Day1

• Azure Fundamentals

Introduction to Azure

Different segments SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS

Azure Regions and Data Centers

Overview of all Azure services

Azure portal

• Azure Storage

Understanding Storage Account

Features

Storage Account Replication Techniques: LRS, ZRS, GRS & RA-GRS Protocols

Consistency Model

• Azure File Storage

Use cases for Azure File Storage

Share, Files and Folders

Access control

• Azure Blob Storage

Use cases for Azure Blob Storage

Containers

Block Blob

Page Blob

Access Control

Shared Access Signatures

Locking Operations

Day2

• Azure Table Storage

Brief intro to NoSQL

Use cases for Azure Table Storage

Schema for Azure Tables

Scaling Tables

Access Control

• Azure Queue Storage

Need for Queues

Understanding Azure Queues

Hands-on Lab: Microsoft Azure Storage Lab; Using File storage, Blog storage, and Table Storage

• Azure CDN

Introduction to CDN

Need for CDN

Setting up CDN on Azure

Hands-on Lab: Managing content using CDN

• Azure Virtual Networks Overview

IP Addressing

What is a Virtual Network?

Understanding Network ACL and Network Security Group

Why is it needed?

Creating Virtual Networks in Azure

VPN options:

Architectural difference between Azure VPNs like VNET to VNET, point-to-site and site-to-site.

Endpoints

Load Balancing Endpoints

Private and Public IP

ExpressRoute

Hands-on Lab: Create a virtual network Azure Virtual Networks (VNet to VNet connection)

Day3

• Azure Web Apps

Understanding Web App tiers

Resource Group and Web Hosting Plans in the New Preview portal

Supported language

Scaling of Websites

Deployment sources

Deployment pipeline

Security

Frameworks

Monitoring

Understanding Web Jobs

Hands-on Lab: Deploy and create staging to prod deployment pipeline for Azure website

• Azure Virtual Machines

Understanding VMs architecture

Types of OS supported Images by Azure

Virtual Machine instances

Virtual Machine Types

Compute Tiers

Instance Types

Pricing

Understanding OS disk and Data disk

Understanding Custom Image

Understanding concepts of: Load balancing, Availability Set and Auto Scaling

Types of Provisioning

Disks & Images Virtual Machine management, automation and scripting

Cloud Service

Endpoints

Load Balanced Endpoint

Hands-on Lab: Creating VMs under VNet and managing security using Network ACL

Day4

• Azure Cloud Services

Features of Cloud Services

Deployment

Benefits

Roles

Web Role

Worker Role

Understanding Fault Domain

Understanding Upgrade Domain

Types of Configuration file

Deployment pipeline

Components

Specifications

Hands-on Lab: Deploying Application package with Azure Cloud Services

• Azure SQL Database

Understanding Database as a service

SQL Database is not SQL Server

Advance Capabilities

Benefits of SQL database

Scaling SQL database

Backup Options

Performance Model

Security

SQL Reporting

SQL Data Sync

SQL Federation

Pricing

Hands-on Lab: Migrate a database from on - premise to SQL Azure

• Implement an Azure Active Directory

Active Directory Fundamentals

Understanding Azure Active Directory

Self-Managed Azure AD

Need for Azure Active Directory

Azure AD data sync

Issues with data sync and how to solve it

Moving local AD to Azure AD

Integration Scenarios

Cloud Native App AD

Desktop App AD

Federation App AD

Single Sign-on for SaaS

Multi-Factor Authentication

Role-based Access Control

ADFS and Azure Access Control Service

Hands-on Lab: Authentication On‐Premise app using Azure AD

• Provisioning Infrastructure PowerShell

Evolution of Script

Azure PowerShell cmdlets

Understanding PowerShell DSC

Hands-on Lab: Provisioning infrastructure using PowerShell cmdlets

Day5

• Azure Mobile Service

Requirement of Mobile App development

Azure MBaaS

Cross Platform App development

Authentication Flow

Understanding Push Notification

• Azure HDInsight

BigData

Hadoop

Azure HDInsight Service

• Developing on Azure

For High Availability

For High Scalability

Disaster Recovery

• Cost Optimization
• Monitoring Strategy with Azure

Monitoring tools

Monitoring web apps using Visual Studio

Monitoring services using Azure portal

Hands-on Lab: Monitoring services using various tools

• Azure Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity Guidance

Disaster Recovery & High Availability 

Azure Site Recovery

Hyper‐V Replica

• Azure Automation

Automation Account

Runbook

Scheduled Jobs

Use case for Azure Automation Configuration

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