Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305) Cert Prep: Design Business Continuity Solutions

Learn how to prepare for and ace the Design Business Continuity Solutions section of the Microsoft AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification exam

Introduction

• About the AZ-305 exam
• Before getting started

1. What Is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Cloud types in Azure: Hybrid and on-premises
• What is recovery time objective (RTO)?
• What is recovery point objective (RPO)?
• What is recovery level objective (RLO)?
• Challenge: RTO, RPO, RLO
• Solution: RTO, RPO, RLO

2. Design a Solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery in Azure

• Understand the recovery solutions for cloud workloads
• Understand the recovery solutions for containers
• Recommend a backup and recovery solution for compute
• Recommend a backup and recovery solution for databases
• Recommend a backup and recovery solution for unstructured data
• Challenge: Backup and disaster recovery
• Solution: Backup and disaster recovery

3. Design for High Availability in Azure

• Identify the availability requirements of Azure resources
• Recommend a high availability solution for compute
• Recommend a high availability solution for non-relational data storage
• Recommend a high availability solution for relational data storage
• Challenge: Multiregion N-tier applications
• Solution: Multiregion N-tier applications

Conclusion

• Next steps with Azure