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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

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Training content

Duration: 50 minutes and 50 seconds

Overview of Azure Services

This lesson gives an overview of the services available on Azure and shows how to create virtual machines and web apps using the Azure CLI and Azure Portal.

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes

Start Your First Azure Virtual Machine (Windows)

In this lab, you'll learn how to configure and start your first Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine (VM) from the Azure portal.

Duration: 7 minutes and 28 seconds

Azure Virtual Machine Availability and Scalability Solutions

In this short lesson, you’ll learn about three Azure features that can be used to improve availability and scalability for virtual machines: availability sets, availability zones, and scale sets.

Duration: 13 minutes and 54 seconds

Introduction to Azure App Service

This lesson explores Azure App Service, which makes deploying a web application as easy as possible by managing the underlying infrastructure for you.

Duration: 14 minutes and 3 seconds

Introduction to Azure Networking

In this lesson, I’ll give an overview of Azure Virtual Networks, virtual subnets, VNet peering, Azure DNS, Azure VPN Gateway, Azure ExpressRoute, and private endpoints.

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 40 minutes

Understanding Core Azure Networking Products

In this lab, you will navigate the Microsoft Azure Portal and receive an introduction to networking services provided by Azure.

Duration: 11 minutes and 37 seconds

Overview of Azure Storage

In this lesson, you’ll learn the basics of Azure Storage, including storage types, access tiers, redundancy options, and ways to ingest data into your storage accounts.

This course is an introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. We’ll start with an overview of Azure services. Next, we’ll dive into the specifics of Azure, starting with the core services: compute, storage, and networking. Then, we’ll cover security, privacy, compliance, and trust. Finally, we’ll go over Azure pricing and support.

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Learning Objectives

Describe core Azure services
Understand Azure security, privacy, compliance, and trust
Understand Azure pricing and support

Intended Audience

People who want to gain an understanding of Azure fundamentals

Prerequisites

An understanding of general technical concepts

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Guy launched his first training website in 1995 and he's been helping people learn IT technologies ever since. He has been a sysadmin, instructor, sales engineer, IT manager, and entrepreneur. In his most recent venture, he founded and led a cloud-based training infrastructure company that provided virtual labs for some of the largest software vendors in the world. Guy’s passion is making complex technology easy to understand. His activities outside of work have included riding an elephant and skydiving (although not at the same time).

Covered Topics

Microsoft Azure

Networking for Azure

Storage for Azure

Compute for Azure

Azure Windows Virtual Machines