This course provides students with the key knowledge to help prepare for Exam AZ-300.
This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure resources, including deployment and configuration of virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, and Azure AD that includes implementing and managing hybrid identities. You will also learn how cloud resources are managed in Azure through user and group accounts, and how to grant access to Azure AD users, groups, and services using Role-based access control (RBAC).
This course teaches IT professionals how to discover, assess, plan and implement a migration of on-premises resources and infrastructure to Azure. Students will learn how to use Azure Migrate to perform the discovery and assessment phase that is critical to a successful migration. Students will also learn how to use Azure Site Recovery for performing the actual migration of workloads to Azure. The course focuses primarily on using ASR on a Hyper-V infrastructure to prepare and complete the migration process.
This course teaches IT professionals how operations are done in parallel and asynchronously. And, how your whole enterprise system must be resilient when failures occur, and just as importantly, how deployments can be automated and predictable. By using the Azure Application Architecture Guide and Azure reference architectures as a basis, you will understand how monitoring and telemetry are critical for gaining insight into the system.
This course teaches IT Professionals how to build Logic App solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations by automating tasks and business processes as workflows. Logic Apps is cloud service in Azure that simplifies how you design and create scalable solutions for app integration, data integration, system integration, enterprise application integration (EAI), and business-to-business (B2B) communication, whether in the cloud, on premises, or both.
Delegates will learn how to Implement authentication in applications (certificates, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, token-based), implement secure data (SSL and TLS), and manage cryptographic keys in Azure Key Vault.
Delegates will also learn how to configure a message-based integration architecture, develop for asynchronous processing, create apps for autoscaling, and better understand Azure Cognitive Services solutions.
Target Audience
Successful Cloud Solutions Architects begin this role with practical experience with operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, billing, and networking.
Önkoşullar
Successful Cloud Solutions Architects begin this role with practical experience with operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, billing, and networking. Specifically you will be:
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An Azure Solution Architect advises stakeholders and translates business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
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Azure Solution Architects have advanced experience and knowledge across various aspects of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance. This role requires managing how decisions in each area affects an overall solution.
Module 1: Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources
In this module you will explore Azure monitoring capabilities using Azure alerts, Azure activity logs, and Log Analytics. You will learn to query, analyze, and interpret the data viewed in Log Analytics.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources
Module 2: Implementing and Managing Storage
In this module you will learn about Azure storage accounts, data replication, how to use Azure Storage Explorer, and monitor storage.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Implementing and Managing Storage
Module 3: Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines (VMs)
In this module you will learn how to do the following:
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Create Virtual Machines (VM)s within the Azure Portal
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Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using Azure PowerShell
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Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using ARM templates
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Deploy Linux Virtual Machines (VM)s
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Monitor Virtual Machines (VM)s Additionally, you will learn how to protect data using backups at regular intervals, whether by snapshot, Azure Backup, or Azure Site Recovery.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Deploying and Managing VMs
Module 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
In this module you will create and implement virtual networks using the Azure Portal as well as Azure PowerShell and CLI. You will receive and overview on how to assign IP addresses to Azure resources to communicate with other Azure resources, your on-premises network, and the Internet.
Lessons
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Network routing using routing tables and algorithms
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Inter-site connectivity using VNet-to-VNet connections and VPNs
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Virtual network peering for regional and global considerations
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Gateway transit
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks
Module 5: Managing Identities
This module covers Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for IT Admins and Developers with a focus on the Azure AD multi-tenant cloud-based directory and identity management service.
Lessons
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Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
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built-in roles
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Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)
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authentication methods for password reset
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Managing Identities using Azure Active Directory
Module 6: Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure
This module covers migrating workloads to a new environment, whether it be another datacenter, or to a public cloud, and setting clear goals for the migration. Goals include both technology-focused and business-focused goals for migrations, and the benefits to an organization’s business. Activities include components of the Azure migration process: creating a project, creating a collector, assessing readiness, and estimating costs. Additionally, you will receive and overview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) that includes and end-to-end scenarios.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure
Module 7: Implementing and Managing Application Services
This module includes the following topics:
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Deploying Web Apps
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Managing Web Apps
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App Service Security
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Serverless Computing Concepts
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Managing Event Grid
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Managing Service Bus
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Managing Logic App
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Implementing and Managing Application Services
Module 8: Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking
This module includes the following topics:
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Azure Load Balancer
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Azure Application Gateway
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Site-to-Site VPN Connections As well as an overview of ExpressRoute which allows companies to extend on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a dedicated private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking.
Module 9: Securing Identities
This module includes the following topics with an emphasis on identity and roles:
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Azure AD Identity Protection
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Azure Domains and Tenants
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Azure Users and Groups
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Azure Roles As well as an overview of Azure AD integration options that focuses on Azure AD Connect to integrate on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Securing Identities using Azure AD.
Module 10: Selecting Compute and Storage Solutions
This module includes the following topics:
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Azure Architecture Center
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Cloud design patterns
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Competing consumers pattern
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Cache-aside pattern As well as sharding patterns to divide a data store into horizontal partitions, or shards. Each shard has the same schema but holds its own distinct subset of the data.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Design and Connectivity Patterns
Module 11: Hybrid Networking
This module includes the following topics:
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Site-to-site connectivity
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Point-to-site connectivity
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Combining site-to-site and point-to-site connectivity
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Virtual network–to–virtual network connectivity As well as connecting across cloud providers for failover, backup, or even migration between providers such as AWS.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Module 12: Measuring Throughput and Structure of Data Access
This module includes the following topics:
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DTUs – Azure SQL Database
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RUs – Azure Cosmos DB
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Structured and unstructured data
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Using structured data stores
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Address Durability of Data and Caching
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Measure Throughput and Structure of Data Access
Module 13: Creating Web Applications using PaaS
This module provides and overview of Azure App Service Web Apps for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and a mobile back end. Topics include the following:
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Using shell commands to create an App Service Web App
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Creating Background Tasks
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Using Swagger to document an API As well as an explanation of how Logic Apps help to build solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations by automating tasks and business processes as workflows.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Use shell commands to create an App Service Web App
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Create Background Tasks
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Use Swagger to document an API
Module 14: Creating Apps and Services Running on Service Fabric
This module provides an overview of Azure Service Fabric as a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. This module also addresses the challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications. Additional topics include:
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Creating a reliable service
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Creating a Reliable Actors app
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Working with Reliable collections
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Create a reliable service
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Create a Reliable Actors app
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Hands-on with Reliable collections
Module 15: Using Azure Kubernetes Service This module focuses on the Azure
Kubernetes Service (AKS) for deploying and managing a Kubernetes cluster in Azure. Topics include how to reduce operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure, such as health monitoring and maintenance.
Additional topics include:
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Azure Container Registry
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Azure Container Instances
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Understand the Azure Container Registry
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Use Azure Container instances
Module 16: Implementing Authentication
Topics for this module include:
Lessons
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Implementing authentication in applications (certificates, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, token-based)
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Implementing multi-factor authentication
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Claims-based authorization
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Role-based access control (RBAC) authorization
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Understand how to Implement authentication using certificates, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, and tokens
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Implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) authorization
Module 17: Implementing Secure Data
Lessons
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End-to-end encryption
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Implementing Azure confidential computing
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Implementing SSL and TLS communications
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Managing cryptographic keys in Azure Key Vault
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Implement secure data for end-to-end encryption
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Implement secure data for implementing SSL and TLS communications.
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Use Azure Key Vault to manage cryptographic keys
Module 18: Developing Long-Running Tasks and Distributed Transactions
Topics for this module include:
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Implementing large-scale, parallel, and high-performance apps using batches
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HPC using Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
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Implementing resilient apps by using queues As well as, implementing code to address application events by using webhooks. Implementing a webhook gives an external resource a URL for an application. The external resource then issues an HTTP request to that URL whenever a change is made that requires the application to take an action.
Module 19: Configuring a Message-Based Integration Architecture
Lessons
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Configure an app or service to send emails
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Configure an event publish and subscribe model
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Configure the Azure Relay service
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Configure apps and services with Microsoft Graph
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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How to configure a message-based integration architecture
Module 20: Developing for Asynchronous Processing
Lessons
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Implement parallelism, multithreading, and processing
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Implement Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps
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Implement interfaces for storage or data access
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Implement appropriate asynchronous computing models
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Implement autoscaling rules and patterns
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Understand how to Develop for Asynchronous Processing
Module 21: Developing for Autoscaling
Lessons
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Implementing autoscaling rules and patterns
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Implementing code that addresses singleton application instances
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Implementing code that addresses a transient state
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Begin creating apps for Autoscaling
Module 22: Developing Azure Cognitive Services Solutions
Lessons
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Developing Solutions using Computer Vision
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Developing solutions using Bing Web Search
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Developing solutions using Custom Speech Service
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Developing solutions using QnA Maker
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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Understand Azure Cognitive Services Solutions