Description
4 credit/unit hours – Three hours of lecture weekly; one term
This course is intended for students that want to implement, manage, and monitor identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a Microsoft Azure cloud environment. Additionally, the course provides the broad-based knowledge and skills necessary to prepare students for further study in other specialized Information Technology and security fields. It is also intended to serve the needs of individuals seeking to pass the Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate certification exam (AZ-104), or other Azure role-based or specialty certifications.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course the learner will be able to:
- Manage Azure identities and governance;
- Implement and manage storage;
- Deploy and manage Azure compute resources;
- Configure and manage virtual networking; and
- Monitor and back up Azure resources
Main Topics
1.0 Azure Administrator Fundamentals
- Azure Policy
- Azure Virtual Machines (VMs)
- Computer Networking
- Fundamentals of Network Security
- Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI)
- Azure PowerShell
- Azure Active Directory
- Docker Containers
- Data storage in Azure
2.0 Identities and Governance
- Active Directory users and groups
- Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure Cost Management
- Enterprise State Roaming
3.0 Azure Storage
- Storage accounts
- Security for Storage accounts
- Disk storage for VMs
- Azure Storage redundancy
- Azure Files
- Azure Storage Explorer
- Azure Blob
- Azure Data Box
- Azure File Sync
4.0 Azure Compute Resources
- Linux VM in Azure
- Windows VM in Azure
- Secure VM disks
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure Automation State Configuration
- Azure App Service
- Docker
- Azure Container Instances
- Azure Kubernetes Service
5.0 Virtual Networks
- VM networking
- Azure Bastion
- Azure Domain Name System (DNS)
- Virtual network traffic
- VPN Gateway
- ExpressRoute
- Application Gateway
- Azure Load Balancer