Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions – AZ-700

Design and Implement Core Networking Infrastructure (25-30%)

Design and implement IP addressing for Azure resources

- Plan and implement network segmentation and address spaces
- Create a virtual network (VNet)
- Plan and configure subnetting for services, including VNet gateways, private endpoints, service endpoints, firewalls, application gateways, VNet-integrated platform services, and Azure Bastion
- Plan and configure subnet delegation
- Plan and configure shared or dedicated subnets
- Create a prefix for public IP addresses
- Choose when to use a public IP address prefix
- Plan and implement a custom public IP address prefix (bring your own IP)
- Create a public IP address
- Associate public IP addresses to resources

Design and implement name resolution

- Design name resolution inside a VNet
- Configure DNS settings for a VNet
- Design public DNS zones
- Design private DNS zones
- Configure public and private DNS zones
- Link a private DNS zone to a VNet
- Design and implement Azure DNS private resolver

Design and implement VNet connectivity and routing

- Design service chaining, including gateway transit
- Implement VNet peering
- Implement and manage virtual networks by using Azure Virtual Network Manager
- Design and implement user-defined routes (UDRs)
- Associate a route table with a subnet
- Configure forced tunneling
- Diagnose and resolve routing issues
- Design and implement Azure Route Server
- Identify appropriate use cases for a network address translation (NAT) gateway
- Implement a NAT gateway

Monitor networks

- Configure monitoring, network diagnostics, and logs in Azure Network Watcher
- Monitor and troubleshoot network health by using Azure Network Watcher
- Monitor and troubleshoot networks by using Azure Monitor Network Insights
- Activate and monitor distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection
- Evaluate network security recommendations identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Secure Score
- Evaluate network security recommendations identified by Microsoft Defender For Cloud Attack Path Analysis
- Identify network resources by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Security Explorer

Design, implement, and manage connectivity services (20-25%)

Design, implement, and manage a site-to-site VPN connection

- Design a site-to-site VPN connection, including for high availability
- Select an appropriate VNet gateway stock-keeping unit (SKU) for site-to-site VPN requirements
- Implement a site-to-site VPN connection
- Identify when to use a policy-based VPN versus a route-based VPN connection
- Create and configure a local network gateway
- Create and configure an IPsec/Internet Key Exchange (IKE) policy
- Create and configure a virtual network gateway
- Diagnose and resolve virtual network gateway connectivity issues
- Implement Azure Extended Network

Design, implement, and manage a point-to-site VPN connection

- Select an appropriate virtual network gateway SKU for point-to-site VPN requirements
- Select and configure a tunnel type
- Select an appropriate authentication method
- Configure RADIUS authentication
- Configure authentication by using Microsoft Entra ID
- Implement a VPN client configuration file
- Diagnose and resolve client-side and authentication issues
- Specify Azure requirements for Always On VPN
- Specify Azure requirements for Azure Network Adapter

Design, implement, and manage Azure ExpressRoute

- Select an ExpressRoute connectivity model
- Select an appropriate ExpressRoute SKU and tier
- Design and implement ExpressRoute to meet requirements, including cross-region connectivity, redundancy, and disaster recovery
- Design and implement ExpressRoute options, including Global Reach, FastPath, and ExpressRoute Direct
- Choose between Azure private peering only, Microsoft peering only, or both
- Configure Azure private peering
- Configure Microsoft peering
- Create and configure an ExpressRoute gateway
- Connect a virtual network to an ExpressRoute circuit
- Recommend a route advertisement configuration
- Configure encryption over ExpressRoute
- Implement Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
- Diagnose and resolve ExpressRoute connection issues

Design and implement an Azure Virtual WAN architecture

- Select a Virtual WAN SKU
- Design a Virtual WAN architecture, including selecting types and services
- Create a hub in Virtual WAN
- Choose an appropriate scale unit for each gateway type
- Deploy a gateway into a Virtual WAN hub
- Configure virtual hub routing
- Integrate a Virtual WAN hub with a third-party NVA for cloud connectivity

Design and implement application delivery services (15-20%)

Design and implement Azure Load Balancer and Azure Traffic Manager

- Map requirements to features and capabilities of Azure Load Balancer
- Identify appropriate use cases for Azure Load Balancer
- Choose an Azure Load Balancer SKU and tier
- Choose between public and internal load balancers
- Choose between regional and global load balancers
- Create and configure an Azure Load Balancer
- Implement Azure Traffic Manager
- Implement a gateway load balancer
- Implement a load balancing rule
- Create and configure inbound NAT rules
- Create and configure explicit outbound rules, including source network address translation (SNAT)

Design and implement Azure Application Gateway

- Map requirements to features and capabilities of Azure Application Gateway
- Identify appropriate use cases for Azure Application Gateway
- Choose between manual and autoscale
- Create a back-end pool
- Configure health probes
- Configure listeners
- Configure routing rules
- Configure HTTP settings
- Configure Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- Configure rewrite sets

Design and implement Azure Front Door

- Map requirements to features and capabilities of Azure Front Door
- Identify appropriate use cases for Azure Front Door
- Choose an appropriate tier
- Configure an Azure Front Door, including routing, origins, and endpoints
- Configure SSL termination and end-to-end SSL encryption
- Configure caching
- Configure traffic acceleration
- Implement rules, URL rewrite, and URL redirect
- Secure an origin by using Azure Private Link in Azure Front Door

Design and Implement Private Access to Azure Services (10-15%)

Design and implement Azure Private Link service and Azure Private Endpoints

- Plan private endpoints
- Create private endpoints
- Configure access to private endpoints
- Create a Private Link service
- Integrate Private Link and Private Endpoint with DNS
- Integrate a Private Link service with on-premises clients

Design and implement service endpoints

- Choose when to use a service endpoint
- Create service endpoints
- Configure service endpoint policies
- Configure access to service endpoints

Design and implement Azure network security services (15-20%)

Implement and manage network security groups

- Create a network security group (NSG)
- Associate a NSG to a resource
- Create an application security group (ASG)
- Associate an ASG to a network interface card (NIC)
- Create and configure NSG rules
- Interpret NSG flow logs
- Validate NSG flow rules
- Verify IP flow
- Configure an NSG for remote server administration, including Azure Bastion

Design and implement Azure Firewall and Azure Firewall Manager

- Map requirements to features and capabilities of Azure Firewall
- Select an appropriate Azure Firewall SKU
- Design an Azure Firewall deployment
- Create and implement an Azure Firewall deployment
- Configure Azure Firewall rules
- Create and implement Azure Firewall Manager policies
- Create a secure hub by deploying Azure Firewall inside an Azure Virtual WAN hub

Design and implement a Web Application Firewall (WAF) deployment

- Map requirements to features and capabilities of WAF
- Design a WAF deployment
- Configure detection or prevention mode
- Configure rule sets for WAF on Azure Front Door
- Configure rule sets for WAF on Application Gateway
- Implement a WAF policy
- Associate a WAF policy