MS AZ 104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

Course Length: 4-Days

Course Overview

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution.

Audience Profile

This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.

Prerequisites

• Successful Azure Administrators start this role with experience on operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking.
• Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
• Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
• Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.
• or MS AZ 900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Course Outline

Identity:  In this module, you will learn how to secure identities with Azure Active Directory and implement users and groups.

• Secure and manage identities with Azure Active Directory.
• Implement and manage users and groups.
• Lab:
  • Manage Azure Active Directory Identities

Governance and Compliance: In this module, you will learn about managing your subscriptions and accounts, implementing Azure policies, and using Role-Based Access Control.

• Implement and manage Azure subscriptions and accounts.
• Implement Azure Policy, including custom policies.
• Use RBAC to assign permissions.
• Labs:
  • Manage Subscriptions and RBAC
  • Manage Governance via Azure Policy

Azure Administration: In this module, you will learn about the tools an Azure Administrator uses to manage their infrastructure. This includes the Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and Resource Manager Templates.

• Leverage Azure Resource Manager to organize resources.
• Use the Azure Portal and Cloud Shell.
• Use Azure PowerShell and CLI.
• Use ARM Templates to deploy resources.
• Labs:
  • Manage Azure resources by Using the Azure Portal
  • Manage Azure resources by Using ARM Templates
  • Manage Azure resources by Using Azure PowerShell
  • Manage Azure resources by Using Azure CLI

Virtual Networking: In this module, you will learn about basic virtual networking concepts like virtual networks and subnetting, IP addressing, network security groups, Azure Firewall, and Azure DNS.

• Implement virtual networks and subnets.
• Configure public and private IP addressing.
• Configure network security groups.
• Configure Azure Firewall.
• Configure private and public DNS zones.
• Lab:
  • Implement Virtual Networking

Intersite Connectivity: In this module, you will learn about intersite connectivity features including VNet Peering, Virtual Network Gateways, and Site-to-Site Connections.

• Configure VNet Peering.
• Configure VPN gateways.
• Choose the appropriate intersite connectivity solution.
• Lab:
  • Implement Intersite Connectivity

Network Traffic Management: In this module, you will learn about network traffic strategies including network routing and service endpoints, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, and Traffic Manager.

• Configure network routing including custom routes and service endpoints.
• Configure an Azure Load Balancer.
• Configure and Azure Application Gateway.
• Choose the appropriate network traffic solution.
• Lab:
  • Implement Traffic Management

Azure Storage: In this module, you will learn about basic storage features including storage accounts, blob storage, Azure files and File Sync, storage security, and storage tools.

• Create Azure storage accounts.
• Configure blob containers.
• Secure Azure storage.
• Configure Azure files shares and file sync.
• Manage storage with tools such as Storage Explorer.
• Lab:
  • Manage Azure storage

Azure Virtual Machines: In this module, you will learn about Azure virtual machines including planning, creating, availability and extensions.

• Plan for virtual machine implementations.
• Create virtual machines.
• Configure virtual machine availability, including scale sets.
• Use virtual machine extensions.
• Lab:
  • Manage virtual machines

Serverless Computing: In this module, you will learn administer serverless computing features like Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.

• Create an app service plan.
• Create a web app.
• Implement Azure Container Instances.
• Implement Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Labs:
  • Implement Web Apps
  • Implement Azure Container Instances
  • Implement Azure Kubernetes Service

Data Protection: In this module, you will learn about backing up files and folders, and virtual machine backups.

• Backup and restore file and folders.
• Backup and restore virtual machines.
• Lab:
  • Implement Data Protection

Monitoring: In this module, you will learn about monitoring your Azure infrastructure including Azure Monitor, alerting, and log analytics.

• Use Azure Monitor.
• Create Azure alerts.
• Query using Log Analytics.
• Use Network Watcher.
• Lab:
  • Implement Monitoring