Azure Fundamentals Training Overview
This Microsoft Azure Fundamentals training (course AZ-900) teaches attendees basic cloud concepts, including core Azure services, Azure management, and governance features and tools. This course prepares students for the AZ-900 exam for which every attendee receives a voucher.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, we offer some courses as live, instructor-led online classes for individuals.
Objectives
- Understand cloud concepts, deployment models, and shared responsibility in the cloud
- Understand the benefits cloud computing can offer organizations
- Understand the different cloud service types, use cases, and benefits aligned with each service type
- Create an Azure resource
- Configure network access and create an Azure Virtual Machine
- Create a storage blob
- Understand the authorization and authentication methods available with Azure
- Estimate workload costs by using the Pricing calculator
- Configure a resource lock
- Work with the tools to monitor the Azure environment
Prerequisites
No prior experience is presumed. Familiarity with cloud computing is helpful but not necessary.
Outline
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Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Introduction to Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Introduction to cloud computing
- What is cloud computing
- Describe the shared responsibility model
- Define cloud models
- Describe the consumption-based model
Benefits of Using Cloud Services
- Describe the benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud
- Describe the benefits of reliability and predictability in the cloud
- Describe the benefits of security and governance in the cloud
- Describe the benefits of manageability in the cloud
Cloud Service Types
- Describe Infrastructure as a Service
- Describe Platform as a Service
- Describe Software as a Service
Core Architectural Components of Azure
- What is Microsoft Azure
- Get started with Azure accounts
- Explore the Learn sandbox
- Describe Azure's physical infrastructure
- Describe the Azure management infrastructure
- Create an Azure resource
Azure Compute and Networking Services
- Describe Azure Virtual Machines
- Create an Azure Virtual Machine
- Describe Azure Virtual Desktop
- Describe Azure Containers
- Describe Azure Functions
- Describe application hosting options
- Describe Azure Virtual Networking
- Configure network access
- Describe Azure Virtual Private Networks
- Describe Azure ExpressRoute
- Describe Azure DNS
Azure Storage Services
- Describe Azure storage accounts
- Describe Azure storage redundancy
- Describe Azure storage services
- Create a storage blob
- Identify Azure data migration options
- Identify Azure file movement options
Azure identity, access, and security
- Azure directory services
- Azure authentication methods
- Azure external identities
- Azure conditional access
- Azure role-based access control
- Zero trust model
- Defense-in-depth
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Describe Cost Management in Azure
- Describe factors that can affect costs in Azure
- Compare the Pricing and Total Cost of Ownership calculators
- Estimate workload costs by using the Pricing calculator
- Compare workload costs using the TCO calculator
- Describe the Azure Cost Management tool
- Describe the purpose of tags
Features and Tools in Azure for Governance and Compliance
- Describe the purpose of Azure Blueprints
- Describe the purpose of Azure Policy
- Describe the purpose of resource locks
- Configure a resource lock
- Describe the purpose of the Service Trust portal
Features and Tools for Managing and Deploying Azure Resources
- Tools for interacting with Azure
- Azure Arc
- Azure Resource Manager and Azure ARM templates
Monitoring Tools in Azure
- Azure Advisor
- Azure Service Health
- Azure Monitor
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Microsoft Azure training students receive Microsoft official courseware.
For all Microsoft Official Courses taught in their entirety that have a corresponding certification exam, an exam
voucher is included for each participant.
Software Requirements
Attendees will not need to install any software on their computer for this class. The class will be conducted in a remote environment that Accelebrate will provide; students will only need a local computer with a web browser and a stable Internet connection. Any recent version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome will be fine.
