AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Study Cram - Over 100,000 views

This video provides guidance for the AZ-305, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam and an overview of all key content. This is the final step in the new path for the Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
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▬▬▬▬▬▬ C H A P T E R S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Introduction
0:35 - Path to Architect certification
4:00 - Exam structure
7:43 - Identity, governance and monitoring
8:00 - Core Azure structure
13:52 - Policy example
15:19 - RBAC, PIM and Access Reviews
20:50 - Blueprints
22:40 - Azure AD and identity
34:48 - Application identities, managed identity
38:50 - Azure Key Vault
43:58 - Monitoring
50:15 - Alerting
54:07 - Business continuity
54:50 - Resiliency in region
55:05 - Availability sets and zones
1:00:30 - Cross-region
1:03:33 - Regional and global balancers
1:06:30 - Backup and restore
1:13:03 - Design data solutions
1:14:54 - Storage account services
1:33:16 - Managed disks
1:40:40 - Storage account security
1:44:30 - SQL-based solutions
1:59:50 - Tables and CosmosDB
2:03:08 - Azure Data Factory
2:07:00 - Data lake
2:12:23 - Infrastructure and responsibilities
2:16:03 - Compute options
2:27:15 - Component communication with events and messages
2:33:55 - Azure API Management
2:35:00 - Networking core concepts
2:43:49 - Migration
2:49:50 - Well architected framework concepts
2:51:00 - Cost optimization
3:04:54 - Operational excellence
3:15:50 - Performance efficiency
3:24:08 - Reliability
3:29:19 - Security
3:35:30 - WAF closing thoughts
3:36:40 - Exam closing thoughts
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► Azure Compute decision tree:
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► Message service comparison
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► WAF documentation
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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

Very kind, thank you. Yep, getting close :-D

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I am just a little less than halfway through and I am compelled to thank you for what is a Superhero effort here, John. I am thourorly enjoying this while taking a break from my Enterprise Administrator Expert while working backwards in exams to the Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Your content is extremely edifying and clear, and I love the humor here and there to make this a well rounded experience. I really do salute you for making this available an helping us achieve a wonderful cert. Thank you!

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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Hey John, thank you so much for this cram and for all of the content that you are providing in order to help people learn and to deeply understand Microsoft solutions. I have watched many of these videos, which have helped me get my Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification and a lot of other Microsoft certifications. Thank you again, and I wish you the best of luck.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Congrats on the certs and you are welcome. 🤙

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

You're very welcome!

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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Best of luck!

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

Great job!

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@NTFAQGuy]

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[@HardcoreFixation]

Hey John I just wanted to say a big thank you again - I took my 305 and with the help of your amazing Study Cram and some self-study I passed - thank you for helping so many people around the world to get certified and further their careers, you really are a hero!

[@NTFAQGuy]

That’s awesome to hear, congratulations 🤙

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Hi John, many thanks for this video very helpfull! probably one of the best boot videos for AZ305! did boost up my confidence for my exam AZ305 next week.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Good luck!

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Thank you John! for bringing all these courses. Just passed the AZ-305 after my AZ-104, and that's not a small part because of all the very high quality courses you provide (for free nevertheless). If there's anyway we can support you, let us know.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Congrats and no support needed but thank you 🤙

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Hi John. I just wanted to thank you for your videos which have helped me pass the AZ-305 exam yesterday. This is a tough course but your videos have provided a lot of clarity without ever being dull.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Congrats 🤙

[@simonbond1183]

Passed AZ305 today. Jon, your training videos were invaluable!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Well done!

[@Silverstorm2008]

Love your fundential explanations in all videos!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Thank you!

[@lahcenelalaoui9479]

Flawless work, thanks a lot Boss!

[@jakubwawrzacz-ans]

Hello John big thank you for all the hard work you putting in, your videos are immensely useful, educational, practical, clear and most of all, joy to watch. I passed AZ-900, AZ-104 thanks to your content, and heading for AZ-305 next. :) I even subscribed to KZbin premium thanks to you, as it turns out, using your Study Cram videos as Podcast of sorts when going for a run / walk, helps memorising some terminology as well, not to mention, because of the reason you are explaining the content, one doesn't necessarily need the video for it (mind you, I did watch the videos first haha). Anyway, BIG FAT THANK YOU! I'm sure there thousands like me who are excelling in their jobs because of you what you give to the community.

[@NTFAQGuy]

That’s awesome. Congrats on the passes and good luck on the 305!!! 🤙

[@dinamik967]

Thank you very much John! I just got the Architect certificate! You help is amazing!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Awesome, congratulations 🎉

[@andrewtwigg]

This is awesome John. I recently went through the Arch exams and your channel helped loads. Really appreciate it

[@NTFAQGuy]

Happy to help!

[@andrewhall9581]

Sat and passed az-305. Couldn't have made it first time without John's first class content.

[@SkyGlitchGalaxy]

Awesome dude. Thanks so much for this.

[@alexgeorge121]

this is good class and I cleared my exam today... thanks a lot for the video

[@Popdad]

As always, best cram videos on you tube. Thanks John

[@benschaefer6858]

Passed my 305 this morning - thanks John, your content was one of my primary resources. You have this amazing way of explaining things that agrees with my way of learning... a big thanks 🙂

[@NTFAQGuy]

Great job! 🤙

[@user-km1ek3mp8g]

HonestlyJohn you deserve a big clap and so many thanks not sure we can be thankful enough the time and effort to summarize such a broad and tough cetrtification exam.let us jnow in what we can support you

[@NTFAQGuy]

Very kind but no support needed. Just trying to give something back to the community. Glad it's helpful. Best of luck in your continued journey!

[@rodneyfletcher918]

Well John, thanks to you, just passed AZ-305 today. You really do explain things very well especially given I have zero background in this field but feel like I have my own personal mentor through these videos. Hope to even meet you one day so I can thank you in person (hopefully as a coworker!)

[@NTFAQGuy]

Congrats 🤙

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Thanks John. Great video as always.

[@jmlineb]

I passed the AZ-305 certification exam this morning. Thank you so much for all of your helpful and information-packed videos, John!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Congratulations 🤙 that’s awesome

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Top class content, thanks!

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Thank you very much for the incredible effort and teaching method, last Sunday I passed the AZ-104 and now I am on my way to the AZ-305 thanks to you. Thank you very much

[@NTFAQGuy]

Great job! 🤙

[@kamal0123456]

Hey John Savill Sir, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, I religious watched your videos, made notes and did a few pratice test from Udemy & oreilly websites and I was able to clear my AZ-305 exam today (23/03/2022) with no issues, no flaws. Thanks soo much for the great content.

[@NTFAQGuy]

Congrats! 🤙

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@@NTFAQGuy Thank you :)

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I have to take this exam next Saturday! this video help me a lot! you are the best

[@NTFAQGuy]

Good luck

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That's gold, thank you very much for sharing!

[@NTFAQGuy]

You're very welcome!

[@gerardrev]

I really like how you present and link the topics, and for me the best is that you also show in azure to complete the explanation; additionally the visual way that you use tu present the info and logics, great work!

[@mrczr8135]

Thank you so much John!

[@NTFAQGuy]

My pleasure!

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Your videos are a blessing! You just don't need any other courses regarding Azure infrastructure! I just passed and wanted to say thank you for your amazing work 💪

[@NTFAQGuy]

Congrats! ☁️🤙💪

[@gabrielcolli2125]

with the shift from CE to CSA this really helped me learn what I needed. Just passed earlier this morning. Thanks John!

[@NTFAQGuy]

Glad it helped! congrats 🤙

[@kolapengineer]

Hi John using your videos, I was able to understand more about AZ-104 and AZ-305, sat for and passed both. Happy solution architect over here 🤗. Many thanks for the great content.

[@NTFAQGuy]

That’s awesome. Congrats 🤙

[@blackdeckerz0r]

Thanks, i've scheduled the beta exam for the 10th of december, definitely gonna watch your video

[@girish8611]

Please share your experience with exam, i am planning to schedule on 18th December. Good luc.

[@blackdeckerz0r]

@@girish8611 So i rescheduled it and did it yesterday, 48 questions + 3 case study's with 4-5 questions each. Most of it was about AD and VM's and Networking. My role is a data engineer so i don't think i did well, but the database/storage account questions was easy for me