microsoft Azure solutions architect, you have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including:

Compute
Network
Storage
Monitoring
Security

Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including:

Developers
Administrators
Security engineers
Data engineers

As a candidate for this certification, you should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. You should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, you should have experience with: