This course teaches Azure Solution Architects how to design infrastructure solutions. Course topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networks, business continuity, and migrations. The course combines lecture with case studies to demonstrate basic architect design principles.

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.

Module 1: Microsoft Azure Architect Design Prerequisites

Module 2: Design identity, governance, and monitor solutions

Module 3: Design business continuity solutions

Module 4: Design data storage solutions

Module 5: Design infrastructure solutions

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

To become a Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, you must earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification.

As a candidate for this certification, you should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualisation, 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:

• Azure administration
• Azure development
• DevOps processes

Audience Profile

Successful students have experience and knowledge in IT operations, including networking, virtualisation, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. Students also have experience designing and architecting solutions. Before attending this course, students must have previous experience deploying or administering Azure resources and strong conceptual knowledge of:

• Azure compute technologies such as VMs, containers and serverless solutions
• Azure virtual networking to include load balancers
• Azure Storage technologies (unstructured and databases)
• General application design concepts such as messaging and high availability

The Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solution architect is a trusted advisor who consults with organisations and implementation team members to refine business needs into a well-defined and cost-effective solution. The architect is accountable for the integrity and successful delivery of the complete solution design. The architect provides critical guidance and support from pre-sales throughout the remainder of the project lifecycle. They have great breadth of knowledge and experience designing solutions that meet business needs.

The solution architect may have a technical, functional, or industry background. The solution architect must demonstrate knowledge of all Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform. They must have deep understanding of Finance and Operations apps. In addition, they have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This course is designed to prepare those who are aspired to be solution architects and those who are new to this role to learn more about the technical information that solution architects will be dealing with during implantation.

As a candidate for this certification, you are a Microsoft Dynamics 365 professional who advises stakeholders and translates business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

Module 1: Architect solutions for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

Module 2: Use Lifecycle Services to design and plan an implementation of finance and operations apps

Module 3: Migrate data and go live with finance and operations apps

Module 4: Implement finance and operations apps

Module 5: Use Success by Design for Dynamics 365 solutions

Module 6: Configure apps in finance and operations

Module 7: Validate your skills architecting solutions for customers and products

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Create solutions for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform
• Migrate data to finance and operations apps in Dynamics 365
• Implement finance and operations apps in Dynamics 365
• Implement Success by Design for solutions in Dynamics 365
• Create solutions for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

To become a Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert, you must earn at least one of the following:

• Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer Associate.

You should have knowledge of the Dynamics 365 ecosystem and Microsoft Power Platform. You must have deep understanding of Dynamics 365 apps and copilots and AI used in Dynamics 365 apps. In addition, you must have extensive domain knowledge in one or more industry verticals. This role requires understanding how decisions affect the overall solution.

Audience Profile

The audience for this course should have previous experience with functional or technical focus in Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Applications. Primarily for those who are aspired to be solution architect role.

The Solution Architect is responsible for the successful design, implementation, deployment and adoption of an overall solution. The Solution Architect ensures that the solution meets the customer’s needs now and in the future. In this course, students will learn about decisions a Solution Architect makes during an implementation, covering security, integrations, Power Apps architecture, Power Automate architecture, and more. This course is designed to give you an introduction to the Solution Architect role.

As a candidate for this certification, you should have solution architecture experience across functional and technical disciplines of Microsoft Power Platform. You should be able to facilitate design decisions based on recommended practices across development, configuration, integration, infrastructure, security, licensing, storage, and change management.

In this role, you are required to architect and ensure the successful implementation of appropriate end-to-end solutions to address business and technical needs of organisations.

Module 1: Architect solutions for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform

Module 2: Solution Architect: Design Microsoft Power Platform solutions

Module 3: Validate your Microsoft Power Platform Solution Architect skills

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Create solutions for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.

To become a Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert, you must earn at least one of the following:

• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate certification.

You should have knowledge of:

• Microsoft Power Platform
• Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps
• Related Microsoft cloud solutions
• Other third-party technologies

You should be aware of Power Platform Well-Architected framework and ideally have used it for implementation.