Azure Academy · Resource

Architecture Review Guide

A structured design-review checklist covering resilience, security, operations and cost.

Requirements and constraints

Apply this section specifically to Azure Academy. Record assumptions, commands, screenshots, decisions, validation results and rollback evidence where relevant.

□ State the objective and expected outcome.
□ Identify dependencies, risk and failure signals.
□ Execute the smallest safe validation step.
□ Capture evidence that another engineer can review.

Identity and security boundaries

Apply this section specifically to Azure Academy. Record assumptions, commands, screenshots, decisions, validation results and rollback evidence where relevant.

□ State the objective and expected outcome.
□ Identify dependencies, risk and failure signals.
□ Execute the smallest safe validation step.
□ Capture evidence that another engineer can review.

Resilience and recovery

Apply this section specifically to Azure Academy. Record assumptions, commands, screenshots, decisions, validation results and rollback evidence where relevant.

□ State the objective and expected outcome.
□ Identify dependencies, risk and failure signals.
□ Execute the smallest safe validation step.
□ Capture evidence that another engineer can review.

Operability and observability

Apply this section specifically to Azure Academy. Record assumptions, commands, screenshots, decisions, validation results and rollback evidence where relevant.

□ State the objective and expected outcome.
□ Identify dependencies, risk and failure signals.
□ Execute the smallest safe validation step.
□ Capture evidence that another engineer can review.

Cost, scale and lifecycle

Apply this section specifically to Azure Academy. Record assumptions, commands, screenshots, decisions, validation results and rollback evidence where relevant.

□ State the objective and expected outcome.
□ Identify dependencies, risk and failure signals.
□ Execute the smallest safe validation step.
□ Capture evidence that another engineer can review.

Quality standard

Reusable by someone who was not present.

A strong resource removes ambiguity. It states prerequisites, decision points, commands, validation, rollback and ownership clearly enough for another engineer to execute safely.