Microsoft Azure Administrator | Webucator

Course Overview

This course teaches IT Professionals how to become Azure administrators. They will learn how to manage 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 your solution.

Course Benefits

Configure and manage Azure subscriptions, resources, and governance
Implement secure identity, access, and role-based access control
Deploy and manage virtual machines and scale sets
Configure virtual networking, DNS, load balancing, and firewall rules
Set up storage accounts, containers, and secure access
Monitor performance, set alerts, and maintain business continuity with Azure tools

Delivery Methods

Public Class
Live expert-led online training from anywhere. Guaranteed to run .

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.

Microsoft Certified Partner

Webucator is a Microsoft Certified Partner. This class uses official Microsoft courseware and will be delivered by a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).

Course Outline

Manage services with the Azure portal
1. Azure management options
2. Navigate the portal
3. Azure portal dashboards
4. Access preview features
Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell
1. What is Azure Cloud Shell?
2. How does Azure Cloud Shell work?
3. When should you use Azure Cloud Shell?
Introduction to Bash
1. What is Bash?
2. Bash fundamentals
3. Bash commands and operators
Introduction to PowerShell
1. What is PowerShell?
2. Locate commands
Deploy Azure infrastructure by using JSON ARM templates
1. Explore Azure Resource Manager template structure
2. Add flexibility to your Azure Resource Manager template by using parameters and outputs
Understand Microsoft Entra ID
1. Examine Microsoft Entra ID
2. Compare Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory Domain Services
3. Examine Microsoft Entra ID as a directory service for cloud apps
4. Compare Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2 plans
5. Examine Microsoft Entra Domain Services
Create, configure, and manage identities
1. Create, configure, and manage users
2. Create, configure, and manage groups
3. Configure and manage device registration
4. Manage licenses
5. Create custom security attributes
6. Explore automatic user creation
Describe the core architectural components of Azure
1. What is Microsoft Azure
2. Get started with Azure accounts
3. Describe Azure physical infrastructure
4. Describe Azure management infrastructure
Azure Policy initiatives
1. Introduction
2. Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
3. Azure Policy design principles
4. Azure Policy resources
5. Azure Policy definitions
6. Evaluation of resources through Azure Policy
7. Check your knowledge
Secure your Azure resources with Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)
1. What is Azure RBAC?
2. Knowledge check - What is Azure RBAC?
Allow users to reset their password with Microsoft Entra self-service password reset
1. What is self-service password reset in Microsoft Entra ID?
2. Implement Microsoft Entra self-service password reset
Configure virtual networks
1. Plan virtual networks
2. Create subnets
3. Create virtual networks
4. Plan IP addressing
5. Create public IP addressing
6. Associate public IP addresses
7. Allocate or assign private IP addresses
Configure network security groups
1. Implement network security groups
2. Determine network security group rules
3. Determine network security group effective rules
4. Create network security group rules
5. Implement application security groups
Host your domain on Azure DNS
1. What is Azure DNS?
2. Configure Azure DNS to host your domain
3. Dynamically resolve resource name by using alias record
Configure Azure Virtual Network peering
1. Determine Azure Virtual Network peering uses
2. Determine gateway transit and connectivity
3. Create virtual network peering
4. Extend peering with user-defined routes and service chaining
Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes
1. Identify routing capabilities of an Azure virtual network
2. What is an NVA?
Introduction to Azure Load Balancer
1. What is Azure Load Balancer?
2. How Azure Load Balancer works
3. When to use Azure Load Balancer
Introduction to Azure Application Gateway
1. What is Azure Application Gateway?
2. How Azure Application Gateway works
3. When to use Azure Application Gateway
Introduction to Azure Network Watcher
1. What is Azure Network Watcher?
2. How Azure Network Watcher works
3. When to use Azure Network Watcher
Configure storage accounts
1. Implement Azure Storage
2. Explore Azure Storage services
3. Determine storage account types
4. Determine replication strategies
5. Access storage
6. Secure storage endpoints
Configure Azure Blob Storage
1. Implement Azure Blob Storage
2. Create blob containers
3. Assign blob access tiers
4. Add blob lifecycle management rules
5. Determine blob object replication
6. Manage blobs
7. Determine Blob Storage pricing
Configure Azure Storage security
1. Review Azure Storage security strategies
2. Create shared access signatures
3. Identify URI and SAS parameters
4. Determine Azure Storage encryption
5. Create customer-managed keys
6. Apply Azure Storage security best practices
Configure Azure Files
1. Compare storage for file shares and blob data
2. Manage Azure file shares
3. Create file share snapshots
4. Implement soft delete for Azure Files
5. Use Azure Storage Explorer
6. Consider Azure File Sync
7. Knowledge check
Introduction to Azure virtual machines
1. Compile a checklist for creating an Azure Virtual Machine
2. Back up your virtual machines
Configure virtual machine availability
1. Plan for maintenance and downtime
2. Review update domains and fault domains
3. Compare vertical and horizontal scaling
4. Implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
5. Create Virtual Machine Scale Sets
6. Implement autoscale
7. Configure autoscale
Configure Azure App Service plans
1. Implement Azure App Service plans
2. Determine Azure App Service plan pricing
3. Scale up and scale out Azure App Service
4. Configure Azure App Service autoscale
Configure Azure App Service
1. Implement Azure App Service
2. Create an app with App Service
3. Explore continuous integration and deployment
4. Create deployment slots
5. Add deployment slots
6. Secure your App Service app
7. Create custom domain names
8. Back up and restore your App Service app
9. Use Azure Application Insights
Configure Azure Container Instances
1. Compare containers to virtual machines
2. Review Azure Container Instances
3. Implement container groups
4. Review Azure Container Apps
Introduction to Azure Backup
1. What is Azure Backup?
2. How Azure Backup works
3. When to use Azure Backup
Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
1. Azure Backup features and scenarios
2. Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
3. Restore virtual machine data
Improve incident response with Azure Monitor alerts
1. Explore the different alert types that Azure Monitor supports
2. Use metric alerts for alerts about performance issues in your Azure environment
3. Use log search alerts to alert on events in your application
4. Use activity log alerts to alert on events within your Azure infrastructure
5. Use action groups and alert processing rules to send notifications when an alert is fired

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Azure class:

Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104T00)

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