Azure 103 Training Course Contents

Rectus is offering a comprehensive Azure master's program that includes the individual constituent courses of Microsoft Azure certification such as AZ-103, AZ-203, AZ-300, and AZ-301. As part of this training, you will learn about Azure cloud platform, its architecture, components, virtualization, cloud services, Azure automation, building secure and scalable Azure infrastructure, and more through hands-on projects and case studies.

Azure 103 Training Course Content

Managing Azure subscription and resources

Managing Azure subscriptions, assigning administrator permissions, configuring Azure subscriptions, utilizing and consuming Azure resources, analyzing alerts and metrics, configuring diagnostic settings, monitoring unused resources, utilizing Log Search query functions, viewing alerts in Log Analytics, managing resource groups, configuring resource locks and policies, moving resources across resource groups, Managed role-based access control (RBAC).

Implementing and managing storage

Creating and configuring storage accounts, installing Azure Storage Explorer, monitoring activity using Log Analytics, deploying Azure storage replication, exporting from and importing into Azure job, Azure Data Box, configuring blob storage, Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN), creating Azure file share and file sync, implementing Azure backup, creating Recovery Services Vault, configuring backup policy.

Deploying and managing Virtual Machines

Configuring VM for Windows and Linux, configuring monitoring, networking, storage, deploying and configuring scale sets, modifying Azure Resource Manager (ARM), configuring VHD template, deploying Windows and Linux VMs, managing Azure VM, automate configuration management with PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), managing VM sizes, moving VMs from one resource to another, managing VM backups, configuring VM backup, performing VM restore, Azure Site Recovery.

Configuring and managing Virtual Networks

Creating connectivity between virtual networks, creating and configuring VNET peering, virtual network connectivity, creating virtual network gateway, implement and manage virtual networking, configuring private and public IP addresses, network routes and network interface, configuring name resolution, configuring Azure DNS, configuring private and public DNS zones, configuring Network Security Group (NSG), creating security rules; associating NSG to a subnet or network interface, implement Azure load balancer, monitor and troubleshoot virtual networking, integrate on premises network with Azure virtual network.

Managing identities

Managing Azure Active Directory (AD), managing Azure AD objects, creating users and groups, implementing and managing hybrid identities, installing and configuring Azure AD Connect and managing Azure AD Connect, perform bulk user updates manage guest accounts, include password hash and pass-through synchronization, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Azure 300-301 Training Course Content

Deploying and configuring infrastructure

Analyzing resource utilization and consumption, configuring diagnostic settings, creating resource baseline, creating alerts, analyze subscriptions, metrics, creating action groups, monitoring unused resources and spend, Log Search query function, Log Analytics view alerts, storage account configuration, configuring network access to storage account, shared access signature generation, Azure Storage Explorer, access keys management, monitoring activity with Log Analytics, Azure storage replication, Virtual Machine configuration for Linux and Windows, configuring network, storage, monitoring, configure scale sets, modifying Azure Resource Manager (ARM), VM location configuration, deploying Windows and Linux VMs, VM connectivity, VNET peer configuration, VM connectivity verification, creating virtual network gateway, configuring IP addresses, subnets, Azure AD Join, implementing hybrid identities, installing and configuring Azure AD Connect, password management and writeback.

Workload and security implementation

Migrating servers to Azure, migrating with Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and P2V, configuring storage, creating backup vault, backup and restore data, deploying Azure Site Recovery (ASR), serverless computing configuration, managing objects, Logic App resource, Azure Function app, Event Grid, Service Bus, application load balancing, front-end IP configuration, integrating Azure virtual network with on-premise network, Azure VPN Gateway, Express Route, on-premise connectivity, role-based access control (RBAC), RBAC troubleshooting and assigning roles, multi-factor authentication (MFA), enabling MFA on Azure tenant, configuring fraud alerts, IPs, verification methods, configuring management access to Azure.

Creating and deploying apps

Using PaaS to create web apps, creating documentation for API, creating App Service Web App, using WebJobs for App Service background task, diagnostic logging, designing apps that run in containers, configuring diagnostic settings, container image with Docker file, creating Azure Container Service (ACS/AKS), publishing image to Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instance, managing containers with code.

Implementing authentication and securing data

Deploying authentication, using forms-based authentication, tokens, certificates, using Azure AD for Windows authentication, OAuth2 authentication, Managed Service Identity, Service Principle authentication, role-based and claims-based authorization, shared access signature, secure data solutions, decrypting and encrypting data in transit and rest, using KeyVault API for key creation and deletion.

Developing for cloud

Developing solutions with Cosmos DB storage, creating, updating, deleting data with APIs, deploying partitioning schemes, setting consistency level for operations, developing solutions with relational database, provisioning and configuring relational databases, configuring elastic pools for Azure SQL database, creating, reading, updating and deleting data tables with code.
Configuring message-based architecture integration, configuring app or service, Azure Relay Service, Event Grid, Event Hub, Service Bus, Notification Hub, developing for autoscaling, implementing autoscaling rules and patterns.

Determining requirements for workload

gathering requirements, access management infrastructure, service-oriented architecture, identifying accessibility, governance, configuration, maintenance, capacity planning and scaling, debugging, troubleshooting, logging, recommending change during project execution, creating test scenarios, optimizing consumption strategy, optimizing app service, compute, network, identity, storage costs, designing auditing and monitoring strategy, recommending appropriate monitoring tools, designing audit for compliance and traceability.

Designing identity and security

Choosing an identity management approach, identity repository including application, directory, systems, identity management design, user and persona provisioning, designing authentication, designing for IPSec, designing authorization, choosing authorization approach, using API Keys, designing secure delegated access, designing for risk prevention and identity, RBAC policies, evaluating agreement between vendors and contractors, updating changes to the security policies. Designing monitoring strategy for identity and security, designing for alert notifications, alert and metric strategy, recommending authentication monitors.

Designing a data platform solution

Designing a data management strategy, choosing between managed and unmanaged data store, relational and non-relational databases, designing data audits, identifying data attributes, designing for data availability, consistency and durability, recommending Database Transaction Unit (DTU), designing a data protection strategy, encryption strategy, document data flows, data flow diagram, data import and export strategy, data platform monitoring strategy, alert notification, designing alert and metrics strategy.

Designing business continuity strategy

Designing site recovery strategy, storage replication, designing site failover, Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Level Objective (RLO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO), identifying supported and unsupported recovery, designing for high availability, designing for application redundancy, autoscaling, network redundancy, disaster recovery strategy, design failover, resources that need backup, recommending geographic availability strategy, data archiving strategy, business compliance requirement, identifying SLA for data archiving.

Designing for deployment, migration and integration

Designing a compute, storage, web app, message solution, service deployment strategy, designing migration, recommending migration strategy, export/import strategy on migration, data transfer and network connectivity method, designing an API strategy, API gateway strategy, API consumption policies, hosting structure for API management.

Designing an infrastructure strategy

Designing a Storage Strategy, storage provisioning, identifying storage needs, storage management tools, designing a compute strategy, compute provisioning, secure compute strategies, choosing the right compute technology like VM, container instance, service fabric, functions, designing Azure HPC environment, managing compute tools, identifying compute needs.

Designing a network and monitoring strategy

Designing network provisioning, network security strategies, network requirements, network management tools, designing a monitoring strategy for infrastructure, designing for alert notifications, designing an alerts and metrics strategy.

Azure 203 Training Course Content

Developing Azure IaaS Solutions

Implementing solutions with Virtual Machines (VM), provisioning VMs, creating ARM templates, configuring Azure Disk Encryption for VMs, deploying Azure batch jobs with Azure Batch Services, Batch Service API, running batch job with Azure CLI, Azure portals, Azure Batch Services batch job coding, creating containerized solutions, creating Azure Managed Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster, container images for solutions, publishing image to Azure Container Registry, running containers with Azure Container Instance.

Developing Azure PaaS Solutions

Creating Azure App Service Web Apps, creating background task with WebJobs, enabling diagnostic logging, creating Azure App Service mobile apps, enabling mobile app offline sync, deploying mobile device remote instrumentation, Azure App service API apps, API documentation with open source tools, Azure function implementation, function input and output binding, function trigger with timer, webhooks and data operations, Azure Durable Functions, creating Azure Function apps with Visual Studio.

Developing for Azure Storage

Developing solutions with storage tables, table policy implementation, using code to query table storage, deploying partitioning schemes, using Cosmo DB storage for solution development, data creation, read, update and delete with the right API, operations consistency level, developing solutions for relational databases, relational database configuration and provisioning, Azure SQL database elastic pool configuration, using code to create, read, update and delete data tables, developing solutions for blob storage, moving item between containers and storage accounts, deploying blob leasing, data archiving and retention.

Implementing Azure security

Deploying authentication, using forms-based authentication, tokens, certificates, using Azure AD for Windows authentication, OAuth2 authentication, Managed Service Identity, Service Principle authentication, role-based and claims-based authorization, shared access signature, secure data solutions, decrypting and encrypting data in transit and rest, using KeyVault API for key creation and deletion.

Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize Azure solutions

Code development for apps and services scalability, autoscaling rules, handling transit faults with code, caching and content delivery integration with solutions, Azure Redis Cache data storage and retrieval, developing code for CDNs, invalidating cache content, support monitoring and logging solutions, deploying Application Insights for configuring app or service instrumentation, Azure Monitor for troubleshooting, Application Insight Web Test implementation and alerts.

Connecting and consuming Azure and third-party services

Developing App Service Logic App, creating a Logic App, creating custom connector and custom template for Logic Apps, integrating Azure search in solutions, creating Azure search index, importing search data, querying Azure Search index, API Gateways, APIM instance, API authentication, API policies, event-based solution development, deploying solutions with Event Grid, Notification and Event Hub, developing message-based solutions, Azure Service Bus and Azure Queue Storage for solution implementation.

Durations : 72 Hours
Time Schedule : Weekdays /Weekend
Per Day: 4 Hours