Microsoft Azure

Azure Cloud Computing Overview

Learning Objective
❖ Understanding Cloud Computing and Azure

Topics Covered
❏ What is Cloud Computing
❏ Service Model of Cloud
❏ Types of Cloud
❏ Azure Fundamentals
❏ Azure Certifications
❏ Azure Regions and Services
❏ Azure Domain and Services
❏ Azure Subscriptions

Azure Virtual Machine in Compute Domain

Learning Objective
❖ Design a compute strategy
➢ Design a compute provisioning strategy
➢ Design a secure compute strategy
➢ Determine appropriate compute technologies
➢ Design an Azure HPC environment
➢ Identify compute requirements
 ➢ Recommend management tools for compute
❖ Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux
➢ Configure high availability
➢ Configure monitoring
➢ Configure networking
➢ Configure storage
➢ Configure virtual machine size
➢ Implement dedicated hosts
➢ Deploy and configure scale sets
❖ Implement solutions that use virtual machines (VM)
➢ Provision VMs
➢ Create Azure Resource Manager templates
➢ Configure Azure Disk Encryption for VMs
➢ Implement Azure Backup for VMs
❖ Automate deployment of VMs
➢ Modify Azure Resource Manager template
➢ Configure location of new VMs
➢ Configure VHD template
➢ Deploy from template
➢ Save a deployment as an Azure Resource Manager template
➢ Deploy Windows and Linux VMs

Topics Covered:
❏ Launching VM Instance and Connect
❏ Windows Instance
❏ Linux Instance
❏ VM Types
❏ General Purpose
❏ Compute Optimise
❏ Memory Optimise
❏ Storage Optimise
❏ GPU Optimise
❏ VM Instance Pricing Options
❏ On-Demand
❏ Spot
❏ Reserved
❏ Types of Images to Launch Virtual Machine Instance
 ❏ Azure Published
❏ Azure Marketplace
❏ Creating from existing Instance
❏ Azure Shared Image Gallery
❏ Azure Service Limits and Support Plans
❏ Summary of Virtual Machine Services
❏ Exam Essentials

Hand-on Lab:
❏ Launch Virtual Machine Instance (Windows) with Standard SSD Storage,
Connect to Windows Instance with Remote Desktop Protocol, and make Web
Server.
❏ Launch Virtual Machine Instance (Linux) with Standard SSD Storage, Connect to
Linux instance with Secure Shell via Putty software and make Web Server.
❏ Create Custom Image using existing Windows Instance to Launch a new
Pre-configured Windows Web Server.
❏ Create Custom Image using existing Linux Instance to Launch a new
Pre-configured Linux Web Server.

Azure Storage Service

Learning Objective
❖ Design a storage strategy
➢ Design a storage provisioning strategy
➢ Design storage access strategy
➢ Identify storage requirements
➢ Recommend a storage solution
➢ Recommend storage management tools
❖ Create and configure storage accounts
➢ Configure network access to the storage account
➢ Create and configure storage account
➢ Generate shared access signature
➢ Implement Azure AD authentication for storage
 ➢ Install and use Azure Storage Explorer
➢ Manage access keys
➢ Monitor activity log by using Azure Monitor logs
➢ Implement Azure storage replication
➢ Implement Azure storage account failover

Topics Covered
❏ Understanding Cloud Storage
❏ Advantages of Cloud Storage
❏ Understanding Terminologies of Cloud Storage
❏ Physica Hard Disk
❏ Virtual Hard Disk
❏ Virtual Hard Disk
❏ HDD/SSD
❏ IOPS
❏ Disk I/O
❏ Storage Memory in GiB, MiB, KiB
❏ Azure Storage Accounts
❏ Managed Disks
❏ Unmanaged Disks
❏ Hard Disk Snapshots
❏ Azure Storage Services
❏ Block Blob
❏ Blob
❏ File
❏ Table
❏ Queue
❏ Azure Storage Types
❏ Standard
❏ Premium
❏ Azure Storage Redundancy
❏ Local Redundant
❏ Zone Redundant
❏ Geo-Redundant
❏ Read-Access Geo-Redundant
❏ Summary of Cloud Storage
❏ Exam Essentials
Hands-On
❏ Launch Windows Virtual Machine Instance with Unmanaged Virtual Hard Disk
(Default Size).
❏ Create a Virtual Hard Disk in Local Computer and upload the VHD to Storage
Account
❏ Implement RAID Configuration in Windows for Data and Application Backup
using Disk Management.
❏ Create a File Share in Azure Files and Mount the File Share in Azure VMs.

Azure Virtual Network and Security

Learning Objective
❖ Design a networking strategy
➢ Design a network provisioning strategy
➢ Design a network security strategy
➢ Determine appropriate network connectivity technologies
➢ Identify networking requirements
➢ Recommend network management tools
➢ Recommend network security solutions
❖ Implement and manage virtual networking
➢ Configure private IP addressing
➢ Configure public IP addresses
➢ Create and configure network routes
➢ Create and configure network interface
➢ Create and configure subnets
➢ Create and configure virtual network
➢ Create and configure Network Security Groups and Application
Security Groups
❖ Create connectivity between virtual networks
➢ Create and configure Vnet peering
➢ Create and configure Vnet to Vnet connections
➢ Verify virtual network connectivity
➢ Create virtual network gateway
❖ Implement application load balancing
➢ Configure Application Gateway
 ➢ Configure Azure Front Door service
➢ Configure Azure Traffic Manager
❖ Integrate on premises network with Azure virtual network
➢ Create and configure Azure VPN Gateway
➢ Create and configure site to site VPN
➢ Configure ExpressRoute
➢ Configure Virtual WAN verify on premises connectivity
➢ Troubleshoot on premises connectivity with Azure

Topics Covered
❏ Basics of Networking
❏ Virtual Networks
❏ Subnets
❏ Route Tables
❏ Network Security Groups
❏ Public IP and NICs
❏ Virtual Private Gateway,
❏ Local Network Gateway
❏ V-Net Peering
❏ Azure Direct Connect
❏ Summary
❏ Exam Essentials

Hands-On
❏ Create Virtual Network, Public Subnets and Route Table and Launch Virtual
Machine Instance.
❏ Create Virtual Network Public and Private Subnets, Route table and Launch
Virtual Machine instance Windows in Public and Linux in Private.
❏ Create Nat Gateway and allow internet access to Private Subnet.
❏ Create two different Virtual Networks in different regions and use Virtual Network
Peering Connection to Connect.
❏ Build Network and Instance Security Between Instances using Security Group
and Network ACL
❏ Create Customer and VPN Gateway to describe VPN Connection.
Azure CDN Profiles

Learning Objective
❖ Understanding Content Delivery Network for Videos and media files.

Topics Covered
❏ Content Delivery Network
❏ Azure Edge Locations
❏ Distributions
❏ CDN Profiles
❏ Summary
❏ Exam Essentials
Hands-On

❏ Create Blob Storage, and Container. Upload videos to distribute to all edge
locations
❏ Create distribution in CDN Profile to distribute videos to all edge locations.

Azure Management Tools

Learning Objective
❖ Analyze resource utilization and consumption
➢ Configure diagnostic settings on resources
➢ Create baseline for resources
➢ Create and test alerts
➢ Analyze alerts across subscription
➢ Analyze metrics across subscription
➢ Create action groups
➢ Monitor for unused resources
➢ Monitor spend
➢ Report on spend
➢ Utilize Log Search query functions
➢ View alerts in Azure Monitor logs
➢ Visualize diagnostics data using Azure Monitor Workbooks
Topics Covered
❏ Azure Monitor
❏ Azure alerts
❏ Cost Management
❏ Event Managements
❏ Azure VM Extensions
❏ VM Boot Diagnostics
❏ PowerShell and Powershell Scripts
❏ Summary
❏ Exam Essentials

Hands-on
❏ Monitor Virtual Machine instance with Detailed Monitoring
❏ Monitor Virtual Network
❏ Audit event using Event Management
❏ Create Azure Alert Subscribe Email to get Notifications
❏ Run Powershell Script to Build Azure Resource.

Load Balancing and Auto Scaling of Virtual

Learning Objective
❖ Use load balancing in the creation of highly available systems.
❖ Learn scaling Applications/Systems with AutoScaling and its use in
Building Fault Tolerant Networks.
❖ Create web apps by using PaaS
➢ Create an Azure app service Web App
➢ Create documentation for the API
➢ Create an App Service Web App for Containers
➢ Create an App Service background task by using WebJobs
➢ Enable diagnostics logging
Topics Covered
❏ Fault Domain
❏ Update Domain
❏ Availability Sets
❏ Load Balancers Types
❏ Application
❏ Network
❏ Load Balancer Configuration
❏ Service Health Check
❏ Launch Configurations
❏ Scaling Groups
❏ Scaling Policies
❏ VMScale Sets
❏ Building Fault Tolerant and Highly Available Applications
❏ Summary of Auto Scaling and Load Balancers
❏ Exam Essentials

Hands-On
❏ Create Availability Sets to build High Availability
❏ Attach a load balancer to Virtual Network and Launching VMs
❏ Create VMScalesets to build AutoScaling.

Azure Identity and Access Management

Learning Objective
❖ Understanding IAM in Azure
❖ Manage Azure Active Directory
➢ Add custom domains
➢ Configure Azure AD Identity Protection
➢ Configure Azure AD Join
➢ Configure self-service password reset
➢ Implement conditional access policies manage multiple directories
➢ Perform an access review
❖ Implement and manage hybrid identities
➢ Install and configure Azure AD Connect
 ➢ Configure federation
➢ Configure single sign-on
➢ Manage and troubleshoot Azure AD Connect
➢ Troubleshoot password sync and writeback
❖ Implement multi factor authentication
➢ Configure user accounts for MFA
➢ Configure fraud alerts
➢ Configure bypass options
➢ Configure trusted IPs
➢ Configure verification methods
❖ Manage role-based access control
➢ Create a custom role
➢ Configure access to Azure resources by assigning roles
➢ Configure management access to Azure
➢ Troubleshoot RBAC
➢ Implement Azure Policies
➢ Assign RBAC Roles

Topics Covered
❏ IAM Principles
❏ Understanding Azure Active Directory
❏ Creating Users
❏ Creating Groups
❏ Create RBAC to Set Permissions to Users
❏ Summary
❏ Exam Essentials

Hands-On
❏ Create Users in Azure Active Directory
❏ Assign RBAC access to a Specific Resource Group.

Database Services, Backup and Migration

Learning Objective
❖ Understanding Azure Database services and their use case.
❖ Develop solutions that use a relational database
 ➢ Provision and configure relational databases
➢ Configure elastic pools for Azure SQL Database
➢ Implement Azure SQL Database managed instances
➢ Create, read, update, and delete data tables by using code
❖ Understanding Site Recovery Services Vault
❖ Optimize consumption strategy
➢ Optimize App service costs
➢ Optimize Compute costs
➢ Optimize Identity costs
➢ Optimize Network costs
➢ Optimize Storage costs

Topics Covered
❏ Azure Databases
❏ Create and Manage MS SQL Databases
❏ Site Recovery Services Vault

Hands-On
❏ Create MySql Database.
❏ Taking Backup of VM
❏ Migrating Hyper-V Virtual Machines from On-Premises to Azure.