Prerequisites: Basic Windows Server Skills

   Introduction to Azure

• Cloud technology overview

• Overview of Azure

• Managing Azure with the Azure portal

• Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell

• Overview of Azure Resource Manager

• Azure management services

   Implementing and managing Azure networking

• Overview of Azure networking

• Implementing and managing Azure virtual networks

• Configuring Azure virtual networks

• Configuring Azure virtual network connectivity

• Configuring the Subnets

• Configuring Virtual Network Region Peering

• Configuring Virtual Network Global Peering

• Understanding Azure to On-Prem Connectivity

• Deploying Azure Virtual Network Gateway.

• Understanding User Defined Routes(UDR).

• Configuring Azure Virtual Network Gateway with AWS over IPSec VPN.

• Implementing Azure Service End Points.

   Understanding and Configuring  Network Security Groups(NSG)

• Understanding Azure Network Security Groups(NSG)

• Creating and Updating Inbound & Outbound Security Rules.

• Understanding NSG Rule Hierarchy.

• Testing Network Security Groups and leaning rule priority.

• Creating NSG Rules with Service tags.

• Understanding Application Security Groups (ASG).

• Creating NSG with Application Security Groups.

   Understanding and Configuring  Azure Firewall

• Overview of Azure Firewall as a Service.

• Creating UDR and AzureFirewallSubnet.

• Deploy Azure Firewall.

• Configure routing on UDR and assigning to subnets.

• Create Network Rule Collection and check the traffic.

• Create Application Rule Collection and block traffic to websites.

• Understand SNAT and DNAT in Azure Firewall.

• Creating DNAT for Azure machine using Azure Firewall.

   Implementing & Configuring Azure Virtual  Machines

• Overview Azure virtual machines

• Deploy virtual machines in Azure portal

• Deploy virtual machines using Azure CLI

• Managing Azure Virtual machine storage

• Understanding Availability sets, Fault Domain & Update Domain.

• Creating & place virtual machine in Availability Sets.

   Designing & Implementing  Azure Load Balancing

• Overview on Load Balancing

• Type of Load Balancers in Azure

• Basic Vs Standard Load Balancer

• Deploying Basic Load Balancer with Availability Sets.

• Creating Backend Pools, Health probes and Load Balance rules.

• Checking the Load Balancing scenarios.

• Configuring NAT using Basic Load Balancer.

   Implement and configure Azure DNS & Azure Standard Load Balancer

• Understanding Azure DNS.

• Buying a domain name for Godaddy.com

• Creating Azure DNS Zone and configure with Godaddy.

• Creating 3 Availability Sets and place single virtual machine in each AV-Set.

• Create Azure Standard Load Balancer and create backend pool and assign all the 3 AVSets.

• Check the Load Balancing between the servers in different AV-Sets.

• Create Host Records for Server and check the name resolution.

• Create the CNAME record for the Load Balancer and check the website resolution.

   Configuring Azure Application gateway

• Understanding Azure Application Gateway architecture.

• Understanding Path Based Routing in AGW.

• Creating multiple VMs and configuring application gateway.

• Configuring the SSL Off-loading on Application gateway.

• Check pathing based routing using AGW.

   Configuring Auto Scaling with Virtual Machine Scale Sets(VMSS)

• Understanding Azure VMSS

• Creating a Azure VM Image for VMSS

• Deploy VMSS with the custom image.

• Performing stress testing on the VMSS.

• Check AutoScaling of VMs under stress testing

   Planning and implementing Azure Storage

• Azure Storage account overview

• Understand Blob Storage

• Understand File Shares

• Data migration using Azure storage explorer

• Manage Azure Storage permissions

• Azure Static Website deployment

• Custom domains

   Configure and Mange Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery Services

• Backup and disaster recovery overview

• Backup VMware Servers to Azure

• Backup Azure VM & Azure SQL instances

• Azure replication and failover groups

• Azure disaster recovery vault configuration

• How to implement full BCDR strategy

   Planning and implementing Azure SQL Database

• Azure SQL database(PaaS) vs SQL database (IaaS)

• Structured vs Unstructured data

• DTUs -  Azure SQL

• RUs – Azure Cosmos DB

• Azure SQL Global Replication and Failover Groups

   Implementing Azure App services

• Azure Web Apps overview ( PaaS)

• Deploying and Managing Web Apps

• Azure App Service plan

• Azure Deployment slots

• App Service Security

• Serverless computing concepts

• Azure Web Apps for scale and resilience

   Implementing Azure Active Directory

• Azure Domain services

• Azure Active Directory overview

• Deploy and configure Active directory

• Create and manage users and groups

• Extending On-premise Active directory to Azure

• Configure Azure AD connect

• Role based access control (RBAC) overview

• Configure domain users and groups to access Azure portal

   Implementing Azure-based management and automation

• Implementing Azure Automation

• Implementing Automation runbooks

• Managing Azure Automation

• Creating and Managing Azure DSC

   Designing and developing apps for Containers

• Virtual Machine vs Containers

• Install and configure Docker Engine

• Deploy and manage Containers

   Configure Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Analytics

• Azure Monitoring and alerts configuration

• Log analytics

• Insights  virtual machines and network

• Insights applications and containers

   Azure Migrate projects  and customer billing optimization

• Azure Migration projects

• Recovery services vaults

• Azure Database migration services

• Azure cost calculator

• Azure price optimization

   Azure with Packer & Terraform

• Deploy Azure Infrastructure with Terraform

• Azure Image management with Packer.

   Understanding Azure DevOps

• Learning Azure DevOps application/tool.

• Creating KANBAN boards.

• Creating Repos and branches

• Installing 3rd Party Plugins

• Creating release pipelines and deploying infra.

   Azure Functions & Logic Apps

• Understanding Azure functions.

• Creating and executing Azure Functions.

• Creating Logic Apps and executing.

• Introduction to Azure API Management.

    Azure Certification & Azure Project.

• Certification Hierarchy

• Designing and Implementing Azure projects