Exam AZ-302 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification Transition (beta)

Exam AZ-302 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Certification Transition (beta)

Languages: English
Audiences: IT professionals
Technology: Microsoft Azure

Skills measured
This exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below. The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam. The higher the percentage, the more questions you are likely to see on that content area on the exam. View video tutorials about the variety of question types on Microsoft exams.

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Determine Workload Requirements (15-20%)
Determine Feasibility and Refine Requirements
May include but not limited to: Recommend changes during project execution (ongoing); create proof of concept (PoC); determine whether a pilot is needed; evaluate products and services to align with solution; create testing scenarios; refine user stories
Optimize Consumption Strategy
May include but not limited to: Optimize app service, compute, identity, network, and storage costs

Design for Identity and Security (5-10%)
Design Authorization
May include but not limited to: Choose an authorization approach; define access permissions and privileges; design secure delegated access (e.g., oAuth, OpenID, etc.); recommend when and how to use API Keys

Design a Business Continuity Strategy (15-20%)
Design a Site Recovery Strategy
May include but not limited to: Design a recovery solution; design a site recovery replication policy; design for site recovery capacity and for storage replication; design site failover and failback (planned/unplanned); design the site recovery network; recommend recovery objectives (e.g., Azure, on-prem, hybrid, Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Level Objective (RLO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO)); identify resources that require site recovery; identify supported and unsupported workloads; recommend a geographical distribution strategy
Design for High Availability
May include but not limited to: Design for application redundancy, autoscaling, data center and fault domain redundancy, and network redundancy; identify resources that require high availability; identify storage types for high availability

Implement Workloads and Security (5-10%)
Configure serverless computing
May include but not limited to: Manage a Logic App resource; manage Azure Function app settings; manage Event Grid; manage Service Bus

Implement Authentication and Secure Data (5-10%)
Implement secure data solutions
May include but not limited to: Encrypt and decrypt data at rest; encrypt data with Always Encrypted; implement Azure Confidential Compute and SSL/TLS communications; manage cryptographic keys in the Azure Key Vault

Develop for the Cloud (45-50%)
Develop long-running tasks
May include but not limited to: Implement large-scale, parallel, and high-performance apps by using batches; implement resilient apps by using queues; implement code to address application events by using web hooks; address continuous processing tasks by using web jobs
Configure a message-based integration architecture
May include but not limited to: Configure an app or service to send emails, Event Grid, and the Azure Relay Service; create and configure a Notification Hub, an Event Hub, and a Service Bus; configure queries across multiple products; configure an app or service with Microsoft Graph
Develop for asynchronous processing
May include but not limited to: Implement parallelism, multithreading, processing, durable functions, Azure logic apps, interfaces with storage, interfaces to data access, and appropriate asynchronous compute models
Develop for autoscaling
May include but not limited to: Implement autoscaling rules and patterns (schedule, operational/system metrics, code that addresses singleton application instances, and code that addresses transient state
Implement distributed transactions
May include but not limited to: Identify tools to implement distributed transactions (e.g., ADO.NET, elastic transactions, multi-database transactions); manage transaction scope; manage transactions across multiple databases and servers
Develop advanced cloud workloads
May include but not limited to: Develop solutions by using intelligent algorithms that identify items from images and videos; develop solutions by using intelligent algorithms related to speech, natural language processing, Bing Search, and recommendations and decision making; create and integrate bots; integrate machine learning solutions in an app; create and implement IoT solutions

Who should take this exam?
THIS EXAM IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THOSE CANDIDATES WHO HAVE TAKEN EXAM 535: ARCHITECTING MICROSOFT AZURE SOLUTIONS. IF YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN EXAM 535, YOU WILL NOT EARN A CERTIFICATION BY TAKING THIS EXAM. THIS EXAM IS AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY AND IS SCHEDULED FOR RETIREMENT ON JUNE 30, 2019.

The transition exam is intended for people who have already demonstrated skills in the content domain by passing the existing exam(s) that the new role-based certification exams will be replacing. They cover the delta between the current certification and what we expect people who earn the new certification to be able to do. We don’t want to retest people on the same content where they have already demonstrated competence by passing the existing exam.

Transition exams cover net new content, content that wasn’t covered in enough depth, and content on aspects of the technology that have likely changed since someone took the exam. As a result, the transition exam is not shorter than a typical exam but more focused on the key tasks and skills that were not assessed in the existing exam or certification that is being replaced.

Candidates for this exam are Azure Solution Architects who advise stakeholders and translates business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

Candidates should have advanced experience and knowledge across various aspects of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance. This role requires managing how decisions in each area affects an overall solution.

Candidates must be proficient in Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps, and have expert-level skills in at least one of those domains.

Question: 1
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in
the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might
have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result these
questions will not appear in the review screen.
You use ASP.NET Core MVC with ADO.NET lo develop an application. You implement database
shard.ng for the application by using Azure SQL Database. You establish communication links
between the shard databases.
You need to implement a strategy that allows a group of operations that are performed on multiple
Azure databases to be rolled back on all databases if any of the operations fail.
Solution:
Deploy a SQL database instance in an Azure Virtual Machine (VM).
• Establish linked servers to each Azure SQL Database instance from the SQL Server instance in the VM.
• Create a stored procedure in the VM that performs the update operations using a distributed transaction and commits them if successful.
• Run the SQL stored procedure on the SQL Server instance in the VM.

Does the solution meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. No

Answer: A

Question: 2
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in
the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might
have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result, these
questions with not appear in the review screen.
You need to deploy resources to host a stateless web app in an Azure subscription The solution must
meet the following requirements:
• Provide access to the full .NET framework.
• Provide redundancy it an Azure region fails.
• Grant administrators access to the operating system to install custom application dependencies.
Solution: You deploy an Azure virtual machine to two Azure regions, and you create a Traffic Manager profile.
Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. No

Answer: A

Question: 3
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in
the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might
have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution.
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it. As a result these
questions will not appear in the review screen.
You need to deploy resources to host a stateless web app in an Azure subscription. The solution must
meet the following requirements:

• Provide access to the full .NET framework.
• Provide redundancy it an Azure legion fails.
• Grant administrators access to the operating system to install custom application dependencies.
Solution: You deploy a web app in an Isolated App Service plan. Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. No

Answer: A

Question: 4
Note: This question is part of a series of questions that present the same scenario. Each question in
the series contains a unique solution that might meet the stated goals. Some question sets might
have more than one correct solution, while others might not have a correct solution
After you answer a question in this section, you will NOT be able to return to it As a result these
questions will not appear in the review screen.
You need to deploy resources to host a stateless web app in an Azure subscription. The solution must
meet the requirements:
. Provide access to the full .Ni I framework.
. Provide redundancy if an Azure region fate
. Gram administrators access to the operating system to install custom application dependencies.
Solution: You deploy a virtual machine scale set that uses auto scaling.
Does this meet the goal?

A. Yes
B. No

Answer: B