Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
This course teaches the participants to prepare for AZ 104 Certification. If certification is not in your mind at this time, you can still opt for this course as it gives you the knowledge to make you Azure ready and become a better Azure Administrator. This course is derived from Az 103 just like the certification itself. All the changes that were made to Az 103 by Microsoft to make it Az 104 are now incorporated in this course as well. We will deep dive into identity, governance and compliance, azure administration, virtual networking, azure storage, azure virtual machines, serverless computing, monitoring.
Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
This course teaches the participants to prepare for AZ 104 Certification. If certification is not in your mind at this time, you can still opt for this course as it gives you the knowledge to make you Azure ready and become a better Azure Administrator. This course is derived from Az 103 just like the certification itself. All the changes that were made to Az 103 by Microsoft to make it Az 104 are now incorporated in this course as well. We will deep dive into identity, governance and compliance, azure administration, virtual networking, azure storage, azure virtual machines, serverless computing, monitoring.
Course Introduction
This 40-day (Weekdays -2hrs.) OR 12-week (Sunday/Saturday) instructor led Azure Administrator Associate course is designed to provide professionals with extensive knowledge to accomplish their day-to-day job and Azure Administrator Associate certification. The key to a high success rate is based on the program’s objectives as follows:
- Course contents are based on Microsoft guidelines and cover all topics specified in Azure curriculum.
- Dedicated Monitoring to evaluate and report candidates progress
- Extensive hands-on lab exercises
- Regular evaluation
- Industry Experienced Certified instructors
Course Highlights
- Project manager can be assigned to track candidates’ performance
- Curriculum based on industry requirement
- This Instructor-led classroom course is designed with an aim to build theoretical knowledge supplemented by ample hands-on lab exercises
- Facility of Lab on cloud available (based on booking)
- Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
- Assignments and test to ensure concept absorption.
- Courseware includes reference material to maximize learning.
- Assignments and test to ensure concept absorption.
- Repeating of lectures allowed (based on seat availability)
Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the cloud architectures
- Create Linux and Windows servers on Azure VM
- Configure Azure Load Balancer
- Manage and attach Volumes with VM instances
- Administer Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.
- Manage key pairs, network security groups, auto-scaling groups, templates and snapshots
- Create containers with private and public access
- Candidate will be able to create Standalone application
- Hosting static website on VM
- Perform life cycle management, cross-region replication, versioning, transfer acceleration
- Create and Provision Azure Files
- Configure Active Directory services
- Manage networks using VNETs
- Perform Remote access VPN
- Monitor resources using Cloud Watch with email alerts
- Perform serverless computing with ACI and AKS
- Deploy, manage and scale Azure virtual machines
- Configure and manage Azure virtual networks
- Configure and manage Traffic Management
- Manage and Secure identities with Azure Active Directory and users and groups
- Administer Azure using the Resource Manager, Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and ARM templates.
Course Topics
Cloud Fundamentals
- Introduction to Cloud
- About the course
- cloud technologies
- Why cloud
- On-premise vs cloud infrastructure
- Microsoft certification career path
- Introduction to Azure
- Azure overview
- create azure free account
- new concepts of azure
- exploring azure portal
- azure regions and availability zones
Deploying and managing azure compute resources:
- compute services in azure
- introduction to azure virtual machine service
- deploying a virtual machine
- connecting to virtual machines
- creating a test application on a virtual machine
- understanding virtual machine generations
- managing a virtual machine
- using azure cloud shell
- using azure CLI and powershell
- installing softwares using cloudinit
- managing availability sets and scale sets
- managing availability zones
- managing data disks
- managing premium and shared disks
- snapshot management
- azure VM backup service
- restoring a VM
- azure site recovery
- resizing a VM
- understanding placement groups
- using visual studio
- azure web app
- azure app service plans
- publishing azure web apps from visual studio
- web apps deployment slots
- auto-scaling a web app
- integrating virtual networks
- introduction to containers
- deploying a docker
- understanding azure containers
- creating container groups
- introduction to azure kubernetes
- deploying kuberenetes
Configure and manage azure virtual networking:
- introduction to azure virtual networks
- basics of IP address
- creating azure virtual network
- managing network interfaces
- adding secondary interface
- understanding network security groups
- managing traffic on network security groups
- using azure resource manager templates
- understanding azure load balancer
- setting up and deploying load balancer
- managing inbound rules
- configuring load balancer scale sets
- configuring multiple backend pools
- load balancer health probes
- load balancer metrics
- understanding azure application gateway
- azure load balancer vs application gateway
- virtual network peering concepts
- configuring point-to-site VPN
- configuring site-to-site VPN
- azure express route
- azure virtual WAN
- using azure network watcher
- network performance monitoring
- azure jump server
- azure bastion
- azure firewall
- azure DNS
Implement and manage storage:
- azure storage accounts
- create an azure storage account
- azure blob service
- creating and managing azure blobs
- using azure storage explorer
- using access keys
- managing shared access keys
- active directory authentication in storage accounts
- storage account replication
- storage account access tiers
- cool and hot access tiers
- archive access tier
- performance management for blobs
- lifecycle policies
- object replication
- azure file shares
- creating and managing azure file shares
- backup azure file shares
- service endpoints
- azure file sync
Manage azure identities and governance:
- types of permissions
- azure subscriptions
- azure AD
- creating and managing users and groups
- azure dynamic groups
- azure AD subscriptions
- azure AD roles
- multiple directories
- creating azure AD custom domains
- joining VM with AD
- dynamic device groups
- managing self-service passwords
- azure Role Based Access Control
- creating custom roles
- RBAC vs azure AD
- inviting guest users
- azure log analytics
- azure monitor service
- azure workspace
- azure backup reports
- application insights
- what are resource tags
- using resource tags
- azure lab policies
Lab Topics
Not Available
Virtual Classroom
- Instructor led online training is an ideal vehicle for delivering training to individuals anywhere in the world at any time.
- This innovative approach presents live content with instructor delivering the training online.
- Candidates will be performing labs remotely on our labs on cloud in presence of an online instructor.
- Rstforum uses microsoft lync engine to deliver instructor led online training.
- Advances in computer network technology, improvements in bandwidth, interactions, chat and conferencing, and realtime audio and video offers unparalleled training opportunities.
- Instructor led online training can helps today’s busy professionals to perform their jobs and upgrade knowledge by integrating self-paced instructor led online training in their daily routines.
Miscellaneous
- Minimum batch size required for batch is 10 participants in the this course.
- The RST Forum reserves the right to cancel/postpone the class.
- Course schedule will be provided before commencement of the course.
- Certificate of participation will be awarded to participants with a minimum 90% attendance.
- All attendees are to observe the Copyright Law on intellectual properties such as software and courseware from respective vendors.
- The RST Forum reserves the right to include external participants in the program either for the entire course or individual courses.
- The RST Forum reserves the right to change/alter the sequence of courses. RST FORUM published Book would be given at 50% discounted rate to the forum students.