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AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

Course Summary

This course teaches IT professionals to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networks, 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.
Additionally, we would like to recommend taking the AZ-104 Infrastructure Hands-on lab.

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Course Objective

Successful Azure administrators start their role with experience in operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage architectures and networking.

  • Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networks and virtual hard disks.
  • Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, DNS (Domain Name System), VPN (Virtual Private Network), 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 recovery.
Target Audience

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, provision, monitor, and adjust resources appropriately.

Prerequisites
Certification
Trainer

We provide the course together with one of our partners.

Course Details

Module 1: Identity

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

Lessons

  • Azure Active Directory
  • Users and groups

Lab: Managing Azure Active Directory identities

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Secure and manage identities with Azure Active Directory.
  • Implement and manage users and groups.

Module 2: Governance and compliance

In this module, you will learn how to manage your subscriptions and accounts, implement Azure policies, and use role-based access control.

Lessons

  • Subscriptions and accounts
  • Policy for Azure
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)

Lab : Manage subscriptions and RBAC
Lab : Manage governance via Azure Policy

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Implement and manage Azure subscriptions and accounts.
  • Implement Azure Policy, including custom policies.
  • Use RBAC to assign permissions.

Module 3: Azure administration

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

Lessons

  • Azure Resource Manager
  • Azure Portal and Cloud Shell
  • Azure PowerShell and CLI
  • ARM templates

Lab : Manage Azure resources using Azure Portal
Lab : Manage Azure resources using ARM templates
Lab : Manage Azure resources using Azure PowerShell
Lab : Manage Azure resources using Azure CLI

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Leverage Azure Resource Manager to organize resources.
  • Use Azure Portal and Cloud Shell.
  • Use Azure PowerShell and CLI.
  • Use ARM templates to distribute resources.

Module 4: Virtual networks

In this module, you will learn about basic virtual networking concepts such as virtual networks and subnets, IP addressing, network security groups, Azure Firewall and Azure DNS.

Lessons

  • Virtual networks
  • IP addressing
  • Network security groups
  • The Azure firewall
  • Azure DNS

Lab: Implementing virtual networks

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Implementing virtual networks and subnets.
  • Configure public and private IP addressing.
  • Configure network security groups.
  • Configure Azure Firewall.
  • Configure private and public DNS zones.

Module 5: Connectivity between websites

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

Lessons

  • VNet-peering
  • Connections to VPN gateway
  • ExpressRoute and virtual WAN

Lab: Implementing connectivity between sites

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Configure VNet Peering.
  • Configuring VPN gateways.
  • Choose the appropriate solution for connecting between different locations.

Module 6: 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.

Lessons

  • Network routing and endpoints
  • Azure load balancer
  • Azure Application Gateway
  • Traffic manager

Lab : Implementing traffic management

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Configure network routing including customized routes and service endpoints.
  • Configure an Azure Load Balancer.
  • Configure and Azure Application Gateway.
  • Choose the appropriate solution for network traffic.

Module 7: Azure storage

In this module, you will learn about basic storage features, including storage accounts, blob storage, Azure files and file synchronization, storage security, and storage tools.

Lessons

  • Storage accounts
  • Blob storage
  • Security of storage
  • Azure Files and file synchronization
  • Management of storage

Lab : Managing Azure storage

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Create Azure storage accounts.
  • Configure blob containers.
  • Secure Azure storage.
  • Configure Azure file sharing and file synchronization.
  • Manage storage with tools like Storage Explorer.

Module 8: Virtual machines in Azure

In this module, you will learn about Azure virtual machines, including planning, creation, availability and extensions.

Lessons

  • Planning of virtual machines
  • Creating virtual machines
  • Availability of virtual machines
  • Virtual machine add-ons

Lab : Managing virtual machines

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Plan for the implementation of virtual machines.
  • Create virtual machines.
  • Configure virtual machine availability, including scale sets.
  • Use extensions for virtual machines.

Module 9: Serverless computing

In this module, you will learn how to administer serverless computing features such as Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances and Kubernetes.

Lessons

  • Plans for Azure App Service
  • Azure App service
  • Container services
  • Azure Kubernetes service

Lab: Implementing Web Apps
Lab: Implementing Azure Container Instances
Lab: Implementing Azure Kubernetes Service

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Create a service plan for the app.
  • Create a web app.
  • Implement Azure Container Instances.
  • Implement Azure Kubernetes Service.

Module 10: Data protection

In this module, you will learn about file and folder backups and virtual machine backups.

Lessons

  • Backing up files and folders
  • Backup of virtual machines

Lab : Implementing data protection

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Back up and restore files and folders.
  • Back up and restore virtual machines.

Module 11: Monitoring

In this module, you will learn about Azure infrastructure monitoring, including Azure Monitor, alerts, and log analysis.

Lessons

  • Azure monitors
  • Azure alerts
  • Log analysis
  • Network supervisors

Lab : Implementing monitoring

After completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Use Azure Monitor.
  • Create Azure alerts.
  • Query with the help of Log Analytics.
  • Use the Network Watcher.

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