Trainer Preparation Guide: AZ-801T00A December 2022

AZ-801T00-A – Configuring Windows Server

Hybrid Advanced Services
Trainer Preparation Guide
December 2022

Purpose
This document is for Microsoft Certified Trainers preparing to teach AZ-801T00-A Configuring Windows
Server Hybrid Advanced Services. This course is designed for students who are planning to take the
corresponding certification exam, or students who are performing Windows Server Hybrid Administrator
tasks in their daily job.

Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Role Definition

Both the certification exam and the courseware are based on the Windows Server Hybrid Administrator
role.
• The Windows Server Hybrid Administrator configures and manages core Windows Server
workloads and services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies.
• The Windows Server Hybrid Administrator wants to extend the capabilities of their Windows
Server on-premises environment by taking advantage of the hybrid capabilities afforded by Azure
services.
• The Windows Server Hybrid Administrator also performs tasks related to security, migration,
monitoring, high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery.
Remember there are other roles, such as Azure Administrator, DevOps, and Solutions Architect.

Audience Profile
This four-day course is intended for Windows Server Hybrid Administrators who have extensive
experience working with Windows Server and want to extend the capabilities of their on-premises
environments by combining on-premises and hybrid technologies. Windows Server Hybrid Administrators
who already implement and manage on-premises core technologies want to secure and protect their

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environments, migrate virtual and physical workloads to Azure IaaS, enable a highly available, fully
redundant environment, and perform monitoring and troubleshooting tasks.
This course covers advanced solutions including security, high availability, disaster recovery and migration.
There is a separate course, AZ-800T00A, Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure, which
focuses on the core infrastructure services such as identity, compute, networking, and storage.

Audience Prerequisites
Successful Windows Server Hybrid Administrators start this role with experience on operating systems,
virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking. They extend that knowledge to
include:
• Experience with managing Windows Server operating system and Windows Server workloads in
on-premises scenarios, including AD DS, DFS, Hyper-V, and File and Storage Services
• Basic understanding of security-related technologies (firewalls, encryption, multi-factor
authentication, SIEM/SOAR).
• An understanding of the following concepts as related to Windows Server and hybrid
technologies: High Availability and Disaster Recovery, automation, monitoring, and
troubleshooting.
• An awareness of basic security best practices and a basic knowledge of Azure Active Directory.

Certification Exam
Certification exams measure your ability to accomplish certain technical tasks for a job role. The study
areas for the certification exam related to this course are based on the Job Task Analysis (JTA) that was
conducted in June 2021.
Each study area has a percentage indicating the relative weight of the area on the exam. The higher the
percentage, the more questions a candidate is likely to see in that area.
Study Area Percentage
Secure Windows Server on-premises and hybrid 25–30%
infrastructures
Implement and manage Windows Server high availability 10-15%
Implement disaster recovery 10–15%
Migrate servers and workloads 20–25%
Monitor and troubleshoot Windows Server environments 20-25%

Candidates should have extensive experience working with Windows Server operating systems.
Candidates should have a strong understanding of core and advanced Windows Server and hybrid
infrastructure services and Windows Server Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) workloads. Candidates for
this exam should have experience in using PowerShell, the Command Line Interface, and Azure Portal.

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For more information, on the skills measured in the exam, please visit the AZ-801 Configuring
Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services certification page.

Prerequisite Knowledge to teach this course

To successfully teach this course, instructors must have a working knowledge of current Windows Server
technologies, some of the most common services in Microsoft Azure, and they should have prior
experience using PowerShell to administer Windows Server workloads.
Instructors should also have a working knowledge of networking, server administration, and IT
fundamentals, such as DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory.
Note: These guidelines are not inclusive of the requirements to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer
(MCT).

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Required Materials to prepare for and teach this course

You need the following materials to prepare for and teach this course:

Resource Description
Microsoft PowerPoint files Download the AZ-800T00A-ENU-PowerPoint.zip
from the MCT Download Center.

Change Log Download the AZ-801T00A-ENU-ChangeLog from

the MCT Download Center.
Lab environment provided by your lab hosting Contact your lab hosting provider for instructions
provider on using their lab environment.
Lab instructions The lab instructions are provided in the lab
environment and in the AZ-801T00A Microsoft
Learning GitHub repository.
Student training content See the following section for a detailed breakdown
of each Learning Path covered in the course.

Student training content

The student training content for this course is located in Microsoft Learn. The following table provides a
breakdown of each Learning Path, the modules covered in each, and the link to each LP in Microsoft
Learn.
The student training content includes links to additional reading material to help you prepare for
Learning Path Module Online training in Microsoft
Learn
Course Introduction N/A Slides only
Learning Path 1: Module 1: Secure Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Server user accounts us/learn/modules/secure-
Secure Windows Server on-
windows-server-user-accounts/
premises and hybrid
infrastructures
Module 2: Hardening Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Server us/learn/modules/harden-
(Windows Server security) windows-server/

Module 3: Windows Server https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

Update Management us/learn/modules/windows-
server-update-management/

Module 4: Secure Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

Server DNS us/learn/modules/secure-

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windows-server-domain-name-
system/
Learning Path 1: Module 1: Implement Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Server IaaS VM network security us/learn/modules/implement-
Secure Windows Server on-
windows-server-iaas-virtual-
premises and hybrid
machine-network-security/
infrastructures
Module 2: Audit the security of
Windows Server IaaS Virtual https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Machines us/learn/modules/audit-
(Implementing security
solutions in hybrid scenarios) security-of-windows-server-iaas-
virtual-machines/
Module 3: Manage Azure
updates https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/learn/modules/manage-
azure-updates/

Module 4: Create and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

implement application allowlists us/learn/modules/create-
with adaptive application control implement-application-
allowlists-adaptive-application-
control/

Module 5: Configure BitLocker https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

disk encryption for Windows us/learn/modules/configure-
IaaS Virtual Machines bitlocker-disk-encryption-
windows-iaas-virtual-machines/

Module 6: Implement change https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

tracking and file integrity us/learn/modules/implement-
monitoring for Windows IaaS change-tracking-file-integrity-
VMs monitoring/
Learning Path 2: Module 1: Introduction to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Cluster Shared Volumes us/learn/modules/introduction-
Implement Windows Server
to-cluster-shared-volumes/
high availability
Module 2: Implement Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Server failover clustering us/learn/modules/implement-
windows-server-failover-cluster/

Module 3: Implement high https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

availability of Windows Server us/learn/modules/implement-
VMs high-availability-of-windows-
server-vms/

Module 4: Implement Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

Server File Server high us/learn/modules/implement-
availability windows-server-file-server-high-
availability/

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Module 5: Implement scale and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

high availability with Windows us/learn/modules/implement-
Server VM scale-high-availability-windows-
server-virtual-machine/
Learning Path 3: Module 1: Implement Hyper-V https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Replica us/learn/modules/implement-
Implement disaster recovery in
hyper-v-replica/
Windows Server on-premises
and hybrid environments
Module 2: Protect your on- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
premises infrastructure from us/learn/modules/protect-on-
disasters with Azure Site premises-infrastructure-with-
(Disaster recovery in Windows
Recovery azure-site-recovery/?ns-
Server)
enrollment-
type=LearningPath&ns-
enrollment-id=learn.architect-
migration-bcdr
Learning Path 3: Module 1: Implement hybrid https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
backup and recovery with us/learn/modules/implement-
Implement disaster recovery in
Windows Server IaaS hybrid-backup-recovery-
Windows Server on-premises
windows-server-iaas/
and hybrid environments
Module 2: Protect your Azure https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
infrastructure with Azure Site us/learn/modules/protect-
(Implementing recovery services
Recovery infrastructure-with-site-
in hybrid scenarios)
recovery/?ns-enrollment-
type=LearningPath&ns-
enrollment-id=learn.architect-
migration-bcdr

Module 3: Protect your virtual https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

machines by using Azure Backup us/learn/modules/protect-
virtual-machines-with-azure-
backup/?ns-enrollment-
type=LearningPath&ns-
enrollment-id=learn.architect-
migration-bcdr
Learning Path 4: Module 1: Active Directory https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Domain Services migration us/learn/modules/active-
Migrate servers and workloads
directory-domain-services-
in on-premises and hybrid
migration/
environments

Module 2: Migrate file server https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

(Upgrade and migrate in workloads using Storage us/learn/modules/migrate-file-
Windows Server) Migration Service server-workloads-using-storage-
migration-service/

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Module 3: Migrate Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

Server roles us/learn/modules/migrate-
windows-server-roles/
Learning Path 4: Module 1: Migrate on-premises https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Windows Server instances to us/learn/modules/migrate-
Migrate servers and workloads
Azure IaaS virtual machines premises-windows-server-
in on-premises and hybrid
instances-azure-iaas-virtual-
environments
machines/

(Implementing migration in Module 2: Upgrade and migrate https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

hybrid scenarios) Windows Server IaaS virtual us/learn/modules/upgrade-
machines migrate-windows-server-iaas-
virtual-machines/

Module 3: Containerize and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

migrate ASP.NET applications to us/learn/modules/migrate-
Azure App Service aspnet-app-azure-app-service/
Learning Path 5: Module 1: Monitor Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Server performance us/learn/modules/monitor-
Monitor and troubleshoot
windows-server-performance/
Windows Server environments
Module 2: Manage and monitor https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Windows Server event logs us/learn/modules/manage-
(Server and performance
monitoring in Windows Server) monitor-event-logs/

Module 3: Implement Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

Server auditing and diagnostics us/learn/modules/implement-
windows-server-auditing-
diagnostics/

Module 4: Troubleshoot Active https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

Directory us/learn/modules/troubleshoot-
active-directory/
Learning Path 5: Module 1: Monitor Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
Server IaaS Virtual Machines and us/learn/modules/monitor-
Monitor and troubleshoot
hybrid instances windows-server-iaas-virtual-
Windows Server environments
machines-hybrid-instances/

Module 2: Monitor the health of https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

(Implementing operational
your Azure virtual machine by us/learn/modules/monitor-
monitoring in hybrid scenarios)
using Azure Metrics Explorer and azure-vm-using-diagnostic-
metric alerts data/?ns-enrollment-
type=LearningPath&ns-
enrollment-id=learn.azure-
admin-monitor-backup-
resources

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Module 3: Monitor performance https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

of virtual machines by using us/learn/modules/monitor-
Azure Monitor VM Insights performance-using-azure-
monitor-for-vms/?ns-
enrollment-
type=LearningPath&ns-
enrollment-id=learn.azure-
admin-monitor-backup-
resources

Module 4: Troubleshoot on- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

premises and hybrid networking us/learn/modules/troubleshoot-
premises-hybrid-networking/

Module 5: Troubleshoot https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

Windows Server Virtual us/learn/modules/troubleshoot-
Machines in Azure windows-server-virtual-
machines-azure/

Preparation Tasks
Instructors should complete the following tasks to prepare for teaching this course:
• If you have previously taught this class, refer to the course’s Change Log. It provides detailed
information on how the course has changed over time. The Change Log is updated for each course
release.
• Review all topics in the student training material in Microsoft Learn (see the link in the Required
Materials section above). You should be well-versed in every topic. If you have previously taught the
course and are comfortable with your knowledge of each topic, focus primarily on the new or updated
topics as outlined in the Change Log.
• Review the PowerPoint slides.
• Be able to speak to each of the talking points on the slides. Some slides include a graphic from
the associated Learn content for the topic. These graphics are provided on the slide so that
you can speak to them to help explain the key talking points in the topic.
• The bulleted items on each slide should NOT be read verbatim to the students. The students
can read the slides themselves. Rather, the bullet points reflect the key information that you
should focus on when discussing each topic. You should use your experience as a subject
matter expert to explain the What, the Why, and the How of each topic. This is your
opportunity to provide a real value-add above and beyond the bulleted talking points.
• Review the Additional Reading links and other linked resources provided in the student training
material. It’s recommended that you present key points from this material to supplement the value-
add you provide as an instructor.
• As you prepare for the class, you should review each unit and determine which ones you want to
perform demonstrations of the corresponding product functionality. It’s up to you to decide which

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product features you want to demonstrate to the class. You should use your experience to identify key
points during the demonstration process. This is an area where you should rely on your experience
as a subject matter expert to provide additional value-add to the students.
• You should review each Knowledge Check (KC) question so that you know why the correct answer is
correct for each question. Students may challenge some of the questions, so you must be able to
address any of those concerns.
• You should perform the labs yourself prior to class so that you become familiar with them and with
any of the difficult points in the lab exercises. This will prepare you for helping students in case they
get stuck.

Course Timing
Daily Agenda
The following agenda provides estimated times to complete each classroom activity. However, the
estimated times may vary depending on the background of your students, which may affect whether you
can move faster or slower through the course material.
Estimated times for each Module include the time to complete:
• The module’s PowerPoint slide deck presentation.
• Any pre-defined product demonstrations.
• Time to review Knowledge Check questions (see the section on Additional Timing Notes below).
• Time to complete a classroom discussion activity if a Discussion slide is included in the module
slide deck.
You should adjust the agenda accordingly based on any classroom activities that you personally created or
plan to deliver that are not included in the slides for this course. For example, if you plan to present:
• ad-hoc demonstrations
• review activities
• classroom games
• and so on…

Note: Each Learning Path/Module activity in the following agenda is the slide deck presentation for that
module.
Day Estimated Classroom activity
Time
1 1 hour Course Introduction slide deck
(Time may vary due to the number of student introductions in a given course)
20 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 1
20 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 2
15 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 3
25 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 4

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40 minutes Lab 01
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
45 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 5
25 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 6
20 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 7
15 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 8
20 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 9
30 minutes Learning Path 1, Module 10
15 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
2 75 minutes Lab 02
15 minutes Learning Path 2, Module 1
30 minutes Learning Path 2, Module 2
15 minutes Learning Path 2, Module 3
15 minutes Learning Path 2, Module 4
25 minutes Learning Path 2, Module 5
1 hour Lab 03
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
25 minutes Learning Path 3, Lesson 1
15 minutes Learning Path 3, Lesson 2
45 minutes Lab 04
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
45 minutes Learning Path 3, Module 3
35 minutes Learning Path 3, Module 4
20 minutes Learning Path 3, Module 5
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
3 1 hour Lab 05
20 minutes Learning Path 4, Module 1
15 minutes Learning Path 4, Module 2
15 minutes Learning Path 4, Module 3
1 hour Lab 06
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
20 minutes Learning Path 4, Module 4
25 minutes Learning Path 4, Module 5

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20 minutes Learning Path 4, Module 6

2 hours Lab 07
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
4 50 minutes Learning Plan 5, Module 1
20 minutes Learning Plan 5, Module2
15 minutes Learning Plan 5, Module 3
30 minutes Learning Plan 5, Module 4
40 minutes Lab 08
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)
25 minutes Learning Path 5, Module 5
20 minutes Learning Path 5, Module 6
20 minutes Learning Path 5, Module 7
50 minutes Learning Path 5, Module 8
50 minutes Learning Path 5, Module 9
1 hour Lab 09
10 minutes (LP Review – Knowledge Checks combined)

Additional Timing Notes - Knowledge Check questions

Knowledge check (KC) questions are provided throughout the course to check the student’s knowledge of
the material that was covered. Instructors can use these KC questions in several ways:

• Conduct a formal classroom exercise in which you go through the questions in a module before
moving on to the next module.
• Sprinkle the questions into the content as you cover the related material for a module
• Let the students review the questions after class as a daily homework assignment. You can set
aside time at the start of each day to answer any questions they have regarding the prior day’s
questions. This may be the most feasible option given the tight time constraints that most classes
work under.
It will be left up to each instructor to determine how they want to incorporate the KC questions into their
class.
If you provide students with time to review the KC questions at the end of specific topics and at the end of
each module, you should provide a couple of minutes per question, along with a few extra minutes per
question to respond to student questions or challenges concerning certain questions they may not
understand or whose answers they disagree with. This may add an extra 15 to 30 minutes to complete
each module.

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Labs

The labs must be completed within the lab environment provided by your lab hosting provider. Detailed,
step-by-step instructions are provided for each lab and presented as part of the UI experience within your
lab environment.
At the time the courses were released, the lab instruction had been thoroughly tested and the lab steps
were 100% accurate. However, given the nature of Microsoft’s cloud products and the fact that Microsoft
releases UI updates on a regular basis, it’s possible that at some point in time, the UI for a given feature
may change so that it no longer matches the lab instruction.
If students encounter lab steps that don’t accurately reflect the UI, they’ll have to work through the UI to
determine what needs to be done. Typically, UI changes are quite subtle, so hopefully you don’t find
yourself in a situation where a feature was completely overhauled.
However, if you do run into major UI changes, challenge your students to work through it, and only offer
help if they definitely need it. Product UI changes will be part of their daily life in today’s cloud-centric
world. As IT/Pros, they must learn how to work through such situations.
One thing Microsoft does ask of you is that if you run into situations such as this where lab instructions no
longer match the corresponding UI, please document the issue in the course’s GitHub repository. This will
help Microsoft’s World-Wide Learning team update the lab instructions to keep them as up to date as
possible. For information on how to submit an issue, please see GitHub User Guide for MCTs.

Subscriptions
To complete the labs in this course, students should use the lab environment provided by an Authorized
Lab Hoster (ALH). This environment includes all necessary software and services required to complete the
lab exercises, which may include virtual machines, cloud subscriptions, and other software as required. As
a trainer, you should familiarize yourself with the lab environment provided by your ALH before teaching
the course.

Portal, Cloud Shell, PowerShell, and the CLI

For any labs where the lab instructions are written to use Cloud Shell, students can use the Cloud Shell,
which automatically connects to Azure and provides access to PowerShell and the CLI.
If you would rather have students use PowerShell or the CLI locally, you can use these links.
• Install Azure PowerShell on Windows with PowerShellGet
• Install Azure CLI on Windows

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Tips and Tricks for teaching AZ-801T00A

Are you looking to improve when teaching this course? Maybe you don’t teach the course very often, or
you haven’t taught the course before? If so, this section offers some tips from our top trainers to help you
deliver the best course possible.
We recently conducted a survey of the AZ-104 Metrics that Matters responses. Overall, the comments
were very positive. However, there are always opportunities for improvement.
So, here are three specific areas we would like to highlight: Course timing, Hands-on labs, and Classroom
interactivity.

Course timing

Typical Comments:
Course timing is too tight, days ran too long, pace is too fast, course should be an additional day, and not
enough time to absorb the material.
Discussion:
AZ-801 provides a lot of content for you to select from based on your audience and teaching style. It is not
intended that you cover every slide, demo, lab, discussion, and review question.
You must select the combination of course elements that fit best within the allotted classroom time.
Consider your audience, consider your ability to tell the story, and consider the depth of coverage.
Here is how two different instructors presented the material in AZ-104. Notice they do not follow the
prescribed course sequence and have selected content based on their teaching style. Although the survey
was done for AZ-104, the general findings are applicable in most courses.

Persona Course timing approach

I use the PPT slides during a course as a guideline and hide slides that I will
whiteboard or demo. I use a lot of demonstrations and often include simple
Instructor 1
portal walk-throughs I’ve created myself. And I do a lot of whiteboarding to
cover concepts and flowcharts. I survey the class and spend more time on
product areas where the students are most interested.
I start each lesson with a description of an Administrator task and then show the
steps in the portal. As I go through the demo, I describe the content covered in
Instructor 2
the slides. After the demo I quickly skimmed the slides, making sure everything
was covered and there weren’t any questions. I use the Summary slide to point
students to other study materials available on Learn.

Summary:
To improve in this area, we ask that you fit the course to your audience and teaching style. Plan your time
and set the students’ expectations of what will be covered and how it will be covered. You do not have to
cover everything that is provided. It is better to cover a few things well than a lot of things incompletely.

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Hands-on Labs

Typical Comments:
Labs are too complicated, labs are too lengthy, labs should be more real world, labs should follow the
lecture, and lab steps do not match the UI.
Discussion:
AZ-104 provides GitHub labs throughout the course. These labs assume a level of student familiarity with
the UI portal and scripting. However, students may not have this knowledge, which means you need to
consider your audience and their ability to complete various labs.
Here are how some of our top trainers approach the lab time.
Persona Lab approach
Some students come to class without meeting the prerequisites. They may have
little or no experience with Azure. I know these students will need more time to
complete a lab, so I account for that. I provide extra time by skipping labs 01, 05,
Instructor 1 10, 11. I ensure these areas are covered instead by demonstrations. And I do all
the labs directly after the module to reinforce the learning.
I start with the Module 03 (Administration) labs and cover the administrator
tools. This helps with the labs and gets students into hands-on activities early in
the class. If my class isn’t familiar with Azure, I offer Learn sandbox alternatives
Instructor 2 during the lab time. I also refer them to the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals GitHub
labs. I make sure they have plenty to do during lab time, even if it isn’t the
formal suggested lab.
If students are unfamiliar with the Azure portal and need extra help, I do more
demonstrations and fewer GitHub labs. For the hands-on activities I lead the
Instructor 3 class and go through the steps together with them. This takes more time, so I am
careful which demonstrations and labs I select.
I allocate a time box for the labs based on my student’s level of experience. The
time shown on the lab is just an estimate. By timeboxing the labs, I ensure we
don’t fall behind. I direct students to finish any incomplete labs at home after
Instructor 4 class. If I think the class will benefit from pre-work, I will assign them some Quick
Starts to read. This ensures they are better prepared for the next lab.

Summary:
To improve in this area, we ask that you use your best judgment when selecting which labs to do with
your students. Alternative labs have been added to the GitHub pages where we think they are
appropriate. You can suggest students go through those shorter and less complicated labs.

Classroom interactivity

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Typical comments: Need more balance between lecture and hands-on, more discussion and
question/answer, and lecture was too long.
Discussion:
Our goal in Microsoft Learning is to ensure there is at least a 50/50 mix of lecture/interactive elements.
For AZ-104 we provide a lot of opportunities to engage the students. For example, demonstrations, labs,
and review questions. Recently, open-ended discussion questions were added to the MCT Download
Center.
Here are some suggestions from our top trainers on how they incorporate interactivity in their classes.
Persona Class interactivity approach
• Frequently stop and ask open-ended questions.
• Use Mentimeter or Office to display multiple-choice questions and review the
student responses.
Instructor 1 • Let one of your advanced students share their screen and “drive” during the
demonstration. Coach the student through the steps.
• Have someone monitor the chat and let you know if there is a question.
• Use a poll (or other signal) to determine if students are interested in or using a
product or feature.
• Ask how many students are planning to take the exam. Work that information
Instructor 2 into your presentation.
• Ensure students can annotate your whiteboard. Have them participate by
placing resources or linking items.

Summary:
To improve in this area, we ask that you plan to limit the amount of lecture to less than half the class time.
Supplement your lecture with demos, questions, and discussion. Try to engage the students in as many
ways as possible. This interactivity will take longer, so be sure to account for that.

Feedback
In this course, we have provided a framework for you to work with. Take time to prepare and think about
the value that only an instructor can bring to training. We hope to partner with you to provide an
exceptional student experience, and we welcome your feedback.

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