Microsoft Azure Training

Cloud Computing Introduction

• What is Cloud Computing
• Cloud Characteristics
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Deployment Models in Cloud Computing
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Job Roles.
• Cloud Computing Platforms and Certifications.
• Create an Account and Log In
• Overview of Azure Services
• PowerShell Basics - Install the Azure Module

Deploy Azure Web Apps

• Overview of Azure Web Apps
• Deployment Slots
• Roll Back Deployments
• Pre- and Post-Deployment Actions
• Implement Packages
• App Service Plans
• Migrating to Another App Service Plan
• Create an App Under an App Service Plan
• PowerShell Basics - Create a Web App

Configure Web Apps

• Configure Azure Web Apps
• General Settings
• App Settings and Connection Strings
• Handlers and Virtual Directories
• Custom Domains
• Binding the SSL and Runtime Configuration

Configure Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Analytics

• Overview of What Diagnostics Data is Available
• Retrieve Diagnostics Data
• View Streaming Logs
• Monitor Web App Resources

Scaling Web Apps

• Web App Scaling - Changing the Size of an Instance
• Web App Scaling - Enable Autoscaling
• Configure Traffic Manager

Deploy Virtual Machines

• Overview of Virtual Machines
• Identify Workloads That Can And Cannot Be Deployed
• Other Restrictions
• Create VMs
• Connect to a Windows/Linux VM
• PowerShell Basics - Create a Virtual Machine (*NEW*)

Configuration Management

• Templates and Automation
• Configuration Files
• Chef and Puppet

VM storage

• Configure Disk Caching
• Plan Storage Capacity
• Configure Operating System Disk Redundancy
• Configure Shared Storage Using Azure File Service
• Encrypt Disks

Monitor VMs

• Configure NSG for Port 80
• Configure ARM VM Monitoring
• Configure Alerts
• Configure Diagnostic And Monitoring Storage Location

Getting Starting with Azure

• Introduction to Azure
• Why, What and Benefits of Azure
• Azure Hosting Models
• Azure Services
• Subscribing to Microsoft Azure
• Azure Portals
• Azure Key Concepts
• Azure Resource Group
• Installing Microsoft Azure SDK

Design and Implement Azure App Service Apps

• Azure App Services - Web Apps
• Introduction
• App Service - Application Types
• Deploy Web Apps o Deploying Web App directly from Visual Studio
• Automate deployment from Dropbox and One Drive
• Create, configure and deploy packages
• Implement pre- and post-deployment actions;

• App Service plans
• Create App Service Plan
• Migrate Web Apps between App Service plans;
• Create a Web App within an App Service plan

• Configuring Web Apps o Application Settings Configuration
• Database Connection Strings,
• Configuring Handlers and Virtual Directories,
• Horizontal and Vertical Scaling of a Web App
• Configure auto-scale
• Change the size of an instance
• Retrieve Diagnostics data
• View Streaming Logs
• Configure endpoint monitoring
• Configuring Alerts
• Configure diagnostics
• Use remote debugging
• Monitor Web App resources
• Configure a custom domain name
• Enable SSL for your custom domain
• Understanding Deployment Slots and Roll back deployments;
• Configure Web Apps for scale and resilience
• Azure Traffic Manager to Scale out Globally
• Monitoring, Debugging and Diagnosis

Create and manage Azure Resource Manager Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Machine

• Introduction
• About Virtual Machine Workloads
• Comparing VM with Web Apps and Cloud Services
• Create a Windows Virtual Machine using Portal / PowerShell / ARM Templates
• Deploy popular application frameworks by using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Understand and Capture VM Images
• Upload an on-premise VHD to Storage Account
• Deploy a New VM from the Captured Image
• Manage ARM VM availability
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Virtual Machine Disk Types and Disk Caching
• VM Storage
• Disk Encryption
• Virtual Machine Sizes in Azure
• Importing and Exporting Disks

Design and Implement a Storage Strategy

• About Storage Service and Account
• Creating a Storage Account
• Working with Blob Storage o Types of Blobs (Block, Append, Page)
• Container and Metadata
• Programmoing Blob Storage
• Async Blob Copy
• Access blobs securely
• Configure CDN
• Configure Custom Domain
• Scale Blob Storage
• Working with Table Storage o Understanding NoSQL Database
• Creating Table and Entities using Storage Explorer
• Programming Table Storage
• Entities and Properties
• Azure Queues Storage o Understanding Async Communication using Queues
• Comparing Azure Queues and Service Bus Queues
Programming Queues
• Azure SMB File Storage o Common usage of File Storage
• Shares, Directory and File
• Managing Using Azure Portal
• Programming File Storage
• Manage access o Create and Manage Shared Access Signature
• Account SAS vs Service SAS
• Using Stored Access Policies
• Regnerating Keys
• Encrypt Keys using Azure Key Vault integration
• Configure diagnostics, monitoring and analytics o Capturing Metrics Data
• Analyzing Diagnostic Data
• Capturing Logs
• Retention Policies and Logging Levels
• Analyze Logs
• Enabling Monitoring
• Enabling Alerts
• Storage Service Encryption
• Implement virtual networks
• Azure Virtual Networks
• Overview of Azure Networking
• Virtual Network Benefits
• Understanding Network Resources
• Create a VNet using Azure Portal
• Create a Subnet
• Setup Network Security Group (NSG)
• Configure Static, Public IP Address
• Create Network Interface Card with public, and private IP addresses
• Create a Virtual Machine
• Configure external and internal load balancing
• HTTP and TCP health probes
• Implement Azure Application Gateway
• User Defined Routes (UDRs),
• Understanding and using Azure DNS at the virtual network level
• Design and implement a multi-site or hybrid network o Supported devices and software VPN
• Network Peering and Service Chaining
• Point-to-Site Network
• Site-to-Site Network
• ExpressRoute Solution

Design and Deploy ARM Templates

Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell and Azure CLI.

• Installing the required modules
• Login to Azure Portal
• Managing Resource Group
• Managing App Service Plans and App Service Web Apps
• Create and Configure a Storage Account
• Managing Storage Accounts using PowerShell
• Azure CLI Introduction and Setup
• Creating Resources
• Listing and Formatting output
• Connect a Web App to SQL Database
• Deleting Resources
• Interactive Mode

Azure ARM Templates

• Understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Exporting and Importing ARM templates.
• ARM Resource Providers
• Azure CLI
• Azure Portal
• REST API
• Incremental and Complete Deployments

• Control Access
• Using Azure AAD with ARM
• Management Policies
• Lock Resources
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Standard Roles
• Custom Roles

Manage Azure Security, and Recovery Services

Manage Azure Identities

• Azure Active Directory
• Azure AD Introduction
• Azure AD Editions
• Managing Active Directories
• Adding a custom domain name to Azure AD
• Managing Azure AD Users, Groups and Devices
• Adding Partner Users from other organization
• Configure Windows 10 with Azure AD domain join
• Configuring Role Based Access Control
• Synchronizing On-Premise AD Identities with Azure AD
• Azure AD Connect
• Azure AD User Sign-In Options o Password Synchronization
• Passthrough Authentication
• Federated SSO
• Using SSO with Azure AD
• Azure AD Graph API
• Microsoft Grapth API

Managed Active Directory Domain Service

• Introduction
• Azure AD DS for Cloud only organization
• Azure AD Domain Services for hybrid organizations
• Enable Azure Active Directory Domain Services using the Azure portal
• Administer an Azure Active Directory Domain Services managed domain
• Administer Group Policy on an Azure AD Domain Services managed domain
• Lift and Shift Application from On-Premise to Azure

Key Vault

• Secrets vs Keys
• Accessing Keys and Secrets
• Use cases for Key Vault
• Use Azure Key Vault from a Web Application
• Using Key Vault with ARM Template
• Encrypt and Decrypt BLOBS in Azure Storage
• Azure Security Center
• Prevent and Respond to threats
• Manage Azure Operations

Azure Automation

• Introduction
• Azure Automation Account
• New Automation Runbook
• PowerShell Runbook

Azure Virtual Networks

• Introduction to Azure Virtual Networks (2018)
• Azure Active Directory
• Understanding IP Addresses
• Network Security Groups (NSGs)
• Resource groups
• User Defined Routes and IP Forwarding
• Resources for Virtual Networking

Azure Compute

• Azure Compute
• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Sizing
• Azure VM LiveLab - Walk Through of Creating a VM
• Resources for Azure Compute

Azure VPN

• Overview of VPN and ExpressRoute
• P2S Point-to-Site VPN
• S2S Site-to-Site VPN
• ExpressRoute
• VPN Networking
• Resources for Azure VPN

Azure Services

• Azure Services & Solutions
• Azure Load Balancer
• Internal Load Balancer
• Azure Application Gateway
• Traffic Manager
• Azure Media Services
• Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Azure Active Directory
• Microsoft Azure Redis Cache
• What is Azure Multi-Factor Authentication?
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Services Quiz
• Resources for Azure Services

Managed Identities

• Introduction to Azure Security
• Managed Identities
• Graph API
• OAuth and OpenID
• Resources for Managed Identities

Identity Providers

• Resources for Identity Providers

Data Security

• Network Security Group
• Data security in transit and at rest
• Azure Operations Management Suite
• Resources for Data Security

Role-Based Security

• What is Role Based Access Control?
• RBAC In Practice
• Resources for Role Based Security (RBAC)

Azure Data Storage

• Introduction to Data Storage
• Table Storage
• SQL Storage
• DocumentDB Storage
• Blob Storage
• Queue Storage
• File Storage
• SQL Server VM
• Securing SQL Server
• Resources for Data Storage

Azure Mobile Apps

• Introduction to Azure Mobile Apps
• Cross Platform Applications
• Offline Sync
• Extend Mobile Apps
• Mobile Security
• Resources for Mobile Apps