40507: Microsoft Cloud Workshop: Microservices Architecture

Course Description

This SkillDynamo course develops practical, role-relevant capability in designing resilient Azure microservices solutions with service decomposition, containers, data, messaging, security, and operations. The learning path progresses from essential concepts and planning to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and operational use.

Learners work through realistic scenarios, guided demonstrations, applied exercises, and evidence-based reviews. Every topic is connected to workplace responsibilities, common risks, quality controls, and measurable outcomes.

The course helps professionals make informed decisions, identify failure points, communicate results, and create an actionable improvement plan for future projects.

What You Will Learn

• Identify bounded contexts, business capabilities, service ownership, contracts, data boundaries, and non-functional requirements
• Compare monolith, modular monolith, and microservices trade-offs using scale, change, reliability, and team criteria
• Select Azure compute, container, orchestration, API, configuration, identity, and service-discovery options
• Design service interfaces, deployment units, scaling, network boundaries, and environment topology
• Plan database-per-service, consistency, transactions, events, queues, retries, idempotency, and failure handling
• Apply authentication, authorization, secret management, encryption, least privilege, and zero-trust controls
• Plan CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, progressive release, rollback, and configuration management
• Implement logs, metrics, traces, health, alerts, SLOs, incident response, and cost-performance review

SkillDynamo Training Approach

SkillDynamo delivers this course through demonstrations, hands-on exercises, scenario analysis, validation checklists, structured troubleshooting, solution reviews, and a final improvement plan. Learners repeatedly practice planning, implementation, evidence collection, testing, correction, and communication so the skills transfer confidently into real workplace situations.