Microsoft Azure Administrator
Course Content
Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
Learning Profile:
- This course is aimed at those who want to pursue and pass the AZ-104 Azure Administrator Certification.
- Once passed, 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.
Target Audience:
- Senior technical professionals, Operations team members, System administrators, Infrastructure
- professionals with exposure to Azure and are interested in passing the Azure AZ-104.
- This course is also for those who are planning for Azure DevOps Professional certification as AZ- 104 is a mandatory pre-requisite for AZ-400.
Pre-Requisites:
- Students enrolling to this course should at least have a basic understanding of Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
- Students need to have some background IT Knowledge on Virtual Machines, Networks and other IT infrastructure concepts.
- A free or paid Azure Account
Course Curriculum: Manage Azure AD objects
- Create users and groups
- Manage user and group properties
- Manage device settings
- Perform bulk user updates
- Manage guest accounts
- Configure Azure AD Join
- Configure self-service password reset
- Azure AD Connect
Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
- create a custom role
- provide access to Azure resources by assigning roles
- subscriptions
- resource groups
- resources (VM, disk, etc.)
- interpret access assignments
- manage multiple directories
Manage subscriptions and governance
- Configure Azure policies
- Configure resource locks
- Apply tags
- Create and manage resource groups
- Move resources
- Remove RGs
- Manage subscriptions
- Configure Cost Management
- Configure management groups
Manage storage accounts
- Configure network access to storage accounts
- Create and configure storage accounts
- Generate shared access signature
- Manage access keys
- Implement Azure storage replication
- Configure Azure AD Authentication for a storage account
Manage data in Azure Storage
- Export from Azure job
- Import into Azure job
- Install and use Azure Storage Explorer
- Copy data by using AZCopy
Configure Azure files and Azure blob storage
- Create an Azure file share
- Create and configure Azure File Sync service
- Configure Azure blob storage
- Configure storage tiers for Azure blobs
Configure VMs for high availability and scalability
- Configure high availability
- Deploy and configure scale sets
Automate deployment and configuration of VMs
- Modify Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template
- Configure VHD template
- Deploy from template
- Save a deployment as an ARM template
- Automate configuration management by using custom script extensions
Create and configure VMs
- Configure Azure Disk Encryption
- Move VMs from one resource group to another
- Manage VM sizes
- Add data discs
- Configure networking
- Redeploy VMs
Create and configure containers
- Create and configure Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Create and configure Azure Container Instances (ACI)
Create and configure Web Apps
- create and configure App Service
- create and configure App Service Plans
Implement and manage virtual networking
- Create and configure VNET peering
- Configure private and public IP addresses, network routes, network interface, subnets, and virtual network
Configure name resolution
- Configure Azure DNS
- Configure custom DNS settings
- Configure a private or public DNS zone
Secure access to virtual networks
- Create security rules
- Associate an NSG to a subnet or network interface• Evaluate effective security rules
- Deploy and configure Azure Firewall
- Deploy and configure Azure Bastion Service
Configure load balancing
- Configure Application Gateway
- Configure an internal load balancer
- Configure load balancing rules
- Configure a public load balancer
- Troubleshoot load balancing
Monitor and troubleshoot virtual networking
- Monitor on-premises connectivity
- Use Network Performance Monitor
- Use Network Watcher
- Troubleshoot external networking
- Troubleshoot virtual network connectivity
Integrate an on-premises network with an Azure virtual network
- Create and configure Azure VPN Gateway
- Create and configure VPNs
- Configure ExpressRoute
- Configure Azure Virtual WAN
Monitor resources by using Azure Monitor
- Configure and interpret metrics
- Analyze metrics across subscriptions
- Configure Log Analytics
- Implement a Log Analytics workspace
- Configure diagnostic settings
- Query and analyze logs
- Create a query
- Save a query to the dashboard
- Interpret graphs
- Set up alerts and actions
- Create and test alerts
- Create action groups
- View alerts in Azure Monitor
- Analyze alerts across subscriptions
- Configure Application Insights
Implement backup and recovery
- Configure and review backup reports
- Perform backup and restore operations by using Azure Backup
- Create a Recovery Services Vault
- Use soft delete to recover Azure VMs
- Create and configure backup policy
- Perform site-to-site recovery by using Azure Site Recovery