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Duration

10 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Introduction to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
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  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Course 1 of 4 in the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Exam Prep Specialization
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Beginner Level You should be familiar with the general technology concepts such as networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development.
  • Approx. 10 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: English
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  • Whether you're just beginning to work with the cloud or you already have cloud experience and are new to Microsoft Azure, this course provides you with everything you need to get started. It introduces you to Microsoft Azure core concepts and services. You?ll learn the basics of cloud computing, its advantages, and how to choose the right Microsoft Azure solution for different business scenarios. You?ll use the Microsoft Azure portal and a sandbox to create and test Microsoft Azure resources at no cost to you. You don?t need to write code or have scripting skills to do this.
  • You?ll learn about several of the database and big data services that are available on Microsoft Azure. You'll also learn how to take advantage of several virtualization services in Microsoft Azure compute, which can help your applications scale out quickly and efficiently to meet increasing demands. Finally, you?ll learn about the different storage and virtual network options available in Microsoft Azure.
  • This course can help you prepare for AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam. This is the first course in a four-course program that prepares you to take the AZ-900 certification exam. This course teaches you the core concepts and skills that are assessed in the cloud concepts and core Microsoft Azure services exam domains.
  • This beginner course is suitable for IT personnel who are just beginning to work with Microsoft Azure and want to learn about Microsoft Azure offerings and get hands-on experience with the product.
  • To be successful in this course, you need to have basic computer literacy and proficiency in the English language. You should be familiar with basic computing concepts and terminology, general technology concepts, including concepts of networking, storage, compute, application support, and application development. You should also be familiar with the concept of application programming interfaces or APIs. It is beneficial to have a high-level familiarity with relevant Microsoft products such as Dynamics 365 and Office 365.
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Curriculum

Introduction to Azure Fundamentals

Introduction to the program

Introduction to Azure Core Concepts & Services

Careers in cloud computing

The Microsoft AZ-900 certification exam

Introduction to Azure

The benefits of cloud computing

What is Azure?

Case study introduction

Weekly summary

Skills measured? in the exam

Course syllabus

How to be successful in this course

Additional reading

List of Azure services

Exercise: Get started with Azure accounts

Additional reading

Exercise quiz

Knowledge check

Test prep

Microsoft Azure Fundamental Concepts & Architectural Components

The benefits of cloud computing

Cloud service models

Types of cloud service models

What are public, private, and hybrid clouds?

Weekly summary

Lesson introduction

Overview of Azure subscriptions, management groups, resources, and regions

Azure subscriptions & management groups

Azure resources and Azure Resource Manager

Azure regions and availability zones

Weekly summary

Describe the different categories of cloud services

Additional reading

Exercise - Create a website hosted in Azure

Additional reading

Knowledge check

Exercise quiz

Knowledge check

Test prep

Microsoft Azure Database, Analytics, & Compute Services

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Azure Database for MySQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Big data and analytics

Case study introduction

Overview of Azure compute services

When to use Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Container services

Azure Kubernetes Services

Microservice architecture

When to use Azure App Service

When to use Azure Functions

Azure Functions and Logic Apps

When to use Windows Virtual Desktop

Weekly summary

Exercise - Create an Azure SQL Database

Additional reading

Functions versus Logic Apps

Additional reading

Exercise quiz

Knowledge check

Knowledge check

Test prep

Microsoft Azure Storage & Networking Services

Case study introduction

Azure storage account fundamentals

Disk storage fundamentals

Azure Blob Storage fundamentals

Azure files fundamentals

Understanding blob access tiers

Case study introduction

Azure Virtual network fundamentals

Azure virtual networks

Azure virtual network settings

Azure VPN gateway fundamentals

Azure ExpressRoute fundamentals

Weekly Summary

Congratulations and next steps

What to expect

Knowledge check

Knowledge check

Test prep

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Learning Experience: The content of the course is easy to understand and is designed in a sequence that gives better understanding about the cloud and Azure platform too.
Faculty: Lecture quality was very good and the faculty members lecture and sessions were easy to comprehend. I found course curriculum a little short but it has all the information needed to understand. What I liked most about the course is how the cloud services has changed the processing and interpretation of information with lesser technology.
Course Support: It helped me alot in gaining new knowledge about cloud and use that in the future jobs.
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Learning Experience: The course content and explanation is very good and there is many practical exercise also available for do it self evaluation where we can develop more skills and knowledge about it
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Course Support: Just online certification
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Other: There are several qualities of an outstanding teacher. One quality is the metacognitive skill of the teacher. Metacognition is defined as the process of reflection, which encourages deeper learning. If a student is regularly able to self-reflect on his performance as well as the performance of others, he will learn more and improve academic results. For teachers, it can help monitor and also change the lessons in the future and for students, it can also improve their performance in future lessons. Dividing metacognition strategies into before a task,
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