Module 1: Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources

In this module you will explore Azure monitoring capabilities using Azure alerts, Azure activity logs, and Log Analytics. You will learn to query, analyze, and interpret the data viewed in Log Analytics.

Module 2: Implementing and Managing Storage

In this module you will learn about Azure storage accounts, data replication, how to use Azure Storage Explorer, and monitor storage.

Module 3: Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines (VMs)

In this module you will learn how to do the following:

• Create Virtual Machines (VM)s within the Azure Portal
• Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using Azure PowerShell
• Create Virtual Machines (VM)s using ARM templates
• Deploy Linux Virtual Machines (VM)s
• Monitor Virtual Machines (VM)s

Additionally, you will learn how to protect data using backups at regular intervals, whether by snapshot, Azure Backup, or Azure Site Recovery.

Module 4: Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks

In this module you will create and implement virtual networks using the Azure Portal as well as Azure PowerShell and CLI. You will receive an overview on how to assign IP addresses to Azure resources to communicate with other Azure resources, your on-premises network, and the Internet.

Lessons:

• Network routing using routing tables and algorithms
• Inter-site connectivity using VNet-to-VNet connections and VPNs
• Virtual network peering for regional and global considerations
• Gateway transit

Module 5: Managing Identities

This module covers Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) for IT Admins and Developers with a focus on the Azure AD multi-tenant cloud-based directory and identity management service.

Lessons:

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Built-in roles
• Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR)
• Authentication methods for password reset

Module 6: Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure

This module covers migrating workloads to a new environment, whether it be another datacenter, or to a public cloud, and setting clear goals for the migration. Goals include both technology-focused and business-focused goals for migrations, and the benefits to an organization's business. Activities include components of the Azure migration process: creating a project, creating a collector, assessing readiness, and estimating costs. Additionally, you will receive and overview of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) that includes end-to-end scenarios.

Module 7: Implementing and Managing Application Services

This module includes the following topics: Deploying Web Apps; Managing Web Apps; App Service Security; Serverless Computing Concepts; Managing Event Grid; Managing Service Bus; and Managing Logic App.

Module 8: Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking

This module includes the following topics: Azure Load Balancer; Azure Application Gateway; Site-to-Site VPN Connections; as well as an overview of ExpressRoute, which allows companies to extend on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a dedicated private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider.

Module 9: Securing Identities

This module includes the following topics with an emphasis on identity and roles: Azure AD Identity Protection; Azure Domains and Tenants; Azure Users and Groups; Azure Roles; as well as an overview of Azure AD integration options that focuses on Azure AD Connect to integrate on-premises directories with Azure Active Directory.

Module 10: Selecting Compute and Storage Solutions

This module includes the following topics: Azure Architecture Center; cloud design patterns; competing consumers pattern; cache-aside pattern; as well as sharding patterns to divide a data store into horizontal partitions, or shards. Each shard has the same schema but holds its own distinct subset of the data.

Module 11: Hybrid Networking

This module includes the following topics: site-to-site connectivity; point-to-site connectivity; combining site-to-site and point-to-site connectivity; virtual network to virtual network connectivity; as well as connecting across cloud providers for failover, backup, or even migration between providers such as AWS.

Module 12: Measuring Throughput and Structure of Data Access

This module includes the following topics: DTUs Azure SQL Database; RUs Azure Cosmos DB; structured and unstructured data; and using structured data stores

Module 13: Creating Web Applications using PaaS

This module provides and overview of Azure App Service Web Apps for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and a mobile back end. Topics include the following: using shell commands to create an App Service Web App; creating background tasks; using Swagger to document an API; as well as an explanation of how Logic Apps help to build solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises or organizations by automating tasks and business processes as workflows.

Module 14: Creating Apps and Services Running on Service Fabric

This module provides an overview of Azure Service Fabric as a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers. This module also addresses the challenges in developing and managing cloud native applications. Additional topics include: creating a reliable service; creating a Reliable Actors app; and working with Reliable collections.

Module 15: Using Azure Kubernetes Service This module focuses on the Azure

Kubernetes Service (AKS) for deploying and managing a Kubernetes cluster in Azure. Topics include how to reduce operational overhead of managing Kubernetes by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure, such as health monitoring and maintenance. Additional topics include: Azure Container Registry and Azure Container Instances.

Module 16: Developing Long-Running Tasks and Distributed Transactions

Topics for this module include: implementing large-scale, parallel, and high-performance apps using batches; HPC using Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines; implementing resilient apps by using queues; as well as implementing code to address application events by using webhooks. Implementing a webhook gives an external resource a URL for an application; the external resource then issues an HTTP request to that URL whenever a change is made that requires the application to take an action.

Module 17: Configuring a Message-Based Integration Architecture

Lessons:

• Configure an app or service to send emails
• Configure an event publish and subscribe model
• Configure the Azure Relay service
• Configure apps and services with Microsoft Graph

Module 18: Developing for Asynchronous Processing

Lessons:

• Implement parallelism, multithreading, and processing
• Implement Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps
• Implement interfaces for storage or data access
• Implement appropriate asynchronous computing models
• Implement autoscaling rules and patterns

Module 19: Developing for Autoscaling

Lessons:

• Implementing autoscaling rules and patterns
• Implementing code that addresses singleton application instances
• Implementing code that addresses a transient state

Module 20: Developing Azure Cognitive Services Solutions

Lessons:

• Developing Solutions using Computer Vision
• Developing solutions using Bing Web Search
• Developing solutions using Custom Speech Service
• Developing solutions using QnA Maker

Module 21: Develop for Azure Storage

Lessons:

• Develop Solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB Storage
• Develop Solutions that use a Relational Database
• Modeling a Database by using Entity Framework Core
• Develop Solutions that use Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
• Manipulating Blob Container Properties in .NET