ABOUT THIS COURSE

This two-day course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; security, privacy, compliance, and trust; and Azure pricing and support. Note: This course provides an Azure pass and time for students to participate in hands-on labs. If you do not need hands-on experience, consider the AZ-900T01: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (1 day) course. The content for both courses aligns with the AZ-900 exam objective domain.

Full Time

This course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Azure. This audience wants to learn about our offerings and get hands-on experience with the product. This course primarily uses the Azure portal to create services and does not require scripting skills. Students in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator. This course provides an Azure pass and optional lab environment. This course combines lecture, demonstrations, and hands-on labs. This course will also help prepare someone for the AZ-900 exam.

2 Days

14 Hours

Module 1: Cloud Concepts

In this module, you'll take an entry-level, end-to-end look at Azure and its capabilities. You'll gain a solid foundation for completing the available learning paths for Azure fundamentals.

Lessons

• Introduction to Azure fundamentals
• Fundamental Azure concepts
• Describe core Azure architectural components

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the basic concepts of cloud computing.
• Determine whether Azure is the right solution for your business needs.
• Differentiate between the different methods of creating an Azure subscription.

Module 2: Core Azure Services

In this module, you'll learn about several of the components that are necessary to successfully deploy resources on Azure.

Lessons

• Core Azure architectural components
• Core Azure workload products
• Azure networking services
• Azure storage services
• Azure database services

After completing this module, you'll be able to describe the benefits and usage of:

• Azure regions, region pairs, and availability zones.
• Azure resources, resource groups, and Azure Resource Manager.
• Azure subscriptions and management groups.

Module 3: Core solutions and management tools

In this module, you'll help Tailwind Traders select the right Azure IoT service offering for its business scenarios. By evaluating the services in relation to a set of decision criteria, you'll learn about what the various services do, how they're different or complementary, and when to use one or the other.

Lessons

• Choose the best Azure IoT service
• Choose the best AI service
• Choose the best Azure serverless technology
• Choose the best tools with DevOps and GitHub
• Choose the best management tools
• Choose the best Azure monitoring service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Choose the Azure IoT service that best addresses your business scenario.

Module 4: General security and network security features

In this module, you'll learn about some of the security tools that can help keep your infrastructure and data safe when you work in the cloud.

Lessons

• Security tools and features
• Secure network connectivity

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Strengthen your security posture and protect against threats by using Azure Security Center.
• Collect and act on security data from many different sources by using Azure Sentinel.
• Store and access sensitive information such as passwords and encryption keys securely in Azure Key Vault.
• Manage dedicated physical servers to host your Azure VMs for Windows and Linux by using Azure Dedicated Host.

Module 5: Identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features

In this module, you will learn about Azure identity services, how to build a cloud governance strategy and privacy, compliance, and data protection standards on Azure.

Lessons

• Core Azure identity services
• Azure Governance Methodologies
• Privacy, compliance, and data protection standards

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the difference between authentication and authorization.
• Describe how Azure AD provides identity and access management.
• Explain the role that single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication, and Conditional Access play in managing user identity.

Module 6: Azure pricing and lifecycle

In this module, you'll learn about the major factors that influence the cost of running in the cloud. Along the way, you'll get hands-on experience with some of the tools you can use to estimate the costs of running your workloads on Azure to help ensure that you stay within budget and use only the services that you need.

Lessons

• Planning and Cost Management
• Azure SLAs and service lifecycle

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Use the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator to compare your current datacenter costs to running the same workloads on Azure.
• Describe the different ways you can purchase Azure products and services.
• Use the Pricing calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running your cloud workloads.
• Define some of the major factors that affect total cost and apply recommended practices to minimize cost.