Microsoft Azure Syllabus

AZURE SUITE SYLLABUS

Cloud Computing Introduction
• What is Cloud Computing
• Cloud Characteristics
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Deployment Models in Cloud Computing
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Job Roles.
• Cloud Computing Platforms and Certifications.

Getting Starting with Azure

• Introduction to Azure
• Why, What and Benefits of Azure
• Azure Hosting Models
• Azure Services
• Subscribing to Microsoft Azure
• Azure Portals
• Azure Key Concepts
• Azure Resource Group
• Installing Microsoft Azure SDK

Manage resource groups

• Use Azure policies for resource groups
• Configure resource locks
• Configure resource policies
• Implement and set tagging on resource groups
• Move resources across resource groups
• Remove resource groups

Configure and Manage Azure Virtual Networks

• Overview of Azure Networking
• Virtual Network Benefits
• Understanding Network Resources
• Implement and manage virtual networking

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o Create a VNet using Azure Portal

o Create a Subnet
o Configure private and public IP addresses
o Create Network Interface Card with public, and private IP addresses
o Create a Virtual Machine
• Setup Network Security Group
o Create security rules
o Associate NSG to a subnet or network interface
o Identify required ports
o Evaluate effective security rules
• Azure Firewall
• Understanding Azure DNS
o Configure Azure DNS
o Public and Private DNS Zones
• Create connectivity between virtual networks
o Create and configure VNET peering
o Create and configure VNET to VNET
o Verify virtual network connectivity

Implement Advanced Virtual Networking

• Load Balancing
o Configure external and internal Azure Load balancer
o Load Balancing Rules
o Implement front end IP configuration
• Understanding and Creating Availability Set
• Understanding Availability Zones
• Azure Application Gateway
• Azure Traffic Manager
• Integrate on-premises network with Azure virtual network
o Site-to-Site VPN
o Express Route Solution
• Monitor and Manage Networking
o Verify, Manage and Monitor on-premises connectivity;
o Use network resource monitoring and Network Watcher
o Manage external networking and virtual network connectivity

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Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell and Azure CLI.

• Installing the required modules
• Login to Azure Portal
• Managing Resource Group
• Managing App Service Plans and App Service Web Apps
• Create and Configure a Storage Account
• Managing Storage Accounts using PowerShell
• Azure CLI Introduction and Setup
• Creating Resources
• Listing and Formatting output
• Connect a Web App to SQL Database
• Deleting Resources
• Interactive Mode

Managing ARM Templates.

• Understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Exporting and Importing ARM templates.
• ARM Resource Providers
• Deploy ARM Templates
o Using PowerShell
o Azure CLI
o Azure Portal
• Incremental and Complete Deployments

Azure Storage
• About Storage Service and Account
• Creating a Storage Account
• Working with Blob Storage
o Types of Blobs (Block, Append, Page)
o Container and Metadata
o Soft Copy
o Azure Storage Explorer
o Transfer Data using AzCopy
o Programming Blob Storage
o Async Blob Copy

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o Import and Export Service

o Implement and Configure CDN
o Configure Custom Domain
o Scale Blob Storage
o Storage Service Encryption
• Manage Access / Securing Storage
o Create and Manage Shared Access Signature
o Account SAS vs Service SAS
o Using Stored Access Policies
o Regenerating Keys
o Encrypt Keys using Azure Key Vault integration
o Programming in C#
• Working with Table Storage
o Understanding NoSQL Database
o Creating Table and Entities using Storage Explorer
o Entities and Properties
o Table storage vs COSMOS DB Table API
o Programming Table Storage
• Azure Queues Storage
o Understanding Async Communication using Queues
o Comparing Azure Queues and Service Bus Queues
o Programming Queues
• Azure SMB File Storage
o Common usage of File Storage
o Shares, Directory and File
o Managing Using Azure Portal
o Programming File Storage
• Azure File Sync
• Configure diagnostics, monitoring and analytics
o Capturing Metrics Data
o Analyzing Diagnostic Data
o Capturing Logs
o Retention Policies and Logging Levels
o Analyze Logs
o Enabling Monitoring

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o Enabling Alerts

Azure Virtual Machine

• Introduction
• About Virtual Machine Workloads
• Create a Windows Virtual Machine using Portal / PowerShell / ARM Templates
• Deploy popular application frameworks by using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Virtual Machine Disk
• Convert Unmanaged Disk to Managed Disk
• Generalizing VM and Capture VM Images
• Upload an on-premise VHD to Storage Account and attach to VM as Data Disk
• Working with Disk Snapshot
• VM Disk Types
• VM Sizes in Azure
• Configuring VM Disk Encryption
• Perform configuration management
o VM Extensions & VM Agents
o Custom Script Extensions
o Desired State Configuration (DSC)
o Access Extension
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Configure VM monitoring, configure alerts, diagnostic and monitoring storage location.

Implement and Manage Application Services

• Introduction
• App Service - Application Types
• Deploy Web Apps
o Deploying Web App directly from Visual Studio
o Automate deployment from Dropbox and One Drive
o Create, configure and deploy packages
o Implement pre- and post-deployment actions;
• App Service plans;
o Create App Service Plan
o Migrate Web Apps between App Service plans;
o Create a Web App within an App Service plan

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• Configuring Web Apps

o Application Settings Configuration,
o Database Connection Strings,
o Configuring Handlers and Virtual Directories,
• Manage App Services
o Configure a custom domain name
o Enable SSL for your custom domain
o Understanding Deployment Slots and Roll back deployments;
o App Service Protection
o Manage Roles for an App service
• Configure Web Apps for scale and resilience
o Horizontal and Vertical Scaling of a Web App
o Configure auto-scale
o Change the size of an instance
• Monitoring, Debugging and Diagnosis
o Retrieve Diagnostics data
o View Streaming Logs
o Configure endpoint monitoring
o Configuring Alerts
o Configure diagnostics
o Use remote debugging
o Monitor Web App resources
• Azure Traffic Manager to Scale out Globally

Implement Azure Backup

• Overview of Azure Backup
• Configure VM backup
• Create Recovery Services Vault
• Define and Implement backup policies
• Perform VM restore
• Perform backup operation
• Configure and review backup reports

Migrate Servers to Azure

• Migration Overview

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• Azure Migrate Service

• Migrate VMs using Azure Site Recovery
• Disaster recovery for an Azure VM
• Physical Server Disaster Recovery to Azure

Managing Data in Azure SQL Database

• Introduction / Overview of SQL Database.
• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Comparing SQL Azure Database to Azure / On-Premise SQL Server.
• Creating and Using SQL Server and SQL Database Services.
• Azure SQL Database Tools.
• Migrating on premise database to SQL Azure.
• Dynamic Data Masking
• Transparent Data Encryption
• Planning the Deployment of an Azure SQL Database
• Elastic Pools.
• Dynamic Data Masking
• Configure SQL Database Auditing
• Export and Import of Database using .bacpac
• Manage Business Continuity / Data Recovery
• Backup and Recovery options in SQL Database
• Active GEO-Replication
• Monitoring Azure SQL Database and Alerting

Azure Monitoring and Log Analytics Workspace

• Azure Monitor Overview
• Monitoring Metrics
• Monitoring Logs
• Log Analytic Workspace
• Collect data from a Azure VM / Windows computer
• Azure Activity Logs
• Azure Diagnostics Logs
• Application Insight

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Implement Azure Functions

• About Azure Functions.
• Azure Webjobs vs Azure Functions
• Create and Configure an Azure Function
• Create an event processing function
o Timer Triggered Function
o Blog Storage Triggered Function
• Implement an Azure-connected functions
o Adding message to Storage Queue
o Connecting to SQL Database
• Creating Azure Functions through Visual Studio
• Azure Durable Functions
• Walkthrough: Creating Image Thumbnail

Azure Web Jobs

• Introduction
• Developing and Hosting Web Jobs Application
• Azure WebJobs SDK
• Sample Application including WebApps and WebJobs.

App Service - Mobile Apps

• Mobile Apps Introduction
• Creating Server Service and Client Application
• Working with Easy tables using Azure Portal
• Developing Windows 8.1 Client Application
• Mobile App Authentication
o Facebook Authentication
o Azure Active Directory Authentication
• Enabling Offline Sync
• Implementing Push Notification

Azure CosmosDB Service

• What is CosmosDB
• Global Replication and Consistency Levels
• Understanding SQL Model database Schema

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• Creating and Saving Documents using Portal

• Programming Schema
• Adding / Editing / Deleting and Reading Documents

Azure App Service - Logic Apps

• Introduction
• Triggers and Actions
• Creating a Simple Logic App
• Handling array of Items using for-each and condition
• Logic App with Variables
• Add Custom Function with Azure Function
• Using Custom API App in Logic App
• Azure Functions vs Logic Apps

App Service - API Apps

• Introduction
• Creating an API App
• Deploying an API App
• Consuming an API App
• Authentication and Authorization in API App.
• Using API App in Logic App

API Management Service

• Overview of API Management
• Components of API Management System.
• API Apps vs API Management.
• Create managed APIs.
• Configure API management policies.
• Protect APIs with rate limits.
• Add caching to improve performance.

Azure Service Bus

• Service Bus Basics
• Hosting WCF Service in Azure
• Relayed Messaging

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• Service Bus Queues

• Topics and Subscriptions
• Notification Hubs
• Monitoring Event Hubs
• Handling Sessions
• Handling Transactions

Manage Azure Subscriptions

• Understanding Azure Subscriptions
• Configuring Role Based Access Control
• RBAC using Portal
• RBAC using PowerShell and CLI
• Custom Roles for RBAC
• Managing Subscription Policies
• Locking Resources
• Checking Resources Limits
• Resource Tags

Managing and Securing Identities using Azure Active Directory

• Azure AD Introduction
• Azure AD Editions
• Managing Active Directories
• Adding a custom domain name to Azure AD
• Managing Azure AD Users, Groups and Devices
• Adding Partner Users from other organization
• Configure Windows 10 with Azure AD domain join
• Synchronizing On-Premise AD Identities with Azure AD
• Azure AD Connect
• Azure AD User Sign-In Options
o Password Synchronization
o Passthrough Authentication
o Federated SSO
• Multi Factory Authentication
• Conditional Access Policy
• Access Reviews

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• Priviledge Identity Management

• Integrating SaaS Applications with Azure AD for SSO
o Add Users and Groups to Application
o Revoke access to SaaS Applications
• Managed Identities

Authentication and Authorization using Azure Active Directory

• Application Types Scenarios

• Multi-Tenant vs Single-Tenant
• Integrating ASP.NET MVC Applications with Azure AD
• Integrating ASP.NET Web API Applications with Azure AD
• Claims Based Authentication
• Role Based Authentication
• Implementing Azure AD B2C Collaboration
• Social Identity Provider Authentication
o Username and Password
o Microsoft Account
o Facebook
o Google
o Twitter
• Microsoft Graph API

Key Vault
• Secrets vs Keys
• Accessing Keys and Secrets
• Use cases for Key Vault
• Use Azure Key Vault from a Web Application
• Using Key Vault with ARM Template
• Encrypt and Decrypt BLOBS in Azure Storage

Redis Caching
• Caching Overview
• What is Redis Cache
• Creating a Redis Cache

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• Developing Redis Cache Client

• Controlling Expiration

Azure Automation
• Introduction
• Azure Automation Account
• Automation Runbook
• PowerShell Runbook
• Adding Parameters to Runbook
• Starting a Runbook with a Webhook
• Scheduling a Runbook
• Graphical Runbook
• Error Handling in Graphical Runbook
• Runbook Input Parameters
• Azure Automation DSC

Implement Azure Search within Solution

• About Search Service,
• Create Search Service,
• Create Index
• Import Data,
• Handle Search Results
• Programming Search in .NET using Azure Search SDK

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