Exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design - Skills Measured
Exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design - Skills Measured
Exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design - Skills Measured
Measured
This exam will be updated on January 27, 2021. Following the current exam guide, we
have included a version of the exam guide with Track Changes set to “On,” showing the
changes that will be made to the exam on that date.
Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise in designing and implementing
solutions that run on Microsoft Azure, including aspects like compute, network, storage, and
security.
Responsibilities for an Azure Solution Architect include advising stakeholders and translating
business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions.
An Azure Solution Architect partners with cloud administrators, cloud DBAs, and clients to
implement solutions.
A candidate for this exam should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations,
including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data
platform, budgeting, and governance–this role should manage how decisions in each area affect
an overall solution. In addition, this role should have expert-level skills in Azure administration
and have experience with Azure development and DevOps processes.
Skills Measured
NOTE: The bullets that appear below each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how
we are assessing that skill. This list is not definitive or exhaustive.
NOTE: Most questions cover features that are General Availability (GA). The exam may contain
questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.
Design authorization
Design governance
recommend a recovery solution for Azure hybrid and on-premises workloads that meets
recovery objectives (RTO, RLO, RPO)
design and Azure Site Recovery solution
recommend a solution for recovery in different regions
recommend a solution for geo-redundancy of workloads
recommend a solution for Azure Backup management
design a solution for data archiving and retention
recommend a microservices architecture including Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service Bus,
Storage Queues, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Fabric, AKS, Azure App
Configuration and webhooks
recommend an orchestration solution for deployment and maintenance of applications
including ARM templates, Azure Automation, Azure Pipelines, Logic Apps, or Azure
Functions
recommend a solution for API integration
Design migrations
assess and interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
recommend a solution for migrating applications and VMs
recommend a solution for migration of databases
determine migration scope, including redundant, related, trivial, and outdated data
recommend a solution for migrating data (Storage Migration Service, Azure Data Box,
Azure File Sync-based migration to hybrid file server)
The exam guide below shows the changes that will be implemented on January 27, 2021.
Skills Measured
NOTE: The bullets that appear below each of the skills measured are intended to illustrate how
we are assessing that skill. This list is not definitive or exhaustive.
NOTE: Most questions cover features that are General Availability (GA). The exam may contain
questions on Preview features if those features are commonly used.
Design authorization
Design governance
recommend a recovery solution for Azure hybrid and on-premises workloads that meets
recovery objectives (RTO, RLO, RPO)
design and Azure Site Recovery solution
recommend a solution for recovery in different regions
recommend a solution for geo-redundancy of workloads
recommend a solution for Azure Backup management
design a solution for data archiving and retention
recommend a microservices architecture including Event Grid, Event Hubs, Service Bus,
Storage Queues, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Fabric, AKS, Azure App
Configuration and webhooks
recommend an orchestration solution for deployment and maintenance of applications
including ARM templates, Azure Automation, Azure Pipelines, Logic Apps, or Azure
Functions
recommend a solution for API integration
Design migrations
assess and interpret on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration
recommend a solution for migrating applications and VMs
recommend a solution for migration of databases
determine migration scope, including redundant, related, trivial, and outdated data
recommend a solution for migrating data (Storage Migration Service, Azure Data Box,
Azure File Sync-based migration to hybrid file server)