Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Validates advanced expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions on Azure, including compute, network, storage, monitoring, and security. This expert-level certification covers designing identity, governance, and monitoring solutions, data storage solutions for relational and unstructured data, business continuity solutions including backup and disaster recovery, and infrastructure solutions covering compute, networking, migrations, and application architecture. Requires AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate) as a prerequisite and aligns with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework.