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How to prepare for the Microsoft Exam AZ-301 with Pluralsight courses

Use this handy guide to prepare for the Microsoft AZ-301 exam: Microsoft Azure Architect Design with Pluralsight courses. This article maps each exam objective to a Pluralsight course. It will take you about 55 hours to go through all these courses.

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The exam is divided in the following high-level domains:

  1. Determine Workload Requirements (10-15%)
  2. Design for Identity and Security (20-25%)
  3. Design a Data Platform Solution (15-20%)
  4. Design a Business Continuity Strategy (15-20%)
  5. Design for Deployment, Migration, and Integration (10-15%)
  6. Design an Infrastructure Strategy (15-20%)

1. Determine Workload Requirements

This domain carries a weight of 10-15% and is divided in the following objectives. It will take you about 12 hours to go through these courses.

Id Exam Objective Pluralsight Course Course length
1.1 Gather Information and Requirements Gathering Information About Existing Enterprise Architecture in Microsoft Azure 1h 22m
1.1 Gather Information and Requirements Gathering Non-functional Requirements for Microsoft Azure 1h 2m
1.1 Gather Information and Requirements Determining Feasibility and Refining Requirements for Microsoft Azure 1h 2m
1.2 Optimize Consumption Strategy Optimizing Consumption Strategy in Microsoft Azure 2h 53m
1.3 Design an Auditing and Monitoring Strategy Design Auditing for Microsoft Azure 2h 34m
1.3 Design an Auditing and Monitoring Strategy Designing a Monitoring Strategy for a Solution in Microsoft Azure 3h 19m

2. Design for Identity and Security

This domain carries a weight of 20-25% and is divided in the following objectives. It will take you about 13 hours to go through these courses.

Id Exam Objective Pluralsight Course Course length
2.1 Design Identity Management Design Identity Management in Microsoft Azure 2h 40m
2.2 Design Authentication Design Authentication for Microsoft Azure 2h 55m
2.3 Design Authorization Design Authorization for Microsoft Azure 2h 16m
2.4 Design for Risk Prevention for Identity Design for Risk Prevention in Microsoft Azure 2h 19m
2.5 Design a Monitoring Strategy for Identity and Security Design a Monitoring Strategy for Identity and Security in Microsoft Azure 1h 31m

3. Design a Data Platform Solution

This domain carries a weight of 15-20% and is divided in the following objectives. It will take you about 5 hours to go through these courses.

Id Exam Objective Pluralsight Course Course length
3.1 Design a Data Management Strategy Design a Data Management Strategy for Microsoft Azure 1h 36m
3.2 Design a Data Protection Strategy Design a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Azure 1h 32m
3.3 Design and Document Data Flows Design and Document Data Flows with Microsoft Azure 1h 15m
3.4 Design a Monitoring Strategy for the Data Platform Designing a Monitoring Strategy for the Microsoft Azure Data Platform 0h 39m

4. Design a Business Continuity Strategy

This domain carries a weight of 15-20% and is divided in the following objectives. It will take you about 7 hours to go through these courses.

Id Exam Objective Pluralsight Course Course length
4.1 Design a Site Recovery Strategy Designing a Site Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure 1h 57m
4.2 Design for High Availability Designing for High Availability on Microsoft Azure 2h 15m
4.3 Design a disaster recovery strategy for individual workloads Designing a Disaster Recovery Strategy on Microsoft Azure 1h 38m
4.4 Design a Data Archiving Strategy Designing a Data Archiving Strategy on Microsoft Azure 0h 56m

5. Design for Deployment, Migration, and Integration

This domain carries a weight of 10-15% and is divided in the following objectives. It will take you about 6 hours to go through these courses.

Id Exam Objective Pluralsight Course Course length
5.1 Design Deployments Designing Deployments in Microsoft Azure 1h 25m
5.2 Design Migrations Designing Migrations for Microsoft Azure 1h 27m
5.3 Design an API Integration Strategy Designing an API Management Strategy for Microsoft Azure 2h 34m

6. Design an Infrastructure Strategy

This domain carries a weight of 15-20% and is divided in the following objectives. It will take you about 12 hours to go through these courses.

Id Exam Objective Pluralsight Course Course length
6.1 Design a Storage Strategy Design a Storage Strategy for Microsoft Azure 3h 16m
6.2 Design a Compute Strategy Design a Compute Strategy for Microsoft Azure 3h 40m
6.3 Design a Networking Strategy Design a Networking Strategy for Microsoft Azure 2h 56m
6.4 Design a Monitoring Strategy for Infrastructure Design a Monitoring Strategy for Infrastructure in Microsoft Azure 1h 56m

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