Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104

Course Content

Section 01: Self Paced Curriculum

• Lesson 01 - Course Introduction
  • 1.01 Course Introduction
  • 1.02 What Will You Learn
• Lesson 02: Manage Azure Identities and Governance
  • 2.01 Introduction
  • 2.02 Azure Administrative Tools
  • 2.03 Demo: Creating a Microsoft Azure Account
  • 2.04 Demo: Working With Azure Powershell
  • 2.05 Demo: Working With Azure CLI
  • 2.06 Azure Tags
  • 2.07 Managing Subscriptions and Implementing Cost Management
  • 2.08 Resource Manager and Resource Groups
  • 2.09 Managing Resources
  • 2.10 ARM Template
  • 2.11 Demo: Quickstart Templates
  • 2.12 Cost Saving
  • 2.13 Management Group Creation and Introduction to Azure Policy
  • 2.14 Overview of Implementing Azure Policy
  • 2.15 Implementing Azure Policy and Azure Policy definitions
  • 2.16 Demo: Implementing an Azure policy
  • 2.17 Role-Based Access Control(RBAC) and Role Assignment
  • 2.18 Creating a Role Definition and Role Assignment
  • 2.19 Evolution of Azure RBAC Roles
  • 2.20 Demo: Create and Assign Roles
  • 2.21 RBAC Roles and Resource Manager Locks
  • 2.22 Demo: Create Locks on Resources
  • 2.23 Introduction to Azure Active Directory
  • 2.24 AD DS versus Active Directory and Azure Active Directory Editions
  • 2.25 Implementing AD Join and Self-Service
  • 2.26 Creating and Managing User Accounts in Azure
  • 2.27 Creating Group Accounts and Administrative Units
  • 2.28 Demo: Create users and Group Account
  • 2.29 Demo: Insert Guest users to Directory
  • 2.30 Demo: Create Administrative Unit
  • 2.31 Quick Recap
• Lesson 03: Implement and Manage Storage
  • 3.01 Introduction
  • 3.02 Azure Storage: Features, Services, and Account Types
  • 3.03 Determine Replication Strategies
  • 3.04 Demo: Create a Storage Account using Portal and CLI
  • 3.05 Access and Secure Azure Storage Accounts
  • 3.06 Implement Blob Storage
  • 3.07 Demo: Creation of Blob Storage
  • 3.08 Access Tiers and Lifecycle Management of Azure Storage
  • 3.09 Demo: Blob Lifecycle Management Rules and Replication
  • 3.10 Blob Object Replication and Blob Types
  • 3.11 Storage Pricing and Security Capabilities
  • 3.12 Creating Shared Access Signatures (SAS)
  • 3.13 Demo: Create Shared Access Signatures
  • 3.14 Storage Service Encryption (SSE) and Encryption Keys
  • 3.15 Storage Security Best Practices
  • 3.16 Compare Azure Files to Azure Blobs
  • 3.17 Overview of File Share Snapshot
  • 3.18 Demo: Create Azure File Share
  • 3.19 Demo: Create File Share Snapshot
  • 3.20 Overview of Azure File Sync
  • 3.21 Demo: Deploy File Sync
  • 3.22 Configure Storage with Tools
  • 3.23 Demo: Azure Storage Explorer
  • 3.24 Demo: Azcopy
  • 3.25 Quick Recap
• Lesson 04: Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources
  • 4.01 Introduction
  • 4.02 Cloud Service Responsibilities
  • 4.03 Planning Virtual Machines
  • 4.04 Determine Virtual Machine Sizing and Storage
  • 4.05 Create Virtual Machines
  • 4.06 Demo: Create a Virtual Machine from Portal and CLI
  • 4.07 Accessing Virtual Machines in Azure Windows and Linux Virtual Machines
  • 4.08 Demo: Connect to a Windows Virtual Machine
  • 4.09 Demo: Connect to a Linux Virtual Machine
  • 4.10 Demo: Explore Other VM Images
  • 4.11 Plan for Maintenance and Downtime
  • 4.12 Availability Sets
  • 4.13 Update and Fault Domains
  • 4.14 Availabilty Zone
  • 4.15 Vertical Scaling vs. Horizontal Scaling
  • 4.16 Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • 4.17 Demo: Create Scale Sets and Autoscaling
  • 4.18 Implement and Configure Autoscaling
  • 4.19 Implement Custom Script Extensions
  • 4.20 Demo: Install Software on your VM
  • 4.21 Demo: Query System and Runtime Information About the VM
  • 4.22 Azure App Service Plans
  • 4.23 Azure App Service Plan Scaling and Implementation
  • 4.24 Demo: Scale Up App Service and Deploy Your Code to App Service
  • 4.25 Continuous Integration and Deployment
  • 4.26 Deployment Slots
  • 4.27 Secure App Service
  • 4.28 Create Custom Domain Names
  • 4.29 Features of Backup and Application Insights
  • 4.30 Containers vs. Virtual Machine
  • 4.31 Features and Benefits of Azure Container Instances and Container Groups
  • 4.32 Understanding the Docker Platform
  • 4.33 Understanding AKS Terminology Clusters Nodes
  • 4.34 Configure AKS Storage
  • 4.35 Demo: Create an AKS Cluster and Deploy a Python App to AKS
  • 4.36 Azure Automation Configuration and Implement Desired State Configuration
  • 4.37 Demo: Set up a DSC and Configure a Desired State
  • 4.38 Recap
• Lesson 05: Spotlight
  • 5.01 Spotlight
• Lesson 06: Configure and Manage Virtual Networking
  • 6.01 Introduction
  • 6.02 Virtual Network
  • 6.03 Subnets
  • 6.04 Address
  • 6.05 Types of IP Address
  • 6.06 Demo: Create Subnet and VNET
  • 6.07 Implementing NSG and Determining and Creating NSG Rules
  • 6.08 Demo: Creation of NSG
  • 6.09 Create Azure Firewall Rules
  • 6.10 Demo: Create Azure Firewall Rules
  • 6.11 Azure Domain Name Service
  • 6.12 Demo: Create DNS Zones
  • 6.13 DNS Domains and Record Sets
  • 6.14 Private DNS Zones
  • 6.15 Demo: Private DNS Zones
  • 6.16 VNet Peering Connections
  • 6.17 Demo: Create VNET Peering
  • 6.18 Determine Gateway Transits, VNet Peering, and Service Chaining Uses
  • 6.19 VPN Gateway Uses
  • 6.20 Create VPN Gateway
  • 6.21 Determine VPN Gateway Type SKU and Generation
  • 6.22 Create Local Network Gateway On Premises VPN Device Connection
  • 6.23 Determine High Availability Scenarios
  • 6.24 Demo: Create a VPN Gateway
  • 6.25 Azure Express Route
  • 6.26 Site to Site Express Route Coexistence and Comparison of Intersite
  • 6.27 Virtual WAN
  • 6.28 Virtual System Routes and User Defined Routes
  • 6.29 Service Endpoint and Azure Private Link
  • 6.30 Demo: Create an NVA
  • 6.31 Azure Load Balancer Public and Internal
  • 6.32 Determine Load Balancer SKUs and Backend Pool Configuration
  • 6.33 Load Balancer Rules, Azure Load Balancer and Session Persistence
  • 6.34 Health Probe
  • 6.35 Demo: Create a Load Balancer
  • 6.36 Application Gateway
  • 6.37 Application Gateway Routing
  • 6.38 Application Gateway Components
  • 6.39 Recap
• Lesson 07: Monitor and Backup Azure Resources
  • 7.01 Introduction
  • 7.02 Azure Backup Center and Recovery Services Vault
  • 7.03 Configure On Premises Backup and Azure Recovery Services Agent
  • 7.04 Demo: Backup Azure File Share
  • 7.05 Backup of VMs
  • 7.06 Backup and Restore Azure Virtual Machines
  • 7.07 Microsoft Azure Backup Server
  • 7.08 Compare Backup Options
  • 7.09 Manage Soft Delete
  • 7.10 Implement Azure Site Recovery
  • 7.11 Demo: Backup Virtual Machine from VM settings
  • 7.12 Demo: Setup Disaster Recovery for Azure VMs
  • 7.13 Azure Monitor
  • 7.14 Azure Monitor Data Platform and Data Sources
  • 7.15 Activity Log Event and Querying the Activity Logs
  • 7.16 Managing and Creating Azure Alert Rules
  • 7.17 Demo: Use Activity Log Alerts to Alert Azure Infrastructure
  • 7.18 Determining Log Analytics Uses and Creating Workspace
  • 7.19 Creating Connected Sources and Data Sources
  • 7.20 Log Analytics Data Structuring Log Analytics Queries
  • 7.21 Demo: Setup Log Analytics Workspace
  • 7.22 Network Watcher Features and Components
  • 7.23 Quick Recap
• Lesson 08: Spotlight
  • 8.01 Spotlight/li>

Section 02: Course Introduction

• Lesson 01: Introduction
  • What is Cloud Computing?
  • Why Cloud Computing?
  • Skills in this Course?
  • Why this course?
  • Curriculum
  • Pre-requisite
  • Course Components
  • Career Benefits for a Azure Administrator

Section 03: Manage Azure Identities and Governance

• Lesson 01: Manage Subscriptions and Governance
  • Use the Azure Portal
  • Assisted practice: Creating a Microsoft Azure Account
  • Use Azure Cloud Shell
  • Use Azure Power Shell
  • Assisted practice: Working With Azure Powershell
  • Use Azure CLI
  • Assisted practice: Working With Azure Cli
  • Azure Tags
  • Implement and Obtain a Subscription
  • Identify Subscription Usage
  • Implement Cost Management
  • Introduction to Resource Manager and Resource Group
  • ARM Templates
  • Assisted practice: Quickstart templates
  • Cost Savings
• Lesson 02: Manage Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Management of Group Creation
  • Introduction to Azure Policy
  • Assisted practice: Implementing an Azure policy
  • Implement Role Based Access Control
  • Assisted practice: Create a Role Definition
  • Configure Resource Locks
  • Assisted practice: Apply Resource Locks
• Lesson 03: Administer Identity
  • Introduction to Azure Directory and its benefit
  • Describe Azure Active Directory concepts
  • Compare AD DS to active Directory
  • Azure Active Directory Editions
  • Implement AD join
  • Implement Self Service Password Reset
  • Create and Manage User Accounts
  • Create Bulk User Account
  • Create Group Account
  • Assisted practice: Create users and Group Account
  • Assisted practice: Insert Guest users to Directory
  • Administrative Unit
  • Assisted practice: Create Administrative Unit
  • Implement Azure Active Directory

Section 04: Implement and Manage Storage

• Lesson 01: Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts
  • Implement Azure Storage
  • Explore Azure Storage Services
  • Determine Storage Account Kind
  • Replication Strategies
  • Assisted practice: Create a Storage Account using Portal
  • Assisted practice: Create a Storage Account using CLI
  • Access Storage
  • Secure Storage Endpoint
  • Implement Blob Storage
  • Create Blob Storage
  • Assisted practice: Creation of Blob Storage
  • Create Blob Access Tiers
  • Add Blob Lifecycle Management Rules
  • Assisted practice: Blob Lifecycle Management Rules and Replication
  • Determine Blob Object Replication
  • Blob Upload Tools
  • Determining Storage Pricing
  • Review Storage Security Strategies
  • Create Shared Access Signature and Identify URI
  • Assisted practice: Create Shared Access Signatures
  • Determine Storage Account Encryption
  • Create Customer Keys
  • Storage Security Best Practices
• Lesson 02: Configure Azure Files
  • Comparison between Files and Blobs
  • Manage File share and Snapshots
  • Assisted practice: Manage/Mount File Share
  • Assisted practice: Create File Share Snapshot
  • Implement File Sync
  • Identify File Sync Components
  • Setup File Sync
  • Assisted practice: Deploy File Sync
• Lesson 03: Configure Storage with Tools
  • Use Storage Explorer
  • Assisted practice: Azure Storage explorer
  • Use Import/Export Service
  • Use Azcopy
  • Assisted practice: Azcopy
  • Implement a Stored Access Policy

Section 05: Deploy and Manage Azure Compute Resources

• Lesson 01: Administer Virtual Machine
  • Cloud Service Responsibilities
  • Plan virtual Machines
  • Determine Virtual Machine Sizing
  • Determine Virtual Machine Storage
  • Assisted practice: Create virtual machine from portal
  • Assisted practice: Create a virtual machine using azure cli
  • Connect to a virtual machine
  • Assisted practice: Connect to a windows virtual Machine
  • Assisted practice: Connect to a Linux virtual machine
  • Assisted practice: Explore other VM images
  • Plan for Maintenance and Downtime
  • Setup Availability sets
  • Fault Domain and Update domain
  • Availability zone and scaling
  • Create and Implement Scale sets
  • Assisted practice: Create Scale sets
  • Implement and configure autoscaling
  • Assisted practice: Configure Autoscaling
  • Implement Virtual Machines Extensions
  • Implement Custom Script Extensions
  • Assisted practice: Install Software on Your VM
  • Assisted practice: Query System And Runtime Information About the VM
• Lesson 02: Create and Configure an App Service
  • App Service Plan Pricing
  • Scaling Up the App Service Plan
  • Configure your app Service Plan Scaling
  • Assisted practice: Scale Up App Service
  • Implement Azure App Service Plan
  • Assisted practice: Deploy Your Code to App Service
  • App Service config (Continuous integration, Deployment Slot ,Securing ,backup and monitoring )
• Lesson 03: Create and Configure Azure Containers and Desired State Configuration
  • Containers vs Virtual Machine
  • Explore ACI benefits
  • Implement container groups
  • Understand Docker Platform
  • Understand AKS Terminology
  • AKS cluster and Node Architecture
  • Assisted practice: Creating a AKS cluster
  • Aks Networking and Storage
  • AKS scaling
  • Assisted practice: Deploy a python app to AKS
  • Intro to Azure Automatic state configuration
  • Powershell DSC
  • Use powershell DSC to achieve desired state config
  • Assisted practice: Set up a DSC and configure a desired state
  • Create Scale Set and Install Web Server on it Using ARM Template

Section 06: Configure and Manage Virtual Networking

• Lesson 01: Administer Virtual Networking
  • Plan Virtual Network, Subnet and IP addressing
  • Assisted practice: Create subnet and vnet
  • IP addressing
  • Intro to nsg and firewall
  • Assisted practice: Creation of nsg
  • Determine Azure Firewall Use
  • Create Azure Firewall and rules
  • Assisted practice: Create azure Firewall Rules
  • Identify and verify custom domains
  • Create DNS zones
  • Assisted practice: Create DNS zones
  • Delegate DNS zone and delegate it
  • Plan for Private DNS zones
  • Assisted practice: Private DNS zones
• Lesson 02: Administer Intersite connectivity
  • VNET Peering
  • Determine Gateway Transit and Connectivity Needs
  • Create VNET peering
  • Assisted practice: Configure Vnet Peering
  • Determine Service Chaining use
  • VPN gateway use and SKU and crete S2S connections
  • Assisted practice: Create A VPN gateway
  • Determine express route uses capabilities and comparison
  • Determine Virtual WAN uses
• Lesson 03: Administer network traffic
  • Review System Routes and User defined routes
  • Determine Service endpoint uses
  • Identify private Link uses
  • Assisted practice: Create An NVA
  • Implement and configure Load balancers
  • Assisted practice: Create An Load Balancer
  • Implement Azure Application gateway
  • Create Application Gateway with Path-Based Routing

Section 07: Monitor and Backup Azure Resources

• Lesson 01: Administer Data Protection
  • Implement Azure Backup Center
  • Configure Recovery Services Vault backup options
  • Implement on-premises file and folder backup
  • Configure the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent
  • Assisted practice: Backup Azure File share
  • Protect Virtual Machine Data
  • Create Virtual Machine Snapshot
  • Backup and Restore Virtual machine
  • Implement Azure Backup server
  • Compare Backup Options
  • Manage Soft Delete
  • Implement Site Recovery
  • Assisted practice: Create a Virtual Machine Backup
• Lesson 02: Administer Monitoring
  • Describe Azure Monitor Key Capabilities
  • Understand Azure Monitor Components
  • Define Metrics and Logs
  • Identify Data Type
  • Describe Activity Logs Event
  • Query the Activity Logs
  • Assisted practice: Enable Disaster Recovery for Azure VMs
  • Manage Azure Monitor Alerts
  • Create Alert Rules
  • Create Action Group
  • Assisted practice: Use activity log alerts to alert your azure infrastructure
  • Determine Log Analytics Usage
  • Create and Define Data Source
  • Visualize and Structure Log Analytics Data
  • Describe Network Watcher Features and Components
  • Assisted practice: Set up a log analytics workspace
  • Configure Action Group to Notify in Case of Any Events Within Azure Infrastructure

What is required to earn the Azure Administrator certification?

To earn the Azure Developer certification, you must pass the following exam:

• AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator

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