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DP-300T00: Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions

Overview

The thorough DP-300 course gives students the fundamental knowledge and abilities they need to effectively manage SQL Server database systems in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid settings. It serves professionals who design apps that serve content from SQL-based relational databases as well as those who deal with Microsoft's PaaS relational database products.
Based on the goals of the course version DP-300, increase your proficiency with DP-300 and become an expert database administrator for a range of settings. With this course, you'll be able to:

Manage SQL Server database infrastructures in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments with efficiency.

Recognize and make use of Microsoft's relational database PaaS services.

Create and enhance apps that use relational databases with SQL to provide content.

 

  • Arrange, implement, and set up Azure SQL services.
  • Track database efficiency and optimize queries and the database for best results.
  • Create and set up a high-availability system.

  • Database Developer
  • Database Analyst
  • Database Administrator

Required
  • Working with, maintaining, and developing with SQL Server
  • Experience with Azure, such as deploying and managing resources
Recommended
  • AZ-900T00: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • DP-900T00: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

Prepare to maintain SQL databases on Azure

  • Understand the role of Azure Database Administrator as it fits in with other data platform roles
  • Describe the key differences between the SQL Server-based database options in Azure
  • Describe other features of Azure SQL platforms available

Deploy IaaS solutions with Azure SQL

  • Explore the basics of SQL Server in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering
  • Learn the available options for provisioning and deployment
  • Deploy SQL Server into an Azure Virtual Machine
  • Lab: Provision a SQL Server on an Azure Virtual Machine

Deploy PaaS solutions with Azure SQL

  • Gain an understanding of SQL Server in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering
  • Understand PaaS provisioning and deployment options
  • Understand elastic pools
  • Examine Azure SQL Managed Instances
  • Explore Azure SQL Edge
  • Configure a template for PaaS deployment
  • Lab: Deploy an Azure SQL Database

Evaluate strategies for migrating to Azure SQL

  • Evaluate different Azure migration options when moving your SQL environment to the cloud
  • Understand how SQL Server compatibility level affects database behavior
  • Understand the differences between private and public preview options

Migrate SQL workloads to Azure SQL Databases

  • Describe the considerations for a SQL Server to Azure SQL Database migration
  • Describe the methods and steps to perform an offline migration to Azure SQL Database
  • Describe the methods and steps to perform an online migration to Azure SQL Database
  • Explore the post-migration steps required to ensure service continuity of your database in backup, high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability

Migrate SQL workloads to Azure Managed Instances

  • Evaluate migration scenarios to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
  • Migrate to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
  • Load and move data to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance

Configure database authentication and authorization

  • Learn about authentication options for Azure SQL Database
  • Create various security principals
  • Configure permissions within a SQL database
  • Identify authentication and authorization failures
  • Lab: Authorize Access to Azure SQL Database with Azure Active Directory

Protect data in transit and at rest

  • Understand the data encryption options available in the various platforms
  • Implement object-level encryption
  • Understand the difference between database and server firewall rules for Azure SQL Database
  • Explore Always Encrypted with secure enclaves
  • Lab: Configure a server-based firewall rule using the Azure portal

Implement compliance controls for sensitive data

  • Plan and implement data classification in Azure SQL Database
  • Understand and configure row-level security and dynamic data masking
  • Understand the usage of Microsoft Defender for SQL
  • Explore how Azure SQL Database Ledger works
  • Lab: Enable Microsoft Defender for SQL and Data Classification

Describe performance monitoring

  • Review potential performance issues
  • Identify critical Azure metrics
  • Learn how to collect metrics for an established baseline
  • Use extended events for performance analysis
  • Understand Azure SQL Database Intelligent Insights
  • Lab: Isolate problems with monitoring

Configure SQL Server resources for optimal performance

  • Understand your options for the configuration of Azure storage
  • Learn how to configure TempDB data files in SQL Server
  • Learn how to choose the right type of VM for SQL Server workloads
  • Understand the use cases and configuration of Resource Governor in SQL Server

Configure databases for optimal performance

  • Understand database-scoped configuration options
  • Understand maintenance tasks related to indexing and statistics
  • Understand the features of Intelligent Query Processing (IQP)
  • Explore the automatic tuning feature in Azure
  • Lab: Detect and correct fragmentation issues

Explore query performance optimization

 
  • Generate and save execution plans
  • Compare the different types of execution plans
  • Understand how and why query plans are generated
  • Explain the purpose and benefits of the Query Store
  • Investigate the available reports and data in the Query Store
  • Lab: Identify and resolve blocking issues

Evaluate performance improvements

  • Determine when changing indexes or defining new ones can affect performance
  • Evaluate wait statistics as an aid in finding areas for performance improvement
  • Understand how query hints work and when to use them
  • Lab: Isolate problem areas in poorly performing queries

Explore performance-based design

  • Explore normal forms and how they affect database design
  • Choose appropriate datatypes for your data
  • Evaluate appropriate index types
  • Lab: Identify database design issues

Automate deployment of database resources

  • Describe the deployment models available on Azure
  • Deploy database resources using PowerShell and Azure CLI
  • Deploy an Azure Resource Manager template and Bicep
  • Understand the difference between multiple command-line options
  • Lab: Deploy an Azure SQL Database using an Azure Resource Manager template

Create and manage SQL Agent jobs

  • Schedule necessary maintenance activities for your databases
  • Configure notifications and alerts on SQL Server Agent jobs, and SQL Server
  • Configure alerts based on performance monitor values
  • Lab: Create a CPU status alert for a SQL Server

Manage Azure PaaS tasks using automation
  • Understand the benefits of Azure policy
  • Explore the capabilities of Azure Automation
  • Configure elastic jobs
  • Use Logic Apps for database workflow
  • Lab: Deploy an Automation runbook to automatically rebuild indexes

Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies

  • Define recovery time objective and recovery point objective
  • Explore the available high availability and disaster recovery options for both IaaS and PaaS
  • Devise an appropriate high availability and disaster recovery strategy

Explore IaaS and PaaS solutions for high availability and disaster recovery

  • Explore options for deploying a WSFC in Azure
  • Explore options for deploying an AG in Azure
  • Implement Temporal Tables
  • Plan active geo-replication and auto-failover groups
  • Lab: Configure geo-replication for Azure SQL Database

Back up and restore databases

  • Explore backup and restore options for IaaS
  • Implement backup and restore for PaaS
  • Lab: Backup to URL
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