This intermediate-level course is designed for IT professionals aiming to become Azure Administrators. It covers the implementation, management, and monitoring of identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment.
Audience
The course is tailored for Azure Administrators responsible for implementing, managing, and monitoring identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. Successful candidates typically have experience in virtualization, networking, identity, and storage.
Prerequisites
Before attending, participants should have a good understanding of:
- On-premises virtualization technologies, including virtual machines (VMs), virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
- Network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
- Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control.
- Resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.
Outline
Module 1: Identity
- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
- Overview of Azure AD.
- Managing users and groups.
- Role-based access control (RBAC).
- Self-service password reset.
Module 2: Governance and Compliance
- Subscriptions and Accounts
- Managing Azure subscriptions.
- Access management in Azure.
- Azure Policy
- Implementing Azure Policy.
- Azure Blueprints.
Module 3: Azure Administration
- Azure Resource Manager
- ARM templates.
- Resource groups.
- Tags.
- Azure Portal and Cloud Shell
- Using the Azure portal.
- Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell.
- Azure PowerShell and CLI
- Using Azure PowerShell.
- Using Azure CLI.
Module 4: Virtual Networking
- Virtual Networks
- Overview of Azure virtual networks.
- Subnets.
- Network security groups.
- IP Addressing and Name Resolution
- Public and private IP addressing.
- Azure DNS.
- Network Security
- Network security groups and application security groups.
- Azure Firewall.
- Azure DDoS Protection.
Module 5: Intersite Connectivity
- VNet Peering
- Configuring VNet peering.
- VPN Gateway Connections
- Site-to-site VPN connections.
- Point-to-site VPN connections.
- ExpressRoute
- ExpressRoute connections.
Module 6: Network Traffic Management
- Network Routing and Endpoints
- Routing in Azure.
- Service endpoints.
- Azure Load Balancer
- Configuring Azure Load Balancer.
- Azure Application Gateway
- Configuring Application Gateway.
- Traffic Manager
- Configuring Traffic Manager.
Module 7: Azure Storage
- Storage Accounts
- Overview of storage accounts.
- Configuring storage account settings.
- Blob Storage
- Managing blobs and blob containers.
- Storage Security
- Shared Access Signatures (SAS).
- Azure AD Authentication for storage.
- Azure Files and File Sync
- Configuring Azure Files.
- Implementing Azure File Sync.
Module 8: Azure Virtual Machines
- Virtual Machine Planning
- Planning VM sizes and families.
- Creating Virtual Machines
- Deploying VMs.
- Using Azure Bastion.
- VM Availability and Scalability
- Availability sets.
- Scale sets.
- VM Storage
- Configuring VM storage.
- VM Monitoring
- Monitoring VMs.
Module 9: Serverless Computing
- Azure App Service Plans
- Configuring App Service plans.
- Azure App Service
- Deploying web apps.
- Container Services
- Azure Container Instances.
- Azure Kubernetes Service.
Module 10: Data Protection
- Backup and Restore
- Azure Backup.
- Azure Site Recovery.
Module 11: Monitoring
- Azure Monitor
- Configuring Azure Monitor.
- Azure Log Analytics.
- Alerts and Action Groups
- Configuring alerts.
- Configuring action groups.