Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ – 900

Growth in the cloud market continues to be very strong, and Microsoft is poised to see rapid and sustained growth in its cloud share. This training course gives hands on experience so you can work for your customers to move their workloads to and manage them in Azure on a daily basis, this course will help you break into the growing Azure space to take advantage of cloud technologies. This course will prepare you for the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 exam. Upon successful completion of the training course you can apply to job roles like: Azure Administrator, AI Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Database Administrator, Developer and Security Engineer.

Skills gained

• Secure identities with Azure Active Directory and users and groups.
• Implement identity solutions spanning on-premises and cloud-based capabilities
• Apply monitoring solutions for collecting, combining, and analyzing data from different sources.
• Manage subscriptions, accounts, Azure policies, and Role-Based Access Control.
• Administer Azure using the Resource Manager, Azure portal, Cloud Shell, and CLI.
• Configure intersite connectivity solutions like VNet Peering, and virtual network gateways.
• Administer Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including VMs and virtual networking
• 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, and domain controllers

Describe core Azure concepts

• Introduction to Azure fundamentals
• Discuss Azure fundamental concepts
• Describe core Azure architectural components

Describe core Azure services

• Explore Azure database and analytics services
• Explore Azure compute services
• Explore Azure Storage services
• Explore Azure networking services

Describe core solutions and management tools on Azure

• Choose the best AI service for your needs
• Choose the best tools to help organizations build better solutions
• Choose the best monitoring service for visibility, insight, and outage mitigation
• Choose the best tools for managing and configuring your Azure environment
• Choose the best Azure serverless technology for your business scenario
• Choose the best Azure IoT service for your application

Describe general security and network security features

• Strengthen your security posture and protect against threats by using Azure Security Center.
• Collect and act on security data from many different sources by using Azure Sentinel.
• Manage dedicated physical servers to host your Azure VMs for Windows and Linux.
• Identify the layers that make up a defense in depth strategy.
• Explain how Azure Firewall enables you to control what traffic is allowed on the network.
• Configure network security groups to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources.
• Explain how Azure DDoS Protection helps protect your Azure resources from DDoS attacks.

Describe identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features

• Explain the difference between authentication and authorization.
• Describe how Azure Active Directory provides identity and access management.
• Explain the role single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication, and Conditional Access play.
• Make organizational decisions about your cloud environment by using the CAF for Azure.
• Define who can access cloud resources by using Azure role-based access control.
• Apply a resource lock to prevent accidental deletion of your Azure resources.
• Apply tags to your Azure resources to help describe their purpose.
• Control and audit how your resources are created by using Azure Policy.
• Enable governance at scale across multiple Azure subscriptions by using Azure Blueprints.
• Explain the types of compliance offerings that are available on Azure.
• Gain insight into regulatory standards and compliance on Azure.
• Explain Azure capabilities that are specific to government agencies.

Describe Azure cost management and service level agreements

• Plan and manage your Azure costs
• Choose the right Azure services by examining SLAs and service lifecycle