About Course
About AZ-305 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Training
Design Azure architecture that survives cost review and failure: identity, storage, networking, resilience and governance, mapped to the AZ-305 exam.
Azure architecture is mostly the discipline of writing down what you chose and what it costs when you are wrong. The exam does not reward knowing every service; it rewards choosing a defensible boundary, a recovery target and a price for a workload. Each module here ends in an artefact you can defend, whether that is a landing zone diagram, a cost model or a failover plan, because that is the work an architect is judged on and the exam is written in the same language.
Course Overview
12-week AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect training at SkilBrill: identity, storage, networking, resilience, cost governance and AZ-305 exam practice.
Why Learn AZ-305 Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Training
Indian employers across IT services, global capability centres, banking and consulting hire on Azure architecture skills, because the role stopped being optional for anyone who owns a cloud bill. An architect is asked which data may leave the country, what a second region genuinely costs, and what happens when the identity provider is unreachable, and is expected to answer with numbers. Azure Solutions Architect Expert is named in more senior cloud job descriptions than any other Microsoft architecture credential, and it is the one most often paired with a live design review.
Once you hold it, the question stops being whether you can design in Azure and becomes which kind of architecture you want to be judged on: a secure landing zone for a regulated bank, a cost-controlled platform for a scale-up, or a phased migration for an estate that cannot be stopped. The Expert badge also requires AZ-104 first, so it is the natural next step for an administrator who is ready to design rather than operate.
Who Should Join This Course
- Azure Administrators moving into design — You run the tenancy already and want the decisions that shape it
- Cloud Consultants and Pre-sales Engineers — You need a defensible design to put in front of a customer or bid team
- Enterprise and Technical Architects — You set the guardrails a platform team then implements
- Fresh Graduate Trainees — You are targeting architect-track roles that open at the entry level in services firms
- Developers who have been asked to design — You now own the shape of a system rather than only its code
- Solution Architects in Infrastructure Vendors — You translate a customer constraint into an Azure landing zone
Prerequisites
This course assumes you can already operate Azure day to day. You should be comfortable creating resource groups, deploying a virtual machine, attaching a managed disk and reading activity logs, because the AZ-305 exam never asks you to do those things: it asks you to choose between designs. Microsoft also requires the Azure Administrator Associate credential, AZ-104, before it will issue the Solutions Architect Expert badge. If you have not sat AZ-104 yet, take that course first or run through the administrator fundamentals in the first two modules here, because every scenario in this course assumes a working tenancy and a defined identity boundary.
Learning Objectives
- Design an identity boundary that separates workforce, customer and workload access on Microsoft Entra ID
- Choose a storage tier per workload and justify it against retrieval cost, throughput and retention
- Model resilience with availability zones, paired regions and recovery targets that match the data
- Design network topology that separates ingress, egress and private endpoints without over-engineering
- Apply governance with management groups, Azure Policy and tagging that survives an audit
- Estimate running cost and choose the cost lever that moves the bill rather than describing it
- Plan a migration from an existing estate into a landing zone with a phased cutover
- Defend an architecture decision in front of a review board using the published AZ-305 objectives
What the Programme Is Built On
The syllabus follows the published AZ-305 objectives: Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Front Door, Azure Site Recovery, Bicep, Azure Policy and the objective-to-topic map for the exam, two timed practice papers with a score sheet split by domain, a landing zone worksheet and the design-review rubric used in the capstone
Career Opportunities After This Programme
- Azure Solutions Architect
- Cloud Solutions Architect
- Enterprise Cloud Architect
- Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
- Cloud Centre of Excellence Lead
- Technical Account Manager, Cloud
Hands-on Practice and Capstone
Capstone: Design an Azure landing zone for a mid-sized enterprise with three business units, a regulated customer-facing application and a data platform that must stay inside one geography. Produce the subscription and management group design, the Entra ID tenant layout, the network topology with private endpoints, the storage and compute choices per workload, the resilience plan with recovery targets, and the enforceable policy set. Then defend it in a mock architecture review where cost, security and operations each challenge one decision.
Production scenario: A global enterprise has consolidated three regional data centres into one Azure subscription and now has no cost visibility, a flat identity model and a production outage that took four hours to recover. You are asked to rebuild the platform boundary before the next audit, with a fixed monthly budget and no downtime window.
Course Duration, Mode and Certification
The course runs for 12 weeks (72 hours), three sessions a week of two hours each. Modes: Classroom / Live Online / Hybrid. Certificate issued: SkilBrill Course Completion Certificate. This programme prepares you for the AZ-305 exam, which is booked and paid for with Microsoft separately from the course fee.
Why Train at SkilBrill
SkilBrill Training Institute in Thoraipakkam focuses on making you employable. Trainers are working Azure architects and platform engineers who have carried the AZ-305 exam and run production Azure estates, every module produces portfolio evidence rather than a completion badge, and the placement cell connects eligible candidates with hiring companies. Fee: ₹18,000 – ₹75,000. Enquire on +91 8610964691.
Career and Job Support
- Resume assistance tailored to the target role
- LinkedIn profile rewrite and recruiter outreach
- Mock interviews covering role scenarios
- Assessment and capstone walkthrough preparation
- Placement assistance with 200+ hiring partners
- Typical salary band after completion: ₹15 – 32 LPA
Official References and Further Reading
- Microsoft Learn: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) exam objectives
- Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Microsoft Entra ID documentation
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect course?
It is a 12-week, 72-hour programme that teaches Azure architecture decisions: how to separate identity and network boundaries, place data for cost and resilience, govern a landing zone with policy as code, and prove continuity with recovery targets. It closes with a full landing-zone capstone and timed AZ-305 practice papers scored by objective, with the vendor exam fee paid separately to Microsoft.
How is this different from the AZ-104 Azure Administrator course?
AZ-104 trains you to operate a tenancy: create resources, configure identity, manage storage and troubleshoot a network. AZ-305 assumes that competence and asks a different question, which is why the domains differ: given a business constraint and a cost ceiling, which design do you defend. This course contains no administration drills; every module ends on a design decision, a cost argument or a resilience proof.
Do I need AZ-104 before I start this course?
Microsoft requires the Azure Administrator Associate credential before it awards the Solutions Architect Expert badge, so treat AZ-104 as a formal prerequisite. Practically, you need to be comfortable in a live tenancy with resource groups, managed disks, Entra ID roles and activity logs. If you have administered Azure for a while but never sat the exam, the first two modules here close that gap.
What does a 72-hour Azure architecture programme cover in 12 weeks?
Three sessions a week of two hours each, 8 modules of 9 hours. The sequence moves from identity and governance, through storage, data, compute and network design, into resilience and the landing zone, and ends with the capstone and exam practice. Roughly half the time is hands-on in a live tenancy and half is design review, because an architect is judged on decisions rather than clicks.
Who hires Azure Solutions Architects in India?
Cloud consulting firms, systems integrators, GCCs running platform engineering, and product companies with a platform team of their own. The roles are usually titled Cloud Solutions Architect, Cloud Consultant, Enterprise Architect or Platform Architect. Employers look for someone who can write a design decision with its cost and failure modes attached, which is what this course is built to produce.
Will this course get me a job as an architect?
No course guarantees a role, and this one will not pretend otherwise. What it does is give you the design work that architect-track interviews actually test, a capstone decomposition you can defend in an interview, and the placement cell to introduce you to hiring partners for entry-level architect and cloud consultant roles.
What is the fee and how are batches run?
The programme fee is ₹18,000 – ₹75,000 depending on the batch and mode, and the vendor exam fee for AZ-305 is paid to Microsoft separately. It runs 12 weeks with three sessions a week of two hours, in classroom, live online or hybrid mode, with weekday, weekend and evening batches. Enquire on +91 8610964691 for the next batch date.