Azure AI Fundamentals: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in particular are solving a significant number of business and social problems and giving computers a new way to handle and process vast amounts of data. In this course, you'll learn about AI and machine learning concepts regarding regression, classification, and clustering algorithms. You'll explore how to manage datasets and work with labeled versus unlabeled data. You'll learn how supervised and unsupervised machine learning can be used, as well as how to build and use AIs safely, transparently, and fairly. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

18 videos | 1h 43m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Machine Learning with Azure Services

Azure ML provides a suite of services to help with machine learning by providing a single interface to build, manage, deploy, test, and collaborate via the Azure Machine Learning Studio. In this course, you'll learn about the Azure ML services provided, including as Machine Learning designer and automated machine learning. You'll explore how to access and use the Azure Machine Learning Studio and review the Machine Learning features available in the service. In particular, you'll learn about the features of the Computer Vision, Custom Vision, Face, and Form Recognizer services. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

18 videos | 1h 50m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Using Azure Machine Learning Studio

The Azure Machine Learning Studio is a complete web tool and graphical user interface for building, managing, deploying, evaluating, and testing machine learning algorithms and workloads from initial design to final deployment. In this course, you'll investigate the different features of the Azure ML Studio interface and use it to create datasets, ingest data, create models automatically, build prediction services, and finally, manage endpoints for a machine learning model. Furthermore, you'll explore the datastores, compute resources, experiments, pipelines, and model management interfaces that are utilized when working with Azure ML Studio. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

18 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Authoring with the Azure ML Studio Designer

The Azure Machine Learning Studio provides a proficient designer that can be used to build machine learning pipelines. In this course, you'll explore Azure ML Studio Designer and practice using its features for managing, normalizing, and transforming data for use in regression, classification, and clustering models. You'll also learn how to select features from a dataset and create datasets for training and validating models within Studio Designer. By the end of the course, you'll be able to use datasets, add transformations, normalize and clean data, split datasets, and configure and use a number of models, all within Azure ML Studio Designer. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Evaluating Models with the ML Designer

In order to build a powerful and useful machine learning deployment, you must be able to evaluate and verify the AI model and data, as well as the accuracy and effectiveness of its predictions. Azure Machine Learning Studio and the Designer provide multiple easy-to-use methods for evaluating and scoring a model. In this course, you'll learn how to score and evaluate models and interpret and evaluate the results from some common models. You'll also explore how to create an inference pipeline, add web service output to provide external access to the model, and deploy and test a predictive web service. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

16 videos | 2h 2m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection can be a critical part of almost any business and can be used for fraud detection, identifying failures, and noticing unusual patterns in logs, records, or any time series based data. In this course, you'll learn the purpose and uses for anomaly detection and how AI anomaly detection can be used to identify unusual patterns, failures, and fraud. You'll then learn about the challenges of detecting anomalies in real world situations and how AI-based anomaly detection can be used to mitigate those challenges. Finally, you'll learn how to build, configure, deploy, and test the Azure Anomaly Detection service to create anomaly detection services you can use in real world scenarios. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Natural Language Processing

A powerful feature of machine learning is Natural Language Processing. Natural language processing allows computers to identify and process natural language and can be used for speech-to-text and text-to-speech processing, sentiment analysis, and translation. In this course, you'll learn about the features, uses, and challenges of NLP and the Azure services supporting NLP. You'll also explore intents and entities. In particular, you'll learn to train models using the Azure services for text analytics, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, sentiment analysis, and translation. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Conversational AI Bot

Conversational bots are becoming a powerful tool for businesses since they can interact and respond to queries and questions similar to how a real person would. However, they are not limited to this use and can also become personal digital assistants and be used as knowledgebases. In this course, you'll learn about the QnA Maker for knowledgebase bots, how to create a conversational bot, how to connect the bot to external channels and apps, and even how to create a simple personal digital assistant. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

17 videos | 2h 1m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Computer Vision

Computer vision is the machine learning capability to allow computers to "see" similar to how a person can see, and be able to identify, distinguish, and interpret objects, people, and even text from images or video. In this course you will learn about the Azure ML Computer Vision service, Computer Vision Models, and how it can be trained and used to detect and classify objects in images and videos using a Classifier model and semantic segmentation. You'll also learn how to evaluate the results of an object detection model. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

15 videos | 1h 22m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Face & Optical Character Recognition

An advanced and powerful feature of computer vision is the ability to detect, identify, and even analyze faces and forms in images and videos. In this course, you'll learn how to use the Azure Face Detection service and Computer Vision service to determine a person's age from an image and to determine their sentiment. You'll also explore how to use the Form Recognizer service to read and process forms using Optical Character Recognition. Finally, you'll learn how to use the Receipt and Custom Form Recognizer to process fields from receipts. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

16 videos | 1h 54m Assessment Badge

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Azure Data Fundamentals: Data Workloads

Data workloads refer to the system's ability to handle and process work. In this course, you'll learn about core data workloads and workload management, including the need for data solutions and the various types of data storage. You'll then explore transactional and analytical workloads, Azure Batch, and real time processing. Finally, you'll learn about the differences between batch data and streaming data and the fundamentals of relational data. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Data Analytics

Data analytics enables you to extract valuable insights from data and uncover patterns. In this course, you'll learn about data analytics core concepts. You'll examine data visualization, including business intelligence and reporting using Azure Data Explorer, a fully-managed big data analytics cloud platform. You'll then learn about SQL Server Reporting Services, data chart types, and different analytic techniques. You'll explore stream analytics and the associated data types. Finally, you'll learn to use extract, load, and transform data processing and also extract, transform, and load data processing. This course is one of a series that prepares you for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

13 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Relational Data Workloads

Relational data is stored in tables, which allows users to easily categorize and query the data. In this course, you'll learn about the characteristics of relational data and different relational databases. You'll explore how to use indexes and views in a relational database, as well as the different delivery models for relational data. Next, you'll examine Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service. Finally, you'll learn about online transaction and analytical processing. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 20m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Relational Data Management

Relational data management ensures cloud database systems are versatile and functionable. In this course, you'll explore how to work with relational data on Azure, including basic management tasks for relational data such as SQL database and the security features within. You'll then learn about Azure Data Studio, Azure SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server, and the sqlcmd utility. Finally, you'll learn about SQL Managed Instance, Azure Synapse Analytics, as well as different connectivity issues such as authentication or firewall. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

14 videos | 1h 43m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Provisioning & Configuring Relational Data Services

Azure database services are fully managed, which frees up valuable time otherwise spent on managing them. In this course, you'll learn how to provision relational data services and a Microsoft Azure SQL Database. You'll explore how to provision a Microsoft Azure SQL Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Next, you'll discover how to configure a Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Finally, you'll learn how to configure Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure SQL Querying Techniques

Azure SQL is used for extracting and organizing data that is stored in a relational database. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize and apply data querying techniques using SQL, Data Definition Language, and Data Manipulation Language. You'll start by learning about Structured Query Language including its uses, features, and limitations. You'll examine how to work with the Data Definition Language and Data Manipulation Language. Next, you'll learn how to query Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal, SSMS, Data Studio, and the sqlcmd utility. Finally, you'll discover how to query relational data in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Non-relational Data Workloads

Non-relational databases use a storage model that is optimized for the data being stored. In this course, you'll learn about characteristics of non-relational data, including the different types of non-relational data. You'll learn when to use non-relational versus relational data. Next, you'll explore the use of CSV and JSON files for non-relational data and the requirements of non-relational data stores. You'll examine free-form text for search, including architecture and challenges. Finally, you'll learn about time series solutions, including their benefits and challenges. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

9 videos | 52m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Non-relational Data Services

Non-relational data repositories can store data in its original format and allow fast storage and retrieval access. In this course, you'll learn about the non-relational data services, including Azure Table Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and Azure File Storage. You'll also learn how to provision and configure non-relational data services and manage Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Storage. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

10 videos | 54m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database for modern app development. In this course, you'll learn about non-relational data offerings on Azure, including Cosmos DB and the different entities in the resource model. You'll learn how to provision and configure Cosmos DB and query data. Next, you'll explore the various Cosmos DB APIs and learn how to use Core (SQL) API for Cosmos DB. Finally, you'll examine how to use the Cosmos DB API, as well as how to use the Cassandra, Azure Table, and Gremlin APIs in Cosmos DB. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

13 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Non-relational Data Management

Non-relational data does not use SQL for queries and instead it uses other programming languages and constructs to query the data. This course covers basic management tasks for non-relational data, including how to deploy data using the Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure PowerShell, and the Azure CLI. You'll learn about Cosmos DB firewall, authentication, and other security components. Finally, you'll explore Azure Cosmos DB Explorer and Geo-replication, as well as various issues that may arise with access control, .NET SDKs, and Java SDKs. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

14 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Analytics Workloads

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data warehousing and big data analytics. In this course, you will learn about analytics workloads, including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Synapse SQL pool, Data Warehouse Units. You'll also learn about the difference between transactional and analytic workloads and batch and real time data processing. You'll use Azure Portal and Azure PowerShell to create a Synapse SQL pool and Azure Data Lake Analytics. You'll learn about data warehousing workloads and when to use a data warehouse solution. Finally, you'll learn about the different Azure Data Lake Analytics. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Modern Data Warehousing

Modern data warehousing lets you bring your data together at any scale and provide insights through analytics. This course, you'll learn about the components of a modern data warehouse and its architecture and how it can benefit your organization. You'll start by learning about modern data warehousing, and then the data warehousing architecture. You'll then learn about Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Databricks. You'll then go on to explore Azure Analysis Services and Azure HDInsights. Finally, you'll discover Azure Distributed Data Engineering Toolkit. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Data Ingestion & Processing

Data ingestion and processing allows your data to be assessed, used, and analyzed. In this course, you'll learn about Azure data ingestion and processing, including loading strategies for Synapse SQL Pools. You'll examine Azure data factory pipelines and activities, as well as how to create an Azure data factory. Next, you'll learn how to use the data factory copy data tool to copy data. Finally, you'll explore how to use SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake to ingest data. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Data Visualization

Power BI allows you to visualize your data and gain deeper insight by creating interactive and immersive dashboards and reports. In this course, you'll learn how to use Microsoft Power BI to optimize data, load datasets, and create dashboards. Next, you'll explore how to use Power BI for paginated and interactive reports, as well as for publishing reports. You'll also examine how to use the different types of Power BI visualizations. Finally, you'll learn about workflows and Power BI security and administration. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Azure Serverless Services: Messaging & Monitoring Essentials

Developers need to be aware of Azure messaging and monitoring services to enhance the Serverless deployment experience that saves time and lowers overhead cost. Use this course to investigate Azure messaging and notification essentials to manage events in Serverless applications and Azure monitoring services to control the environments with simplified configurations in the Azure cloud platform. Explore the capabilities of Azure Event Grid, differences between messages and events, and prominent messaging services provided by Azure. This course will also help you examine the advantages offered by Azure Notification Hubs and how they differ from Amazon SNS, the characteristics of Azure Monitor, and how to work with Application Insights and Log Analytics. After finishing this course, you'll have the knowledge to manage serverless applications with Azure messaging and monitoring services.

20 videos | 1h 52m Assessment Badge

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Working with Azure Cosmos DB: Getting Started

In this course, you will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of Cosmos DB and begin using this service by setting up a database and container. Begin by highlighting the differences between NoSQL and SQL databases to recognize exactly where Cosmos DB fits within this landscape. Then, explore the features of and use cases for Azure Cosmos DB. Next, find out how Cosmos DB organizes and stores data and enables access via various APIs such as the MongoDB API and the Apache Cassandra API and examine the factors that help you select the right Cosmos DB API for your own use cases. Finally, you will create a Cosmos DB account on the Azure cloud and provision a database and container within that service.

10 videos | 1h 34m Assessment Badge

Working with Azure Cosmos DB: Loading Data

In this course, you will examine how data is loaded into Cosmos DB, including data migration from a relational database and how to query that data. Begin by using the Cosmos DB web console to load items into a container, focusing on the types of data that can be loaded, like arrays and nested JSON structures. Then, you will query these items using an SQL-like syntax and explore array indexing, in-partition and cross-partition queries, as well as intra-document joins in order to unpack arrays. Then, you will migrate data from a relational Azure SQL Database to Cosmos DB using Azure's Data Factory service, which allows you to define and launch a pipeline for a migration using an intuitive web UI. Finally, you will define a step to copy specific data from a source database and then migrate it over to a Cosmos DB container, assembling all the little pieces required for such a pipeline.

9 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

Working with Azure Cosmos DB: Advanced Topics

Begin this course by exploring index policies in Cosmos DB and how these influence the performance of queries, as well as how many request units are consumed by them. Next, you will modify the default index policy and explicitly define the fields of the items which must be included in the index and how fields can be left out of it. Then, you will focus on composite indexes and run various types of queries against your data, including aggregation queries. You will build a Python application that can connect to and query a Cosmos DB container using the azure-cosmos package and various interfaces, such as a DatabaseProxy and ContainerProxy. Finally, you will create a new Cosmos DB account, this time using the MongoDB API, in order to observe the similarities between MongoDB API and MongoDB server.

13 videos | 1h 49m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure: Getting Started

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service for building and managing applications and services. Discover how to sign up for an Azure account, and explore the Azure portal, store, SQL Database, and AppFabric.

7 videos | 35m Assessment Badge

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Azure AI Fundamentals: Azure Machine Learning Fundamentals

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) seem to be everywhere we look, and with each passing day, there are new breakthroughs in AI/ML technology. In this course, you will explore key features and uses of AI and ML, computer vision in Azure, and natural language processing (NLP) in Azure. Then you will discover the purpose of knowledge mining in Azure, investigate document intelligence in Azure, and examine generative AI in Azure. Finally, you'll delve into ethical considerations for AI, challenges and risks associated with AI, and critical considerations for the design and implementation of responsible AI. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Artificial Intelligence Concepts

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are expansive concepts that mean different things to different people. With a vast and ever-growing list of practical applications for AI/ML, it is no surprise that the technology is garnering the attention of organizations far and wide. In this course, you will explore key concepts of AI, beginning with ML types. Then you will discover data in ML, labeled and unlabeled data, and data features. Next, you will delve into key methods and techniques, such as regression, binary classification, multi-class classification, and clustering. Finally, you will focus on the features, advantages, and disadvantages of supervised and unsupervised learning, and the purpose of deep learning. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Artificial Intelligence Principles

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are solving a significant number of business and social problems and giving computers a new way to handle and process vast amounts of data. In this course, you'll learn about AI principles, beginning with fairness, reliability, and safety in AI algorithms, privacy and security for responsible AI, and inclusiveness, transparency, and accountability in AI algorithms. Then you'll dig into Azure AI's capabilities, Machine Language Operations (MLOps), Azure AI model management, and Azure AI model training. Finally, you'll explore key concepts surrounding Azure AI content safety and Azure reinforcement learning. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

14 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Machine Learning with Azure AI

Azure Machine Learning Studio is part of a suite of services that facilitates machine learning (ML) by providing a single interface for building, managing, deploying, testing, and collaborating. In this course, you will discover Azure AI and ML services, beginning with the features and capabilities of Azure Machine Learning Studio and Azure OpenAI Studio. Then you will dig into how to create an Azure Machine Learning Studio account and Azure AI service resources. Next, you will investigate Azure AI services, authentication for Azure AI services, and Azure ML workloads. Finally, you will explore compute resources, dataset management, and pipeline management. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

16 videos | 1h 31m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Introduction to Azure Machine Learning Studio

The Azure Machine Learning Studio provides a proficient design tool that can be used to build machine learning pipelines. In this course, you'll explore Azure Machine Learning Studio and practice using its features for managing, normalizing, and transforming data for use in regression, classification, and clustering models. You'll begin with Azure service experiments, classification evaluation metrics, and regression evaluation metrics. Then, you'll learn how to create an Azure Machine Learning workspace, how to create a compute resource, and how to create a dataset. Finally, you'll discover how to create model packages and how to deploy models. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

10 videos | 54m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Working with Azure Machine Learning Studio

Azure Machine Learning Studio can be used to build machine learning pipelines and manage, normalize, and transform data for use in regression, classification, and clustering models. In this course, you will work with Azure Machine Learning Studio, beginning with ingesting data from Azure storage and Azure Blob storage, labeling data in Azure Machine Learning Studio, running and testing scripts, and creating an automated model. Then you will discover how to run an automated experiment, select the best model, deploy a model as a predictive service, and test a predictive service. Finally, you will explore how to manage compute resources and data stores, manage datasets and experiments, pipelines and models, and endpoints. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

15 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Using Azure Machine Learning Designer

Azure Machine Learning Studio and Designer provide powerful options for authoring machine learning (ML) models. In this course, you'll explore model authoring with Azure Machine Learning Designer, including how to work with datasets, select dataset features, and add data transformations. Then, you'll discover how to normalize data, view normalized data, and split datasets. Finally, you'll explore how to use regression, classification, and clustering models in Azure Machine Learning Designer. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Evaluating Models in Azure AI

In order to build a useful machine learning deployment, you must be able to evaluate and verify the AI model and data, as well as the accuracy and effectiveness of its predictions. Azure Machine Learning Studio and the designer provide multiple easy-to-use methods for evaluating and scoring a model. In this course, you will learn how to score and evaluate models, how to run pipelines, and how to analyze evaluation output. Then you will dig into evaluation results, visualizing data in a scoring model, assessing regression model results, and investigating classification model results. Finally, you will explore clustering model results, inference pipelines, web service output, and predictive service deployment. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

16 videos | 1h 35m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Azure Data Explorer

Azure Data Explorer provides powerful, tools for fast, real-time data exploration and analysis. In this course, you'll explore key concepts of Azure Data Explorer, including clusters, databases, tables, and data ingestion. First, learn how to efficiently ingest structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Then, dive into mastering Kusto Query Language (KQL), starting with basic queries for AI-driven data analysis and progressing to advanced techniques for extracting deeper insights. Use Azure Data Explorer for real-time data analysis and AI-driven insights and create dashboards and visualizations for AI model insights. Learn the skills to handle large-scale data sets and perform complex analytics using KQL. Finally, outline role-based access control (RBAC) and security best practices for managing data in Azure Data Explorer. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

13 videos | 1h 18m Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Azure Natural Language Processing

A powerful feature of machine learning is natural language processing (NLP). NLP allows computers to identify and process natural language and can be used for speech to text and text to speech processing, sentiment analysis, and translation. In this course, you'll learn about NLP in Azure, use cases for NLP, the Azure AI language service, and the Azure AI speech service. Then you'll explore working with Azure Text Analytics, key phrase extraction, named entity recognition (NER), and sentiment analysis and opinion mining. Finally, you'll discover how to train a language model, features of the Azure AI Translator Service, how to translate text, and how to translate speech. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

14 videos | 1h 24m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Creating a Conversational AI Bot

Conversational bots are a powerful tool that can interact and respond to queries very much like a human would. They can also be used as knowledge bases. In this course, you'll learn about conversational AI bot creation, beginning with conversational bot use cases, and how to create, populate, train, publish, and test a knowledge base. Then you'll delve into creating a bot, extending a bot framework, testing a bot, application insights, and how to publish a bot. Finally, you'll learn how to connect bots to standard channels and connect an application to a bot, and how to create, deploy, and test a virtual assistant. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

17 videos | 1h 44m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Introduction to Azure AI Vision

Computer vision is the machine learning capability to allow computers to "see" in a similar manner to how a person can see. In this course, you'll be introduced to Azure AI Vision, beginning with images and image processing considerations, an introduction to the Azure AI Vision service and the Azure AI Custom Vision service. Then you'll learn about Azure image analysis, the Azure Face service, Azure video analysis, and Azure AI image classification. Finally, you'll explore Azure AI object detection, be introduced to Azure AI Vision Studio, and discover how to get started with Azure AI Vision Studio. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

13 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Getting Started with Azure AI Vision

Azure AI Vision unleashes your ability to identify, distinguish, and interpret objects, people, and even text from images or video. In this course you will explore Azure AI Vision, beginning with analyzing images, describing and tagging images, and training a classifier model. Then you will discover how to evaluate a classifier model, deploy and test a prediction model, and train an object detection model. Next, you will learn how to evaluate an object detection model and use a model as a service. Finally, you will investigate semantic segmentation. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Working with AI Vision

Computer vision allows computers to 'see', and identify, distinguish, and interpret objects, people, and text from images or video. In this course, you will continue to work with Azure AI Vision, beginning with facial detection and analysis and the Azure AI Video Indexer service. Then you will discover key aspects of face and age detection and find out how to identify faces in videos. Next, you will learn how to use Face service to detect and analyze faces and verify. Finally, you will investigate Azure AI vision Spatial Analysis and work with the Spatial Analysis container. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Azure Document & Optical Character Recognition

A powerful feature of computer vision is the ability to detect, identify, and even analyze meaningful information from various sources. In this course, you'll learn about Azure AI's document and optical character recognition (OCR) services, beginning with key features of the Azure Optical Character Recognition API and how to read text from various sources, including photographs and digitized documents. Then you'll explore the Azure Document Intelligence Service and how to work with Azure AI Document Intelligence. Finally, you'll delve into the Read API, the pre-built receipt model, the customer form recognizer model, how to identify fields on a receipt, and how to process tables in scanned forms. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

14 videos | 1h 24m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Management Tools

Explore the business case for using Azure and common management tools. In this course, you'll examine how Azure solutions can address business needs and which tools can be used to achieve this. You'll start by learning about common Azure solutions and which business problems they address. Next, you'll learn how to use the Azure portal and Cloud Shell, PowerShell, and the command line interface to deploy and manage Azure resources. Lastly, you'll learn how Azure services are exposed to developers through APIs. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

8 videos | 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Virtual Networking

Discover how to provision network configurations in the Azure cloud to allow resource communication. In this course, you'll create and configure various Azure network components. You'll start by creating VNets and subnets using the portal. Next, you'll deploy VNets and subnets using the CLI and PowerShell. Lastly, you will link VNets together through VNet peering using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

14 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Storage Accounts

Storing your data in the Azure cloud provides quick access to authorized apps and users from anywhere in the world, while maintaining multiple copies of that data. In this course, you'll learn to deploy and manage Azures storage accounts. You'll start by creating storage accounts using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then examine how to manage access keys using the portal, CLI and PowerShell. Next, you'll learn how to generate a storage account shared access signature. Lastly, you'll explore how to configure storage account security in the form of access policies, limit network access, and enable AD authentication. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

18 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Storage Account Content Management

To gain the benefits of cloud-stored data, you must know how to use the appropriate tools to access cloud storage in a secured manner. In this course, you'll explore various methods of uploading and managing storage account blobs, as well as enabling security and high availability. You'll start by examine how to upload blobs to a storage account using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then discover how to use the Storage Explorer GUI tool to manage storage account blobs. Next, you'll learn to enable replication using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell, as well as configure blob lifecycle management. Lastly, you'll learn how to use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to create a key vault and key for encrypting a storage account and how to enable storage account failover. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure Files

You can provide secured access to shared folders in the cloud using Azure Files. In this course, you'll explore Azure Files configuration and connectivity. You'll start by learning how to configure an Azure Files share using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you'll examine how to connect to Azure Files from a Windows host. Lastly, you'll discover how to connect to Azure Files share from a Linux host. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

8 videos | 22m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Deploying Azure Database Solutions

Microsoft Azure provides managed database solutions, which means technicians can focus on the database solution and not the underlying setup. In this course, you'll learn about NoSQL and SQL solutions available in Azure. You'll start by learning how to configure a NoSQL table within a storage account. You'll then examine how to deploy and configure a Cosmos DB NoSQL database. Next, you'll learn how to deploy and configure an Azure SQL database. Lastly, you'll see how to connect to Azure SQL database using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, enable Azure SQL high availability, and publish on-premises databases to Azure. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

12 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Securing Azure Networks

Securing Azure resources at the network level is crucial in protecting digital assets and remaining compliant with regulations. In this course, you'll secure Azure networks using firewall rules and a Bastion host. You'll start by examining how to create network security groups using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then learn how to troubleshoot effective security rules. Next, you'll discover how to deploy Azure Firewall with various types of rules. Lastly, you'll learn how to deploy Azure Bastion as a jump box solution to protect Azure VMs. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

14 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Deploying & Managing Azure VMs

Because virtual machines provide the underlying compute power for Azure workloads, knowing how to securely and efficiently manage VMs serves the best interests of cloud customers. In this course, you'll explore how to deploy, connect to, and manage VMs. You'll learn to deploy Windows and Linux VMs using the portal, PowerShell and the CLI. Next, you'll examine how to enable Linux SSH public key authentication and resize a VM. Lastly, you'll learn how to create disks and attach them to VMs, enable VM disk encryption, and deploy a virtual machine scale set. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure AD

Azure Active Directory (AD) provides centralized identity services that allow secure authentication and authorization to use Azure and Office 365 resources. In this course, you'll learn how to manage Azure AD users and security options. You'll start by examining how to deploy a new Azure AD tenant and navigate between tenants. Next, you'll learn to configure AD verification methods, and use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to create Azure AD users including guest users on an individual and a bulk basis. You'll then explore how to assign product licences to Azure AD users and configure Azure AD security settings including password reset, fraud alerts, conditional access, and multifactor authentication. Next, you'll learn how to configure sign-in security features including named locations, trusted IPs, MFA bypass, and banned passwords. Lastly, you'll explore how to enable Azure identity protection and register an app in Azure AD. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

21 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Deploying Azure AD Connect

Azure AD allows the continued use of on-premises Active Directory account authentication through AD Connect. In this course, you'll learn how to use AD Connect to link Azure AD with an on-premises AD environment. You'll start by examining how to configure a custom DNS domain for an Azure AD tenant. You'll then learn how to download, install, and configure the Azure AD Connect agent on an on-premises domain server. Lastly, you'll discover how to view Azure AD Connect health statistics and configure Azure Files permissions. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

10 videos | 45m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure AD Devices & Groups

Azure AD groups facilitate permissions management when registering devices with Azure AD and allow Azure AD user authentication on those devices. In this course, you'll learn about groups, devices, licenses, and group management in Azure AD. You'll start by learning how to create and manage groups using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then examine how to join devices to Azure AD and manage device settings. Next, you'll see how to create a dynamic group, assign licenses to groups, and enable group self-service. Lastly, you'll explore how to work with group member bulk tools and join a mobile device to Azure AD. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

17 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure Web Applications

Azure App Services provide a simple way to host web applications with minimal fuss. In this course, you'll learn about running web apps, including containerized applications, in Azure. You'll start by examine how to deploy an app service plan and app service web app using the portal and Microsoft Visual Studio. You'll then learn how to use web app deployment slots and when to use Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps. Next, you'll explore how to enable a custom DNS domain name and HTTPS binding, as well as how to configure web app backup and then access the web app through the Kudu interface. Lastly, you'll see how to work with application container instances and clusters through Azure Kubernetes Service. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

18 videos | 1h 15m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Web App Availability & Security

Microsoft Azure provides tools that allow you to ensure the security and high availability of Azure workloads. In this course, you'll explore methods of improving the performance, security, and availability of Azure web apps. You'll start by learning how to deploy an Azure load balancer using the portal and from an ARM template. You'll then examine how to configure load balancer settings such as inbound NAT rules for back-end VM management. Next, you'll learn to deploy Application Gateway and Web Application Firewall. Lastly, you'll see how to configure the Azure Front Door Service. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

11 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Automating Azure Administrative Tasks

Automation provides a means of using cloud services in the most efficient manner possible to increase productivity and reduce costs. In this course, you'll explore various methods of automation. You'll start by learning how to create and deploy ARM template from a variety of sources through the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you'll examine how to use an existing on-premises VHD with an ARM template and how to import an ARM template. You'll then learn how to work with Azure graphical and PowerShell runbooks within an automation account. Lastly, you'll discover how to import runbooks and deploy them from the PowerShell Gallery. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

15 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure and Business Continuity

Microsoft Azure provides numerous methods for ensuring business continuity during disruptions. In this course, you'll learn how Azure solutions can provide business continuity in the event of disruptions. You'll start by learning how to plan and deploy a Recovery Services vault using the portal and PowerShell. You'll then examine how to configure Azure VM and on-premises file server backup. Next, you'll learn how to enable Azure VM failover. Lastly, you'll see how to configure update management. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

17 videos | 1h 18m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Resource Governance

It's important to know how to secure the management and configuration of Azure resources through RBAC and policies. In this course, you'll learn how to work with RBAC and policy management. You'll start by exploring how to create and assign RBAC roles using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you'll learn how management groups can facilitate policy assignments in a multi-subscription environment. You'll learn how to initiate an Azure AD access review and work with policy assignment through the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Lastly, you'll examine how to check policy compliance and enable policy remediation, as well as the purpose of Azure Blueprints. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Migrating to Azure

Azure provides various migration tools that can be used to assess and move workloads from on-premises to the Azure cloud. In this course, you will learn about various tools and methods for assessing and running Azure migrations. You'll start by exploring on-premises server, database, and web app assessments. Next, you'll learn about the migration process. Lastly, you'll learn when Azure Data Box should be used. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

10 videos | 45m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Monitoring Azure

Monitoring Azure resources is crucial for optimizing resource utilization, reducing costs, and enhancing the organizational security posture. In this course, you'll learn about monitoring individual resources as well as working with centralized monitoring. You'll start by examining the metrics for an individual Azure virtual machine. You'll then learn how to work with a Log Analytics workspace and its data sources to centralize log and performance metric data. Next, you'll examine how to work with Azure Monitor and dashboards, view performance metrics, and enable diagnostic logging. You'll see how to view web app metrics through Application Insights and view and manage Azure costs. Lastly, you'll learn how to configure action groups for alert notification, view Security Center recommendations, and work with Azure Sentinel. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

20 videos | 1h 40m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Manage Azure AD Groups & Devices

Learn how to create and manage Azure AD groups, as well as how to join both Windows 10 and Android devices to Azure AD, in this 18-video course, one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure AD groups; how to restore deleted Azure AD groups; and how to join a Windows 10 computer to an Azure AD domain. Next, learn how to manage Azure AD device settings; learn to disable a domain-joined Azure AD device; and learn to create a group with dynamic membership; enable dynamic group membership. Learn to assign licenses to a group; specify group owners; enable self-service group membership; and use bulk options for group add and remove. Learners will use the multifactor authentication (MFA) app to register an Android device with Azure AD; create a dynamic device group; and create a conditional access policy.

18 videos | 1h 1m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Manage Azure AD Users

In this 22-video course, learners discover how Azure AD serves as a central cloud-based identity provider. Examine creating and managing Azure AD users with graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools, and how to enable multifactor authentication (MFA). This course is one of several courses preparing learners for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered here include the role Azure AD plays in cloud authentication; how to use the portal to explore Azure AD; and how to use command-line interface (CLI) to navigate between Azure AD tenants. Next, learn how to use PowerShell to navigate Azure AD; manage Azure AD guest user accounts; and create Azure AD users through bulk create. Learn how MFA hardens user sign-in security, then how to enable and test Azure AD user MFA, enable users to reset their own passwords, and restore deleted Azure AD users. Assign licenses to users; configure banned passwords; and add Azure AD licensed features. Finally, assign an existing Azure subscription to a different Azure AD tenant; and configure Azure AD smart lockout feature.

22 videos | 1h 18m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Manage Azure AD Subscriptions and Costs

In this 19-video course, you will learn how to manage Azure subscriptions and resource groups; learn about management groups and how to create them; and explore how to analyze costs, configure budgets, and view billing information. Key concepts covered in this course include how subscriptions affect the Azure environment, including subscription types and support; using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure subscriptions; and recognizing how management groups are used to manage multiple subscriptions. You will learn how to use the portal to work with a management group; use the portal to analyze Azure costs; configure a budget scope; and view Azure billing information. Next, learn to create, manage, and delete resource groups using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; to move an Azure resource to a different resource group; and to view resource deployments to a resource group. View costs associated with a specific resource group scope; create a resource group budget; and create a custom ARM template in the portal. This one of a series of courses to help learners prepare for the AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 11m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Policies

Azure policies can be used to control resource creation, management, and configuration. In this 9-video course, one of a collection of courses used in preparation for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, you will learn about Azure policies, including policy assignment, compliance, and remediation; and examine Azure policies and how they apply to Azure permissions. Key concepts covered in this course include definitions, assignments, and parameters of Azure policies; learning to assign Azure policies for an Azure subscription and for your resource group; and identifying noncompliant resources by creating a policy assignment using Azure PowerShell and also by using a template. Then learn to create and assign a new custom policy with Azure portal; manage Azure policies and assignments by using the portal; and create an Azure AD Identity Protection resource. Configure a multifactor authentication (MFA) registration policy, a user risk policy, and a baseline policy. Finally, learn to define the purpose of Microsoft Azure policies, assign built-in policies using the portal and PowerShell, and enable admin account MFA through a baseline policy.

9 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Roles & Tags

Explore the management of Azure resources using Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in this 16-video course, one of a collection of course helping prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Learners will explore the management of Azure resources using RBAC and resource locking, as well as the use of resource tagging to facilitate easier searching and organization of resources, and examine how Azure roles assign permissions to different scopes. Key concepts covered in this course include how Azure roles assign permissions to different scopes; how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to assign a built-in Azure role; and how to create and assign a custom Azure role. Learn to recognize the benefits of resource locking; use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to prevent Azure resource modification or deletion; and use an ARM template to enable resource locking. Finally, learn benefits of tagging Azure resources; and use the portal, the CLI and PowerShell to tag Azure resources.

16 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Storage Accounts

In this 22-video course, one of several courses preparing learners for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, you will learn how to create and manage cloud storage with Azure storage accounts with graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools. Key concepts covered here are Azure storage account details, including storage tiers; how to use the portal, the command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to manage Azure storage accounts; and how to limit network access to a storage account. Next, use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to manage storage account blobs; use AzCopy to upload blobs to storage accounts; and manage blob lifecycle policies with the portal. Learn how to set access level for blob containers; create a storage account queue; and enable Azure AD authentication for a storage account. Then learn to refresh storage account keys; create a storage account shared access signature; and enable storage account replication. Finally, install and use Azure Storage Explorer tool; enable blob soft delete; use customer managed keys to encrypt cloud data; and generate and use a blob SAS token.

22 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Files

Azure file sharing and synchronization are key skills for an Azure administrator. Explore the use of Azure Files for creating and managing cloud-based shared folders, as well as file synchronization by using Azure File Sync, in this 10-video course. Prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam by examining how Azure file shares enable shared folders in the cloud, and how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure file shares. Other key concepts covered in this course include learning how Azure file shares enable shared folders in the cloud; how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure file shares; and mapping a drive to Azure file shares by using Windows. Finally, learners observe how to map a mount point to Azure file shares by using Linux; learn the purpose of Azure File Sync; and learn how to enable an on-premises Azure File Sync gateway.

10 videos | 33m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Network Solutions

Azure network resources need to be carefully managed. Prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam with this 20-video course, which explores Azure network resources, Azure VNet peering, and Azure ExpressRoute. You will learn which Azure network configurations should be used, and how to use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to manage VNets and subnets. Key concepts covered in this course include how to determine which Azure network configurations should be used; learning to manage VNets and subnets using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; and learning to manage IP address resources using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you will learn to manage network interfaces by using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; configure routing table entries with the portal, the CLI and PowerShell; and learn the purpose of peering VNets and how to enable VNet peering. Use PowerShell to configure VNet peering; network links to Azure; and troubleshoot network issues by using both Network Performance Monitor and Network Watcher. Finally, learn how ExpressRoute provides dedicated private network links to Azure.

20 videos | 1h 28m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure DNS & Network Security

Explore the management of Azure DNS services and its benefits in this 22-video course, which examines how DNS (domain name system) name resolution works in Azure; how to use the portal, the command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to create a DNS zone; and how to enable custom DNS servers for a VNet. One of several preparing learners for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, this course's key concepts include how to create a DNS zone using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; enabling custom DNS servers for a VNet; and how network security groups control inbound and outbound traffic flow. Next, you will learn how to manage network security groups with the portal, CLI, and PowerShell; recognize when VPN solutions should be used with Azure; and configure point-to-site and site-to-site VPNs. Learn the benefits of using Azure virtual WAN; how to deploy and manage Azure Firewall; and how to configure Azure Firewall application rules. Finally, learn how to deploy and manage Azure Bastion and how to deploy an Azure Virtual WAN hub.

22 videos | 1h 45m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Virtual Machines

In this course, you will explore deploying and managing Azure virtual machines (VMs), adding and encrypting VM disks, and enabling VM custom scripts. Examine Azure VM deployment requirements and how to use the portal, command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to deploy Azure VMs. This 22-video course is one of several preparing learners for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. The key concepts covered here include how to add data disks to your Windows VM in the Azure portal; how to add data disks to a Linux VM in Azure PowerShell; and how to add and remove network interfaces from an Azure VM. Learn to resize your VM with Azure portal; move your VM to another resource group, region, or zone; and redeploy a Windows VM and a Linux VM to a new Azure node. Next, learn to use the Custom Script Extension for Windows and Linux; and how to add and configure a data disk for a Windows and Linux VM, and move a VM to a different resource group, and resize a VM.

22 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure App Service & Batch Jobs

In this 21-video course, learners will discover how to manage Azure App Service web applications and Azure Batch jobs. Learn about deploying and managing web apps, configuring Azure Batch, and managing Azure application container solutions while preparing for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered here include components that provide Azure-hosted web applications; how to deploy a code-based web application and a Docker-based web application; and how to use PowerShell to manage an Azure app service plan. Next, learn how to deploy a web application by using Microsoft Visual Studio; configure a custom DNS domain name for a web application; and enable HTTPS by using a custom DNS domain name for a web application. Then learn to configure web application staging with Azure deployment slots; enable scaling in an app service plan; enable backup for a web application; and learn automation benefits of Azure Batch. Finally, learn when to use Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Instances; manage the Azure Kubernetes Service; and manage Azure Container instances.

21 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Availability Solutions

Azure offers a variety of high availability protection services, allowing you to protect systems and data. In this 22-video course, learn how to manage various Azure backup and recovery solutions while preparing for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how to deploy a virtual machine scale set; how load balancing can improve application performance and high availability; and how to configure an internal load balancer and a public load balancer, including health probes and rules. Next, learn how to deploy an application gateway to load balance an application; learn how Azure Site Recovery is used for disaster recovery; and configure site-to-site Azure recovery. Test VM failover after replication is enabled; learn benefits of using Azure Backup; and learn how to deploy an Azure Recovery Services vault. Then configure Azure Backup policies; use the portal, the command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to manage Azure Backup; restore Azure VMs; use Azure Backup to protect on-premises file servers; and restore deleted Azure virtual machine data.

22 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Monitoring Azure Resources

Discover how to effectively monitor your Azure deployments. In this 13-video course, one of several preparing learners for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, you will explore individual and centralized resource logging and performance monitoring, log querying, dashboards, alert notifications and application insight. Learn the various ways in which Azure resources can be monitored. Key concepts covered here include the various ways in which Azure resources can be monitored and how to monitor individual resources by examining logs and metrics; how to deploy a Log Analytics workspace; and how to configure Log Analytics Workspace data sources for centralized monitoring. Next, learn how to create a log query and save a query to a dashboard; learn to analyze performance metrics within and across subscriptions; and learn to create an actions group for alert notifications. Finally, learn how to enable Application Insights; and use Network Performance Monitor and Network Watcher to troubleshoot cloud network issues.

13 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Subscriptions & AD Tenants

As an Azure administrator, you will be expected to manage an organization's Azure environment, including Azure Active DIrectory (AD) and Azure subscriptions. Discover the relationship between subscriptions and Azure AD tenants. Explore how to manage Azure subscriptions using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell, as well as how to create and manage Azure AD tenants using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Investigate how to use Azure AD administrative units to organize users and groups, create a custom DNS domain name for Azure AD, and manage Azure AD applications. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure AD User & Group Management

Managing users, groups, and devices is a core skill for success as an Azure administrator. Creating users and assigning them to groups allows an administrator to provide a more streamlined and secure experience for users and their organization. Discover how to create Azure AD users using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Learn how to perform a bulk import to efficiently create users. Then, you'll invite external users to partake in Azure AD. Explore dynamic groups and find out how their membership can evolve based on defined criteria. Create your own dynamic user and device Azure AD groups. Practice restoring deleted groups and connecting devices to an Azure AD tenant. Finally, investigate how to assign product licenses to Azure AD users. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Authentication & Authorization

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to manage Azure authentication and authorization. Begin this course by discovering how authentication differs from authorization and the relationship to identity federation. Next, manage Azure AD service principals and managed identities. Enable MFA, banned passwords and other Azure AD security mechanisms. Finally, perform an Azure AD access review and configure Azure AD Connect. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

16 videos | 1h 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Management Groups & Resource Groups

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to determine how you will use resource groups and management groups. First, discover how management groups are used to organize Azure subscriptions and how resource groups can organize related resources under a single heading. Next, create a management group and organize subscriptions under it. Then, create and manage resource groups using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Finally, move Azure objects between resource groups, view resource group deployments, and delete a resource group and its resources. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Storage Account Blob Management

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to create and manage storage account blobs. Begin this course by learning to plan the number, location, and configuration of Azure storage accounts. Next, you will see how to create storage accounts and manage blobs using the portal, the CLI, AzCopy, and PowerShell. Learn to use Azure Storage Explorer to manage a storage account and enable storage account blob features such as soft delete and versioning. Finally, you will learn to configure immutable blob policies, manage storage tier and archiving, and automate blob life cycle management. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

15 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Storage Account Access

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to control access to storage accounts. In this course you will learn to use role-based access control (RBAC) to limit access to storage accounts and configure storage account network access. You will explore the management of storage account access keys using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Next you will see how shared access signatures (SAS) are created using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Finally, you will learn to enable storage account geo-replication and encrypt a storage account using a customer-managed key. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Files Shared Folders

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure shared folders in the Azure cloud. Discover how Azure Files allows for shared folders in the cloud that can be mapped from Windows and Linux hosts. Manage Azure Files shared folders using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Map a drive letter from a Windows host to an Azure Files share and configure a Linux mount point to an Azure Files share. Configure permissions for Azure shared folders and configure Azure File Sync. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Network Infrastructure Services

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure cloud network infrastructure services. Discover network infrastructure services available in the Azure cloud including virtual networks (VNets), subnets, and route tables. Create a Domain Name System (DNS) zone using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell, then configure custom DNS settings for a VNet. Explore subnet endpoints and manage VNets, subnets, and route tables using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

18 videos | 1h 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Network Connectivity

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure cloud network connectivity. Discover Azure cloud network connectivity options. Peer virtual networks (VNets) together using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Generate a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate using PowerShell, and configure a site-to-site and client-to-site virtual private network (VPN). Discover when ExpressRoute and Azure Virtual WAN should be used. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

12 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Firewall Solutions

Network security is a high priority for Azure Administrators who need to rely on intelligent, scalable solutions with high availability. Build the skills you need to manage network security using Azure Firewall or Azure Network Security Group (NSG). Explore the ins and outs of NSGs, including different configurations to control traffic flowing in and out. Learn how to manage NSGs using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Then, focus on another essential solution, Azure Firewall, which provides more robust capabilities than NSGs. Discover how to configure Azure Firewall application, network, and network application rules. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 54m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Virtual Machines

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs), giving your organization the flexibility of multiple virtual operating systems without the cost and maintenance commitments that come with additional physical hardware. Discover virtual machine configuration settings in the Azure cloud. Deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Enable Secure Shell (SSH) public key authentication for Linux VMs and use Azure Bastion to manage VMs. Then, attach and encrypt VM disks, and deploy virtual machine extensions. Finally, create a virtual machine custom image and configure a virtual machine scale set. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

16 videos | 1h 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: App Services

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage web applications in the Azure cloud. Discover how to deploy a web application in the Azure cloud via the portal, as well as Microsoft Visual Studio. Explore how to create web app deployment slots to host testing configurations while keeping the production site up and running. Then, enable a custom DNS name, manage a key vault, enable an HTTPS binding, and manage various web app settings. Finally, discover how APIs are related to Azure and deploy a content delivery network. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

12 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Application Containers

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage application containers in the Azure cloud, saving your organization money, time, and resources. Discover how application containers differ from traditional applications and virtual machines. Learn how to install and manage Docker on both Windows and Linux hosts. Explore how to create a custom container image from a Dockerfile and deploy an Azure Container Registry, an Azure Container Instance, and a container group. Examine the role of Kubernetes in application containers and create and manage settings for an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 1h 3m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: ARM Templates

As an Azure Administrator, you must have the skills to create and manage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template deployments. Discover how ARM templates are created, focusing on their syntax and how they can be used to deploy and manage Azure resources. Create and modify ARM templates in various ways by using the portal, Microsoft Visual Studio, the CLI, and PowerShell. Create template deployments using GUI and command line tools and configure a virtual hard disk (VHD) template that will be used to deploy virtual machines. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Role-based Access Control

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage access to Azure resources, including what areas those resources can access and what specific actions they can perform, using role-based access control (RBAC). Discover how RBAC roles are assigned throughout the Azure hierarchy and explore various built-in roles, like owner, reader, or cost management contributor. Then, practice managing role assignments using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Create and assign a custom RBAC role and define your own permissions. Finally, learn how to assign Azure AD roles to administrators. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Policy & Resource Locking

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage Azure resource configuration and compliance with security standards. Azure Policy allows you to create and monitor those compliance policies with powerful dashboard capabilities. Discover how to assign built-in Azure policies to the Azure hierarchy using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Create and assign a custom policy based on your own requirements and group related policies together in a policy initiative. Explore how resource locking can prevent unwanted resource configuration changes, and how to manage resource locks using the portal, an ARM template, the CLI, and PowerShell. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Import & Export Service

High-volume data migration is a problem Azure Administrators are tasked with. Learn how you can securely and efficiently transfer data in and out of Azure using import and export jobs. Discover how to prepare storage media for import and export jobs. First, download and unzip the waimportexport.exe tool. Then, prepare storage media for shipping to a Microsoft Azure data center and examine XML and JRN journal files. Next, practice using the portal to create a data import job and to specify shipping details. Finally, create an export job in the portal to get data out of an Azure storage account. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

7 videos | 32m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Cost Management

As an Azure Administrator, you must minimize monthly cloud computing charges. Azure Cost Management can help you plan for and manage costs by providing a unified view of cloud expenses across your organization. Discover the many ways to save on monthly cloud computing charges. Configure reserved virtual machine and database instances, configure auto-shutdown for applicable virtual machines. Learn how to view and analyze subscription costs in the portal. Explore the benefits of tagging Azure resources and find out how to tag resources using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Practice creating an Azure budget to monitor monthly spending, and view invoices and estimate costs using the Azure Pricing Calculator. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Business Continuity

As an Azure Administrator, you must proactively plan for IT service disruptions in the cloud. Discover how Azure can ensure business continuity in the event of a disruption in a variety of ways. Plan how Azure Site Recovery (ASR) will be used, and explore how to enable backup of on-premises and cloud-based services to the Azure cloud. Examine how load balancing can improve app performance and fault tolerance. Enable virtual machine replication to a secondary region, back up a web app, and configure an Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Monitoring

As an Azure Administrator, you must continuously monitor Azure services to optimize performance, control costs, and detect security anomalies. Discover the various tools that can be used to effectively monitor Azure services. Examine application details using Application Insights, work with logs, and monitor service performance metrics to proactively identify issues. Explore Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher to learn how to centrally monitor Azure resource and network activity. Finally, configure alerts and notifications of changes or unusual activity. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

9 videos | 49m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure Architect Design: VNet Design & Implementation

Azure network configurations provide the foundation upon which Azure services are deployed. In this course, you'll explore the configuration of Azure virtual networks and subnets using the portal, PowerShell, and the CLI. Next, you'll learn how to deploy a virtual network using an ARM template and then configure route table entries. Lastly, you'll examine how to create a DNS zone in Azure and configure custom VNet settings. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

18 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Network Connectivity & Security

Securing Azure network configuration protects digital assets. In the course, you'll explore how to peer VNets together using GUI and command line tools. Next, you'll learn how to configure VPN and WAN settings. Next, you'll discover how to deploy and manage Azure Firewall. Lastly, you'll examine when to use ExpressRoute network circuits and how to configure network security groups. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

17 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Storage Account & Key Vault Design

Azure storage accounts provide the basis for cloud storage, while key vaults serve as centralized storage for secrets. In this course, you'll explore how to deploy and manage storage accounts. Next, you'll learn how to enable storage account redundancy and configure a custom DNS domain name. You'll then examine how to configure a storage queue. Lastly, you'll learn how to create and configure an Azure key vault using GUI and command line tools. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

17 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Storage Account Blob Management

Azure storage accounts support blob storage and management. In the course, you'll explore how to upload storage account blobs using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then learn how to enable blob versioning and change feeds. Lastly, you'll examine how to upload blobs using AzCopy and enable blob lifecycle management. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

10 videos | 41m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Storage Account Security Planning

Azure provides mechanisms for securing storage account data. In this course, you'll explore storage account encryption, static web sites, access keys, and shared access signatures. Next, you'll learn about storage account failover, blob immutability, and container access levels. Lastly, you'll examine blob soft deletion and storage account network access. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

17 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Files Planning

Azure Files provide a cloud-based shared folder solution. In this course, you'll explore how to configure Azure Files using GUI and command line tools. Next, you'll examine how to map a Windows drive letter to Azure Files and how to use Linux to mount an Azure Files share. Lastly, you'll learn how to use Azure File Sync to allow on-premises file access that is copied to the cloud. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

10 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Database Solution Design

Modern web applications use back-end databases as data stores. In this course, you'll explore NoSQL and SQL Azure data solutions including Azure SQL and Cosmos DB. Next, you'll learn how to enable database high availability. Lastly, you'll examine Azure solutions that allow data integration including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Synapse Analytics. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

10 videos | 43m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Virtual Machine Design & Deployment

Azure virtual machines provide the compute power that supports various workloads. In this course, you'll explore how to plan, implement, and deploy Windows and Linux VMs. Next, you'll learn how to configure SSH public key authentication for Linux. Then, you'll examine how to deploy Azure Bastion for secure remote VM management. Next, you'll learn to resize VMs, and attach and encrypt VM disks. Lastly, you'll examine how to deploy a virtual machine scale set and when to use VM dedicated hosting. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

21 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure AD & User Implementation

Azure AD provides a cloud-based identity repository. In this course, you'll explore Azure AD features including single sign-on. Next, you'll learn how to deploy a new Azure AD tenant. You'll then examine how to configure user verification methods and create Azure AD users using GUI and command line tools. You'll see how to configure B2B settings and invite guest users individually and by using bulk create. Lastly, you'll explore how to enable self-service sign-up, assign licenses, and enable self-service password reset. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

15 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure AD Groups, Apps, & Devices

Azure AD groups organize users with similar needs to facilitate permissions management. In this course, you'll explore Azure AD group creation using GUI and command line tools, as well as the bulk creation of groups. Next, you'll explore how to create and manage dynamic groups, assign licenses, and set group ownership. Lastly, you'll learn how to enable group self-service, join mobile devices to Azure AD, and configure an Azure AD app. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

18 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Security Management

Azure AD supports linking an on-premises AD installation with Azure AD. In this course, you'll start by exploring how to use Azure AD Connect to link on-premises AD to Azure AD. Next, you'll examine Azure AD Connect health statistics. You'll then learn how to deploy Azure AD Domain Services, join a Windows VM to the domain, and enable Azure AD DS for Azure Files. Next, you'll move on to learn how to configure Azure AD security settings such as fraud alerts, conditional access, MFA, locations, trusted IPs. and banned passwords. You'll explore Azure AD identity protection and managed identities. Lastly, you'll learn how to create resource and management groups. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

20 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Security Governance

Azure AD can control Azure resource access in many ways. In this course, you'll learn about controlling resource access through role-based access control, Azure policies, including compliance and remediation, as well as Azure Blueprints. Next, you'll examine privileged identity management and identity protection notifications. Lastly, you'll explore how to configure Azure AD access reviews and virtual machine just-in-time access. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Windows Virtual Desktop and Containers

Azure can host user desktops that are accessible remotely. Azure container solutions allow the portable and timely support for application workloads. In this course, you'll explore the purpose of Windows Virtual Desktop, including how to create host pools, app groups, and workspaces. Next, you'll examine WVD connectivity using Windows, web browsers, and mobile devices. You'll then learn about the benefits of containerized applications. Lastly, you'll learn how to work with an Azure Container Registry, how to publish a container image, and how to deploy Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Instances. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

14 videos | 52m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure DevOps

Azure facilitates the creation and running of web applications. In this course, you'll start by exploring application architectural components and their Azure counterparts. Next, you'll learn how to deploy an Azure App Service using various methods. You'll then examine when to use Azure Functions and Logic Apps and how to configure custom DNS domain names and HTTPS bindings. You'll learn about Azure DevOps services such as Azure DevOps organizations and Pipelines. Finally, you'll explore deploying an Azure API gateway. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

16 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Business Continuity Planning

Azure provides a variety of business continuity solutions to minimize the impact of disruptions. In this course, you'll learn to plan the use of Azure Site Recovery services. Next, you'll examine how to create a Recovery Services vault and replication policies. You'll then explore how to configure Azure Backup policies, enable backup for Azure VMs and on-premises file servers, and perform restoration of backed up data. Next, you'll learn how to enable VM replication and conduct a failover test. Finally, you'll explore how to reuse a VM OS disk for a failed VM. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

14 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Application High Availability

Application workloads running in Azure can be optimized using various techniques. In this course, you'll start by exploring how to use load balancing to improve application performance and availability. Next, you'll learn how to configure inbound NAT rules to allow back-end VM management. You'll then examine how to configure Application Gateway and Azure Traffic Manager. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

9 videos | 36m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Reducing Azure Costs

While Azure charges constitute ongoing operational expenses, there are ways of reducing those charges. In this course, you'll learn how to identify and implement cost saving measures. You'll start by examining how to analyze costs and configure Azure budget notifications. Next, you'll learn how to create an action group and enable virtual machine auto-shutdown. Finally, you'll explore how cost savings are achieved through reserved instances and the removal of unnecessary Azure resources. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

12 videos | 48m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Data and Service Migration Planning

Organizations can reuse existing on-premises services with a proper migration plan. In this course, you will explore Azure migration options including how to conduct on-premises assessments and migrations. You will learn how to use the server migration tool, database migration assistant (DMA) and web app migration assistant. Lastly, you will explore how Azure Data Box allows the migration of large on-premises datasets. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

9 videos | 33m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Monitoring

Monitoring is key to ensuring optimal Azure resource performance and security. In this course, you will explore Azure monitoring solutions including Log Analytics workspaces, Azure Monitor and diagnostic logging. Next, you'll explore how application insights provides monitoring for Azure web applications. Lastly, you will explore how Azure Sentinel provide a cloud-based SIEM and SOAR solution. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

9 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

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Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Storage Accounts

Microsoft Azure Blob storage is a container system for storing a variety of file types. In this course, you'll learn about the capabilities of blob storage and how to architect a deployment for optimal performance and scalability. Then, you'll explore the options for redundancy and how to recover from disasters. You'll discover where Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, a feature set within blob storage, can be utilized for big data operations. You'll also learn how to plan for a data lake deployment, examine best practices, and explore how to deploy a Data Lake Gen2 account on Azure. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 11m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Designing Data Storage Structures

Planning the structure for data storage is integral to performance in big data operations. In this course, you'll learn about key considerations for data lakes and how to determine which file type and file format are the most appropriate for your use case. Then, you'll explore how to define how to design table storage for efficient querying and how data pruning can remove unnecessary data to accelerate transactions. You'll examine folder structures and data lake zones for organizing data effectively. Finally, you'll learn how to define storage tiers and how to manage the life cycle of data. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Partitioning

Partitioning data is key to ensuring efficient processing. In this course, you'll explore what data partitioning is and the strategies for implementation. You'll learn about transactional and analytical workloads and how to determine the best strategy for your files and table storage. Then, you'll examine design patterns for efficiency and performance. You'll learn about partitioning dedicated SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics and partitioning data lakes. Finally, you'll learn how data sharding across multiple data stores can be used for improving transaction performance. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Designing the Serving Layer

The serving layer is where data is stored for consumption by processing services. In this course, you'll explore dimensional data modeling and hierarchies. You'll learn how to define slowly changing dimensions and temporal design within databases. Then, you'll learn about the differences between the star and snowflake schemas as well as how to design a star schema. Next, you'll examine incremental data loading for stream processing and the options for analytical data stores. Finally, you'll learn about options for creating metastores for use by Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 11m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Physical Data Storage Structures

An effective storage structure is critical to big data implementation success. In this course, you'll explore data compression in databases and file storage. Then, you'll discover how partitioning and sharding are implemented in the database. Next, you'll explore designing tables in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool, and implement geo-replication for redundancy in both databases and Azure Blob storage. You'll also discover implementing distribution schemes in Azure Synapse Analytics. Finally, you'll discover data archiving and long-term retention policies for Azure Blob storage and Azure SQL Databases. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Logical Data Structures

Logical data structures, also called entity-relationship models, are models used to define a high-level model of data and the relationships contained within. In this course, you'll learn about the stages of data lake maturity. You'll explore temporal database tables and how to manage them. You'll also learn how to define slowly changing dimensions and how to implement them. You'll then move on to explore logical file and folder structures for data ingestion. You'll discover how PolyBase can be used to connect to external tables. Finally, you'll explore the best practices for accelerating queries. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 31m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: The Serving Layer

Implementing an effective serving layer requires consideration for the design, methods, and tools. In this course, you'll learn how traditional relational models can be replaced by the star schema and how to design a star schema. Then, you'll explore the purpose and structure of Parquet files used by Azure Databricks. You'll learn how to design and query a dimensional hierarchy. You'll move on to examine Azure Synapse Analytics, including deploying dedicated SQL pools and Apache Spark clusters. Finally you'll learn how to create shared metadata tables between Spark clusters. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Policies & Standards

Data policies and standards help to ensure a repeatable security standard is maintained. In this course, you'll learn about data encryption scenarios and best practices. You'll explore how Azure Transparent Database Encryption and Always Encrypted can be used to ensure data at rest is protected. Next, you'll examine how data classification and data masking can protect data being viewed. You'll learn to configure data retention and purging to ensure data is retained or removed. You'll also explore the various means of controlling access to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Finally, you'll learn how to plan a data auditing strategy and how to limit access to data at the row level in a database. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Securing Data Access

Securing access to data is a fundamental part of any security strategy. In this course, you'll explore how Azure Key Vault can be used to store and manage keys and secrets for accessing data. You'll discover how to connect to Azure resources through private and service endpoints and managed virtual networks and how to use Azure managed identities for connections between Azure resources. Next, you'll learn how to utilize access control lists and Azure role-based access control to provide only the necessary permissions to users to access your data. You'll also learn how token-based authentication works in Azure Databricks. Finally, you'll examine how to audit an Azure SQL Database to monitor for unauthorized access. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

12 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Securing Data

The final line of defense for protecting against a data breach is securing the data itself. With today's cloud environments, data is often in transit, duplicated, and stored in various data centers around the world, making effective data protection a challenge. In this course, you'll explore the various methods available for encrypting data stored in SQL databases. You'll examine how to use DataFrames in Databricks, as well as how to implement Advanced Threat Protection and dynamic data masking in Azure databases. Finally, you'll learn how immutable blobs can be used to manage sensitive information. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 provides features to work with big data analytics using Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage systems provide performance, management, and security functionality. In this course, you'll learn about the features of the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and when to use this storage type. You'll explore features and methods for securing data for the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 service and data at rest. You'll examine methods for processing big data using the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 service and monitoring Azure Blob Storage. You'll learn how to manage directories, files, and Access Control Lists in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 using the .NET framework, as well as how to perform extract, transform, and load operations using Azure Databricks from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Finally, you'll learn how to access Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 data using Azure Databricks and Spark. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 47m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Flow Transformations

One of the key components of the Azure Cloud platform is the ability to store and process large amounts of data. Azure Data Flow Transformations can be used to ingest and transform data. In this course, you'll learn about the types of Azure Data Flow transformations that are available. You'll explore how to transform, split, and flatten data, as well as handle duplicate data, using Azure Data Mapping Data Flows. Next, you'll examine the types of expression functions available in Azure Data Flow and how to perform error handling for data rows that would truncate data. Finally, you'll learn how to transform and use derived columns to normalize data values, and how to ingest and transform data using Azure Spark and Scala. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Factory

Once you have data in storage, you'll need to have some mechanism for transforming the data into a usable format. Azure Data Factory is a data integration service that is used to create automated data pipelines that can be used to copy and transform data. In this course, you'll learn about the Azure Data Factory and the Integration Runtime. You'll explore the features of the Azure Data Factory such as linked services and datasets, pipelines and activities, and triggers. Finally, you'll learn how to create an Azure Data Factory using the Azure portal, create Azure Data Factory linked services and datasets, create Azure Data Factory pipelines and activities, and trigger the pipeline manually or using a schedule. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

13 videos | 2h 23m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Databricks

When working with big data, there needs to be a mechanism to process and transform this data quickly and efficiently. Azure Databricks is a service that provides the latest version of Apache Spark, which provides functionality for machine learning and data warehousing. In this course, you'll learn about the features of Azure Databricks such as clusters, notebooks, and jobs. Next, you'll learn about autoscaling local storage when configuring clusters. Next, you'll explore how to create, manage, and configure Azure Databricks clusters, as well as how to create, open, use, and delete notebooks. Finally, you'll learn how to create, open, use, and delete jobs. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Databrick Processing

When working with big data there needs to be a mechanism to process and transform this data quickly and efficiently. Azure Databricks is a service that provides the latest version of Apache Spark that provides functionality processing data from Azure Storage. In this course, you will learn about the types of processing that can be performed with Azure Databricks such as stream, batch, image and parallel processing. Next, you'll learn how to create an Azure Databricks workspace using an Apache Spark cluster, run jobs in the Azure Databricks Workspace jobs using a service principal and query data in SQL server using an Azure Databricks notebook. Next, you'll learn how to retrieve data from an Azure Blob Storage using Azure Databricks and the Azure Key Vault, implement a Cosmos DB service endpoint for Azure Databricks, and extract, transform, and load data using Azure Databricks. Finally, you'll learn how to stream data into Azure Databricks by using Event Hubs and perform sentiment analysis for steam data by making use of Azure Databricks. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 49m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is a complex, serverless, and highly scalable processing engine that can be used to perform real-time analytics on multiple data streams. Alerts can be configured to forecast trends, trigger workflows, and detect irregularities. In this course, you'll learn to use Azure Stream Analytics to process streaming data. You'll examine how to implement security, create user-defined functions, and optimize jobs for Azure Stream Analytics, as well as explore the available inputs and outputs. Finally, you'll learn how to create an Azure Stream Analytics job, create an Azure Stream Analytics dedicated cluster, run Azure Functions from Azure Stream Analytics jobs, and monitor Azure Stream Analytics jobs. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

10 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is an analytics service that provides functionality for data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. Services provided include ingesting, exploring, preparing, managing, and serving data for BI and machine learning needs. In this course, you'll learn about the Azure Synapse Analytics platform and how it is used for data warehousing and big data analytics. Next, you'll learn how to create a Synapse Workspace, a dedicated SQL pool, and a serverless Apache Spark pool. You'll move on to explore how to analyze data using a dedicated SQL pool, Apache Spark for Azure Synapse, Serverless SQL Pools, and a Spark database, as well as how to analyze data that is in a storage account. You'll learn how to integrate pipelines using Synapse Studio, visualize data using a Power BI workspace, and monitor a Synapse Workspace. Finally, you'll learn about the Synapse Knowledge Center and the features of Azure Synapse Analytics and PolyBase. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

8 videos | 45m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Storage Monitoring

Being able to monitor data storage systems to ensure they are operational and working correctly is a crucial part of running your business. Azure provides the Azure Monitor service and the Azure Log Analytics service to perform this function. In this course, you'll learn about the features of Azure Log Analytics, as well as the Azure Monitor service and how it can be used to monitor storage data and monitor Azure Blob storage. Next, you'll explore how to access diagnostic logs to monitor Data Lake Storage Gen2, monitor the Azure Synapse Analytics jobs and the adaptive cache, and monitor Azure Cosmos DB using the portal and resource logs. Finally, you'll examine how to configure, manage, and view metric alerts using the Azure Monitor and activity log alerts using the Azure Monitor. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

12 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Process Monitoring

Being able to monitor data processes to ensure they are operational and working correctly is a crucial part of running your business. Azure provides the Azure Monitor service and the Azure Log Analytics service to perform this function. In this course, you'll learn about the features of the Azure Monitor tools and the concepts of continuous monitoring and visualization. Next, you'll examine how to create metric charts using the Azure Monitor, as well as how to collect and analyze Azure resource log data and perform queries against the Azure Monitor logs. You'll explore how to create and share dashboards that display data from Log Analytics, create Azure Monitor alerts, and use the Azure Data Factory Analytics solution to monitor pipelines. You'll learn how to send the Azure Databricks logs to the Azure Monitor and use the dashboard to analyze the Azure Databricks metrics. Finally, you'll learn how to enable monitoring for Azure Stream Analytics and configure alerts, and also query Azure Log Analytics and filter, sort, and group query results. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

15 videos | 1h 31m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Solution Optimization

Ensuring that data storage and processing systems are operating efficiently will allow your organization to save both time and money. There are several tips and tricks that can be used to optimize both Azure Data Storage service and processes. In this course, you'll learn about cloud optimization, as well as some best practices for optimizing data using data partitions, Azure Data Lake Storage tuning, Azure Synapse Analytics tuning, and Azure Databricks auto-optimizing. Next, you'll learn about strategies for partitioning data using Azure-based storage solutions. You'll learn about the stages of the Azure Blob lifecycle management and how to optimize Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Synapse Analytics. Finally, you'll explore how to optimize Azure Data Storage services such Azure Cosmos DB using indexing and partitioning, as well as Azure Blob Storage and Azure Databricks. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning

Machine Learning uses real data to train algorithms that can be used for anomaly detection, computer vision, and natural language processing. In this course, you'll learn about datasets and how to manipulate data for them. Next, you'll learn the difference between labeled and unlabeled data and why some AI models require labeled data. You'll examine the features that should be used for a selected dataset. Next, you'll learn about the types of machine learning algorithms that are available, including regression algorithms, classification algorithms, and clustering algorithms. Finally, you'll explore the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Services

Azure Machine Learning Studio can be used to create and train machine learning models. Support is provided for multiple development tools, programming languages such as Python and R, and numerous machine learning frameworks. In this course, you'll learn about the services provided by the Azure Machine Learning Studio, how to create an Azure account, and how to register and signup to use Azure Machine Learning Studio. You'll also explore available Azure Machine Learning Studio components, which can be used to create machine learning workflows, ingest data from an Azure Blob storage resource, create and use an Azure Machine Learning workspaces, and create and use a compute resource. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

8 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Regression Models

Machine learning regression models are used to predict numeric labels for the features of an item. In this course, you'll learn more about using regression models in the Azure Machine Learning Studio. First, you'll learn about why regression models are used, the available types of regression models in machine learning, and the steps required to train a regression model. Next, you'll examine the best metrics for determining which regression model to use. You'll learn how to use a subset of data to train the regression model and run the training pipeline. Finally, you'll explore how to use an existing pipeline to create a new inference pipeline and create and deploy a predictive service. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

10 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Classification Models

Machine learning classification models are used to predict the class or category that an item belongs to. For example, using patient characteristics such as age, weight, and BMI to predict if they are at risk for specific diseases. In this course, you'll learn about using classification models in the Azure Machine Learning Studio. You'll explore the available types of classification models and the steps required to train a classification model. Next, you'll learn the ideal metrics for determining the best classification model to use for the given data. Finally, you'll examine how to use an existing pipeline to create a new inference pipeline and create and deploy a predictive service for a classification model. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

10 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Clustering Models

Machine learning clustering models are used to group similar items based on their features and use unsupervised learning. In this course, you'll learn about using clustering models in the Azure Machine Learning Studio. First, you'll explore the available types of clustering models in Azure Machine Learning Studio and the steps required to train a clustering model. Next, you'll learn how to train and evaluate a clustering model. Next, you'll examine how to create a K-means clustering model in Azure Machine Learning Studio. Finally, you'll learn how to create and deploy a new inference pipeline to create a predictive service for a clustering model. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

9 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Project Jupyter & Notebooks

Data scientists spend a majority of their time exploring and analyzing data, which may become the foundation for a machine learning model. The Azure Machine Learning Studio provides Jupyter Notebooks that can be used to perform data analysis. In this course, you'll learn about project Jupyter and how it is used for by data scientists to perform data analysis. You'll explore how to create a compute instance in Azure Machine Learning Studio and clone a sample training repository. Next, you'll learn how to use a Jupyter Notebook to perform basic data analysis and , create a regression model, classification model, and clustering model. Finally, you'll examine how to use Jupyter Notebook to perform deep learning using PyTorch and perform deep learning using TensorFlow. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 33m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Machine Learning Workspaces

Azure Machine Learning workspaces provide an environment for performing experiments and managing data, computer targets, and other assets. Other assets can include notebooks, pipelines, and trained models. This course will focus on using the Azure Machine Learning SDK. In this course, you'll learn to create an Azure Machine Learning workspace by creating a machine learning resources, creating compute resources, and cloning a notebook. Next, you'll examine how to install the Machine Learning SDK for Python and create code to connect to a workspace. You'll learn to create Python scripts to run an experiment, log metrics, and retrieve and view logged metrics. Finally, you'll examine how to use the Azure Machine Learning SDK to run code experiments, create a script to train a model, and run a notebook using Jupyter to train predictive models. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

9 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Data Platform Services

One of the key components of Azure Cloud platform is the ability to store and process large amounts of data. Azure provides several data platforms for stored data and numerous services for processing data. In this course, you'll explore the differences between structured and unstructured data. You'll learn about some of the available data storage platforms, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Storage, and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. In addition, you'll learn about the data processing services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Azure HDInsight, which are all available to perform operations on the data stored in each of the data platforms. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

12 videos | 1h 16m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Storage Accounts

The Azure Cloud platform provides the ability to store various types of data. Azure provides the ability to store data blobs, files, tabular data, and data using a queue. In this course, you'll learn about Azure storage accounts and why they are needed. Next, you'll explore options for storing data using Azure storage containers, Azure file shares, Azure Table storage, and Azure Queue storage. Next, you'll learn about the tools that can be used to create your Azure storage account. Finally, you'll examine how to create Azure storage accounts, containers, and file shares, as well as Azure Table and Queue storage. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Storage Strategy

When using the Azure Cloud platform for storing data, strategies must be devised to ensure that the storage solution is the best fit for the data that is being stored. In this course, you'll learn strategies for determining the best Azure Storage option based on the type of data being stored and other factors. Next, you'll explore the differences between structured and unstructured data types and strategies and mechanisms for securing storage account data. Finally, you'll learn how to encrypt and decrypt blobs using the Azure Key Vault, how to create a virtual machine using an Azure Storage Account, how to upload data to Azure Storage in parallel, how to download data from Azure Storage, and how to configure metrics to monitor data throughput. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Data Factory

Once you have data in storage, you'll need to have some mechanism for transforming the data into a usable format. Azure Data Factory is a data integration service that is used to create automated data pipelines that can be used to copy and transform data. In this course, you'll learn about the Azure Data Factory and the Integration Runtime. Next, you'll explore the features of the Azure Data Factory, such as linked services and datasets, pipelines and activities, and triggers. Finally, you'll learn how to create an Azure Data Factory using the Azure portal, Azure Data Factory Linked services and datasets, and Azure Data Factory pipelines and activities, as well as how to trigger a pipeline manually or using a schedule. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 3m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Non-relational Data Stores

Unstructured data is prevalent in business and needs specific datastores for storing and managing this type of data. Azure provides several database systems that fulfill these needs. In this course, you'll learn about the types of non-relational data and available Azure non-relational datastores. Next, you'll explore Azure Cosmos DB and the available API models that can be used with it. Next, you'll learn about the features and how to work with Azure data blobs and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Finally, you'll examine how to secure data by using dynamic data masking and encrypting data at rest and in motion in Azure. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 15m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Data Stores & Compute

Azure Machine Learning Studio can make use of various types of data stores and datasets for training and testing data. In this course, you'll learn about the types of data stores that are available in Azure, including Azure Storage (blob and file containers), Azure Data Lake stores, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Databricks file system. Next, you'll explore how to create and register data stores and the types of datasets that can be created. Next, you'll learn how to run a notebook using Jupyter to work with data, data stores, and datasets, as well as how to create a compute cluster. You'll examine the available compute targets such as local compute, compute clusters, and attached compute, as well as the types of environments. Finally, you'll learn to create and manage a compute instance and a compute cluster in the Azure Machine Learning workspace. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Orchestration & Deployment

Azure Machine Learning Studio provides DevOps support in the form of orchestrating machine learning pipelines. In this course, you'll learn to create, publish, and schedule machine learning pipelines. First, you'll examine Azure Machine Learning pipelines and how they are used to build, optimize, and manage machine learning workflows. Next, you'll explore how to use the Azure Machine Learning SDK to create and run machine learning pipelines. You'll learn how to use a pipeline to import, transform, and move data between steps, as well as how to publish and track pipelines and use triggers to schedule a machine learning pipeline based on some event. Finally, you'll learn techniques for troubleshooting and debugging machine learning pipelines This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Model Features & Differential Privacy

The Azure Machine Learning SDK provides components to quantity the importance of features, identify bias in models, and determine differential privacy. In this course, you'll learn more about these features and how they can be used to increase the quality of your machine learning models. First, you'll examine how models can use global and local features to quantify the importance of each model feature. You'll explore how model explainers can be created using the Azure Machine Learning SDK and how to visualize the model using the Azure Machine Learning Studio. Next, you'll learn how to use a Jupyter Notebook and Python to generate explanations that are part of a model training experiment. Finally, you'll learn about training model bias and how to analyze model fairness using the Fairlearn Python package to detect and mitigate unfairness in a trained model. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

10 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Model Monitoring

Being able to monitor and analyze an Azure Machine Learning web service is crucial to determining the correctness of the server. Azure Machine Learning Studio provides the tools required to perform this monitoring and analysis. In this course, you'll learn how application insights can be used to monitor an Azure Machine Learning web service, as well as to capture and review telemetry data. Next, you'll examine how to create a data drift monitor and schedule it to run using Jupyter Notebook and Python. You'll explore problems relating to data privacy and how differential privacy works. Finally, you'll learn how to use SmartNoise to generate and submit differentially private queries. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

8 videos | 49m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Data Storage Monitoring

Being able to monitor data storage system to ensure they are operational and working correctly is a crucial part of running your business. Azure provides the Azure Monitor service and the Azure Log Analytics service to perform this function. In this course, you will learn about the features Azure Log Analytics and the Azure Monitor service and how it can be used to monitor storage data and monitor Azure Blob storage. Next, you'll learn how to access diagnostic logs to monitor Data Lake Storage Gen2, how to monitor the Azure Synapse Analytics jobs and the adaptive cache and how to monitor the Azure Cosmos DB using the portal and resource logs. Finally, you'll learn how to configure, manage, and view metric alerts using the Azure Monitor and how to configure, manage, and view activity log alerts using the Azure Monitor. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

10 videos | 1h 1m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Data Process Monitoring

Being able to monitor data processes to ensure they are operational and working correctly is a crucial part of running your business. Azure provides the Azure Monitor and Azure Log Analytics services to perform this function. In this course, you'll learn about the features of the Azure Monitor tools and the concepts of continuous monitoring and visualization. You'll explore how to create metric charts using the Azure Monitor, collect and analyze Azure resource log data, and perform queries against the Azure Monitor logs. Next, you'll examine how to create and share dashboards that display data from Log Analytics, create Azure Monitor alerts, and use the Azure Data Factory Analytics solution to monitor pipelines. Finally, you'll learn how to query Azure Log Analytics and filter, sort, and group query results. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

10 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Data Science Solution on Azure: Data Solution Optimization

Ensuring that data storage and processing systems are operating efficiently will allow your organization to save both time and money. There are several tips and tricks that can be used to optimize both Azure Data Storage service and processes. In this course, you'll learn about cloud optimization and best practices for optimizing data using data partitions, Azure Data Lake Storage tuning, Azure Synapse Analytics tuning, and Azure Databricks auto-optimizing. You'll examine strategies for partitioning data using Azure-based storage solutions. Next, you'll explore the stages of the Azure Blob lifecycle management and how to optimize Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Synapse Analytics. Finally, you'll learn about optimizing Azure Data Storage services such Azure Cosmos DB using indexing and partitioning, as well as Azure Blob Storage and Azure Databricks. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Organizations rely on systems and data to be available and operational when they are needed to manage and run their businesses. Azure provides functionality to ensure high availability of storage systems and the mechanism to ensure a swift and painless disaster recovery strategy. In this course, you'll learn about high availability and disaster recovery, and how they are related to each other and used to provide business continuity. Next, you'll examine how to back up, store, and restore SQL Server databases on virtual machine instances. You'll move on to explore the purpose and features of Azure Always On availability groups and elastic pools, as well as how they are used by Azure SQL databases to provide business continuity. Finally, you'll learn about using Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale to create highly available and distributed databases. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

14 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Applications in the Cloud: Azure Serverless Orchestration Essentials

For developers building and deploying serverless RESTful APIs, Azure has several tools for an enhanced and successful development and deployment experience. Use this course to build your knowledge of the serverless architectures implemented using Azure, the orchestration and integration processes in Azure, and how triggers and bindings are used in Azure Functions. Learn how to build Azure API Management service instances and serverless application workflows. Practice using prominent Azure services to implement serverless workflow orchestration. Then, work with Azure SignalR, real-time chatrooms, and serverless workflows in Azure Logic Apps. Next, create serverless workflows to automate app and data integration, basic serverless workflows to consume Azure services, and conditional statements to control workflow actions in Azure Logic Apps. You'll also build Logic apps to orchestrate workflows running on defined recurring schedules. Upon completion of this course, you'll be confident in orchestrating serverless tasks using Azure.

17 videos | 1h 54m Assessment Badge

Applications in the Cloud: Azure Serverless DevOps Essentials

Developers who choose Azure to aid in their serverless DevOps tasks have several tools available to them. Use this course to become familiar with and practice using some of these services. Investigate the features and capabilities of the prominent Azure DevOps services, such as Azure Pipelines and Azure Test Plans. Create Azure pipelines for building GitHub repositories. Use the Azure CLI to build, test, and deploy JavaScript and Node.js apps. As you advance, use Azure DevOps services to implement end-to-end automated testing. Then, use Azure Pipelines to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for Azure Functions and automate Azure Functions deployment. By the end of the course, you'll be able to use the suite of Azure DevOps services to complete the DevOps cycle for your serverless projects.

12 videos | 1h 22m Assessment Badge

Azure Serverless Development Principles: Serverless Solutions Essentials

Azure offers numerous solutions for building and deploying scalable serverless applications successfully. This course shows developers and project managers how to use the various tools in Azure to enhance the serverless development and deployment experience. Investigate the prominent Azure serverless solutions, application development architectures, and execution environments. Explore the key features of Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, and the Azure serverless monitoring solutions. Examine how to create and deploy Azure serverless services using Azure tools and Visual Studio Code and validate Azure functions. Upon completion, you'll recognize why the various Azure serverless services and app development tools help infrastructure management and how to start using them.

10 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

Azure Serverless Development Principles: Serverless Compute Essentials

Azure serverless compute services remove the need for manual infrastructure management. This course, aimed at developers and project managers, offers explanations and demonstrations on using Azure compute services for serverless projects. Outline the different approaches to managing compute with Azure. Differentiate between Azure compute services and serverless architecture as well as Azure Functions and Azure WebJobs. Explore durable functions for complex stateful function implementation, security strategies for running secure function code, and Azure App Service's role in securing functions. Create back-end compute services, test Azure functions locally, orchestrate long-running workflows as a set of activities, and create, test, and deploy Azure functions with C# and Python. Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to start using Azure compute services in your serverless development and deployment projects.

15 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

Azure Serverless Development Principles: Serverless Database & Storage

Azure offers several fully managed database and storage solutions to help developers focus on building apps instead of infrastructure management. This course shows you how to avail of these services during serverless app development and deployment. Explore Azure SQL databases, the Azure services based on relational and non-relational data stores, and the different approaches to implementing non-relational databases using Azure Cosmos DB. Create different Azure storage types, serverless Azure SQL databases, and functions that get triggered based on Blob storage activity. Use Node.js to perform CRUD operations on Azure Cosmos DB resources and create, design, and connect to Azure databases using cloud-native apps. Manage Azure Cosmos DB resources and SQL API accounts using Node.js web apps and create Azure Cosmos DB accounts, databases, containers, and items. When you're done, you'll know how to select, set up, and use the best storage and database services for your serverless projects.

15 videos | 1h 24m Assessment Badge

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Practical Azure for DevOps: Azure DevOps Services

DevOps is a combination of culture, practices, and tools, merging development and IT operations to continuously deliver quality software at high velocity. Organizations using Microsoft Azure can leverage the popular cloud service to implement DevOps capabilities for the rapid building and delivering of software products. In this course, you will discover Azure and its DevOps capabilities, beginning with an introduction to DevOps and Azure, Azure DevOps Server. You will compare Azure-hosted DevOps to onsite DevOps. Then, you will explore essential Azure services like Boards, Pipelines, Repos, Test Plans, Artifacts, and the Azure extensions marketplace. Finally, you will examine Azure DevTest Labs, Azure Monitor, and DevOps tools integration in Azure. After course completion, you'll be able to define key components, practices, and principles of Azure DevOps services.

14 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Practical Azure for DevOps: Implementing Azure DevOps Practices

Modern operations personnel need to become more literate in more developer-like thinking and mindsets for the modern software solution deployments and practices. Organizations using Microsoft Azure can leverage DevOps practices using Azure's comprehensive set of services for implementing DevOps practices. In this course, you will explore a practical approach to implementing DevOps practices using Microsoft Azure, beginning with demonstrations on planning with Azure Boards, building a pipeline, connecting to a project, and working with pipelines. Then you will learn how to work with Repos, create and execute test plans, and use Azure Artifacts. Finally, you will discover how popular DevOps platforms Ansible, Jenkins, and Chef Automate can be integrated with Azure.

14 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

Working with Microsoft Azure SQL: Getting Started with Azure SQL

Azure SQL is a family of offerings on Azure that use SQL Server as the database engine. Azure SQL Database is one of those offerings and is a fully managed database service with a serverless option. Through this course, learn how to get started with Azure SQL and set up an Azure SQL Database instance. Explore relational and NoSQL databases, what Azure SQL is, and the primary benefits of Azure SQL. Next, learn about Azure SQL Databases, how to configure a database to manage performance and costs, and its purchasing models and service tiers. Finally, discover how to create, configure, connect to, and query database instances. Upon completion, you'll be able to outline Azure SQL and Azure SQL Database.

14 videos | 1h 50m Assessment Badge

Working with Microsoft Azure SQL: Using Transact-SQL for Queries & Transactions

Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is a powerful query language that applies to all databases with a SQL engine. It can be used to run a variety of different operations against Azure SQL Database. Through this course, learn about the Transact-SQL language and how to query data, create table partitions, and launch transactions against Azure SQL Database. Discover how to load CSV file data into a new Azure SQL Database table and query and execute aggregations on that data. Next, learn how to implement and validate table partitioning, use Transact-SQL to define and execute transactions, and use rollbacks and savepoints. Finally, practice setting isolation levels for transactions. After course completion, you'll be able to use Transact-SQL to query data and launch transactions for Azure SQL Database.

11 videos | 1h 28m Assessment Badge

Working with Microsoft Azure SQL: Advanced Topics in Azure SQL Databases

Change data capture (CDC) is an Azure feature that records any modifications to the contents of a tracked table. Azure SQL Database integrates with change data capture, as well as many other Azure cloud services and features. Through this course, learn how Azure SQL Database integrates with change data capture, Azure Functions, and JSON data. Discover how to enable change data capture for a database and view the tracked changes. Next, practice using Azure Functions to respond to an HTTP request and set up a development environment with Visual Studio Code. Finally, learn how to create a table to store JSON data and query and modify that data. Upon completion, you'll be able to utilize some advanced features of Azure SQL Database.

10 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Subscriptions & AD Tenants

As an Azure administrator, you will be expected to manage an organization's Azure environment, including Azure Active DIrectory (AD) and Azure subscriptions. Discover the relationship between subscriptions and Azure AD tenants. Explore how to manage Azure subscriptions using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell, as well as how to create and manage Azure AD tenants using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Investigate how to use Azure AD administrative units to organize users and groups, create a custom DNS domain name for Azure AD, and manage Azure AD applications. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure AD User & Group Management

Managing users, groups, and devices is a core skill for success as an Azure administrator. Creating users and assigning them to groups allows an administrator to provide a more streamlined and secure experience for users and their organization. Discover how to create Azure AD users using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Learn how to perform a bulk import to efficiently create users. Then, you'll invite external users to partake in Azure AD. Explore dynamic groups and find out how their membership can evolve based on defined criteria. Create your own dynamic user and device Azure AD groups. Practice restoring deleted groups and connecting devices to an Azure AD tenant. Finally, investigate how to assign product licenses to Azure AD users. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Authentication & Authorization

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to manage Azure authentication and authorization. Begin this course by discovering how authentication differs from authorization and the relationship to identity federation. Next, manage Azure AD service principals and managed identities. Enable MFA, banned passwords and other Azure AD security mechanisms. Finally, perform an Azure AD access review and configure Azure AD Connect. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

16 videos | 1h 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Management Groups & Resource Groups

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to determine how you will use resource groups and management groups. First, discover how management groups are used to organize Azure subscriptions and how resource groups can organize related resources under a single heading. Next, create a management group and organize subscriptions under it. Then, create and manage resource groups using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Finally, move Azure objects between resource groups, view resource group deployments, and delete a resource group and its resources. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Storage Account Blob Management

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to create and manage storage account blobs. Begin this course by learning to plan the number, location, and configuration of Azure storage accounts. Next, you will see how to create storage accounts and manage blobs using the portal, the CLI, AzCopy, and PowerShell. Learn to use Azure Storage Explorer to manage a storage account and enable storage account blob features such as soft delete and versioning. Finally, you will learn to configure immutable blob policies, manage storage tier and archiving, and automate blob life cycle management. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

15 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Storage Account Access

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to control access to storage accounts. In this course you will learn to use role-based access control (RBAC) to limit access to storage accounts and configure storage account network access. You will explore the management of storage account access keys using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Next you will see how shared access signatures (SAS) are created using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Finally, you will learn to enable storage account geo-replication and encrypt a storage account using a customer-managed key. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Files Shared Folders

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure shared folders in the Azure cloud. Discover how Azure Files allows for shared folders in the cloud that can be mapped from Windows and Linux hosts. Manage Azure Files shared folders using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Map a drive letter from a Windows host to an Azure Files share and configure a Linux mount point to an Azure Files share. Configure permissions for Azure shared folders and configure Azure File Sync. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Network Infrastructure Services

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure cloud network infrastructure services. Discover network infrastructure services available in the Azure cloud including virtual networks (VNets), subnets, and route tables. Create a Domain Name System (DNS) zone using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell, then configure custom DNS settings for a VNet. Explore subnet endpoints and manage VNets, subnets, and route tables using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

18 videos | 1h 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Network Connectivity

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure cloud network connectivity. Discover Azure cloud network connectivity options. Peer virtual networks (VNets) together using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Generate a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate using PowerShell, and configure a site-to-site and client-to-site virtual private network (VPN). Discover when ExpressRoute and Azure Virtual WAN should be used. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

12 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Firewall Solutions

Network security is a high priority for Azure Administrators who need to rely on intelligent, scalable solutions with high availability. Build the skills you need to manage network security using Azure Firewall or Azure Network Security Group (NSG). Explore the ins and outs of NSGs, including different configurations to control traffic flowing in and out. Learn how to manage NSGs using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Then, focus on another essential solution, Azure Firewall, which provides more robust capabilities than NSGs. Discover how to configure Azure Firewall application, network, and network application rules. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 54m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Virtual Machines

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs), giving your organization the flexibility of multiple virtual operating systems without the cost and maintenance commitments that come with additional physical hardware. Discover virtual machine configuration settings in the Azure cloud. Deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Enable Secure Shell (SSH) public key authentication for Linux VMs and use Azure Bastion to manage VMs. Then, attach and encrypt VM disks, and deploy virtual machine extensions. Finally, create a virtual machine custom image and configure a virtual machine scale set. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

16 videos | 1h 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: App Services

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage web applications in the Azure cloud. Discover how to deploy a web application in the Azure cloud via the portal, as well as Microsoft Visual Studio. Explore how to create web app deployment slots to host testing configurations while keeping the production site up and running. Then, enable a custom DNS name, manage a key vault, enable an HTTPS binding, and manage various web app settings. Finally, discover how APIs are related to Azure and deploy a content delivery network. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

12 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Application Containers

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage application containers in the Azure cloud, saving your organization money, time, and resources. Discover how application containers differ from traditional applications and virtual machines. Learn how to install and manage Docker on both Windows and Linux hosts. Explore how to create a custom container image from a Dockerfile and deploy an Azure Container Registry, an Azure Container Instance, and a container group. Examine the role of Kubernetes in application containers and create and manage settings for an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 1h 3m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: ARM Templates

As an Azure Administrator, you must have the skills to create and manage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template deployments. Discover how ARM templates are created, focusing on their syntax and how they can be used to deploy and manage Azure resources. Create and modify ARM templates in various ways by using the portal, Microsoft Visual Studio, the CLI, and PowerShell. Create template deployments using GUI and command line tools and configure a virtual hard disk (VHD) template that will be used to deploy virtual machines. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Role-based Access Control

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage access to Azure resources, including what areas those resources can access and what specific actions they can perform, using role-based access control (RBAC). Discover how RBAC roles are assigned throughout the Azure hierarchy and explore various built-in roles, like owner, reader, or cost management contributor. Then, practice managing role assignments using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Create and assign a custom RBAC role and define your own permissions. Finally, learn how to assign Azure AD roles to administrators. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Policy & Resource Locking

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage Azure resource configuration and compliance with security standards. Azure Policy allows you to create and monitor those compliance policies with powerful dashboard capabilities. Discover how to assign built-in Azure policies to the Azure hierarchy using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Create and assign a custom policy based on your own requirements and group related policies together in a policy initiative. Explore how resource locking can prevent unwanted resource configuration changes, and how to manage resource locks using the portal, an ARM template, the CLI, and PowerShell. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Import & Export Service

High-volume data migration is a problem Azure Administrators are tasked with. Learn how you can securely and efficiently transfer data in and out of Azure using import and export jobs. Discover how to prepare storage media for import and export jobs. First, download and unzip the waimportexport.exe tool. Then, prepare storage media for shipping to a Microsoft Azure data center and examine XML and JRN journal files. Next, practice using the portal to create a data import job and to specify shipping details. Finally, create an export job in the portal to get data out of an Azure storage account. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

7 videos | 32m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Cost Management

As an Azure Administrator, you must minimize monthly cloud computing charges. Azure Cost Management can help you plan for and manage costs by providing a unified view of cloud expenses across your organization. Discover the many ways to save on monthly cloud computing charges. Configure reserved virtual machine and database instances, configure auto-shutdown for applicable virtual machines. Learn how to view and analyze subscription costs in the portal. Explore the benefits of tagging Azure resources and find out how to tag resources using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Practice creating an Azure budget to monitor monthly spending, and view invoices and estimate costs using the Azure Pricing Calculator. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Business Continuity

As an Azure Administrator, you must proactively plan for IT service disruptions in the cloud. Discover how Azure can ensure business continuity in the event of a disruption in a variety of ways. Plan how Azure Site Recovery (ASR) will be used, and explore how to enable backup of on-premises and cloud-based services to the Azure cloud. Examine how load balancing can improve app performance and fault tolerance. Enable virtual machine replication to a secondary region, back up a web app, and configure an Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Monitoring

As an Azure Administrator, you must continuously monitor Azure services to optimize performance, control costs, and detect security anomalies. Discover the various tools that can be used to effectively monitor Azure services. Examine application details using Application Insights, work with logs, and monitor service performance metrics to proactively identify issues. Explore Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher to learn how to centrally monitor Azure resource and network activity. Finally, configure alerts and notifications of changes or unusual activity. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

9 videos | 49m Assessment Badge

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Virtual Machines & Load Balancing

Virtual machines (VMs) are one of the primary building blocks of the Azure cloud offering. Discover how to create and configure VMs, virtual hard disks (VHDs), images, availability sets, and load balancing.

7 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

Cloud Models & Storage

Microsoft Azure provides several Internet-accessible application services that are grouped by similarity into models (categories). Explore these models and the services provided, including execution, network, storage, and web sites.

9 videos | 48m Assessment Badge

Virtual Networks & PowerShell

Azure has sophisticated capabilities for segmenting clouds into virtual networks, which can be accessed securely by VPNs. Explore virtual network creation, VPN access to Azure networks, and using PowerShell on remote machines.

13 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Storage

Since different kinds of applications require different kinds of data, Microsoft Azure provides different methods to store and manage data. Explore storage features, both structured and unstructured.

13 videos | 1h 15m Assessment Badge

Publishing & Caching

Caching is implemented in Microsoft Azure to improve performance, which is sometimes seen as the weakness of public cloud offerings. Explore caching concepts as well as FTP and web publishing.

11 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Traffic Manager, AD, Alerts, & Backups

Ensuring that services are readily available is an important aspect of cloud computing. Explore Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager, hosted Active Directory, alerts for monitoring cloud systems, and backups.

15 videos | 1h 31m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Subscriptions

In this course, learners can discover how to manage Azure subscriptions and role-based access control (RBAC). Explore Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI (command-line interface), Azure AD (Active Directory) administrator roles, and how to manage access to Azure resources. This 16-video course helps prepare for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) certification exam. Begin by signing up for a new Azure subscription or reactivate an Azure subscription, then examine steps required to transfer ownership of an Azure subscription and cancel a subscription. Next, navigate through the Azure portal, and install and use Azure PowerShell to connect to your Azure subscription. Then learn how to install and use Azure CLI; identify classic administrator roles, and identify the Azure AD administrator roles. Learn about assigning an administrator, and identifying role-based access control roles. Manage access to Azure resources with RBAC, using a template, and for external users. Examine deny assignments for Azure resources using Azure portal and create a custom role using Azure PowerShell cmdlets (lightweight commands). The exercise involves managing Azure subscription roles.

16 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Resource Groups

Learners can examine processes of creating and managing Azure resource groups, limits, and quotas in this 16-video course, preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin by taking a look at the Azure Resource Manager and benefits it provides. Next, create a management group using all methods-Azure Portal, PowerShell, and CLI (command-line interface-and then create a source group at the subscription level. Learn how to manage Azure resource groups using the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, and Azure CLI. Discover how to remove Azure resource groups, move them, and move Azure resources across resource groups and identify the limitations. Organize Azure resources by using tags, and add and configure an Azure resource lock. Then examine how to use the price calculator to estimate costs for different Azure services, describe spending limits, and remove the Azure spending limit in the Account Center. Identify subscription limits in Azure Service Management and Azure Resource Manager. Finally, look at resource tags and use them to group and categorize costs. The exercise involves managing resource groups.

16 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Monitoring

Over time, as you deploy more Microsoft Azure resources, you will find that you need a centralized way to monitor performance and usage of these resources. In this 11-video course, learners will discover Azure Monitor, Azure Metrics and Logs, Azure action groups, and functions in preparation for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin by navigating through Azure Monitor and identify what data are collected and how baselines are useful. Then learn how to use Azure Monitor to view metrics, to run log queries, and to configure a performance metric alert. Examine how to use the Azure portal to create a monitor action group and how to use it to configure an SMS alert. You will also learn how to configure diagnostic settings on a virtual machine (VM); create a function with log analytics in the Azure portal, and use Azure Advisor to identify unused resources. The concluding exercise involves establishing a baseline, configuring a VM alert, enabling VM diagnostics, and monitoring resource usage costs.

11 videos | 41m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Storage Accounts

In this 18-video course, examine Azure Storage including Azure Storage Explorer, Storage Redundancy, Blob Storage, File Share, File Sync, Sync Group, Access Keys, and Shared Access Signature in preparation for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin by exploring Azure Storage and the three available services: Blobs, Files, and Queues. Learn how to create and use a storage account in the Azure portal, and configure and use Azure Blob Storage. Discover how to create Azure file shares using the portal, and install and use Azure File Sync Agent. Troubleshoot issues with Azure File Sync, and create an Azure Sync group. Upgrade and configure a storage account; install and connect Azure Storage Explorer, and identify redundancy options to use with the storage account. Learn about changing storage account replication strategy using Portal, PowerShell, and command-line interface (CLI). Manage your Azure storage account using access keys and configure network access. Explore shared access signature (SAS), create a SAS, and use it with Azure Blob Storage. The concluding exercise involves configuring an Azure storage account.

18 videos | 1h 15m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Import/Export

In this course, learners will explore importing and exporting data to Azure and learn about disk preparation, import journal files, import jobs, export jobs, import and export job management, Azure data box, and configuring Azure Files in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin the 11-video course with an overview of Azure Import/Export Services, and then learn how to install and set up the Azure Import/Export tool. This leads to preparing a disk for use with Azure Import/Export, and then creating an Azure Import/Export journal file. You will then discover how to create an Azure import job using the portal, and an Azure Export job. Next, delve into management of Azure import and export jobs by using the portal, and how to create an Azure Data Box job. Finally, you will learn how to configure Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN). In the concluding exercise, you will be asked to describe and create Azure import and export jobs.

11 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)

Learners can explore Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), creating Windows VMs, Linux VMs, managing VM availability, and creating VM scale sets in this 13-video course, as part of preparations for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. To begin, you will learn how to create a Windows VM in the Azure portal; create a Windows VM in Azure PowerShell; and create a Windows VM in Azure CLI (command-line interface). Then you will learn how to create a Linux VM in the Azure portal; a Linux VM in Azure PowerShell, and a Linux VM in Azure CLI. Next, learners will discover how to configure high availability for Windows and Linux VMs, and how to use Azure Monitor to monitor VM performance metrics. Finally, you will explore how to create a VM scale set in the Azure portal, in Azure PowerShell, and in Azure CLI. To conclude the course, the exercise involves deploying Windows and Linux VMs by using the Azure portal and Azure PowerShell.

13 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Virtual Machines

In this 10-video course, discover how to manage Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) by adding data disks, adding and removing network interfaces, resizing and moving VMs, and redeploying Windows and Linux VMs in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin by adding a data disk to your Windows VM in the Azure portal; then add a data disk to a Linux VM in Azure PowerShell. Next, you will learn how to add and remove network interfaces from Azure VM, and how to resize your VM with the Azure portal. You will then look at moving your VM to another resource group, region, or availability zone; learn how to redeploy a Windows VM to a new Azure node, and redeploy a Linux VM to a new Azure node. Conclude the course by exploring how to use the Custom Script Extension for Windows and Linux. In the closing exercise, you will add and configure a data disk for a Windows and Linux VM, move a VM to a different resource group, and resize a VM.

10 videos | 28m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Virtual Machine Templates

Discover how to create, modify, save, and deploy Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and hard disk templates, in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam, in this 10-video course. ARM is the new method of managing related Azure resources together as a single unit. Begin the course by learning how to create Azure Resource Manager templates by using the Azure portal, and also by using Visual Studio, which is an integrated development environment. Then discover how to modify an Azure Resource Manager template, and configure an ARM template to use an existing virtual hard disk. Next, learn how to deploy resources from an ARM template by using the Azure portal, using Azure PowerShell, and using Azure CLI (command-line interface). The final tutorial in the course demonstrates how to save deployment as an ARM template. The exercise involves describing ARM templates, listing ARM template deployment methods, creating an ARM template using Visual Studio, and deploying a template by using Microsoft PowerShell.

10 videos | 41m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Backup and Recovery

In this 14-video course, explore Azure backup and recovery concepts such as vault creation, backup policies, backing up and replicating virtual machines (VMs), and restoring files and VMs, while preparing for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin the course with a look at the Azure Backup features and components. Then learn how to create a Recovery Services vault by using the Azure portal, and also using PowerShell. This leads into installing and registering the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent, and creating a Microsoft Azure backup policy. Next, examine how to perform a backup operation on a Windows machine using the MARS agent. You will then learn how to back up a VM by using the Azure portal, using Azure PowerShell, and using Azure CLI (command-line interface). Learners will explore how to enable Azure VM replication in a secondary region; recover files and folders from an Azure VM backup; and restore Azure VMs by selecting a recovery point stored in the Recovery Services vault. The concluding exercise involves backing up Azure VMs.

14 videos | 39m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Virtual Networks

In this 12-video course, you will explore Azure Virtual Networks (VNet), subnets, routing, network trafficking, and configuring public and private IPs, in preparation for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. You will begin with an overview of Azure Virtual Networks, then move on to creating a virtual network by using the Azure portal, using Azure PowerShell, and using Azure CLI (command-line interface). Next, you will learn how to configure virtual network subnets; route network traffic with a route table using the Azure portal; and enable and disable Distributed Denial-of-Service protection in Azure. You will then discover how to configure a private IP address for a virtual machine (VM) using the Azure portal; configure a public IP address by using the Azure portal, and manage an Azure network interface. In the concluding exercise, learners will be asked to describe virtual network peering, and create a virtual network and subnet by using the Azure portal, PowerShell, and the Azure CLI.

12 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Virtual Network Connectivity

Learners can explore the concepts of Azure Virtual Network (VNet) connectivity, creating and managing VPN gateways, and configuring VNet-to-VNet connections in this 12-video course, helping prepare for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. First of all, you will learn how to recognize when to peer networks, and when to configure a VPN gateway. Next, you will explore how to connect your virtual networks with virtual network peering by using the Azure portal. This leads to configuring VNet-to-VNet by using Azure PowerShell, and by using the Azure Cloud Shell CLI (command-line interface). You will discover how to generate PKI (public key infrastructure) certificates used for P25 VPN connections; how to configure a point-to-site VP; and how to configure a site-to-site VPN. Also, you will examine how to verify a VPN gateway connection using Azure portal and PowerShell, and how to reset a VPN Gateway. The concluding exercise involves describing point-to-site and site-to-site VPN configurations, generating a VPN client PKI certificate, and configuring a point-to-site VPN.

12 videos | 43m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Network Monitoring

In this course, explore virtual network monitoring (VNM) solutions and troubleshooting in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin this 8-video course by learning how to set up a Network Performance Monitor (NPM) Log Analytics workspace and then install and configure the OMS (order management system) agent for an on-premises Windows server. Next, you will install and configure the OMS agent for an Azure Windows virtual machine (VM). You will discover how to use Service Connectivity Monitor to monitor on-premises network connectivity and also use Service Connectivity Monitor to create alerts. The Azure portal has a particular built-in tool called the Azure Network Watcher, which allows you to look at things such as traffic analytics that are being sent throughout Azure networks through packet captures; it also has the ability to run a few troubleshooting tools and view your network topology, so you will learn how to configure and use Azure Network Watcher. The concluding exercise involves using Azure Network Watcher.

8 videos | 35m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Integrating Azure On-Premise & Virtual Networks

In this course, explore Azure VPN Gateways and integrating on-premises networks with Azure Virtual Networks in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin this 9-video course by discovering how to configure multiple site-to-site (S2S) connections in Azure. Then learn to use Azure PowerShell commandlets to establish a site-to-site link between an on-premises VPN appliance and a cloud-based VPN appliance in the case of Azure. Next, you will learn to recognize when Azure ExpressRoute should be configured. You will then explore how to use the Azure portal to create an ExpressRoute circuit; use PowerShell to create an ExpressRoute circuit, and also by using the CLI (command-line interface). In the final tutorial in this course, you will learn how to create a Virtual Network Gateway linked to an ExpressRoute circuit. In the closing exercise, you will be asked to describe the purpose of Azure ExpressRoute; create multiple site-to-site VPN connections to an Azure Virtual Network Gateway; and create an ExpressRoute circuit by using both PowerShell and the CLI.

9 videos | 33m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Name Resolution & Network Security

In this 11-video course, learners can examine Azure Domain Name Systems and Azure Network Security Groups in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. First of all, you will receive an overview of the Azure Domain Name System (DNS); then you will discover how to configure a DNS zone and record by using the Azure portal, using Azure PowerShell, and using Azure CLI (command-line interface). You will learn how to configure custom DNS settings for a virtual network (VNet), and configure a custom DNS domain name for an Azure web application. The Azure portal can be used to create and manage Azure network security groups (NSGs), so you will learn how to create an NSG by using the portal, and by using PowerShell, and the CLI. The concluding exercise involves describing how Azure-hosted DNS zones work; creating a DNS zone and an NSG using the Azure portal; and adding an NSG security rule to allow port 445 traffic.

11 videos | 39m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Load Balancer

In this course, discover how to create internal and public Azure load balancers, explore load balancer health probes, backend pools, and inbound NAT (network address translation) rules, load balancing rules and Azure Application Gateway, in preparation for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin the 15-video course with an overview of Azure Load Balancer; then learn about public load balancer creation with the portal. This leads to configuring a health probe for a load balancer; configuring virtual machines in a load balancer back-end pool; and configuring load balancer rules. Discover how to create inbound NAT rules to allow access to back-end virtual machines and create an internal load balancer using the Azure portal. Next, learn to create an Azure load balancer with a template; create a load balancer with Azure CLI (command-line interface); and create an internal load balancer with Azure PowerShell. Recognize when to use Azure Application Gateway; configure a web application firewall for Azure Application Gateway, and configure path-based routing rules for Azure Application Gateway. The exercise involves creating an Azure load balancer.

15 videos | 49m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Active Directory

In this 11-video course, explore Azure Active Directory (AD), creating tenants, and configuring Enterprise State Roaming, Identity Protection, and Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) in preparation for Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin by signing up to use Azure Active Directory or Azure AD Premium; then learn how to create a new tenant in Azure AD with Azure portal. Next, discover how to create and manage multiple directories in Azure AD, and also learn how to use Azure AD portal to add custom domain names. This leads on to configuring Enterprise State Roaming in the Azure AD admin center; configuring Azure AD Identity Protection, and configuring an Azure AD access review. You will then look at Azure AD password protection and how to eliminate weak passwords for on-premises use and in the cloud. In the final tutorial, you will discover how to configure a SSPR. In the exercise, learners must describe Azure AD Enterprise State Roaming, create a new Azure AD tenant and DNS domain name, and configure Azure AD password protection.

11 videos | 36m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure AD Objects

In this course, discover how to create and manage users, groups, and devices in Azure Active Directory (AD) in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin this 10-video course by creating users in Azure AD using Azure portal, then manage user properties in Azure AD by changing profile information, resetting user passwords, adding roles, assigning or removing licenses, and deleting and restoring a user. Next, examine how to join a Windows computer to Azure AD, and create groups and add members in Azure AD with Azure portal. Explore how to manage group properties in Azure AD by adding and removing members, deleting a group, editing group information, and changing group owners. Also, learn how to manage group settings such as name, description, and membership type in Azure AD; configure device settings in Azure AD with Azure portal, and perform device management tasks, including updating and deleting devices. The exercise involves creating an AD user and AD group, adding the user to the group, and joining a Windows 10 computer to Azure AD.

10 videos | 27m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Hybrid Identities

Examine Azure hybrid identities, Azure Active Directory (AD) Connect, and Azure Single Sign-on in this 11-video course, helping prepare for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin by receiving an overview of Azure hybrid identities and the three authentication methods that can be used. You will then learn how to install Azure AD Connect by using express settings, and how to use custom settings to configure optional features when installing Azure AD Connect. This leads learners into examining the Azure AD Connect troubleshooting tool to solve AD Connect problems; configuring Azure AD Connect domain and organizational unit (OU) filtering, and configuring AD Connect sign-in methods. Next, you will explore the Azure AD single sign-on and the different methods available; monitor Azure AD Connect; and learn about password sync and writeback. To conclude the course, the exercise involves listing hybrid identity authentication methods, describing AD Connect, configuring AD Connect object filtering, and enabling AD Connect password writeback.

11 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Multi-Factor Authentication

In this 11-video course, learners can explore how to configure Azure multifactor authentication (MFA), enable and disable MFA using portal, block and unblock users, and configure fraud alerts, and configure verification methods, all while preparing for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin with an overview of MFA and learn how to configure user accounts for MFA through the Azure portal. Discover how to disable MFA for an Azure Active Directory (AD) user account; identify how to block and unblock MFA users, and configure MFA fraud alerts. You will learn how to create a one-time bypass to allow a user to authenticate without performing two-step verification. Next, learn how to configure the trusted IPs feature options, and identify and choose different MFA verification methods. Finally, discover how to enable remember multi-factor authentication. In the exercise you will describe multi-factor authentication, create a new Azure AD user and enable MFA, configure one-time MFA bypass, and block an MFA user account.

11 videos | 26m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Policy Management

In this course, learners can examine Azure policies, including resource group policies, Active Directory (AD) policies, and backup policies, in preparation for the Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-103) exam. Begin this 14-video course with a look at the definitions, assignments, and parameters of Azure policies. This leads onto assigning Azure policies for an Azure subscription and assigning policies for your resource group. You will explore how to identify noncompliant resources by creating a policy assignment with Azure PowerShell, and also by using a template. Then learn about creating custom policies and assigning a custom policy by using the Azure portal. You will discover how to manage Azure policies and assignments using the portal; create an Azure AD Identity Protection resource; configure a multifactor authentication (MFA) registration policy; configure a user risk policy, and configure a baseline policy. The concluding exercise involves defining the purpose of Microsoft Azure policies, assigning built-in policies using the portal and PowerShell, and enabling admin account MFA through a baseline policy.

14 videos | 36m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Microsoft Entra ID

As an Azure administrator, you will be expected to manage an organization's Azure environment, including Azure Entra ID and Azure subscriptions. In this, you will explore the relationship between subscriptions and Entra ID tenants. Then you will find out how to manage Azure subscriptions, as well as how to create and manage Entra ID tenant using the portal. Next, you will learn how to configure a custom DNS domain name, use Entra ID administrative units to organize users and groups, and manage Entra ID applications. Finally, you will discover how to create a resource group, install the Azure CLI and PowerShell module, and deploy a managed Entra domain. This course can be used to prepare for the certification exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 20m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Entra ID Users & Entra Connect

Managing users is a core skill for success as an Entra ID administrator. Creating users and assigning them to groups allows an administrator to provide a more streamlined and secure experience for users. Synchronizing existing user accounts for cloud resource access saves time for cloud technicians. In this course, you will discover how to create Entra ID users using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. You will also learn how to perform a bulk import to efficiently create users. Then, you will see how to invite external users to partake in Entra ID and enable self-service password reset (SSPR). Next, you will learn how to configure identity protection and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and block and unblock user accounts. Finally, you will explore the use of Entra Connect Sync. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Entra ID Groups & Conditional Access

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to determine how you will use Entra ID groups and devices. Administrators can create conditional access policies to restrict cloud resource access based on a variety of conditions. In this course, I will first manage Entra ID groups using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Next, I will create a dynamic membership group and enable self-service group management (SSGM). I will then assign Azure licenses to users and groups. Lastly, I will join a device to an Entra ID tenant, and I will configure conditional access policies. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Network Infrastructure

As an Azure administrator, you must possess the skills to configure cloud network infrastructure services. In this course, you will explore the network infrastructure services available in the Azure cloud, including virtual networks (VNets), subnets, and route tables. Next, you will learn how to create VNets, subnets, and domain name system (DNS) zones using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Then you will find out how to configure custom DNS settings for a VNet. Finally, you will discover how to configure Azure routing and create and assign a public IP address. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

16 videos | 1h 36m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Network Connectivity

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure cloud network connectivity. First, I will discuss virtual network (VNet) peering followed by peering VNets together using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. I will then generate a public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate using PowerShell, and configure a site-to-site and client-to-site virtual private network (VPN). Finally, I will discuss when ExpressRoute and Azure Virtual WAN should be used. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

12 videos | 1h 1m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Network Security

Network security is a high priority for Azure administrators who need to rely on intelligent, scalable solutions with high availability. Build the skills you need to manage network security using Azure Firewall or Azure network security groups (NSGs). Begin this course by discovering the ins and outs of NSGs, including different configurations to control traffic flowing in and out. Then you will learn how to manage NSGs using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Next, you will focus on another essential solution, Azure Firewall, which provides more robust capabilities than NSGs. Finally, you will find out how to configure Azure Firewall application, network, and network address translation (NAT) rules. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Storage Accounts & Blobs

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to create and manage storage accounts and blobs. Begin this course by learning to plan the number, location, and configuration of Azure storage accounts. Next, you will find out how to create storage accounts and manage blobs using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, and PowerShell. Then you will discover how to enable storage account blob features such as soft delete and versioning. Finally, you will examine how to configure immutable blob policies, manage storage tier and archiving, and automate blob life cycle management. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

15 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Storage Account Security

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to control access to storage accounts. In this course, I will configure storage account network access. I will then manage storage account access keys using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Next, I will configure a storage account and blob shared access signatures (SAS) and I will configure a storage access policy. I will follow this by enabling storage account geo-replication and encrypting a storage account using a customer-managed key. Lastly, I will manage storage account service and private endpoints. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Files

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure shared folders in the Azure cloud. In this course, I will begin with discussing how Azure Files allows for shared folders in the cloud that can be mapped from Windows and Linux hosts. I will then manage Azure Files shared folders using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Next, I will map a drive letter from a Windows host to an Azure Files share and configure a Linux mount point to an Azure Files share. Finally, I will discuss how to configure identity-based access for Azure Files. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

9 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Virtual Machine Management

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to manage Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs). This will give your organization the flexibility of multiple virtual operating systems without the cost and maintenance commitments that come with additional physical hardware. I will begin by discussing virtual machine configuration settings in the Azure cloud. Next, I will deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Next, I will enable Secure Shell (SSH) public key authentication for Linux VMs and use Azure Bastion to manage VMs. I will then attach and encrypt VM disks, create a virtual machine custom image, and configure a virtual machine scale set. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Application Containers

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage application containers in the Azure cloud. This will save your organization money, time, and resources. In this course, I will begin by covering how application containers differ from traditional applications and virtual machines (VMS). I will then install and manage the Docker engine on both Windows and Linux hosts. Next, I will explore how to create a custom container image from a Dockerfile. I will also deploy an Azure Container Registry (ACR) and an Azure Container Instance (ACI). Lastly, I will discuss how to manage Azure service principals and managed identities. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure App Service

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage web applications in the Azure cloud. In this course, you will begin by learning how to deploy a web application in the Azure cloud via the portal. Then, you will explore how to create web app deployment slots to host testing configurations while keeping the production site up and running. Next, you will discover how to enable a custom DNS name, manage a key vault, enable an HTTPS binding, and manage various web app settings. Finally, you will find out how to deploy an application security group and a web application firewall. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Template Deployments

As an Azure administrator, you must have the skills to create and manage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template and Bicep deployments. In this course I will start by covering how ARM templates are created, focusing on their syntax and how they can be used to deploy and manage Azure resources. I will then create and modify ARM templates in various ways by using the portal, Microsoft Visual Studio, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Lastly, I will deploy Azure resources using a Bicep file. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Role-based Access Control

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to manage access to Azure resources, including what areas those resources can access and what specific actions they can perform, using role-based access control (RBAC). Begin this course by discovering how RBAC roles are assigned throughout the Azure hierarchy. Then you will explore various built-in roles such as owner, reader, and cost management contributor. Next, you will learn how to manage role assignments using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Finally, you will examine how to create and assign a custom RBAC role and how to assign Entra ID roles to administrators. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Policy & Compliance

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to manage Azure resource configuration and compliance with security standards. Azure Policy allows you to create and monitor those compliance policies with powerful dashboard capabilities. In this course, you will explore how Azure Policy can be used for deployment, configuration, and security compliance. Next, you will find out how to assign built-in Azure policies to the Azure hierarchy using the portal, the command line interface (CLI) and PowerShell. Finally, you will learn how to create and assign a custom policy based on custom requirements and group related policies together in a policy initiative. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 40m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Resource Locking

As an Azure administrator, you may need to restrict administrative access to Azure resources such as storage accounts and virtual machines. Azure resource locking overrides role permissions assignments and can be enabled throughout the Azure hierarchy. Begin this course by exploring how resource locking can prevent unwanted resource configuration changes throughout the Azure hierarchy. Next, you will learn how to manage resource locks in the Azure hierarchy using the portal, the command line interface (CLI), and PowerShell. Finally, you will discover how to use an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template definition to lock a part of the Azure hierarchy. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

7 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Cost Management

An Azure administrator must minimize monthly cloud computing charges. Azure cost management can help you plan for and manage costs by providing a unified view of cloud expenses across your organization. In this course, explore ways to save on monthly cloud computing charges, work with reserved virtual machine and database instances, and configure virtual machine auto-shutdown. Next, learn how to view and analyze subscription costs in the portal, the benefits of tagging Azure resources, and how to tag resources using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Finally, discover how to create an Azure budget to monitor monthly spending, view invoices, and estimate costs using the Azure pricing calculator. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Business Continuity in the Azure Cloud

As an Azure administrator, you must proactively plan for cloud IT service disruptions. Azure cloud-based services can help ensure business processes and related IT systems continue and downtime is minimized during disruptions. In this course, discover ways Azure can ensure business continuity in the event of a disruption and how Azure Site Recovery can be used for business continuity. Next, learn how to enable backup of on-premises and cloud-based services to the Azure cloud and how to enable virtual machine replication. Finally, explore how load balancing can improve app performance and fault tolerance and how to configure an Azure Load Balancer. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

9 videos | 45m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Monitoring

An Azure administrator must continuously monitor Azure services to optimize performance, control costs, and detect security anomalies. Azure offers various tools that can be used to effectively monitor Azure services, including Azure Monitor. In this course, explore tools for monitoring Azure services and navigate through Azure Monitor options using the portal. Next, learn how to view metrics and application details using Application Insights and how to query Azure Monitor Logs. Finally, discover how to configure alert notifications of changes or unusual activity and use Network Watcher and Connection monitor to track network activity in Azure. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

7 videos | 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: AZ-104 Question Scenarios

As a candidate for the Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-104 exam, you will need to demonstrate the ability to apply an Azure solution to a given scenario. In this course, explore a variety of scenarios related to Azure management, limit virtual machine deployments in terms of region and size, and configure a virtual machine for high availability. Next, examine how to manage Azure Container Registry, configure virtual network peering, and deploy resources using an ARM template. Finally, investigate recommended Azure cost-saving measures, configure an Entra ID tenant, user, and group, and restrict storage account network access. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Active Directory

As an Azure solutions architect, you will face a variety of problems requiring extensive experience and knowledge of the breadth of IT operations to design effective and appropriate infrastructure solutions. Discover how to deploy and manage Azure Active Directory to support cloud authentication and authorization. Explore how to create and manage Azure AD users and groups using GUI and command line tools. Finally, join devices to Azure AD and configure custom DNS names, app permissions, and assign product licenses to Azure AD users. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

14 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Authentication

Azure AD authentication and authorization security settings are required to verify user identities. Security identity objects such as Azure service principals and managed identities are two options provided to authenticate users and grant access to Azure AD resources. Begin by exploring how authentication and authorization differ and when identity federation should be used. Discover how to provide permissions to software through service principles and managed identities. Finally, explore how to utilize Azure AD access reviews and enable various Azure AD security features such as multi-factor authentication (MFA), conditional access, password reset, and group management. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

14 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Cloud Storage

Azure Storage is a scalable, durable, secure, and highly available cloud storage solution for contemporary enterprise cloud storage needs. Begin by examining the Azure Storage Explorer tool and learn how to limit storage account network access, add disks to virtual machines (VMs), and manage lifecycle properties for blobs. Discover how to manage storage account keys and shared access signatures and how to use role-based access control (RBAC) for storage management delegation. Finally, explore how to manage data archiving in a storage account. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

15 videos | 1h 31m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Blob Management

Azure Blob storage helps your organization store and access considerable amounts of unstructured data, ultimately allowing for the creation of analytics-driven data lakes, as well as cloud-driven and native apps. Use this course to explore how to upload blobs to a storage account using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Then, manage blobs using the Storage Explorer tool. Finally, discover how to manage blob storage account settings such as soft deletion and legal holds. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

8 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Data Solutions

Designing data storage solutions is a primary focus for Azure solutions architects. This course will help you confidently analyze your organization's data storage needs and select the appropriate solutions. Begin by exploring NoSQL and SQL Azure database services and deploying a SQL database. Next, discover how to manage settings related to cloud SQL deployments and how to use Microsoft Visual Studio on-premises to connect to cloud SQL instances. Learn how to resize a database and configure database high availability. Finally, discover data analysis services such as Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure HDInsight. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

12 videos | 1h 3m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Files Share

Azure Files provides fully managed shared folder access via the cloud, allowing your organization to augment or replace on-premises servers, seamlessly move apps to the cloud, and even simplify future cloud development. This course explores how to manage that share access using GUI and CLI tools. Explore how to manage file shares using the Azure portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Discover how to map a Windows drive letter to Azure shared folders, and then how to use a Linux mount points to connect to an Azure file share. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

8 videos | 40m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Protecting Data at Rest

Data confidentiality is provided by the use of encryption using cryptographic keys. Cloud apps and services are secured by cryptographic keys and other secrets which are managed by Azure Key Vault. In this course, you'll begin by exploring how encryption provides data confidentiality using a variety of techniques. Learn how to use a custom encryption key to protect the contents of a storage account. Finally, discover how to manage SQL database TDE and how to create and manage a key vault using GUI and command line tools. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

9 videos | 47m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Virtual Networks

An understanding of Azure networking fundamentals is an important aspect of designing infrastructure solutions. Azure virtual networks (VNets) provide a range of functions including DNS, routing, DHCP, and of course VM connectivity and access control. In this course, you will discover how Azure network service offerings can support Azure services without having to set up a physical network infrastructure. Explore Azure DHCP and DNS settings, as well as how to create and manage Azure VNets and subnets using GUI and command line tools. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

11 videos | 1h 1m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: VNet Peering & VPNs

Virtual network peering enables you to connect different virtual networks and allows resources of the different virtual networks to communicate. Use this course to learn how to interconnect VNets within Azure and on-premise networks to the Azure cloud. Begin by exploring how VNet peering links networks together over a global backbone and allows communication using private IP addresses. Next, discover how to enable peering using GUI and command line tools. Review how VPNs provide a secure method for connecting to remote networks and configure a site-to-site and point-to-site VPN. Finally, discover how ExpressRoute offers an alternative network connection to the Azure cloud. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

11 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Managing Azure VMs

Virtual machines are the workhorse of most cloud computing services. Explore how Azure virtual machines are deployed and managed in the Azure cloud. You'll begin by discovering how to deploy Windows and Linux VMs using GUI and command line tools. Next, explore VM resizing options to accommodate IT workloads running in VMs. Finally, you'll enable SSH public key authentication for Linux hosts and enable Azure Bastion for secure VM management over the Internet. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

10 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Network Security

One way to reduce network and service attacks is to begin with controlling the flow of network traffic through firewalls. In this course, you will explore various types of firewall solutions and when they should be used. Next, you will discover how to control inbound and outbound network traffic using network security groups (NSGs) through GUI and command line configurations. Finally, learn how the Azure Firewall application network and NAT rules can help control network traffic flow. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

11 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Managing Azure Web Apps

Web applications can be created with or without a user front-end. Hosting web apps in Azure allows developers to focus on the app functionality without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. In this course, you will explore how to deploy and manage an Azure-hosted web application in the Azure cloud through the portal as well as using Microsoft Visual Studio. Next, you will learn how deployment slots can maximize web app uptime even while making web app changes and testing them. You will configure custom DNS domain names, enable HTTPS binding, and manage web app settings. Finally, discover how APIs are used in Azure and how CDNs replicate select content to reduce network latency. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

11 videos | 1h 1m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Application Containers

Many modern applications are run in application containers to allow for modular and portable software solutions. In this course, you will discover how containerized applications differ from traditional applications. First, you will explore how Docker hosts are configured on the Linux and Windows platforms along with how to build and manage Docker container images. Next, you will deploy cloud container solutions such as a container registry and Azure Container Instances. Finally, you will discover when to use Azure Kubernetes container clusters. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

9 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Developer Solutions

Microsoft Azure provides services to facilitate the creation, hosting, and execution of cloud environments and software development solutions. Explore how various Azure services provide relevant functionality for software developers. Discover how to work with cloud-based message queues, function apps, logic apps. Finally, create compliant Azure environments using Azure Blueprints. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

9 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: ARM Templates

Azure Resource Manager templates provide an infrastructure as code method of deploying and managing cloud resources in an automated fashion. In this course, begin by looking at how Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates can be used to automate the creation and management of Azure resources. Create and deploy templates using the portal, CLI, PowerShell, and Microsoft Visual Studio. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

7 videos | 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Policy & Monitoring

Cloud governance requires control of cloud resource configuration and the ability to centrally monitor cloud services. Learn how Azure Policy can be used to check for and enforce Azure resource configuration compliance. Discover how to assign built-in and custom policies to various Azure hierarchy scopes and view compliance results. Explore various Azure monitoring solutions and view Azure logs. Finally, discover how to monitor Azure service performance metrics, configure alerts and notifications, and view Azure Security Center recommendations. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

14 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Business Continuity

Proactive planning for inevitable IT disruptions can reduce downtime for IT services. This is a vital step to ensure that any business continues to run smoothly should disruptions occur. Explore how cloud IT solutions can help ensure continuity of business processes in the event of disruptions. Learn how to configure container, storage account, and virtual machine high availability. Finally, discover how to configure cloud backups and enable blob versioning and web application load balancing. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

12 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions: Migrating to Azure

Organizations can protect investments in on-premises IT systems by migrating suitable candidates into the Microsoft Azure cloud. Understanding the tools and strategies available is the first step to successfully completing this type of migration. Learn how to use the Azure import and export service including the Azure Import/Export tool to work with jobs. Explore how Azure Data Box can be used to facilitate the movement of large amounts of data into or out of the Azure cloud. This course can be used to prepare for Exam AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.

9 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Introducing Azure DevOps

At the heart of cloud, source control management is a repository to hold application code, and to track changes to a source code repository, a source code management tool is used. In this course, learn how to secure, organize, and manage the life cycle of data in a source code repository. Next, discover how to integrate your source control management system with the bigger picture of DevOps pipelines, identity management, GitOps, and ChatOps. Finally, practice integrating GitHub Codespaces into your repository workflows. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

10 videos | 1h 18m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Modern Source Control Strategies

One of the most painful things for a developer to experience is spending hours on a project only to have that work overwritten by a coworker. In an agile world of continuous development, source control is one of the most important factors for preserving valid code. In this course, learn how to select and implement a source control management system. Next, discover the challenges associated with managing large files or multiple repositories. Finally, explore some review process best practices needed to ensure the final product is worthy of production. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

11 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Branching Source Code

Software developers working as a team on the same codebase must share their changes in a way that is consistent and allows for rollback. This is why having a strategy for managing branches in your source control system is so important. In this course, learn how to deploy a trunk-based branching strategy with feature and release branches. Next, discover how pull requests can be used to enable writing, merging, and shipping code in the context of a secured versioning control system. Finally, explore how to enforce static code analysis for code quality consistency on pull requests. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

10 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Repositories & Tools

At the heart of cloud, source control management is a repository to hold application code, and to track changes to a source code repository, a source code management tool is used. In this course, learn how to secure, organize, and manage the life cycle of data in a source code repository. Next, discover how to integrate your source control management system with the bigger picture of DevOps pipelines, identity management, GitOps, and ChatOps. Finally, practice integrating GitHub Codespaces into your repository workflows. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

13 videos | 1h 18m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Design Azure Build Automation

In application development, it's important to get a continuous integration (CI) pipeline set up as early as possible. Once tests are added to the pipeline, you can build knowing that you can't merge code to the main branch that doesn't pass your tests. Continuous integration developers often commit code daily, and updates are automatically built and tested before merging. In this course, learn how to design build automation by integrating the build pipeline with external tools. Next, practice implementing different quality control and testing tools so your code meets quality standards. Finally, learn how to integrate multiple tools to create the desired CI flow. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

10 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Package Management Strategy

Imagine receiving a gift and then struggling to find the batteries to make it work. Similarly, in software, all the pieces have to be in place for it to work correctly. Package managers provide this service in addition to helping to ensure consistency and security in developed software. In this course, explore various package management tools and learn how to manage the integration and migration of different source control systems. Next, investigate how to design different elements such as linked feeds and reporting dependencies. Finally, learn how to version code assets, packages, and deployment artifacts. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

11 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: CI Build Strategy

The build process is what takes raw code and turns it into a usable application. This process is critical to the success of any development project and can be quite complex. In this course, learn how to design and implement a build agent infrastructure to ensure the build process is as stable and automated as possible. Next, examine the aspects of maintenance required for a pipeline, such as the monitoring and analysis of the build load. Finally, identify tools to standardize your builds across the organization. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Micros DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

14 videos | 1h 37m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Developing Deployment Solutions

Providing the software to the customer is where the rubber meets the road. Continuous delivery assembles your product, automatically testing the quality and functionality along the way, and produces deployable deliverables. In this course, learn how to choose a deployment solution and implement elements such as infrastructure as code (IaC). Next, discover how to develop both application and database deployment processes. Finally, explore configuration management and examine some complex deployment issues, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and deploying builds across multiple regions. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

12 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Planning Release Management

Efficiency is everything in the world of continuous release, and developers can combine release targets depending on the release deliverable. In this course, learn how to orchestrate the right selection and release deliverables, including the order of dependencies, focusing on the efficiencies of shared release configurations and the use of release gates and approval processes. Next, examine and design strategies that will handle the deployment environment to ensure deployments are staged correctly. Finally, discover the potential issues that may arise during configuration, downtime, or code fixes. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

12 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Planning DevOps Security

Cloud development is a high-stakes world where changes come fast, as can the theft of ideas and code. As a result, part of building a good DevOps framework is to protect those resources in your pipeline. In this course, learn how to design a secure solution to control access to your build infrastructure. Next, examine different methods for securing your solution through service principles and connections that will help to eliminate back doors. Finally, learn how to use secrets and secret files to preserve the integrity of your connections. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

11 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Vulnerability Scanning

Applications do not stand alone as they are inexorably tied to the related services, infrastructure, and components that are used to create them. Unfortunately, that means that all of those areas can introduce risks to the security and stability of your finished product. In this course, learn how to mitigate risk by automating the scanning of dependencies and ensuring that license compliance is being met. Next, practice scanning and automating source code and organizational policy compliance, as well as automating builds triggered by updates using Azure Container Registry (ACR). Finally, examine break glass solutions for when immediate remediation is needed. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

11 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Developing an Alert Strategy

No one wants to wait when there are issues that require a sysadmin to get back to you. Site reliability engineering (SRE) is a software engineering approach that tackles IT and operations problems through code, which helps when scaling to very large systems. In this course, learn how to gather the information needed to trigger many self-healing types of operations. Next, explore how to implement alerts based on metrics, logs, or health checks. Finally, discover how to notify users of degraded systems and implement alerts that can trigger scaling or failover operations. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Health & Failure Management

With the right data you can predict the future! In this course you will learn how to design a failure prediction strategy. First, find out how the load on a system that will lead to failure can be anticipated. Then you will see how predictive maintenance can be used as a preemptive remedy. Finally, you'll focus on health checks that can be used to validate the health of the application and its dependencies so that remediation times can be minimized as much as possible. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

13 videos | 1h 15m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Design Azure DevOps Logging

Without the tools to capture and query logged information it becomes difficult to make the best decisions in the process of looping through the development pipeline. In this course you'll learn why logging is a critical part of any DevOps instrumentation strategy. You'll learn how to design a strategy to aggregate, store, and query the logs associated with software delivery as well as integrating data from crash analytics. You'll see how to use Kusto queries to pull relevant information from Log Analytics. Finally, you'll see how to manage access control to ensure access to logs is controlled. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

9 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Telemetry & Logging Solutions

When trying to plan for scaling or potential failures due to resource limitations, you need the right numbers to tell you what kind of pressures your system will be under. In this course, learn how to implement tools to gather telemetry data and identify and inspect application and infrastructure performance indicators. Next, examine how to design and implement distributed tracing and how to define, measure, and configure alerts on key metrics. Finally, practice integrating logging and monitoring solutions to get the most accurate picture of your environment possible. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

15 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions: Communication & Collaboration

Do you want the good news or the bad news? You want both, of course! In this course, learn how to create communication tools such as dashboards, user analytics, and Azure Boards to facilitate communication and collaboration and populate communication channels. Next, discover how to generate and assess process documentation to ensure that old and new employees have the necessary accurate information. Finally, explore how to automatically tie monitoring tools with communication platforms so that the flow of information is another continuous process. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam.

14 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

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MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Migration & Consolidation Strategy for Tools

Explore Microsoft Azure DevOps migration and consolidation tools in this 11-video course, preparing learners for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include the tools available in the cloud for implementing a DevOps strategy; sharing packages across the organization for more reliable and scalable builds; and how to implement test plans and test cases to drive quality through the development process. Next, you will learn to utilize Azure Boards for tracking tasks, features, and bugs; use Azure Boards to plan and work, linking to GitHub for commits and pull requests; and migrate data from TFS to Azure DevOps. Then learn to migrate data to Git for source control and integrate it with Azure DevOps; integrate Selenium into the pipeline for code testing; and plan a project with Azure Boards. Create a package that can be reused/shared; create a test case for Azure; and use Azure Boards to track a task. Then use Selenium for code testing, and create a task within a project on Azure Boards.

11 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Design & Implement Agile Work Management Approach

Discover how to use Azure DevOps tools and processes to implement an Agile work management approach in preparation for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered in this 16-video course include tools offered by Azure DevOps for use by Agile teams; working with Azure Boards within Agile methodology; and how to utilize Azure Boards to work with backlogs and to plan sprints. Next, learn to utilize queries within Azure Boards to find work assignments; work with items in Azure Boards to streamline personal work flows; and manage individual work portfolios and calendars across teams. Identify and recommend project metrics, KPIs, and other DevOps measurements; measure and refine Azure Kubernetes Service cluster performance; and define work in progress limits for Agile development team. Learn to implement techniques and practices to guide a team in working to Agile methodology and implement tools to share code and promote collaboration between teams. View a backlog using Azure Board, use Azure DevOps to create a Sprint, set time tracking, use Azure Queries, and set WIP limits.

16 videos | 1h 16m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Design a Quality Strategy & Secure Development Process

Discover how to examine code behind a cloud application for security and quality and explore quality metrics, security validation, testing strategies, and secure development lifecycle in this 15-video course, helping prepare learners for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered here include how to improve quality of code for DevOps development; learning to recognize the quality of the code in an application for DevOps development; and identifying metrics that measure the quality of code for DevOps quality. Next, utilize feature flags to enable and disable application components for a DevOps quality strategy; how to avoid technical debt for a DevOps quality strategy; and test performance of code for a DevOps quality strategy. Learn the codebase requirements for a secure DevOps development process; ensure that infrastructure is compliant to security directives for secure DevOps development; and recommend a strategy for implementing the secure development lifecycle in DevOps development. Finally, learn to automate the inspection and compliance of code for DevOps development; and automate the inspection and compliance of infrastructure for secure DevOps development.

15 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Tool Integration

Examine how to integrate Azure DevOps tools into the application creation and deployment strategy in this 13-video course, which explores licensing, software development lifecycle, authentication and access, and cloud hybridization, in preparation for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how to utilize licensing efficiently in Azure DevOps; streamlining user licensing in Azure DevOps; and learning to license concurrent pipelines. Next, learn to implement cost efficient test environments; work within limitations of open-source software licensing; and work with licenses for all aspects of the Azure DevOps suite. You will learn to streamline licensing package management in Azure DevOps; recommend a strategy for an end-to-end development lifecycle; and integrate monitoring and feedback into the Azure DevOps pipeline. Learn to securely manage user access to the Azure DevOps environment; integrate on-premises and cloud resources; and learn components of the software development lifecycle. Finally, learn about managing and licensing of group rules, open-source license types, tiers of jobs in Azure Pipelines, and private cloud characteristics.

13 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Version & Source Control

Discover how to integrate version and source control management into Azure DevOps application and infrastructure pipelines, in this 17-video course preparing learners for Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions (AZ-400) exam. Key concepts covered here include implementing a version control system; branching models; and utilizing Git as a version control system. Next, learn how to utilize TFVC as a version control system; learn about code flow strategy; and identify uses for source control in DevOps pipeline. Then learn to implement a source control system with Azure DevOps; integrate source control into DevOps pipeline; implement private and hosted agents; and integrate third-party build systems into Azure DevOps pipeline. Configure Azure DevOps pipeline; manage agent queues in Azure DevOps pipeline; and use web-hooks to interact with external applications based on events in the pipeline. Trigger multiple pipelines in Azure DevOps; use Git as a source control for versioning; and integrate an external source control. Then use source control for continuous integration-continuous deployment (CI/CD), integrate a third-party build system into Azure DevOps, and use service endpoints for an external application.

17 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Code Flow & Mobile DevOps

In this 11-video course, learners explore the flow of code through the CI/CD (continuous integration-continuous delivery) pipeline, and to determine the DevOps strategy that identifies the tools to adopt to service the business' and team's requirements. Prepare for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam by exploring a strategy for mobile app development and learning how to manage the flow of code through the DevOps cycle, and examine various strategies for a pull request, forking and branching. You will learn to use the Microsoft Visual Studio App Center, how to do App center testing, and how to target UI (User Interface) device sets. Next, learn to use the App Center to provision tester devices, and to distribute release binaries to end user devices. Then you will learn about several frameworks supported by the App Center Test, including Appium, Espresso, Xamarin.UITest, and XCUITest. Finally, the course examines how to implement continuous integration and delivery, well dependency management in application infrastructure, and continuous feedback.

11 videos | 43m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Application Configuration & Secrets

This 11-video course, which can be used to prepare for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, explores Azure DevOps data protection, and how Azure protects the main pillars of data protection: data availability, service availability, service security, and data privacy. First, learners will be introduced to Azure App Service, and learn how to configure Azure tools to utilize secrets for secure access and development. This course next examines the Azure App Service with containers, and how it enables users to deploy applications that runs on Linux or Windows box. You will learn how to manage secrets, tokens, and certificates, and learn to implement the security components in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), a managed container service to protect application workloads. Then learners will examine Microsoft's Azure Key Vault to store various types of secret or key data. Finally, you will learn how to implement Key Vault with Azure pipelines and implement Azure policies for managing security and compliance.

11 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Manage Code Quality & Security Policies

Explore how to use Azure DevOps to manage the quality of code, to integrate security tools, and policies into the continuous integration pipeline in this 11-video course, used to help prepare learners for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, you will examine characteristics of good and bad code quality measured by the speed of the software; writing reusable code; and removing unnecessary code. Then, learn how to use Azure Monitor to monitor the application quality and performance, and review code coverage. This course next examines Azure's Test Suites and Categories, which are groups of test cases that collectively form a single test scenario within a test plan. You will learn how to integrate security analysis tools, and to use SonarQube for automated inspection of code to detect bugs, code smells, and security issues on applications in more than 20 programming languages. Finally, learn to implement the WhiteSource Bolt tool to scan open-source components for known vulnerabilities.

11 videos | 48m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Azure DevOps Infrastructure

This 16-video course examines the use of containers and build tools available in Azure DevOps for infrastructure, and the DevOps methodology of application deployment, while preparing learners for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, you will learn that containers can help to make applications portable, reduce issues, hardware, and operating system differences by abstracting those components out of the application environment. Next, learners see how to use the Docker platform management utility for containers, and Kubernetes to automate deployment. Learn to use Azure Container Registry to configure and manage containers, and how to implement multi-stage builds in the CI/CD (continuous integration-continuous delivery) pipeline. This course then explains how to build strategy by using Azure Pipelines, and how to use Jenkins to build triggers in workflow. Finally, you will learn to use Azure DevOps for implementing build process for on-premises and cloud platforms, and to create automated build workflows to build an app from source.

16 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Design and Set Up Release Strategy & Workflow

Examine how to design a release strategy, and to build a release management workflow for Azure DevOps solutions in this 18-video course, which helps learners prepare for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, you will learn about release approvals, and how to create a strategy for measuring release quality. Next, learn to create release notes in the Release Notes Generator, how to specify deployment targets, and to implement approvals. Learners observe how to integrate Jenkins automation server, and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) into pipelines by using Azure Service Fabric. You will learn to deploy applications to Azure Web Apps; to use the Azure Key Vault for storage of sensitive information; how to integrate secrets in Azure key vault into the pipeline; and how to build a CI/CD (continuous integration-continuous delivery) environment. The course then demonstrates how to encapsulate a sequence of predefined tasks into a reusable task, and use variable groups to store across multiple pipelines. Finally, you will learn to use Azure Test.

18 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Implement Deployment Patterns

This 9-video course, which helps prepare learners for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, explores several deployment patterns, and how to implement a deployment pattern by using Azure DevOps. In this course, you will learn to identify and implement a suitable deployment pattern based on an organization's business needs. You will examine Blue/Green deployments which allow testing of the new application version before sending production traffic to it, along with the Canary deployment method to roll out new versions of an application without significant outage or disruption times. Then learn how progressive exposure deployments allow one to troubleshoot and reduce the scale of the impact of performance degradation. The course demonstrates how to perform a multistage deployment, and explores triggers, approvals, and release gates in the release pipeline. Explore deployment groups, a collection of target machines, in Azure pipelines. You will learn to deploy applications to Azure Kubernetes Services Containers. Finally, you will learn how use the Azure Service Fabric to distribute microservice applications.

9 videos | 31m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Dependency Management & Security Compliance

This 20-video course explores implementation of dependency management, and how to automate security and compliance scanning in the Azure DevOps pipeline, as part of preparations for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, learners will examine dependency management, the Azure utility, which supports Maven, NPM, NuGet and Python, to manage, share, and version packages. You will learn to collaborate with packages, to identify reasonable code, run Azure functions from a package, and explore packaged version strategies. This course then demonstrates how to utilize packages of reusable code, and to implement security and compliance scanning in the DevOps pipeline. Learners will examine open-source licensing compliance by using Black Duck to assess package security. You will learn to use Azure package feeds, and how to work with the secure DevOps kit to manage subscription security. You will examine secure development, continuous assurance, and how to run a security verification test. Finally, learn how to gain and control insights from telemetry data generated by Secure DevOps Kit for Azure.

20 videos | 1h 19m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Infrastructure as Code & Security Compliance

Learners can explore several tools available on Azure to create infrastructure code, to manage security, and configuration drift of infrastructure in this 13-video course, used in preparation for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. First, learners will examine infrastructure configuration management, and ARM (Azure Resource Manager) to deploy and manage resources within the Azure subscription. You will then learn to use SonarCloud and the Azure activity log to monitor drift. You will explore Microsoft's Azure Policy to create, assign, manage policies, and to enforce rules and resources in the subscription; and explore AzSK (Secure DevOps Kit for Azure) to enhance your Azure investment. Learners will observe how to use Chef, which automates how infrastructure is configured, deployed, and managed across a network. Next, learn to use PowerShell DSC to programmatically configure, deploy, and manage across your network. You will learn to manage technical debt on templates, and how to use custom script extensions to maintain configuration management. Finally, you will learn how to inspect security and compliance issues.

13 videos | 52m Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Implement Infrastructure as Code

This 16-video course, used in preparation for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, explores several tools available in Azure to create infrastructure as code. First, learners will examine ARM Azure Resource Manager), the management layer for all operations in Azure, and learn how to use Nested Resource Templates to deploy and configure resources on Azure's cloud platform. Next, you will learn to use ARM templates to deploy new resources, provide configuration settings, and to retrieve information stored in other places, for example, retrieving secrets from Azure Key Vault. Then explore Terraform, a utility for managing infrastructure as code, and Chef, an automation tool to automate deployment of applications and their dependencies, and to accelerate and standardize infrastructure configuration. You will explore Ansible to deploy and manage infrastructure as code; learn to use AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) with Ansible; and learn to use Helm to manage Kubernetes applications. Finally, learners will use Azure DevOps projects to scale applications.

16 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

MS Azure DevOps Solutions: Implement Continuous Feedback

Examine the tools available in Azure DevOps and Visual Studio App Center to implement continuous feedback in this 18-video course, which describes several system feedback mechanisms. While preparing for AZ-400 Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam, learners will observe how to use Visual Studio App Center to analyze client application crash reports to measure end-user satisfaction. You will learn to use the Application Insights module to monitor live web apps; how to analyze user feedback from external sources; and how to use the feedback link widget as a platform for testers. You will then examine Azure Monitor, a central platform for collection and analysis of telemetry generated by applications and alert baselines to monitor and diagnose app issues. Next, learners can explore Azure's test plans for software development teams to automate and manage tasks. You will learn to use Microsoft Test and Feedback, a browser-based extension to test applications. Finally, you will examine ongoing tuning to reduce chatter.

18 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Storage Design

In this course, learners discover how to apply knowledge of Azure storage solutions such as storage accounts, NoSQL storage, replication, file shares, databases, and data warehousing to address business needs, in preparation for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Begin this 20-video course by learning how to map Azure storage solutions to business needs, and then create a storage account via the Azure portal and via Visual Studio. Explore how to create containers and upload a blog via Azure port and control access to storage accounts; then look at Azure file share configuration by enabling cloud-based file shares. Discover how to create a shared access signature; map a drive letter to Azure file share; mount a remove Azure file share in Linux, and enable file synchronization between on-premises servers and Azure. Delve into Azure Storage Explorer; Azure database planning; deploying Azure SQL database; and deploying Azure table storage. Switch replication strategy via Azure portal and via command-line tools. Finally, learn about data warehousing and Azure storage analytics. The exercise involves planning Azure storage.

20 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Network Design

Discover how to apply knowledge of Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, firewalls, and network security groups (NSGs) to address business needs in this 17-video course, preparing learners for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Start off with a look at Azure virtual network planning, recognizing which network options should be used in given situations. Then examine VNet creation using the portal and using command-line tools to create a VNet. Learn about network peering-linking Nets together through peering; create a public IP address resource; and recognize when to deploy Azure Firewall, and how to create an Azure Firewall configuration. Examine NSGs and how they are used; create an NSG and rules, and learn how to enable NSG flow logs. Learners discover how to determine P2S VPN connection metrics; use Azure Network Watcher to test virtual machine connectivity; and create a network performance monitor (NPM) log analytics workspace, and user Service Connectivity Monitor to monitor network connectivity. Finally, take a look at the Azure network topology. The exercise involves planning Azure Networking.

17 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Compute Design

In this 16-video course, learners will discover how to apply knowledge of Azure virtual machine (VM) deployments and High Performance Computing (HPC) to address business needs, while preparing for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Begin by learning about VM planning and recognizing which VM options to use. Then move into creating a VM by using the portal, using PowerShell, using the command-line interface, and using a template. Explore how to modify the underlying power of VMs; link a public IP address resource to a VM; deploy a jump box by enabling single-point incoming remote management; and deploy a VM scale set. Discover how to monitor Azure VM performance and usage metrics with Azure Monitor; set alerts and notifications for VM metrics; view VM activity logs, and examine VM diagnostic settings. Finally, examine Azure HPC and recognize when HPC deployments should be used. The exercise involves describing when Azure HPC should be used, deploying a Linux Azure VM using the portal and a Windows Azure VM using PowerShell, and resizing Azure VMs.

16 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure VPN Design

Discover how to apply knowledge of public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate and Azure VPN configurations to address remote networking needs, in preparation for the AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. You will begin this 9-video course with a look at Azure virtual private network (VPN) planning, and learning to recognize the best VPN solution in a given scenario. Next, you will learn how to use PowerShell to create PKI certificates for use with a VPN. Examine virtual and local network gateways, using the portal to create VPN gateway objects. Discover how to use the portal to configure a site-to-site (S2S) IPsec tunnel via Azure portal, via Azure PowerShell, and via Azure command-line interface. In the final tutorial, you will learn how to create a point-to-site connection via Azure portal. In the concluding exercise, you will describe point-to-site and site-to-site VPN configurations, and create a virtual network gateway, a local network gateway, and an S2S VPN connection.

9 videos | 40m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure AD & RBAC Design

In this 20-video course, discover how to apply knowledge of Azure Active Directory (AD) objects, settings, and role-based access control (RBAC) role assignments to address business needs, in preparation for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Begin with a look at Azure AD and identity management planning, then recall various strategies for applying access control. Create a new Azure AD tenant, and Azure AD users and groups using the portal and PowerShell. Use command-line interface (CLI) to create an Azure AD user and join a Windows 10 device to Azure AD. Define how RBAC is used in Azure; assign built-in RBAC roles at different scopes; create deny RBAC assignments; and create a custom RBAC role with CLI. Then assign a custom RBAC role, and use PowerShell to remove a custom RBAC role and a RBAC role assignment. Enable self-service password reset and self-service group management to reduce the help desk burden; create an Azure AD enterprise application configuration, and audit Azure AD and sign-in logs. The exercise involves designing Azure AD and RBAC.

20 videos | 1h 13m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure AD Connect, MFA, & SSO Design

Learners will discover how to apply knowledge of linking on-premises Active Directory (AD) to Azure AD along with multifactor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and various sign-in methods, in preparation for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam in this 15-video course. Begin by selecting the best authentication method to use with AD Connect, and learn how to use the portal to add and verify a custom DNS domain to be used with AD Connect. Discover how to download, install, and configure AD Connect; to modify AD Connect configuration sync settings; and to modify an AD Connect configuration to use password writeback. Examine how to configure seamless SSO and enable Azure AD combined registration. Configure MFA settings; turn on and test MFA for an Azure AD user; configure MFA blocking and unblocking; specify trusted IPs for MFA exclusion, and enable MFA for administrator accounts. Also, learn how to use the Microsoft Authenticator App and MFA to log in, and how to configure an Azure AD access review. The exercise involves planning Azure AD Connect.

15 videos | 48m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure AD Permissions Design

Continue preparing for the AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam with this 10-video course exploring how to apply knowledge of Azure Active Directory (AD) roles and privileged identity management to specific scenarios. Learners begin by exploring the various roles specific to Azure AD and then take a look at how Azure AD privileged identity management can control resource access. Next, you will discover how to use the Azure portal to enable an administrator role and also how to enable privileged identity management. The next tutorial explores Open Authorization, an HTTP-based authorization protocol framework known as OAuth, and when to use it. You will also take a look at OpenID Connect authentication and when to use it. Finally, learn about the REST API (Representational State Transfer application programming interface) for Azure, and how it is used. In the course's final tutorial, you will learn how to generate a shared-access signature (SAS) token. The concluding exercise involves planning AD permissions.

10 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure App Design

In this 17-video course, discover how to plan the deployment and management of Azure web applications and load balancing to address business needs. Explore App Service configuration, slot-based deployment, Azure load balancer, and Azure application gateway in preparation for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Begin by considering configuration settings for web apps that meet business requirements, then learn how to use both the portal and Visual Studio to deploy a web application. Explore how to configure a web app custom domain name; configure web app service transport layer security/secure sockets layer (TLS/SSL) settings; and configure web app service scaling, and app service backup. Create web app deployment slots, and enable debugging for a web app. Recognize when to use load balancer traffic manager, and deploy a load balancer with the portal and a template. Learn about inbound access to back-end virtual machines through network address translation (NAT) rules; recognize when to use application gateways, and how developers can configure test environments. The exercise involves planning web apps and load balancing.

17 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Key Vault and Key Design

In this 15-video course, discover how to deploy and manage security solutions such as Azure Key Vault and key management in preparation for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Begin with a look at how apps can retrieve secrets from Azure Key Vaults, a secure secret storage solution in the cloud. You will then learn how to deploy a key vault using the portal and using PowerShell. Discover how to add secrets to an Azure Key Vault; configure a key vault policy using the portal, and use the command-line interface (CLI) to remove key vault configuration. Explore how to use PowerShell to encrypt virtual machine (VM) disks; recall the purpose of Azure information protection (AIP); enable Azure AIP via the portal, and encrypt data uploaded to Azure. You will then learn how to create a customer-managed key for encryption and configure encryption using customer-managed keys. In the final tutorial, you will use Azure CLI to create custom key vault secrets. The concluding exercise involves using Azure key vault and encryption.

15 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Migration Planning

Discover how to plan the migration of on-premises compute, data, and network resources to the Azure cloud while maintaining regulatory compliance in this 10-video course, preparing learners for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. In the first tutorial, learners will observe how to design a migration plan from on-premises to Azure, then recall how the Azure Import-Export service works. You will discover how to install the Azure Import/Export tool and how to create an Azure import job. When talking about software development and testing, especially in a cloud environment, you need to plan when to use Azure containers, so this will also be examined. Then explore how to assess on-premises items such as servers and databases in preparation for Azure migration. In the final tutorial, you will learn how to use Azure data box offline migration. In the concluding exercise, learners will describe the Azure Data Migration Assistant and the benefits of containerized applications, and will create an Azure import job and export job.

10 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Cost Management

In this 10-video course, learners will discover how resource tagging can facilitate Azure cost management and explore other options such as reserved instances, service level agreements (SLAs) and pricing, Azure budgets, Azure costs analysis, and the Azure pricing calculator, in preparation for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. You will begin with a look at resource tagging and how it can facilitate Azure cost management, and adding tag names and values to Azure resources. Then move on to examining the SLA-the contract between a cloud service provider and a cloud customer-and pricing information. You will learn how to enable virtual machine (VM) shutdown, and how to deploy a reserved instance. Next, discover how to create an Azure budget, so you can start to plan ahead for your recurring monthly charges. Learn about Azure cost analysis, and how to plan Azure costs using the pricing calculator. Finally, take a look at cost management scheduled exports. The exercise involves planning Azure cost management.

10 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Policy Planning

In this 11-video course, continue preparing for the AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam by discovering how to plan the use of Azure policies to control resource deployment and usage. Learners will explore different policies such as backup, custom, multifactor authentication (MFA) registration, and conditional access baseline policies, and learn about policy assignments and on-premises system state backup. Begin with a look at how Microsoft Azure policies can be used for cloud resource control, then onto configuring an Azure backup policy. Discover how to back up on-premises server system state to Azure; create a custom policy; and create a policy assignment by using both the portal and PowerShell. You will explore how to view the compliance status of assigned policies; configure MFA registration settings; and finally, through conditional access settings in Azure Active Directory, configure a baseline policy. The closing exercise involves defining the purpose of Microsoft Azure policies; assigning a built-in policy using the portal and PowerShell; and enabling an admin account MFA through a baseline policy.

11 videos | 32m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Site Recovery Design

Learners will discover how to plan for use of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to ensure business continuity, while preparing for the AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam, with this 17-video course. Begin by recalling how Azure Data Centers provide cloud services and are secured. Examine differences between availability zones and Azure regions. Next, study disaster recovery (DR), and Azure DR terms: recovery time objective (RTO), recovery level objective (RLO), and recovery point objective (RPO). Explore site recovery planning and how ASR can address DR needs; deploy a recovery services vault via Azure portal and PowerShell; replicate Azure virtual machines (VMs) to a different region; and use the portal to run VM recovery drills. Next, learn how to clean up resources after conducting a VM test fall-over; use the portal to disable VM replication; create an ASR replication policy, and view the capacity planner tool. Recognize how Azure Backup provides resiliency; perform a backup of an Azure VM, and ensure file availability by backing up to Azure. The exercise involves Azure site recovery.

17 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure DevOps Planning

Explore how to plan the use of various Azure DevOps related resources and ensure efficient creation, testing, and continuous delivery of custom software in Azure, in this 7-video course, preparing learners for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include learning the convergence of software development and IT administration; learning how stand-alone functions are defined in Azure; and learning how to use the portal to deploy an Azure Function app. Next, you will learn the purpose of an API gateway, a resource that can be deployed in the Azure cloud; learn how Azure Service Fabric frees developers to focus on the app because it is a managed service; and examine microservices which allows for code modification and testing of just the modules while the other parts of the app remain intact. Finally, learn when the cloud resource Azure API Gateway should be used and its popular benefits, and the purpose of Azure Function apps.

7 videos | 19m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Service Design Part 1

In this 11-video course, learners will discover how to apply Azure knowledge to address specific business IT scenarios, including Azure storage, compute, network, web application, and high-availability solutions, while preparing for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Key concepts covered here include how to match storage account replication to business needs; how to plan Shared Access Signature (SAS) and storage account encryption which can limit access to various storage accounts; and how to match Azure Compute sizing to business needs. You will also learn how to match Azure Network Services to business needs; how to plan Azure VM resiliency and confidentiality; and how to design VM scaling and SQL backup. Next, learn to run VM failover test and backup on-premises files to Azure; learn to deploy a web app and configure custom domains; and learn how to configure web app deployment slots and content delivery networks (CDNs) to be able to test a web app with zero downtime for the app. Finally, plan Azure storage and compute on the basis of business requirements.

11 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Service Design Part 2

Discover how to apply Azure knowledge to address specific business IT scenarios, specifically Azure monitoring and alerts, cost management, user security, and software development solutions in this 9-video course, which prepares learners for AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how to create an action group and configure alert notifications for logging and monitoring usage; learning about how to filter resources by tag and filter activity logs; and how to reduce Azure costs while still getting the benefits of cloud computing. Next, you will observe how to plan role delegation of Azure administrative tasks and policy configuration; how to use multifactor authentication (MFA); and how to enable metrics and add them to a dashboard. Then learn to design the use of developer services in the cloud. In the end-of-course exercise, you will plan for Azure resource usage while minimizing costs related to storage services, compute, and networking in the cloud and recommend ways to secure Azure service usage.

9 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure

Prepare for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam with this 11-video course, exploring various tools such as Azure Portal, Azure Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Storage Explorer, ARM Templates, and Azure Migration that can be used to manage and automate Azure resource deployment and management. Key concepts covered in this course include recognizing the ways Azure can be managed through various available tools; learning to manage Azure resources by using the portal, Cloud Shell, PowerShell, and Azure CLI (command-line interface); and managing storage accounts by using Azure Storage Explorer, a free graphical user interface (GUI) tool that connects to storage accounts. Learn to manage storage accounts without having to go through a portal and how to automate resource deployment using Azure Resource Manager templates. Next, explore and use the various tools related to migration including the Azure Database Migration Service, which lets you move database workloads from on-premises into the Azure Cloud; and learn to assess cloud readiness for on-premises SQL databases.

11 videos | 40m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Architecting Azure Storage

Learners will discover how to deploy and manage Azure storage accounts, including creating shared access signatures and configuration replication, in preparation for AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. The key concepts covered in this 19-video course include determining which storage configuration best suits a specific need; how to use the portal to create a storage account; and how to use Azure Storage Explorer, PowerShell, and Azure CLI (command-line interface) to create a storage account; how to upload blobs by using the portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI; and how to generate and use storage account key. Next, learn to generate a shared access signature; learn to use custom encryption keys to encrypt a storage account to protect data at rest using server side encryption; and learn to configure storage account replication by using the portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. Then examine control network access to the storage account; learn to control the migration of storage account data over time; and recognize when CDNs (content delivery networks) should be used.

19 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Architect Azure Networking

Discover how to configure Azure network components to support cloud-based IT solutions, in preparation for AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam, in this 16-video course. Explore VNet (virtual network) and subnet creation by using Azure Portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI (command-line interface). Key concepts covered in this course include the many different Azure network components; learning to use the portal to create a VNet and to create a subnet; and learning to use PowerShell to create a VNet and to create a subnet. Next, learn to use Azure CLI to create a VNet and to create a subnet; how to create a public IP address using the portal; how to configure a VNet firewall using the portal; and how to create a custom routing table entry. Then learn to enable VNet custom DNS servers; learn to link VNets directly together using peering; and how to create and associate a virtual network interface. Finally, learn how to create and associate a network security group.

16 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Virtual Machines

In this 17-video course, learners can explore how to plan, deploy, and manage Azure virtual machines (VMs) running Windows and Linux operating systems in preparation for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. Key concepts covered here include an overview of Azure VM options; learning to use the portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI (command-line interface) to create Windows VMs; and how to use the portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI to create Linux virtual machines. Then you will learn how to create secure shell (SSH) keys by using PuTTYGen, a key generator tool for creating SSH keys for PuTTY; learn how SSH public key authentication works; and learn how to use the portal to enable Linux VM public key authentication. Next, learners see how to change the size of existing VMs; how to use PowerShell to enable VM disk encryption; and how to generate an ARM template by saving a portal VM deployment. Finally, observe how to create a new VM from an ARM template, and create and associate disks with Azure VMs.

17 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Files & Databases

Discover how Azure file shared and databases can be used to address business needs and explore use of storage account permissions, mapping file shares for Windows and Linux, database deployment, table storage, and database replicas. This 14-video course helps prepare for AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. Key concepts covered here include how to determine which permissions should be granted for storage account access; how to enable cloud-based shared folders in Azure; and how to map a mount point to an Azure file share. Next, learn how to synchronize on-premises files with Azure; learn database options such as partitioning, SQL elastic pools, and how to use code to create, read, update, and delete tables; and learn how to use the portal to deploy a cloud-based SQL database. You will observe how to create Azure SQL DB replicas; learn to configure Azure table storage using Storage Explorer; and learn to determine when data warehousing should be used. Finally, learners see how to enable storage account analytics, and how to deploy a Cosmos DB NoSQL solution.

14 videos | 50m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Active Directory

Azure AD is used to store user, group, device, and application configurations for use with Azure. In this 15-video course, explore how to configure AD (active directory) authentication, manage AD users via various methods, and create and remove apps, while preparing for AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how Azure AD will authenticate users and devices; how to use the portal to create an Azure AD domain; and how to use PowerShell to view Azure AD domain details. You will learn how to configure an Azure AD custom DNS (domain name system) domain; and how to manage Azure AD users by using the portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI (command-line interface); how to manage Azure AD groups by using the portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. Next, learn to join Windows 10 devices to an Azure AD domain; learn to use the portal to create an Azure AD app definition; and learn how to use the Azure CLI to delete an Azure AD app.

15 videos | 41m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure AD Connect & Authentication

In this 16-video course, learners discover Azure AD Connect, which links an on-premises AD (active directory) environment with Azure AD, allowing for seamless authentication for on-premises and cloud-based apps. In preparation for AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam, you can explore additional Azure AD options and use them to reduce help desk tickets. Key concepts covered here include learning to implement various authentication frameworks; learning when to use identity federation; and how to determine when to use certificate, forms-based, and Windows-integrated authentication. Next, observe how to determine when to use each Azure AD Connect sign-in method; how to install and configure Azure AD Connect; and how to filter an on-premises AD OUs sync to Azure AD. Then learn to enable Azure AD Connect password writeback setting; learn to enable SSPR and SSGM; and learn to detect suspicious user activity through AD Identity Protection. Finally, learn how to enable baseline policies; to configure Azure AD enterprise roaming; to configure a virtual machine-managed identity; and to use the portal to create a key vault.

16 videos | 52m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure AD MFA

This 9-video course explores MFA (multifactor authentication) to enhance user sign-in security, while helping prepare learners for AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. You will explore the various MFA options that affect the user experience, then learn to configure and enable MFA with the Azure AD (Active Directory) portal, and how to block and unblock users. Next, learn to use Azure AD portal to configure trusted IP addresses, and identify IP address ranges that might reside on your intranet. Learners will then examine how to use Azure AD conditional access to require users with powerful admin accounts to use MFA authentication. Then you will observe how to use the Microsoft Authenticator App and MFA to log in. This course also demonstrates how to test MFA sign-ins. Finally, you will learn how to configure and use Azure AD access reviews to see user permissions, and whether any user needs to have permissions changed.

9 videos | 18m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Remote Connectivity

This 10-video course explores how Microsoft Azure supports VPNs (virtual private networks) to provide remote network access through an encrypted tunnel. Prepare for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam by learning to use the Azure portal to create local and virtual network gateways. You will learn to configure S2S (site-to-site) VPN settings in Azure to link an on-premises network to Azure, and to access both a local a virtual and network gateway. This course demonstrates how to configure site-to-site IPSec (internet protocol security) tunnels by using the Azure portal, in PowerShell, and using Azure CLI (command-line interface). Learners will observe how to create a P2S (point-to-site) VPN gateway connection to create a secure connection to a virtual network from an individual client computer. Next, learn to use PKI (public key infrastructure), to obtain PKI certificates, and to generate them from PowerShell. Finally, this course demonstrates how to connect from a client device to Azure through a VPN link.

10 videos | 32m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Roles and Policies

This 13-video course explores how to delegate limited Microsoft Azure administrative tasks to others, in preparation for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. Learners will observe how to use RBAC (role-based access control) to limit tasks, and to audit Azure configurations. You will learn that RBAC roles are a collection of permissions which can be associated with a user or group at different levels in the Azure. This course examines built-in RBAC roles available in Azure, and how to create a custom role to suit your Azure administrative needs. You will learn how to use PowerShell to delegate custom role definitions, and to delete role assignments. Then learners will examine how Azure policies provide a mechanism to control deployment, usage, and configuration of cloud resources. You will learn to assign policies using the Azure portal, and using PowerShell. Next, learn to use Azure policies to audit your existing configurations. Finally, you will examine how to create custom Azure policy definitions to fit specific business needs.

13 videos | 41m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Load Balancing

Explore standard Azure load balancers and Azure Application Gateway to improve web application performance in this 7-video course, helping prepare learners for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. This course examines how management of back-end virtual machines is enabled through load balancer inbound NAT (network address translation) rules, and you will learn how to configure NAT rules. You will explore how the Azure Load Balancer takes incoming client requests or app traffic, and evenly distributes it against a pool of servers running in the background, which improves application performance and resiliency against server failure. You will learn to configure a public load balancer for public-facing apps. Next, learn how to deploy a load balancer using Azure portal, and how to deploy a load balancer from an ARM (Azure Resource Manager). You will learn to use Azure Application Gateway as a load balancer. Finally, the course demonstrates how to enable inbound NAT rules.

7 videos | 19m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: High Availability

This 17-video course explores Azure's high availability options used to ensure business continuity while preparing learners for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. When using Microsoft Azure Cloud to deploy and manage resources, one goes to an Azure region which is constantly changing geographical locations. These regions are an important factor in developing both a DRP (disaster recovery plan) and BCP (business continuity plan). You will learn to use Azure Site Recovery Services to build and use a recovery vault to both back up on-premises and in the cloud, and for replication. This course demonstrates how to use a DPR to replicate Azure VMs (virtual machines) to alternate Azure regions, and how to test failover. You will learn to use the Azure portal to create a VM scale set, to scale out or add VMs when an app is busy, or to reduce VMs to save on costs. Finally, you will learn to use the Azure portal to create an availability set.

17 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Monitoring

In this 11-video course, learners will examine several methods available in Azure to perform Resource Performance and Usage Monitoring using VMs (virtual machines) and web application diagnostics. Prepare for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam by examining how to use the Azure dashboard to manage and monitor resources in a central location. First, you will explore how to maintain stability and security by enabling diagnostic logging, and how to create log queries. The course then demonstrates how to perform log queries on data collected in a log analytic workspace, and shows how diagnostic logging results are sent to an Azure table within a storage account. You will learn to configure Azure Virtual Machine alerts using the Azure portal to receive automatic alerts, how to configure action groups for alert notifications, and how to export diagnostics, and enable web app logging. Finally, you will learn to use the Azure dashboard portal Monitor service to monitor visually as metrics are charted.

11 videos | 42m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: DevOps & Azure

Continue preparing for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam with this 10-video course, which explores how the Azure serverless environment provides DevOps solutions to integrate system management with software development practices. The course opens by examining Azure functions, or code in the cloud waiting to be executed by a triggering event. Then you will learn how the Azure API (application programming interface) Gateway allows developers to build custom software solutions and how to use the Azure Service Fabric platform to package, deploy, and manage scalable microservices and containers. Next, learn to use Azure Logic Apps as a software developer, and how to use the Logic Apps template. This course continues by exploring Azure messaging app options, including Event Grid, Service Bus, or Event Hubs, and how to select and use an option. Finally, you will learn how to use the portal to create an Azure Storage queue, to store messages from software components you have built.

10 videos | 28m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Web Apps

This 18-video course explores how web app developers can host containerized applications in the Azure cloud, and the correlation between app service plans and web applications. Continue preparing for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam by learning how to manage web apps by using several tools available in Azure. First, you will learn web app deployment by using both the Azure portal and Microsoft Visual Studio. This course demonstrates how to connect to an Azure web app Kudu interface. You will learn to configure storage account static website hosting; how to configure web jobs; and how to enable custom domain names and SSL (secure sockets layer) and TLS (transport layer security) bindings. Next, learn the purpose of containerized applications; how to work with Docker containers; and details about Docker container registries. Finally, learners will observe how to deploy the Docker Engine to a VM, and how to upload a Docker image to the Azure Container Registry.

18 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Architecting Azure Solutions I

Learners can explore architecting solutions using Azure resource configurations, and how to match them to business needs, in this 13-video course preparing for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. First, you will learn to deploy and configure Linux VMs (virtual machines) by using the portal and command-line tools, and then how to create a load balancer. The course then examines how to create and assign VM public IP addresses, and how to configure VM replication and scale sets. Learners will watch demonstrations of how to use PowerShell to automate the deployment of Linux VMs in the Azure Cloud. You will learn to deploy Azure SQL databases, and to configure backup retention, and to configure Azure SQL point-in-time restore backup retention settings. Next, learn to configure VNet Peering to connect two virtual networks in the same region. Finally, you will learn how to enable file backup to the Azure Cloud and how to configure VM security options.

13 videos | 49m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Architecting Azure Solutions II

This 11-video course explores architecting solutions using Azure resource configurations, and how match them to business needs, while continuing to prepare learners for the AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam. First, learn how to use the Azure AD (Active Directory) to create a new Azure AD tenant and related objects such as users and groups. You will learn how to enable Azure Active Directory MFA (multifactor authentication), and how to configure conditional access. This course demonstrates how to establish distributed management by assigning RBAC (role-based access control) rules and storage permissions in the Azure portal. Next, you will learn how to audit Azure resource configurations using policies, and how to configure a point-to-site VPN (virtual private network). You will learn how to deploy an app container, and how to create and manage storage accounts. Finally, this course examines cost-saving measures in Azure, and how to enable VM (virtual machine) auto shutdown.

11 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

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