In this module, you'll take an entry level end-to-end look at Azure and its capabilities, which will provide you with a solid foundation for completing the available modules for Azure Fundamentals.

Lessons

Introduction to Azure fundamentals

Discuss Azure fundamental concepts

Describe core Azure architectural components

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the benefits of cloud computing in Azure and how it can save you time and money

Explain concepts such as high availability, scalability, elasticity, agility, and disaster recovery

Describe core Azure architecture components such as subscriptions, management groups, resources and

Summarize geographic distribution concepts such as Azure regions, region pairs, and availability zon

In this module, you learn about core Azure services like Azure database, Azure compute, Azure storage, and Azure Networking.

Lessons

Explore Azure database and analytics services

Explore Azure compute services

Explore Azure Storage services

Explore Azure networking services

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand the breadth of services available in Azure including compute, network, storage, and datab

Identify virtualization services such as Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Container Instances, Azure Ku

Compare Azure's database services such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Azur

Examine Azure networking resources such as Virtual Networks, VPN Gateways, and Azure ExpressRoute

Summarize Azure storage services such Azure Blob Storage, Azure Disk Storage, and Azure File Storage

In this module, you'll learn about AI machine learning, Azure DevOps, monitoring fundamentals, management fundamentals, serverless computing fundamentals. and IoT fundamentals.

Lessons

Choose the best AI service for your needs

Choose the best tools to help organizations build better solutions

Choose the best monitoring service for visibility, insight, and outage mitigation

Choose the best tools for managing and configuring your Azure environment

Choose the best Azure serverless technology for your business scenario

Choose the best Azure IoT service for your application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Choose the correct Azure Artificial Intelligence service to address different kinds of business chal

Choose the best software development process tools and services for a given business scenario.

Choose the correct cloud monitoring service to address different kinds of business challenges.

Choose the correct Azure management tool to address different kinds of technical needs and challenge

Choose the right serverless computing technology for your business scenario.

Choose the best Azure IoT service for a given business scenario.

In this module, you will learn how to protect yourself against security threats, and secure your networks with Azure.

Lessons

Protect against security threats on Azure

Secure network connectivity on Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Strengthen your security posture and protect against threats by using Azure Security Center.

Collect and act on security data from many different sources by using Azure Sentinel.

Manage dedicated physical servers to host your Azure VMs for Windows and Linux by using Azure Dedica

Identify the layers that make up a defense in depth strategy.

Explain how Azure Firewall enables you to control what traffic is allowed on the network.

Configure network security groups to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources within a Mic

Explain how Azure DDoS Protection helps protect your Azure resources from DDoS attacks.

In this module, you will learn about Azure identity services, how to build a cloud governance strategy, and privacy, compliance and data protection standards on Azure.

Lessons

Secure access to your applications by using Azure identity services

Build a cloud governance strategy on Azure

Examine privacy, compliance, and data protection standards on Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the difference between authentication and authorization.

Describe how Azure Active Directory provides identity and access management.

Explain the role single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication, and Conditional Access play.

Make organizational decisions about your cloud environment by using the CAF for Azure.

Define who can access cloud resources by using Azure role-based access control.

Apply a resource lock to prevent accidental deletion of your Azure resources.

Apply tags to your Azure resources to help describe their purpose.

Control and audit how your resources are created by using Azure Policy.

Enable governance at scale across multiple Azure subscriptions by using Azure Blueprints.

Explain the types of compliance offerings that are available on Azure.

Gain insight into regulatory standards and compliance on Azure.

Explain Azure capabilities that are specific to government agencies.

In this module, you will learn how to plan and manage Azure costs, and how to choose the right Azure services though SLAs and service lifecycle.

Lessons

Plan and manage your Azure costs

Choose the right Azure services by examining SLAs and service lifecycle

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator.

Describe the different ways you can purchase Azure products and services.

Use the Pricing calculator to estimate the monthly cost of running your cloud workloads.

Define the major factors that affect total cost and apply recommended practices to minimize cost.

Describe what a service-level agreement (SLA) is and why SLAs are important.

Identify factors, such as the service tier you choose, that can affect an SLA.

Combine SLAs to compute a composite SLA.

Describe the service lifecycle in Azure.