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AZURE - ADMINISTRATION
Microsoft Windows Azure Administrator Course Syllabus
1) Overview of Cloud Computing

 What is cloud computing?

 Top benefits of cloud computing
 Types of cloud computing
 Types of cloud services: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
 Overview of Microsoft Azure
 Azure Portal Over View

2) Manage Azure subscriptions and Resources

 Manage Azure subscriptions

 Create and Manages Azure subscriptions.
 Access Control on the subscription
 Cost and Quota configurations
 Manage resource groups
 Overview of Azure resource manager
 Creation of resource group
 Creation of resources
 Managing Permissions
 Configure resource locks
 Remove resource groups
 Implement and set tagging on resource groups
 move resources across resource groups
 remove resource groups
 Analyze resource utilization and consumption
 configure diagnostic settings on resources
 analyze metrics of resource utilization
 monitor for unused resources

LAB:

 Creation of Azure subscription

 Creation of Resource groups
 Managing resources

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3) Implement and manage storage

 Create and configure storage accounts

 Types of storage accounts and uses
 create and configure storage account
 configure and use of azure blob storage
 Install and use Azure Storage Explorer
 Create of azure file share

LAB:

 Creation of Storage accounts

 Manage Blob and file storage
 Install and use of Storage explore

4) Deploy and manage Virtual Machines (VMs)

 Create and configure a VM

 configure high availability
 configure monitoring, networking, storage, and virtual machine size
 deploy from template
 Manage Azure VM
 add and modify data disks
 add network interfaces
 manage VM sizes
 move VMs from one resource group to another
 redeploy VMs
 snapshot creations
 reset configurations
 Configure name resolution (DNS)
 Manage VM backups
 configure VM backup
 define backup policies
 implement backup policies
 perform VM restore

LAB:

 Creation of VMs
 Creation and manage Availability set
 Creation of Load Balancer
 Manage VM SKU's
 Moving One RG to Another RG
 Backup configuration
 Snapshot creation and usage
 Configure VM Disks and modifications

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5) Configure and manage virtual networks

 Create and Manage virtual networks

 Create Virtual networks
 configure private and public IP addresses, network interface, subnets, and virtual network
 create and configure VNET peering
 verify virtual network connectivity
 create virtual network gateway
 Create and configure a Network Security Group (NSG)
 create security rules
 associate NSG to a subnet or network interface
 identify required ports
 evaluate effective security rules

LAB:

 Creation of Virtual networks

 Creation of Virtual network Gateways
 Assign the IPs to VMs, enable public IP and assign static IPs for VMs
 Configure the Vent Peering
 Creation of NSG and manage rules

6) Advanced Virtual Networking

 Implement Azure load balancer

 configure internal load balancer, load balancing rules, and public load balancer
 manage Azure load balancing
 Integrate on-premises network with Azure virtual network
 create Point to site VPN connection for VMs
 create and configure Azure VPN Gateway
 create and configure site to site VPN (*)
 configure Express Route (*)
 verify on-premises connectivity
 manage on-premises connectivity with Azure

LAB:

 Creation of Load Balancer

 Configure Point to Site connection
 NAT rules
 Overview of S2S connection

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7) Implement Azure backup

 configure and review backup

 perform backup operation
 create Recovery Services Vault
 create and configure backup policy
 perform a restore operation

LAB:

 Configure and Schedule a Backup

 Create ASR (azure recovery service vault)
 perform a restore operation

8) Log Analytics (OMS)

 Create a log analytics id

 Workspace summery
 configure and monitor the alerts
 create and test alerts
 monitor activity log by using Log Analytics

LAB:

 Create a Log analytics workspace

 Configure and monitor the alerts
 Manage Solutions
 create and test alerts
 monitor activity log by using Log Analytics on resources

9) Update Management

 Create OMS workspace

 Configure OMS workspace for VMs
 Create automation account
 Configure and schedule automatic patching

LAB:

 Creation of automation account

 Create OMS workspace
 Configure and schedule automatic patching

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10) Implementing Azure Active Directory

 Manage Azure Active Directory (AD)

 add custom domains
 configure Azure AD and DNS
 configure self-service password reset
 implement conditional access policies
 perform an access review
 Manage Azure AD objects (users, groups, and devices)
 create users and groups
 manage user and group properties
 Configure name resolution
 configure Azure DNS
 configure custom DNS settings
 configure private and public DNS zones

LAB:

 Creation of Azure AD
 Configure Azure DNS
 Add custom domains
 Add VMs to domain
 Creation of groups and permissions

11) SQL Azure

 Creation of Azure SQL DB

 Configure and provide access
 Login and access through SSMS and configure Jobs

LAB:

 Creation of Azure SQL DB

 Access through SSMS

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12) Web Apps for Azure Infrastructure

 Deploy and configure website

 Deploy Web with SQL

Advanced Topics
13) On-prem to Azure Migration

 Azure Migration
 discover and assess environment
 identify workloads that can and cannot be deployed
 identify ports to open
 identify changes to network
 identify if target environment is supported
 Migrate servers to Azure
 configure storage
 create a recovery services vault
 migrate by using Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
 prepare source and target environments
 backup and restore data
 deploy Azure Site Recovery (ASR) agent
 prepare virtual network
 enable the replication and protect the server for migration

LAB

 Creation of Azure site recovery and management server

 Enable the replication and protect the VM
 Manage storage, subscription, network for migration
 Migrate to Azure

14) Azure Fire Wall

 Configure Azure Firewall for Resources

 Configure the firewall and rules for SQL DB

15) Cost Optimization

 Identify the resources and reduce the cost based on analysis

 Identify Stale and unused resources
 Implement start and stop action

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