Design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions (25–30%)
Design solutions for logging and monitoring
Recommend a logging solution

Recommend a solution for routing logs

Recommend a monitoring solution

Design authentication and authorization solutions
Recommend an authentication solution

Recommend an identity management solution

Recommend a solution for authorizing access to Azure resources

Recommend a solution to manage secrets, certificates, and keys

Design governance
Recommend a structure for management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, and a strategy for resource tagging

Recommend a solution for managing compliance

Recommend a solution for identity governance

Design data storage solutions (20–25%)
Design data storage solutions for relational data
Recommend a solution for storing relational data

Recommend a database service tier and compute tier

Recommend a solution for database scalability

Recommend a solution for data protection

Design data storage solutions for semi-structured and unstructured data
Recommend a solution for storing semi-structured data

Recommend a solution for storing unstructured data

Recommend a data storage solution to balance features, performance, and costs

Recommend a data solution for protection and durability

Design data integration
Recommend a solution for data integration

Recommend a solution for data analysis

Design business continuity solutions (15–20%)
Design solutions for backup and disaster recovery
Recommend a recovery solution for Azure and hybrid workloads that meets recovery objectives

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

Design for high availability
Recommend a high availability solution for compute

Recommend a high availability solution for relational data

Recommend a high availability solution for semi-structured and unstructured data

Design infrastructure solutions (30–35%)
Design compute solutions
Specify components of a compute solution based on workload requirements

Recommend a virtual machine-based solution

Recommend a container-based solution

Recommend a serverless-based solution

Recommend a compute solution for batch processing

Design an application architecture
Recommend a messaging architecture

Recommend an event-driven architecture

Recommend a solution for API integration

Recommend a caching solution for applications

Recommend an application configuration management solution

Recommend an automated deployment solution for applications

Design migrations
Evaluate a migration solution that leverages the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure

Evaluate on-premises servers, data, and applications for migration

Recommend a solution for migrating workloads to infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS)

Recommend a solution for migrating databases

Recommend a solution for migrating unstructured data

Design network solutions
Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to the internet

Recommend a connectivity solution that connects Azure resources to on-premises networks

Recommend a solution to optimize network performance

Recommend a solution to optimize network security

Recommend a load-balancing and routing solution