Microsoft Azure Administrator

Outline

• Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell
  • What is Azure Cloud Shell?
  • How does Azure Cloud Shell work?
  • When should you use Azure Cloud Shell?
  • Knowledge check
• Introduction to Bash
  • What is Bash?
  • Bash fundamentals
  • Bash commands and operators
  • Exercise - Try Bash
  • Exercise - Terminate a misbehaving process
  • Exercise - Use Bash and grep to filter CLI output
  • Knowledge check
• Introduction to PowerShell
  • What is PowerShell?
  • Exercise - Run your first PowerShell commands
  • Locate commands
  • Exercise - Locate commands
  • Knowledge check
• Understand Microsoft Entra ID
  • Examine Microsoft Entra ID
  • Compare Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory Domain Services
  • Examine Microsoft Entra ID as a directory service for cloud apps
  • Compare Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2 plans
  • Examine Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Knowledge check
• Configure user and group accounts
  • Create user accounts
  • Manage user accounts
  • Create bulk user accounts
  • Create group accounts
  • Create administrative units
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure subscriptions
  • Identify Azure regions
  • Implement Azure subscriptions
  • Obtain an Azure subscription
  • Identify Azure subscription usage
  • Implement Microsoft Cost Management
  • Apply resource tagging
  • Apply cost savings
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Policy
  • Create management groups
  • Implement Azure policies
  • Create Azure policies
  • Create policy definitions
  • Create an initiative definition
  • Scope the initiative definition
  • Determine compliance
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Manage users and groups in Microsoft Entra ID
  • What is Microsoft Entra ID?
  • Create and manage users
  • Create and manage groups
  • Use roles to control resource access
  • Connect Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID with Microsoft Entra Connect
• Secure your Azure resources with Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)
  • What is Azure RBAC?
  • Knowledge check - What is Azure RBAC?
  • Exercise - List access using Azure RBAC and the Azure portal
  • Exercise - Grant access using Azure RBAC and the Azure portal
  • Exercise - View activity logs for Azure RBAC changes
  • Knowledge check - Using Azure RBAC
• Allow users to reset their password with Microsoft Entra self-service password reset
  • What is self-service password reset in Microsoft Entra ID?
  • Implement Microsoft Entra self-service password reset
  • Exercise - Set up self-service password reset
  • Exercise - Customize directory branding
• Configure virtual networks
  • Plan virtual networks
  • Create subnets
  • Create virtual networks
  • Plan IP addressing
  • Create public IP addressing
  • Associate public IP addresses
  • Allocate or assign private IP addresses
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure network security groups
  • Implement network security groups
  • Determine network security group rules
  • Determine network security group effective rules
  • Create network security group rules
  • Implement application security groups
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Virtual Network peering
  • Determine Azure Virtual Network peering uses
  • Determine gateway transit and connectivity
  • Create virtual network peering
  • Extend peering with user-defined routes and service chaining
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Load Balancer
  • Determine Azure Load Balancer uses
  • Implement a public load balancer
  • Implement an internal load balancer
  • Determine load balancer SKUs
  • Create back-end pools
  • Create health probes
  • Create load balancer rules
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Application Gateway
  • Implement Azure Application Gateway
  • Determine Azure Application Gateway routing
  • Configure Azure Application Gateway components
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Design an IP addressing schema for your Azure deployment
  • Network IP addressing and integration
  • Public and private IP addressing in Azure
  • Plan IP addressing for your networks
  • Exercise - Design and implement IP addressing for Azure virtual networks
• Distribute your services across Azure virtual networks and integrate them by using virtual network peering
  • Connect services by using virtual network peering
  • Exercise - Prepare virtual networks for peering by using Azure CLI commands
  • Exercise - Configure virtual network peering connections by using Azure CLI commands
  • Exercise - Verify virtual network peering by using SSH between Azure virtual machines
• Host your domain on Azure DNS
  • What is Azure DNS?
  • Configure Azure DNS to host your domain
  • Exercise - Create a DNS zone and an A record by using Azure DNS
  • Dynamically resolve resource name by using alias record
  • Exercise - Create alias records for Azure DNS
• Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes
  • Identify routing capabilities of an Azure virtual network
  • Exercise - Create custom routes
  • What is an NVA?
  • Exercise - Create an NVA and virtual machines
  • Exercise - Route traffic through the NVA
• Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Azure Load Balancer
  • Azure Load Balancer features and capabilities
  • Configure a public load balancer
  • Exercise - Configure a public load balancer
  • Internal load balancer
• Configure storage accounts
  • Implement Azure Storage
  • Explore Azure Storage services
  • Determine storage account types
  • Determine replication strategies
  • Access storage
  • Secure storage endpoints
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Blob Storage
  • Implement Azure Blob Storage
  • Create blob containers
  • Assign blob access tiers
  • Add blob lifecycle management rules
  • Determine blob object replication
  • Upload blobs
  • Determine Blob Storage pricing
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Storage security
  • Review Azure Storage security strategies
  • Create shared access signatures
  • Identify URI and SAS parameters
  • Determine Azure Storage encryption
  • Create customer-managed keys
  • Apply Azure Storage security best practices
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync
  • Compare storage for file shares and blob data
  • Manage Azure file shares
  • Create file share snapshots
  • Implement soft delete for Azure Files
  • Use Azure Storage Explorer
  • Deploy Azure File Sync
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Create an Azure Storage account
  • Decide how many storage accounts you need
  • Choose your account settings
  • Choose an account creation tool
  • Exercise - Create a storage account using the Azure portal
  • Knowledge check - Create a storage account
• Upload, download, and manage data with Azure Storage Explorer
  • Connect Azure Storage Explorer to a storage account
  • Exercise - Connect Azure Storage Explorer to a storage account
  • Connect Azure Storage Explorer to Azure Data Lake Storage
  • Exercise - Connect Azure Storage Explorer to Azure Data Lake Storage
• Configure virtual machines
  • Review cloud services responsibilities
  • Plan virtual machines
  • Determine virtual machine sizing
  • Determine virtual machine storage
  • Create virtual machines in the Azure portal
  • Connect to virtual machines
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure virtual machine availability
  • Plan for maintenance and downtime
  • Create availability sets
  • Review update domains and fault domains
  • Review availability zones
  • Compare vertical and horizontal scaling
  • Implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Create Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Implement autoscale
  • Configure autoscale
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure App Service plans
  • Implement Azure App Service plans
  • Determine Azure App Service plan pricing
  • Scale up and scale out Azure App Service
  • Configure Azure App Service autoscale
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure App Service
  • Implement Azure App Service
  • Create an app with App Service
  • Explore continuous integration and deployment
  • Create deployment slots
  • Add deployment slots
  • Secure your App Service app
  • Create custom domain names
  • Back up and restore your App Service app
  • Use Azure Application Insights
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Azure Container Instances
  • Compare containers to virtual machines
  • Review Azure Container Instances
  • Implement container groups
  • Review Azure Container Apps
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI
  • What is the Azure CLI?
  • Exercise - Create a virtual machine
  • Exercise - Test your new virtual machine
  • Exercise - Explore other VM images
  • Exercise - Sizing VMs properly
  • Exercise - Query system and runtime information about the VM
  • Exercise - Start and stop your VM with the Azure CLI
  • Exercise - Install software on your VM
  • Summary and cleanup
• Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure
  • Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure
  • Exercise - Create a Windows virtual machine
  • Use RDP to connect to Windows Azure virtual machines
  • Exercise - Connect to a Windows virtual machine using RDP
  • Configure Azure virtual machine network settings
• Host a web application with Azure App Service
  • Create a web app in the Azure portal
  • Exercise - Create a web app in the Azure portal
  • Prepare the web application code
  • Exercise - Write code to implement a web application
  • Deploy code to App Service
  • Exercise - Deploy your code to App Service
• Introduction to Azure Backup
  • What is Azure Backup?
  • How Azure Backup works
  • When to use Azure Backup
  • Knowledge check
• Configure Azure Monitor
  • Describe Azure Monitor key capabilities
  • Describe Azure Monitor components
  • Define metrics and logs
  • Identify monitoring data and tiers
  • Describe activity log events
  • Query the activity log
  • Interactive lab simulation
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Log Analytics
  • Determine Log Analytics uses
  • Create a Log Analytics workspace
  • Create Kusto queries
  • Structure Log Analytics queries
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Configure Network Watcher
  • Describe Azure Network Watcher features
  • Review IP flow verify diagnostics
  • Review next hop diagnostics
  • Visualize the network topology
  • Knowledge check
  • Summary and resources
• Improve incident response with Azure Monitor alerts
  • Explore the different alert types that Azure Monitor supports
  • Use metric alerts for alerts about performance issues in your Azure environment
  • Exercise - Use metric alerts to alert on performance issues in your Azure environment
  • Use log search alerts to alert on events in your application
  • Use activity log alerts to alert on events within your Azure infrastructure
  • Use action groups and alert processing rules to send notifications when an alert is fired
  • Exercise -Use an activity log alert and an action group to notify users about events in your Azure infrastructure
• Analyze your Azure infrastructure by using Azure Monitor logs
  • Features of Azure Monitor logs
  • Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
  • Exercise - Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
• Monitor your Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor
  • Monitoring for Azure VMs
  • Monitor VM host data
  • Use Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
  • Collect client performance counters by using VM insights
  • Collect VM client event logs