AZ-104T00 Microsoft Azure Administrator

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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.

Who Should Attend

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. Successful Azure Administrators start this role with experience in virtualization, networking, identity, and storage.

  • Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
  • Understanding of network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
  • Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control.
  • Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

Course Outline

1 - Manage services with the Azure portal

  • Azure management options
  • Navigate the portal
  • Azure portal dashboards
  • Access preview features

2 - Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell

  • What is Azure Cloud Shell?
  • How does Azure Cloud Shell work?
  • When should you use Azure Cloud Shell?
  • Module assessment

3 - Introduction to Bash

  • What is Bash?
  • Bash fundamentals
  • Bash commands and operators
  • Module assessment

4 - Introduction to PowerShell

  • What is PowerShell?
  • Locate commands
  • Module assessment

5 - Deploy Azure infrastructure by using JSON ARM templates

  • Explore Azure Resource Manager template structure
  • Add flexibility to your Azure Resource Manager template by using parameters and outputs
  • Module assessment

6 - Understand Microsoft Entra ID

  • Examine Microsoft Entra ID
  • Compare Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory Domain Services
  • Examine Microsoft Entra ID as a directory service for cloud apps
  • Compare Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2 plans
  • Examine Microsoft Entra Domain Services
  • Module assessment

7 - Create, configure, and manage identities

  • Create, configure, and manage users
  • Create, configure, and manage groups
  • Configure and manage device registration
  • Manage licenses
  • Create custom security attributes
  • Explore automatic user creation
  • Module assessment

8 - Describe the core architectural components of Azure

  • What is Microsoft Azure
  • Get started with Azure accounts
  • Describe Azure physical infrastructure
  • Describe Azure management infrastructure
  • Module assessment

9 - Azure Policy initiatives

  • Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
  • Azure Policy design principles
  • Azure Policy resources
  • Azure Policy definitions
  • Evaluation of resources through Azure Policy

10 - Secure your Azure resources with Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)

  • What is Azure RBAC?
  • Module assessment

11 - Allow users to reset their password with Microsoft Entra self-service password reset

  • What is self-service password reset in Microsoft Entra ID?
  • Implement Microsoft Entra self-service password reset

12 - Configure virtual networks

  • Plan virtual networks
  • Create subnets
  • Create virtual networks
  • Plan IP addressing
  • Create public IP addressing
  • Associate public IP addresses
  • Allocate or assign private IP addresses
  • Module assessment

13 - Configure network security groups

  • Implement network security groups
  • Determine network security group rules
  • Determine network security group effective rules
  • Create network security group rules
  • Implement application security groups
  • Module assessment

14 - Host your domain on Azure DNS

  • What is Azure DNS?
  • Configure Azure DNS to host your domain
  • Dynamically resolve resource name by using alias record

15 - Configure Azure Virtual Network peering

  • Determine Azure Virtual Network peering uses
  • Determine gateway transit and connectivity
  • Create virtual network peering
  • Extend peering with user-defined routes and service chaining
  • Module assessment

16 - Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes

  • Identify routing capabilities of an Azure virtual network
  • What is an NVA?

17 - Introduction to Azure Load Balancer

  • What is Azure Load Balancer?
  • How Azure Load Balancer works
  • When to use Azure Load Balancer
  • Module assessment

18 - Introduction to Azure Application Gateway

  • What is Azure Application Gateway?
  • How Azure Application Gateway works
  • When to use Azure Application Gateway
  • Module assessment

19 - Introduction to Azure Network Watcher

  • What is Azure Network Watcher?
  • How Azure Network Watcher works
  • When to use Azure Network Watcher
  • Module assessment

20 - Configure storage accounts

  • Implement Azure Storage
  • Explore Azure Storage services
  • Determine storage account types
  • Determine replication strategies
  • Access storage
  • Secure storage endpoints
  • Module assessment

21 - Configure Azure Blob Storage

  • Implement Azure Blob Storage
  • Create blob containers
  • Assign blob access tiers
  • Add blob lifecycle management rules
  • Determine blob object replication
  • Manage blobs
  • Determine Blob Storage pricing
  • Module assessment

22 - Configure Azure Storage security

  • Review Azure Storage security strategies
  • Create shared access signatures
  • Identify URI and SAS parameters
  • Determine Azure Storage encryption
  • Create customer-managed keys
  • Apply Azure Storage security best practices
  • Module assessment

23 - Configure Azure Files

  • Compare storage for file shares and blob data
  • Manage Azure file shares
  • Create file share snapshots
  • Implement soft delete for Azure Files
  • Use Azure Storage Explorer
  • Consider Azure File Sync

24 - Introduction to Azure virtual machines

  • Compile a checklist for creating an Azure Virtual Machine
  • Describe the options available to create and manage an Azure Virtual Machine
  • Manage the availability of your Azure VMs
  • Back up your virtual machines
  • Module assessment

25 - Configure virtual machine availability

  • Plan for maintenance and downtime
  • Create availability sets
  • Review update domains and fault domains
  • Review availability zones
  • Compare vertical and horizontal scaling
  • Implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Create Virtual Machine Scale Sets
  • Implement autoscale
  • Configure autoscale
  • Module assessment

26 - Configure Azure App Service plans

  • Implement Azure App Service plans
  • Determine Azure App Service plan pricing
  • Scale up and scale out Azure App Service
  • Configure Azure App Service autoscale
  • Module assessment

27 - Configure Azure App Service

  • Implement Azure App Service
  • Create an app with App Service
  • Explore continuous integration and deployment
  • Create deployment slots
  • Add deployment slots
  • Secure your App Service app
  • Create custom domain names
  • Back up and restore your App Service app
  • Use Azure Application Insights
  • Module assessment

28 - Configure Azure Container Instances

  • Compare containers to virtual machines
  • Review Azure Container Instances
  • Implement container groups
  • Review Azure Container Apps
  • Module assessment

29 - Introduction to Azure Backup

  • What is Azure Backup?
  • How Azure Backup works
  • When to use Azure Backup
  • Module assessment

30 - Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup

  • Azure Backup features and scenarios
  • Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
  • Restore virtual machine data

31 - Improve incident response with Azure Monitor alerts

  • Explore the different alert types that Azure Monitor supports
  • Use metric alerts for alerts about performance issues in your Azure environment
  • Use log search alerts to alert on events in your application
  • Use activity log alerts to alert on events within your Azure infrastructure
  • Use action groups and alert processing rules to send notifications when an alert is fired

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