Introduction

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor the solution.

Objectives

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Oversee Azure identities and governance
• Deploy and manage storage
• Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
• Configure and manage virtual networks
• Monitor and backup Azure resources

Student Profile

This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements, manages and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.

Prerequisites

• Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.

• Understanding of network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.

• Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

• Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

Course Materials

Students will receive a copy of the official Microsoft documentation in a digital format.

Methodology

This is an active and participatory course through demonstrations, practical exercises and user analysis of all theoretical topics taught by the trainer in order to address real cases of the related product.

The trainer will also use different dynamics that allow group work in the classroom such as challenges, assessment tests and real cases to prepare for the associated Microsoft certification exam if that is the case.

Certification

This course is certified by Microsoft®.

The evaluation is continuous, based on group and individual activities. The trainer will give constant feedback to each participant.

During the course, participants will complete an evaluation test that they must pass with more than 75%. They will have one hour for its completion.

Conditions for additional certification services are subject to the terms of the license owner or authorized certification authority.

Accreditation

A Certificate of Attendance will be issued only to students with an attendance of more than 75% and a Diploma of Achievement if they also pass the evaluation test.

Microsoft Azure Administrator

1. Identity

• Azure Active Directory
• Users and Groups

2. Governance and Compliance

• Subscriptions and Accounts
• Azure Policy
• Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

3. Azure Administration

• Azure Resource Manager
• Azure Portal and Cloud Shell
• Azure PowerShell and CLI
• ARM Templates

4. Virtual Networking

• Virtual Networks
• IP Addressing
• Network Security groups
• Azure Firewall
• Azure DNS

5. Intersite Connectivity

• VNet Peering
• VPN Gateway Connections
• ExpressRoute and Virtual WAN

6. Network Traffic Management

• Configure network routing including custom routes and service endpoints.
• Configure an Azure Load Balancer.
• Configure and Azure Application Gateway.
• Traffic Management

7. Azure Storage

• Storage Accounts
• Blob Storage
• Storage Security
• Azure Files and File Sync
• Managing Storage

8. Azure Virtual Machines

• Virtual Machine Planning
• Creating Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Availability
• Virtual Machine Extensions

9. PaaS Compute Options

• Azure App Service Plans
• Azure App Service
• Container Services
• Azure Kubernetes Service

10. Data Protection

• File and Folder Backups
• Virtual Machine Backups

11. Monitoring

• Azure Monitor
• Azure Alerts
• Log Analytics
• Network Watcher

AZ 104 | AZ104 | AZ-104