As a Microsoft Azure solutions architect, you have subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Azure, including:

• Compute
• Network
• Storage
• Monitoring
• Security

Your responsibilities for this role include advising stakeholders and translating business requirements into designs for Azure solutions that align with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure. In this role, you implement solutions on Azure by partnering with various other job roles, including:

• Developers
• Administrators
• Security engineers
• Data engineers

As a candidate for this exam, you should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. You should manage how decisions in each area affect an overall solution. In addition, you should have experience with:

• Azure administration
• Azure development
• DevOps processes

• As a DevOps engineer, you’re a developer or infrastructure administrator who also has subject matter expertise in working with people, processes, and products to enable continuous delivery of value in organizations.

  Your responsibilities for this role include designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

  As a DevOps engineer, you work on cross-functional teams that include:

  • Developers
  • Site reliability engineers
  • Azure administrators

  You must have experience with administering and developing in Azure, with strong skills in at least one of these areas. You should be familiar with:

  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub

As the Azure security engineer, you implement, manage, and monitor security for resources in Azure, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure. You recommend security components and configurations to protect the following:

• Identity and access
• Data
• Applications
• Networks

Your responsibilities as an Azure security engineer include:

• Managing the security posture.
• Identifying and remediating vulnerabilities.
• Performing threat modelling.
• Implementing threat protection.

You may also participate in responding to security incidents. As an Azure security engineer, you work with architects, administrators, and developers to plan and implement solutions that meet security and compliance requirements.

You should have:

• Practical experience in administration of Microsoft Azure and hybrid environments.
• Strong familiarity with compute, network, and storage in Azure and Microsoft Entra.

You may be eligible for ACE college credit if you pass this certification. See ACE college credit for certification exams for details.