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A provider-deep tour of Microsoft Azure for solutions and cloud architects. Walks the full service landscape - compute, storage, databases, networking, identity (Entra ID), data and analytics - then layers on infrastructure-as-code (Bicep/ARM/Terraform), containers, operations, security and the Well-Architected Framework, and finishes with the architecture deep-dives and behavioral themes Azure architect loops grade against.
Build a working map of the core families: compute (VMs, App Service, Functions, Container Apps, AKS, Batch), storage (Blob, Files, Managed Disks, Archive), databases (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Database for PostgreSQL/MySQL, Cache for Redis, Synapse), and the glue (Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, Logic Apps). This category is the spine of the path.
Anchor the VNet model: subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Private Link, VNet peering, ExpressRoute, Azure DNS, Front Door and CDN before the design rounds.
Work through relational vs document (Cosmos DB) vs columnar (Synapse) trade-offs, the analytics path (Data Factory, Synapse, Stream Analytics), and caching with Azure Cache for Redis.
Build fluency in declarative provisioning (Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform) and the container stack (Container Apps, AKS) that runs most modern Azure workloads.
Cover Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions pipelines, and the deployment-safety patterns architects bake in.
The pillars architects are graded on: Entra ID and RBAC least privilege, Key Vault, Management Groups and Azure Policy for governance, plus the Azure Well-Architected pillars (reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, performance efficiency).
Bounded designs that exercise the conversations Azure architects lead - decoupling with Service Bus, consistency across services, throttling, and payment-grade reliability.
Architect rounds screen for driving decisions across teams you don't manage and making pragmatic cost/resilience trade-offs. Have a story per theme with concrete business impact.
Original scenario-style practice exams written from the public exam guides - with a timed simulator and per-domain scoring.
Three role-targeted paths are live: Backend, SRE / DevOps, and ML Engineer. More are on the way - if you have a role you want covered, let us know.
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