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Microsoft Azure - Beginner's Guide + AZ-900 by Udemy
Beginning your journey on Microsoft Azure
Course Highlights
- Ability to understand how to start working with Azure
- Spin up Virtual Machines
- Work with Storage options such as BLOB , SQL Server
- Basic Understanding of services such as Azure Functions, Azure Web apps etc
- Be prepared when taking the AZ-900 certification exam
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
10 Topics
Important Course Instructions
Slides and Diagrams download
How are we approaching the course objectives
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Azure and the Azure Free Account
Creating an Azure Free Account
Tour around the portal
Some key terms
Lab - Creating a resource group
Summary on what we have learnt
40 Topics
What are we going to start with
Deploying a virtual machine
Lab - Deploying a Windows Virtual Machine
Connecting to an Azure Windows Virtual Machine
Lab - Resizing the virtual machine
Lab - Installing Internet Information Services
Virtual Machine sizes
Costing for Azure resources
Virtual Machines - OS and Temporary disk
Virtual Machine - IP addresses
Why do we choose a region
Lab - Creating a Linux Virtual Machine
Lab - Deploying a web server on the Linux machine
Lab - Deploying a web server on the Linux machine - Resources
Deleting your resources
Review - Subscription Resource and Resource group
Keeping a check on the remaining credit
Lab - Azure Marketplace for Virtual Machines
Availability Sets
Lab - Availability Sets
Availability Zones
Lab - Availability Zones for virtual machines
Azure Dedicated Host
Virtual Machine Scale Set service
Lab - Azure virtual machine scale set
About Azure Web Apps
Lab - Azure Web Apps
Azure Web App - Publishing from Visual Studio
Installing Visual Studio 2022
Quick note on Azure Web App scaling
About Azure Functions
Lab - Azure Functions
Primer on containers
Lab - Azure Container Instance
Lab - Azure Kubernetes
Lab - Azure Kubernetes - Resources
Azure Virtual Desktop - Creating a host pool
Azure Virtual Desktop - Using the host pool
Summary on what we have learnt
Section Quiz
17 Topics
Azure Virtual Network
Lab - Creating an Azure virtual network
Lab - Deploying a VM to the network
Lab - Communication across virtual machines in a virtual network
Network Security Groups
Review on Network Security Groups
Application Security Groups
Overview of VPN connections to Azure
Overview of Azure ExpressRoute
Azure Load Balancer
Lab - Basic Azure Load Balancer - Setup
Lab - Basic Azure Load Balancer - Implementation
Azure DNS
Example on using Azure DNS
Lab - Azure virtual network peering
Summary
Section Quiz
20 Topics
Introduction to Azure Storage
Lab - Creating a storage account
Lab - Working with the BLOB service
Azure Storage Accounts - Access tiers
Lab - Azure Storage Accounts - BLOB service - Access tiers
Azure Storage Accounts - Data Redundancy
Lab - Working with Azure File shares
Note - Azure File Sync service
Lab - Azure Queue Storage
Lab - Azure Table Storage
Azure Premium Storage accounts
Lab - Azure Storage Explorer
Example on a program interacting with Azure Storage Accounts
Example on a program interacting with Azure Storage Accounts - Resources
Note - Data Migration to Azure Storage
Lab - AzCopy tool
Lab - AzCopy tool - Resources
Virtual Network Service Endpoints
Summary
Section Quiz
24 Topics
What are we going to cover
Azure SQL Database service
Lab - Azure SQL Database
Lab - Azure SQL Database - Adding data
Lab - Azure SQL Database - Adding data - Resources
Lab - Azure Database for MySQL
Lab - Azure Database for MySQL - Adding data
Lab - Azure Database for MySQL - Adding data - Resources
Lab - Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Lab - Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Resources
Enterprise Data warehouse architecture
Lab - Enterprise Data Warehouse - Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage account
Lab - Enterprise Data Warehouse - Creating an Azure Synapse workspace
Lab - Enterprise Data Warehouse - Using pipelines to transfer data
About Azure Cosmos DB
Lab - Azure Cosmos DB - SQL API
Lab - Azure Cosmos DB - SQL API - Resources
Azure SQL Database vs Cosmos DB
Lab - Azure Databricks
Lab - Azure Databricks - Resources
Summary
A sample architecture - use case 1
A sample architecture - use case 2
Section Quiz
11 Topics
Benefits of the cloud - High Availability
Benefits of the cloud - Scalability
Benefits of the cloud - Disaster recovery
Benefits of the cloud - Elasticity
Benefits of the cloud - Fault tolerance
Cloud service model
Cloud model types
Economies of scale
Shared Responsibility Model
Quick summary of some important points
Section Quiz
24 Topics
Azure Traffic Manager
Lab - Azure Traffic Manager - Setup
Lab - Azure Traffic Manager - Implementation
Azure Content Delivery Network
Lab - Azure Content Delivery Network
Azure DevOps services
Starting Free with Azure DevOps Services
Azure DevOps - Quick look at Azure Boards
Azure DevOps - Quick look at Azure Repos
Azure DevOps - Quick look at Build Pipelines
Azure DevOps - Quick look at Release Pipelines
Azure DevOps - Quick look at Release Pipelines - Resources
Azure DevTest Labs
Machine Learning
Lab - Creating a Machine Learning workspace
Lab - Using the Machine Learning workspace
Cognitive Services
Azure Bot Service
Lab - Azure Key Vault
Azure Logic Apps
IoT Hub
Azure Batch Service
Summary
Section Quiz
20 Topics
Azure Active Directory
Lab - Creating a user in Azure AD
Role Based Access Control
Lab - Role Based Access Control
Azure Active Directory Groups
Lab - Multi-Factor Authentication
Azure AD Premium trial licensing
Conditional Access Policies
Passwordless authentication
Azure AD - External Identities
Hybrid environments - Identities
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Sentinel
Azure DDoS protection
Azure Firewall
Lab - Looking at the Azure Firewall service
Concept of Zero Trust
Defense on Depth
Summary
Section Quiz
32 Topics
Pricing Calculator
Total cost of ownership
Azure Cost Management
An Example invoice
Creating budgets in Azure
Support options in Azure
Azure Service Level Agreements
Business metrics
Services in preview
Cloud Adoption Framework
Service Trust Portal
Resource tags
Management Groups
Azure Blueprints
Azure Policy
Azure resource locks
Lab - Azure CLI
Lab - Azure CLI - Resources
Lab - Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell
Lab - ARM templates
Lab - ARM templates - Resources
Note on the Azure Arc service
Azure Advisor
Azure Service Health
Azure Monitor service
Azure Monitor Alerts
Lab - Log Analytics
Lab - Application Insights
Azure Government
Creating a new subscription
Summary
Section Quiz
15 Topics
Understanding your requirements
Choosing the right cloud model
Storing user documents
Understanding costs
High Availability
Elasticity
Connecting data center to Azure
The user identities
Monitoring your infrastructure
Revision - Important concepts
Revision - Costing
Revision - Tools
Revision - Security and Governance
Revision - Core Services
Revision - General Concepts
4 Topics
Going through the sample questions
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 2
Bonus Lecture
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