Az-104: Azure Administrator certification training

Topics:

• What is a computer?
• Hardware and software
• Basic operations

Inside a computer case

• Motherboard
• Processor
• Memory
• Disks
• Input Devices
• Output Devices

Topics:

• What is cloud computing?
• Types of cloud
• Comparison between on-prem and cloud computing
• AWS Terminology
• Advantages and disadvantage

Topics:

• Introduction to Azure
• Why, What, and Benefits of Azure?
• Azure Hosting Models
• Azure Services
• Subscribing to Microsoft Azure
• Azure Portals
• Azure Key Concepts
• Azure Resource Group
• Creating Azure free trial account.
• Tour to Azure portal

• Overview of Azure Networking
• Virtual Network Benefits
• Understanding Network Resources
• Implement and manage virtual networking.
  • Create a VNet using Azure Portal
  • Create a Subnet
  • Configure private and public IP addresses.
  • Create a Network Interface Card with public, and private IP addresses.
  • Create a Virtual Machine
• Setup Network Security Group
  • Create security rules.
  • Associate NSG to a subnet or network interface
  • Identify required ports.
  • Evaluate effective security rules.
• Azure Firewall
• Understanding Azure DNS
  • Configure Azure DNS
  • Public and Private DNS Zones
• Create connectivity between virtual networks.
  • Create and configure VNET peering.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
• Monitor and Manage Networking
  • Verify, Manage and Monitor on-premises connectivity
  • Use network resource monitoring and Network Watcher
  • Manage external networking and virtual network connectivity.

• Understanding and Creating Availability Set
  • Understanding Availability Zones
  • Load Balancing
• Configure external and internal Azure Load balancer.
• Load Balancing Rules
• Implement front-end IP configuration.
  
  • Azure Traffic Manager
  • Azure Front Door

• About Storage Service and Account
• Creating a Storage Account
• Working with Blob Storage
  • Types of Blobs (Block, Append, Page)
  • Container and Metadata
  • Soft Copy
  • Azure Storage Explorer
  • Transfer Data using AZ Copy
  • Programming Blob Storage
  • Async Blob Copy
  • Import and Export Service
  • Implement and Configure CDN
  • Configure Custom Domain
  • Scale Blob Storage
  • Storage Service Encryption
• Manage Access / Securing Storage
  • Create and Manage Shared Access Signature
  • Account SAS vs Service SAS
  • Using Stored Access Policies
  • Regenerating Keys
  • Encrypt Keys using Azure Key Vault integration
• Working with Table Storage
  • Understanding NoSQL Database
  • Creating Table and Entities using Storage Explorer
  • Entities and Properties
  • Table storage vs COSMOS DB Table API
• Azure Queues Storage
  • Understanding Async Communication using Queues
  • Comparing Azure Queues and Service Bus Queues
• Azure SMB File Storage
  
  • Common usage of File Storage
  •  Shares, Directory, and File
  • Managing Using Azure Portal

• Installing the required modules
• Login to Azure Portal
• Managing Resource Group
• Managing App Service Plans and App Service Web Apps
• Create and Configure a Storage Account
• Managing Storage Accounts using PowerShell
• Azure CLI Introduction and Setup
• Creating Resources
• Listing and Formatting output
• Connect a Web App to SQL Database
• Deleting Resources
• Interactive Mode

• Understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Exporting and Importing ARM
• ARM Resource Providers
• Deploy ARM Templates
  • Using PowerShell
  • Azure CLI
  • Azure Portal

• Introduction
• About Virtual Machine Workloads
• Create a Windows Virtual Machine using Portal / PowerShell / ARM Templates
• Deploy popular application frameworks by using Azure Resource Manager templates.
• Virtual Machine Disk
• Convert Unmanaged Disk to Managed Disk
• Generalizing VM and Capture VM Images
• VM Disk Types
• VM Sizes in Azure
• Configuring VM Disk Encryption
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Perform configuration management

• Introduction
• App Service – Application Types
• Deploy Web Apps
• App Service plans.
  • o Create App Service Plan
  • o Migrate Web Apps between App Service plans.
  • o Create a Web App within an App Service plan.
• Configuring Web Apps
  • o Application Settings Configuration
  • o Database Connection Strings
  • o Configuring Handlers and Virtual Directories
• Configure a custom domain name Enable SSL/TLS for your custom domains.
• Understanding Deployment Slots
• Horizontal and Vertical Scaling of a Web App
• VNet Integration

• Understanding Azure Subscriptions
• Configuring Role Based Access Control
• RBAC using Portal.
• RBAC using PowerShell and CLI
• Custom Roles for RBAC
• Managing Subscription Policies
• Locking Resources
• Checking Resources Limits
• Resource Tags

• Microsoft Entra ID Introduction
• Microsoft Entra ID Editions
• Adding a custom domain name to Microsoft Entra ID
• Managing Microsoft Entra ID Users, Groups, and Devices
• Adding Partner Users from other organizations
• Configure Windows 10/11 with Microsoft Entra ID domain join.
• Self-Service Password Reset
• Administrative Units
• Microsoft Entra ID Connect
• Microsoft Entra ID User Sign-In Options
  • Password Synchronization
  • Passthrough Authentication
  • Federated SSO

• Azure Monitor Overview
• Monitoring Metrics
• Monitoring Logs
• Azure Activity Logs
• Azure Diagnostics Logs
• Log Analytic Workspace
• Collect data from an Azure VM / Windows computer.
• Application Insight