Azure Cloud Week Curriculum

Use this guide to follow along with the content for each day of the Azure Cloud Week for
Partners. Included are the main lessons discussed during the Live Lectures, and an overview
of lab content. In addition, Homework assignments and additional resources will be outlined.

Contents
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals ................................................................................................................. 2
DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals ....................................................................................................... 4
AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals .............................................................................................................. 6
AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator .................................................................................................................. 8
AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure ......................................................................................... 11
AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert ............................................................................................................ 14
AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions ....................................................... 17
AZ-140 Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop .................................................... 20
Sales Track: Partner Sales Acceleration Program (PSAP)............................................................................... 23
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Cloud Concepts • Explore Azure Storage services
Lessons: • Explore Azure networking services
Introduction to Azure Fundamentals • Explore Azure database and analytics
Discuss Azure Fundamental Concepts services
• Create a storage account
Module: Core Azure Services
• Create a VM
Lessons:
Describe Core Azure Architectural
Components
Explore Azure Compute Services

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Core Solutions • Choose the Best Tools for Managing
Lessons: and Configuring your Azure
Choose the best AI service for your Needs Environment
Choose the Best Tools to Help Organizations • Choose the Best Azure Serverless
Build Better Solutions Technology for your Business Scenario
Choose the Best Monitoring Service for • Choose the Best Azure IoT Service for
Visibility, Insight, and Outage Mitigation your Application
• Choose the Best Tools with DevOps
and GitHub

Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: General Security and Networking • Secure Network Connectivity on Azure
Features • Azure Governance Methodologies
Lessons: • Privacy, Compliance, and Data
Protect Against Security Threats on Azure Protection Standards

Module: Identity, Governance, Privacy, and

Compliance
Lessons:

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 Core Azure Identity Services
Build a Cloud Governance Strategy on Azure

Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Azure Pricing and Lifecycle • Choose the Right Azure Services by
Lessons: Examining SLAs and Service Lifecycle
Plan and Manage your Azure Costs

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals:

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your knowledge of cloud concepts, Azure services, Azure workloads, security
and privacy in Azure, and Azure pricing and support
• Candidates should be familiar with the general technology concepts, including concepts
of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development

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DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Explore Core Data Concepts • Lab 1: Create a Relational Database
Lessons:
Explore Core Data Concepts
Explore Roles and Responsibilities in the
World of Data
Describe Concepts of Relational Data
Explore Concepts of Non-relational Data
Explore Concepts of Data Analytics

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Explore Relational Data in Azure • Lab 2: Query to Relational Data in
Lesson: Azure
Explore Relational Data Services in Azure
Explore Provisioning and Deploying
Relational Database Services in Azure
Query Relational Data in Azure

Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Explore Non-Relational Data in • Lab 3: Provision Non-Relational Azure
Azure Data Services
Lesson:
Explore Non-Relational Data Services in Azure
Explore Provisioning and Deploying Non-
Relational Data Services on Azure
Manage Non-Relational Data Stores in Azure

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Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Explore Modern Data Warehouse • Lab 4: Perform Data Injection in Azure
Analytics
Lesson:
Examine Components of a Modern Data
Warehouse
Explore Data Ingestion in Azure
Explore Data Storage and Processing in Azure
Get Started Building with Power BI

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals:

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your knowledge of concepts of relational and nonrelational data, and different
types of data workloads, such as transactional and analytical
• Candidates should have foundational knowledge of core data concepts and how they're
implemented by using Azure data services

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AI-900 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Introduction to AI • Explore Responsible AI
Lessons:
Artificial Intelligence in Azure
Responsible AI

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Machine Learning • Lab: Azure Machine Learning
Lessons:
Introduction to Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning

Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Computer Vision • Lab: Image Classification
Lessons:
Computer Vision Concepts
Computer Vision in Azure

Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Natural Language Processing • Lab: Language Understanding
Lessons: • Lab: Create a Bot
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Workloads on Azure

Module: Conversational AI
Lessons:
Conversational AI Concepts

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 Conversational AI in Azure
Summary and Next Steps

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for AI-900: Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals:

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your knowledge in common machine-learning (ML) and artificial-intelligence
(AI) workloads and how to implement them on Azure
• Candidates should have foundational knowledge of ML and AI concepts and related
Azure services
• While data science and software engineering experience isn't required, general
programming knowledge or experience would be beneficial.

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AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

Day 1 Overview:
Live Lecture Homework
Module: Identity Module: Governance and Compliance
Lessons: Lessons:
Users and Groups Azure Policy

Module: Governance and Compliance • Lab: Manage Subscriptions and RBAC

Lessons: • Lab: Manage Governance via Azure
Role-based Access Control (RBAC) Policy
• Lab: Manage Azure Resources by
Module: Azure Administration
Using ARM Templates
Lessons:
• Lab: Manage Azure Resources by
ARM Templates
Using Azure PowerShell (optional)
Lab: Manage Azure Active Directory Identities
• Lab: Manage Azure Resources by
Using Azure CLI (optional)
• Lab: Manage Azure Resources by
Using the Azure Portal

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Virtual Networking • VPN Gateway Connections
Lessons: • ExpressRoute and Virtual WAN
Virtual Networks • Lab: Implement Intersite Connectivity
Network Security Groups • Network Routing and End-Points
Azure Firewall • Azure Application Gateway
Azure DNS • Lab: Implement Traffic Management

Module: Intersite Connectivity

Lessons:
VNet Peering

Module: Network Traffic Management

Lessons:
Azure Load Balancer

Module: Virtual Networking

Lessons:
Lab: Implement Virtual Networking

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Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Azure Storage • Azure Files and File Sync
Lessons: • Managing Storage
Storage Accounts • Lab: Manage Azure Storage
VPN Gateway Connections • Virtual Machine Planning
Blob Storage • Virtual Machine Extensions
Storage Security • Lab: Manage Virtual Machines

Module: Azure Virtual Machines

Lessons:
Creating Virtual Machines
Virtual Machine Availability

Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: PaaS Compute Options • Log Analytics
Lessons: • Network Watcher
Azure App Service Plans • File and Folder Backups
Azure App Service • Azure Kubernetes Service
Container Services • Lab: Implement Azure Kubernetes
Service
Module: Monitoring
• Lab: Implement Azure Container
Lessons:
Instances
Azure Alerts
• Lab: Implement Data Protection
Azure Monitor
• Lab: Implement Monitoring
Module: Data Protection
Lessons:
Virtual Machine Backups
Lab: Implement Web Apps

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator:

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your knowledge in core Azure services, Azure workloads, security, and
governance

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• Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise in implementing,
managing, and monitoring an organization’s Microsoft Azure environment. In addition,
this role should have experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure portal, and Azure
Resource Manager templates

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AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Create Azure App Service Web • Explore Azure App Service
Apps Deployment Slots
Lessons:
Explore Azure App Service
Configure Web App Settings
Scale Apps in Azure App Service
Lab: Build a Web Application on Azure
Platform as a Service Offering

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Implement Azure Functions
• Implement Durable Functions
Lessons:
• Work with Azure Blob Storage
Explore Azure Functions
• Lab: Implement Task Processing Logic
Develop Azure Functions
by using Azure Functions
Module: Develop Solutions that use Blob
Storage
Lessons:
Explore Azure Blob Storage
Manage the Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle
Lab: Retrieve Azure Storage Resources and
Metadata by using the Azure Storage SDK for
.NET

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Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Develop Solutions that use Azure • Work with Azure Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB • Manage Container Images in Azure
Lessons: Container Registry
Explore Azure Cosmos DB • Run Container Images in Azure
Work with Azure Cosmos DB Container Instances
• Lab: Construct a Polyglot Data
Module: Implement Infrastructure as a
Solution
Service Solution
• Lab: Deploy Compute Workloads by
Lessons:
using Images and Containers
Provision Virtual Machines in Azure
Create and Deploy Azure Resource Manager
Templates

Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Implement User Authentication • Explore Microsoft Graph
and Authorization • Implement Azure App Configuration
Lessons: • Develop Event-Based Solutions
Explore the Microsoft Identity Platform • Develop Message-Based Solutions
Implement Authentication by using the • Monitor and Optimize Azure Solutions
Microsoft Authentication Library • Integrate Caching and Content
Implement Shared Access Signatures Delivery within Solutions
• Lab: Authenticate to, and Querying,
Module: Implement Secure Cloud
Microsoft Graph by using MSAL and
Solutions
.NET SDKs
Lessons:
• Lab: Access Resource Secrets more
Implement Azure Key Vault
Securely Across Services
Implement Managed Identities
• Lab: Publish and Subscribe to Event
Module: Implement API Management Grid Events
Lessons: • Lab: Create a Multi-Tier Solution by
Explore API Management using Azure Services
• Lab: Asynchronously Process
Messages by using Azure Service Bus
Queues
• Lab: Monitor Services that are
Deployed to Azure

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 • Lab: Enhance a Web Application by
using the Azure Content Delivery
Network

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure:

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your knowledge of Azure SDKs, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, data storage
options, data connections, APIs, app authentication and authorization, compute, and
container deployment, debugging, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise designing, building,
testing, and maintaining cloud applications and services on Microsoft Azure. A candidate
for this certification should have 1-2 years professional development experience and
experience with Microsoft Azure.

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AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Design Governance and Compute • Design for Azure Batch Solutions
Solutions • Design for Azure App Services
Lessons: Solutions
Design for Governance. • Design for Azure Policy
Design for Management Groups. • Design for Azure Role-based Access
Design for Azure Subscriptions. Control
Design for Resource Groups. • Design for Azure Blueprints
Design for Resource Tagging. • Design for Azure Container Instances
Choose a Compute Service. Solutions
Design for Azure Virtual Machines Solutions. • Design for Azure Kubernetes Service
Solutions
• Design for Azure Function Solutions
• Design for Azure Logic App Solutions

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Design Storage and Data • Design Azure Disk Solutions
Integration Solutions • Design for Storage Security
Lessons: • Design a Data Integration Solution
Design for Data Storage with Azure Data Factory
Design for Azure Storage Accounts • Design a Data Integration Solution
Design for Azure Blob Storage with Azure Data Lake
Design for Data Redundancy • Design a Data Integration and
Design for Azure Files Analytics Solution with Azure
Databricks
• Design a Data Integration and
Analytics Solution with Azure Synapse
Analytics
• Design a Strategy for Hot/Warm/Cold
Data Path
• Design Azure Stream Analytics
Solution for Data Analysis

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Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Design App Architecture, Access, • Design for Azure Active Directory
and Monitoring Solutions Business to Business
Lessons: • Design API Integration
Describe Message and Event Scenarios • Design an Application Configuration
Design a Messaging Solution Management Solution
Design an Event Hub Messaging Solution • Design a Caching Solution
Design an Event-Driven Solution • Design for Azure Active Directory
Design for Identity and Access Management Business to Customer
Design for Azure Active Directory • Design for Conditional Access
• Design for Identity Protection
• Design for Access Reviews
• Design for Service Principals for
Applications
• Design for Azure Key Vault

Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Design Network, Continuity, and • Design for Application Delivery
Migration Solutions Services
Lessons: • Design for Application Protection
Design for Azure Monitor Data Sources Services
Design for Log Analytics • Design for Backup and Recovery
Design for Azure Workbooks and Azure • Design for Azure Backup
Insights • Design for Azure Blob Backup and
Recommend a Network Architecture Solution Recovery
Based on Workload Requirements • Design for Azure Files Backup and
Design for On-Premises Connectivity to Azure Recovery
Virtual Networks • Design for Azure Virtual Machine
Design for Azure Network Connectivity Backup and Recovery
Services • Design for Azure SQL Backup and
Recovery
• Design for Azure Site Recovery
• Evaluate Migration with the Cloud
Adoption Framework
• Describe the Azure Migration
Framework
• Assess your On-Premises Workloads
• Select a Migration Tool

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 • Migrate your Databases
• Select an Online Storage Migration
Tool
• Migrate Offline Data

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert:

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your knowledge of how decisions in each area affect an overall solution
• Candidates for this exam should have advanced experience and knowledge of IT
operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity,
disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. They should also have experience in
Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes

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AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Get started on a DevOps • Lab: Agile Planning and Portfolio
Transformation Journey Management with Azure Boards
Lessons: • Lab: Version Controlling with Git in
Introduction to DevOps Azure Repos
Introduction to Source Control • Lab: Version Controlling with Git in
Azure Repos
Module: Get started on a DevOps
Transformation Journey
Lessons:
Understand Git Repositories
Manage Git Branches and Workflows
Manage Git Repositories

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Implement CI with Azure • Lab: Controlling Deployments using
Pipelines and GitHub Actions Release Gates
Lessons: • Lab: Creating a Release Dashboard
Explore Azure Pipelines • Lab: Feature Flag Management with
Manage Azure Pipeline Agents and Pools LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

Module: Design and Implement a Release

Strategy
Lessons:
Introduction to Continuous Delivery
Introduction to Deployment Patterns
Lab: Configuring Agent Pools and
Understanding Pipeline Styles

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Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Implement a Secure Continuous • Lab: Integrating Azure Key Vault with
Deployment using Azure Pipelines Azure DevOps
Lessons: • Lab: Configuring Pipelines as Code
Create a Release Pipeline with YAML
Configure and Provision Environments • Lab: Deployments using Azure
Resource Manager Templates
Module: Manage Infrastructure as Code
• Lab: Ansible with Azure
using Azure, DSC, and Third-Party Tools
• Lab: Automating Infrastructure
Lessons:
Deployments in the Cloud with
Explore Infrastructure as Code and
Terraform and Azure Pipelines
Configuration Management
Create Azure Resources using Azure Resource
Manager Templates

Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Implement Security and Validate • Lab: Managing Technical Debt with
Code Bases for Compliance SonarQube and Azure DevOps
Lessons: • Lab: Implement Security and
Introduction to Secure DevOps Compliance in Azure DevOps
Implement Open-Source Software Pipelines
• Lab: Package Management with Azure
Module: Design and Implement a
Artifacts
Dependency Management Strategy
• Lab: Deploying Docker Containers to
Lessons:
Azure App Service Web Apps
Explore Package Dependencies
• Lab: Deploying a Multi-Container
Understand Package Management
Application to Azure Kubernetes
Module: Create and Manage Containers Services
using Docker and Kubernetes • Lab: Integration between Azure
Lessons: DevOps and Microsoft Teams
Design a Container Build Strategy • Lab: Monitoring Application
Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Performance with Application Insights

Module: Implement Continuous Feedback

Lessons:
Explore SRE and Design Practices to Measure
End-User Satisfaction

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 Design Processes to Capture and Analyze
User Feedback

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions:

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your understanding of how to design and implement strategies for
collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous
integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback
• Candidates for this exam should have subject matter expertise working with people,
processes, and technologies to deliver business value continuously
• A candidate for this exam must be familiar with both Microsoft Azure administration and
development

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AZ-140 Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Plan an Azure Virtual Desktop • Lab: Prepare for Deployment of Azure
Implementation Virtual Desktop (Azure AD DS)
Lessons: • Lab: Prepare for Deployment of Azure
Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture Virtual Desktop (AD DS)
Design the Azure Virtual Desktop architecture
Design for User Identities and Profiles

Day 2 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Implement an Azure Virtual • Create and Configure Host Pools and
Desktop Infrastructure Session Hosts
Lessons: • Create and Manage Session Host
Implement and Manage Networking for Image
Azure Virtual Desktop • Lab: Deploy Host Pools and Session
Implement and Manage Storage for Azure Hosts by using the Azure portal (AD
Virtual Desktop DS)
Lab: Implement and Manage Storage for • Lab: Deploy Host Pools and Hosts by
Azure Virtual Desktop (Azure AD DS) using Azure Resource Manager
Templates
• Lab: Deploy and Manage Host Pools
and Hosts by using PowerShell
• Lab: Create and Configure Host Pools
and Session Hosts (Azure AD DS)

Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Manage Access and Security • Install and Configure Apps on a
Lessons: Session Host
Manage Access • Lab: Configure Conditional Access
Manage Security Policies for Connections to Azure
Virtual Desktop (AD DS)

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 Module: Manage User Environments and • Lab: Implement and Manage Azure
Apps Virtual Desktop Profiles (Azure AD DS)
Lessons: • Lab: Package Windows Azure Desktop
Implement and Manage FSLogix Applications (AD DS)
Configure User Experience Settings

Day 4 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module: Implement Security and Validate • Lab: Managing Technical Debt with
Code Bases for Compliance SonarQube and Azure DevOps
Lessons: • Lab: Implement Security and
Introduction to Secure DevOps Compliance in Azure DevOps
Implement Open-Source Software Pipelines
• Lab: Package Management with Azure
Module: Design and Implement a
Artifacts
Dependency Management Strategy
• Lab: Deploying Docker Containers to
Lessons:
Azure App Service Web Apps
Explore Package Dependencies
• Lab: Deploying a Multi-Container
Understand Package Management
Application to Azure Kubernetes
Module: Create and Manage Containers Services
using Docker and Kubernetes • Lab: Integration between Azure
Lessons: DevOps and Microsoft Teams
Design a Container Build Strategy • Lab: Monitoring Application
Implement Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Performance with Application Insights

Module: Implement Continuous Feedback

Lessons:
Explore SRE and Design Practices to Measure
End-User Satisfaction
Design Processes to Capture and Analyze
User Feedback

Day 5 Overview:

Final exam preparation for AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop

• Exam objectives and tips & tricks

• Increase your knowledge in virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backups,
resilience, and disaster recovery
• Candidates for this exam should be subject matter experts in planning, delivering, and
managing virtual desktop experience and remote apps on Azure

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• Responsibilities for an Azure administrator, the role to which this exam is tailored,
include expert Azure administration skills and experience in Azure technologies,
including virtualization, networking, identity, storage backups, resilience, and disaster
recovery
• Candidates for the exam should also understand on-premises virtual desktop
infrastructure technologies as they relate to migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop

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Sales Track: Partner Sales Acceleration Program (PSAP)
Use this to help guide you through each day. Links will direct you to Microsoft Partner Network
(MPN) where you will need to login to view assets.

Day 1 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module 1: See Day 2: Self-Study
1. Watch: Project Discovery Whiteboard:
How-to (18 mins)

Day 2 Overview:

Self-Study Homework
Use this session time to complete your 1. Watch: Demo: Project Discovery
homework assignments and bring any Whiteboard (18 mins)
questions and insights with you to the 2. Download and configure the Project
session on Day 3. Discovery Whiteboard Guide. Build
out the whiteboard template based
on an active early-stage opportunity
you are currently working on.

Day 3 Overview:

Live Lecture Homework

Module 2: See Day 4: Self-Study
1. Watch: CIO Pitch Deck: How-to (20
mins)
2. Watch: Project Impact Summary:
How-to (20 mins)

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Day 4 Overview:

Self-Study Homework
Use this session time to complete your 1. Watch: Overview of Managing
homework assignments and bring any Objections Successfully (23 mins)
questions and insights with you to the 2. Watch: Navigating Objections Poorly
session on Day 5. (8 mins) & Navigating Objections
Successfully (13 mins)
3. Download and configure either the
CIO Pitch Deck Template or the BDM
Project Impact Summary Template.
Build out the CIO Pitch Deck or BDM
Project Impact Summary template
based on an active opportunity you
are currently working on.

Day 5 Overview:

Live Lecture & Post-Event Assessment Homework

Module 3: Highly recommended for more learning:
1. Watch: Proposal Business Review: • Take the entire Azure Apps &
How-to (23 mins) Infrastructure Partner Sales
2. Take the assessment to test your sales Acceleration Program Learning Path
skills and receive a certificate with a
passing score: Azure Apps &
Infrastructure Partner Sales
Acceleration Program Assessment

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