Azure for Administrators (Az-104)

Azure Basics 

1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
2. IaaS Vs PaaS vs SaaS and Serverless
3. Understand Azure Management Portal

Azure Administration – Options

1. Overview of Administrative Options
2. Explore the various options available in Azure Management Portal
3. Azure Core Concept (Regions, Data Centers etc)
4. Understand Azure Resource Manager Template to automate the Azure Resource Provisioning

Manage Subscription, Resource Group and Governance

1. Subscriptions
   • Overview of Azure Subscriptions
   • Types of Subscription
   • Create and Manage Subscriptions
2. Resource Group
   • Overview of Resource Group
   • Create and Configure Locks to avoid Accidental Deletes
3. Azure Policies
   • Overview of Azure Policies
   • Azure Policy – Core Concepts
   • Azure Policy and Policy Initiatives
   • Azure Policy Assignments
   • Apply and Manage Tags on Various resources and scopes

Azure Identity

1. Overview of Microsoft Entra Id (formerly Azure Active Directory)
   • User Accounts
   • Adding User Accounts
   • Bulk User Accounts
   • Group Accounts
   • Adding Group Members
   • Adding a Group Owner
   • Configure self-service password reset
2. Role-based Access Control
   • Overview of RBAC Roles
   • View & Manage
   • Assign RBAC Roles at various scopes

Working with Virtual Machines (IaaS)

1. Overview of Virtual Machines
2. Explore the components of Virtual Machines
3. Provision a Virtual Machine using Azure Management Portal
4. Virtual Machine Management
   • Understand scale up of Virtual Machines
   • How to change the admin Password of a Virtual Machine
   • Configure auto shut-down of the Virtual Machines
   • Configure DNS for Virtual Machine
   • Install anti-virus into the Virtual Machine using Extensions
   • Automate Windows updates to Virtual Machine
   • Configure Bastion for securely connecting to Azure Virtual Machine
5. Virtual Machine Disks
   • Create disks and attach to the VM
   • Detach the disk from one VM and attach it to another
   • Create Snapshots of OS disk and create a new VM with that disk
   • Expand the size of the disk after it is created.

Virtual Machines – High Availability & Load Balancing (IaaS)

1. Add 2 VMs to availability set
2. Azure Load Balancer
3. Implement Auto scaling using Virtual Machine Scale Sets
4. Azure Application Gateway
5. Azure Traffic Manager

Azure Networking (IaaS)

1. Create a Virtual Network
2. Create a Subnet with in a Virtual Network
3. Create IP Address and attach it to a NIC Card
4. Create NSG Rules and attach it to NIC and/or Subnet
5. Learn how to secure IaaS Services using Network Security Groups.
6. Explore Service End Points
7. Learn how to secure PaaS Services using Private End Points.
8. Create and configure VNET peering

Implement backup and recovery (IaaS)

1. Create an Azure Recovery Services vault
2. Create an Azure Backup vault
3. Create and configure backup policy
4. Perform backup and restore operations by using Azure Backup
5. Configure Azure Site Recovery for Azure resources
6. Perform failover to a secondary region by using Azure Site Recovery
7. Configure and review backup reports

Azure App Service (PaaS)

1. Create and Configure App Service Plans
2. Create and Configure App Service 
3. Learn auto-scaling options in App Service Plans
4. Create and Configure Azure SQL Database

Azure Storage (PaaS)

1. Create a Storage Account
2. Create Containers and Blobs
3. Install & Explore Azure Storage Explorer
4. Create SAS tokens and understand the benefits of SAS tokens
5. Copy Files from on prem to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy
6. Copy Files from one Storage Account to other Storage Account
7. Create File Shares and sync the files
8. Create Tables using Storage Explorer
9. Understand and Configure Storage Replication
10. Manage Storage Object Replication
11. Configure Storage Snapshots and enable Soft-deletes
12. Configure Blob Versioning and Life Cycle Management

Azure Monitor (IaaS + PaaS)

1. Monitor VMs using Azure Monitor
2. Configure Log Analytics
   • Create Log Analytics workspace
   • Integrate Log Analytics workspace with Virtual Machines
   • Create Metrics
3. Learn how to query & analyze logs using KQL
   • Learn how to Create a query using KQL
   • Save a query to the dashboard
   • Interpret graphs
4. Set up alerts and actions
   • Create and test alerts
   • Create action groups
   • View alerts in Azure Monitor

Azure Automation (IaaS)

1. Update Management Solution
   • Overview of Update Management
   • Architecture of Update Management
   • Prerequisites of Update Management
   • Update OS updates for multiple Virtual Machines using Update Management

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Overview of IaC
• Popular IaC Technologies
• Overview of Bicep
• Author Bicep code to create Azure Resources
• Deploy Azure Resources using Bicep and Azure CLI
• Overview of Azure DevOps Pipeline to execute Bicep Scripts

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