Microsoft Azure Certification Master Training

Module 01 - Introduction to Cloud Computing & Microsoft Azure

1.1 Introduction to cloud computing
1.2 What is Microsoft Azure?
1.3 Microsoft Azure Services
1.4 Creating a Microsoft Azure Account
1.5 Azure CLI, Azure Powershell
1.6 Managing Azure Resources & Subscriptions
1.7 Azure Resource Manager
1.8 Microsoft Azure Architecture

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Move and organised resources in the resource groups
2. Create a resource Groups and deploy resources in it.

Module 02 - Implementing Azure Storage

2.1 Introduction Azure Storage Account
2.2 Explain types -Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files Storage,Azure Table Storage, Azure Queue Storage, Azure Storage Explorer
2.3 Attach & Detach an External Storage Account
2.4 Azure Shared Access Sgnature (SAS).

Hands-on Exercise: 
1. Create Storage Account
2. Create and manage Azure Blob
3. Create and manage Azure File Storage
4. Create and manage Azure Queue Storage
5. Create and manage Azure Table Storage
6. Download and Set Up Storage Explorer
7. Attach and detach external storage account in storage Explorer
8. Access Storage Services using Storage Explorer.

Module 03 - Securing & Managing Azure Storage

3.1 Azure Storage Replication
3.2 Why Azure Storage Replication?
3.3 Data Replication Options
3.4 Azure Import/Export Service
3.5 How Import/Export Service Works
3.6 Azure File Sync, Azure Backup Service
3.7 Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Create Archive Backup
2. Create SNapshot Backup
3. Create AZ Copy Backup
4. Create and Use CDN Endpoints.

Module 04 - Create & Configure Virtual Machines

4.1 Introduction to Azure Virtual Machines
4.2 Virtual Machine Configurations
4.3 Creating and Configuring Azure VM
4.4 Data Disks in Azure
4.5 Creating VM from an existing OS disk
4.6 Azure VMs & Interfaces
4.7 Introduction to ARM templates
4.8 Introduction to VHD templates
4.9 Creating Virtual Machines using templates
4.10 Introduction to Custom Images of Azure VM.

Hands-on Exercise: 
1. Create and congfigure a Virtual Machine
2. Creating a VM from VHD Template
3. Deploying a VM from a Custom Image.

Module 05 - Configuring High Availability for Azure VMs

5.1 Why Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets
5.2 Virtual Machine Availability Sets
5.3 Backing Up Azure Virtual Machines
5.4 VM Back Up Policies
5.5 Restoring Azure Virtual machines
5.6 Azure Site Recovery.

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Create and configure a Virtual Machine
2. Create a Scale Set
3. Creating a VM from VHD Template
4. Deploying a VM from a Custom Image
5. Take a back up of an Azure VM
6. Restore the VM
7. Create a Scale Set.

Module 06 - Azure Virtual networks & Network Security groups

6.1 Introduction to Azure Virtual Networks
6.2 Azure Vnet Components
6.3 IP Addresess – Public & Private IPs
6.4 Azure Vnet Subnets
6.5 Azure Network Interface Cards (NIC)
6.6 Network Security Group (NSG)
6.7 NSG Rules
6.8 Creating Route Tables, Service Tags
6.9 Introduction to Azure DNS and Private DNS.

Hands-on Exercise: 
1. Assigning Static IP
2. Creating Azure Vnet from Scratch
3. Creating and Attaching NIC to VM
4. Creating and using NSG
5. Create and configure DNS.

Module 07 - Managing Traffic and Connectivity

7.1 Introduction to Azure Load Balancers
7.2 Troubleshooting Azure Load Balancers
7.3 Azure Network Watcher
7.4 Virtual Network Gateway
7.5 Vnet Peering, Vnet to Vnet Connection Gateway, Vnet Site to Site Connection
7.6 Azure Express Route, Express Route Circuits, Express Route Peering.

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Create and Configure Vnet to Vnet Peering
2. Create and Configure Vnet to Vnet Gateway Connection
3. Create Internal Load Balancer
4. Create Public Load Balancer
5. Estabalish site to site VPN gateway Connection.

Module 08 - Access management in Azure

8.1 What is Access Management in Azure?
8.2 Role Based Access Management (RBAC)
8.3 Built in Roles in Access Management
8.4 Structure of Role Definitions
8.5 Creating a Custom Role
8.6 Role Assignment in Azure Resources, Azure Users & Groups, RBAC Policies.

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Creating a Custom Role
2. Attach policies to the role
3. Assigning role to Azure resources.

Module 09 - Managing Azure Active Directory

9.1 What is Active Directory
9.2 Why Azure Active Directory?
9.3 What is Windows Active Directory?
9.4 Windows AD Vs Azure AD, Azure AD Users, Azure AD Groups,Azure AD Domains, Azure AD Tenants.

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Create an Azure Active Directory
2. Create Azure AD Users – Guests and Members
3. Assign roles to Users, Create Azure AD Groups
4. Create a Custom Domain in Azure Active Directory.

Module 10 - Managing Hybrid Identities & Implementing Authentication

10.1 What is Azure AD Connect?
10.2 Features of Azure AD Connect
10.3 Authentication Options, AD Connect Password hash Synchronization
10.4 AD Connect Federation Integration, Azure AD Connect Health Monitoring
10.5 Self Service password Reset (SSPR)
10.6 Implementing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Configure Azure AD Connect
2. Manage Azure AD Connect Health operations
3. Enable and implement Self service password reset for a certain user
4. Enable and implement Multi factor Authentication for users.

Module 11 - Azure compute services

11.1 Data Disks in Azure
11.2 Azure VMs & Interfaces
11.3 ARM templates and VHD templates
11.4 Custom Images of Azure VM
11.5 Virtual Machine Scale Sets
11.6 Virtual Machine Availability Sets
11.7 Backing Up Azure Virtual Machines
11.8 VM Back Up Policies, Restoring Azure Virtual machines
11.9 Azure Site Recovery
11.10 App Service Web App for Containers
11.11 App Service plan
11.12 Networking for an App Service
11.13 Deployment slots, Container image
11.14 Azure Kubernetes Service
11.15 Azure Container Registry

Hands-on Exercise:
1. Create Networking for an App Service
2. Create Azure Container Registry
3. Backing Up Azure Virtual Machines
4. VM Back Up Policies
5. Restoring Azure Virtual machines

What projects I will be working on this Microsoft Azure 103 training?

Project 01: Deploying a website using Microsoft Azure Services

Topics: Virtual Machines, Blob storage, Traffic manager, Application gateway, Virtual Network Peering.

Highlights:

1.1 Deploying the web servers in two different Azure regions
1.2 Controlling, managing and monitoring the traffic geographically
1.3 Enabling Path based Routing for the website
1.4 Enabling communication between the servers
1.5 Storing data on the cloud

Project 02: Queues using Azure

Topics: Queues

Highlights:

2.1 Setting up an application in Azure
2.2 Using azure SDK to set up queues
2.3 Deploying queues to pass messages

Case Study 01: Introduction to Cloud computing

Problem Statement: Solving the issue of not wanting the corporation’s confidential data on the cloud while migrating to Microsoft Azure

Topics: Azure Resource manager, Azure subscriptions

Highlights:
1.1 Govern all resources separately
1.2 Tracking cost and billing of each service being used separately
1.3 Accessing and managing resource groups

Case Study 02: Microsoft Azure Storage

Problem Statement: Solving latency issues and difficulty accessing common files and tools

Topics: Azure storage account, Azure file share, CDN endpoint

Highlights:
2.1 Uploading static content to azure storage
2.2 Creating and configuring a CDN Endpoint to serve the static files that have
been uploaded
2.3 Creating an azure file share and uploading content in it
2.4 Connecting a Linux and Windows server to the File share

Case Study 03: Azure Virtual Machines

Problem Statement: Managing scaling requirements using scale sets and using custom image to create a Virtual machine

Topics: Virtual Machines, Custom images

Highlights:
3.1 Automating the scaling of Virtual Machines as required
3.2 Deploying multiple identical VMs using custom VM image

Case Study 04: Microsoft Azure networking

Problem Statement: Deploy a virtual network with multiple subnets in it and enable the resources within them to communicate privately

Topics: Virtual network, Vnet peering

Highlights:
4.1 Creating a Vnet with subnets and deploying Virtual Machines in it
4.2 Establishing a connection between these subnets

Case Study 05: Load balancing and Network watcher

Problem Statement: Setting up a load balancer and a network watcher in Azure portal

Topics: Azure load balancer, Network performance monitor

Highlights:
5.1 Deploying a load balancer for the backend resources such that a single frontend IP is exposed and all the web servers can be accessed from it
5.2 Setting up a Network performance manager to generate alerts

Case Study 06: Access management in Azure

Problem Statement: Providing access to some of the services managed by your organization’s active directory

Topics: Azure Active Directory, Azure Multi-Factor Authentication

Highlights:
6.1 Adding users in active directory and giving them access
6.2 Creating users in custom active directory domain and giving them access
6.3 Setting up a password authentication method
6.4 Setting up MFA with a verification option

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.

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.

What projects I will be working on this Azure 203 training?

Project: Deploying an Industry-scale application in Azure App Services using the custom containers.

Industry: General

Problem Statement: Creating an application in Azure App Service, deploy the app in Azure App Service, configure your application into the container, open its SSH session in browser and troubleshoot the application.

Topics: In this Microsoft Azure Developer Project, you will be working on building a Python and PostgreSQL application in Azure App service, then configure your application into the customized docker container.

Highlights:

• Create an Application in Azure App.
• Create a PostgreSQL Database in Azure.
• Deploy the app to Azure.
• Manage the app in Azure Portal.
• Configure your application in the Custom Containers.

Introduction to Cloud & Microsoft Azure

Introduction to Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Models, What is Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services, Microsoft Azure Architecture, Creating an Account in Microsoft Azure, Different ways of accessing Microsoft Azure – Portal, Powershell and CLI, Azure Resources and Subscriptions, Understanding Azure Resource Manager, managing resource groups, configuring resource locks and policies, moving resources across resource groups.

Hands-on Exercise: Move and organised resources in the resource groups Create a resource Groups and deploy resources in it.

Implement and Manage Storage

Azure Storage, Azure Storage Account & its types, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files Storage, Azure Table Storage, Azure Queue Storage, Azure Storage Explorer, Attach & Detach an External Storage Account, Azure Shared Access Signature (SAS), Azure Storage Replication, Why Azure Storage Replication?, Data Replication Options, Azure Import/Export Service, How Import/Export Service Works, Azure File Sync, Azure Backup Service, Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Hands-on Exercise: Create Storage Account, Create and manage Azure Blob, Create and manage Azure File Storage, Create and manage Azure Queue Storage, Create and manage Azure Table Storage, Download and Set Up Storage Explorer, Attach and detach external storage account in storage Explorer, Access Storage Services using Storage Explorer.

Create & Configure Azure Virtual Machines

Introduction to Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Configurations, Creating and Configuring An Azure VM, Data Disks in Azure, Creating VM from an existing OS disk, Azure VMs & Interfaces, Introduction to ARM templates, Introduction to VHD templates, Creating Virtual Machines using templates, Introduction to Custom Images of Azure VM, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Why Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Virtual Machine Availability Sets, Backing Up Azure Virtual Machines, VM Back Up Policies, Restoring Azure Virtual machines, Azure Site Recovery.

Hands-on Exercise: Create and configure a Virtual Machine, Create a Scale Set, Creating a VM from VHD Template, Deploying a VM from a Custom Image, Take a back up of an Azure VM, Restore the VM, Create a Scale Set.

Azure Virtual Networks

Introduction to Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Vnet Components, IP Addresess – Public & Private IPs, Azure Vnet Subnets, Azure Network Interface Cards (NIC), Network Security Group (NSG), NSG Rules, Creating Route Tables, Service Tags, Introduction to Azure DNS, Introduction to Private DNS.

Hands-on Exercise: Assigning Static IP, Creating Azure Vnet from Scratch, Creating and Attaching NIC to VM, Creating and using NSG, Create and configure DNS.

Managing Traffic & Connectivity

Introduction to Azure Load Balancers, Troubleshooting Azure Load Balancers, Azure Network Watcher, Virtual Network Gateway, Vnet Peering, Vnet to Vnet Connection Gateway, Vnet Site to Site Connection, Azure Express Route, Express Route Circuits, Express Route Peering.

Hands-on Exercise: Create and Configure Vnet to Vnet Peering, Create and Configure Vnet to Vnet Gateway Connection, Create Internal Load Balancer, Create Public Load Balancer, Establish site to site VPN gateway Connection.

Implementing Identity & Access management

What is Access Management in Azure?, Role Based Access Management (RBAC), Role Assignment in Azure Resources, Azure Users & Groups, RBAC Policies, What is Active Directory, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Why Azure Active Directory?, What is Azure AD Connect?, Features of Azure AD Connect, Azure Active Directory Authentication Options, AD Connect Password hash Synchronization, AD Connect Pass-through Authentication, AD Connect Federation Integration, Azure AD Connect Health Monitoring, Self Service password Reset (SSPR), Implementing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

Hands-on Exercise: Creating a Custom Role, Attach policies to the role, Assigning role to Azure resources, Create an Azure Active Directory, Create Azure AD Users and assign roles, Create a Custom Domain in Azure Active Directory, Configure Azure AD Connect, Enable and implement Self service password reset for a certain user, Enable and implement Multi factor Authentication for users.

Create and Deploy Apps

What is Azure App Service?, Azure Web Apps Features, What Is Azure Mobile App?, What Is Azure Logic Apps?, Function App in the Azure Portal, Azure Web Apps, WebJobs, Azure Event Grids, Diagnostics Logging, Designing Apps that run on Containers, Docker Basics, Creating Docker Images with Docker files, Azure Kubernetes Service, Deploying an AKS Cluster Using the Azure CLI, Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instances, Web App for Containers.

Hands-on Exercise: Create and Deploy Docker Image from DockerFile, Deploy an Application in ACI, Deploy an Application in AKS, Create a Web App Instance, Use shell commands to create an App Service Web App, Create a Continuous WebJob

Managing traffic, implementing workloads and monitoring

What is Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, Azure Traffic Manager, Managing Role-Based Access Control, Azure Monitoring, Azure Monitoring: Metrics, Azure Monitoring: Characteristics of Metrics, Azure Monitoring: Alerts, Azure Monitoring: Activity Log, Azure Monitoring: Diagnostic Logs, Azure Monitoring: Action Groups, Azure Monitoring: Service Health Notification, Azure Monitoring: SMS Alert.

Hands-on Exercise: Analyze the data in your metric database, Create and Configure Azure Log Analytics.

Develop for Cloud and Azure Storage

NoSQL & NoSQL Database, Cosmos DB, Multiple APIs and Data Models, Request Units, Exceeding Reserved Throughput Limits, Whiteboarding the Cost, Document Database
Cosmos DB Resource Model, Resource Properties, Self-Links, and URIs, Rich Query with SQL, SQL Operators and Functions, Introducing the .NET SDK for the SQL API, Creating User-Defined Functions (UDFs), Table API, Cosmos DB Graph Database, Bi-Directional Relationships, Writing Gremlin Queries, Azure Table Storage.

Hands-on Exercise: Create and Deploy Azure Cosmos DB, Busy World Traveler, Multi-Model Comic Book Catalog.

What projects I will be working on this Microsoft Azure 300-301 training?

building a Python and PostgreSQL application in Azure App service, then configure your application into the customized docker container. Steps to be performed:

• Create a Python Application in Azure App.
• Create a PostgreSQL Database in Azure.
• Deploy the app to Azure.
• Manage the app in Azure Portal.
• Configure your application into the Custom Containers.

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).

Infrastructure Setup

Installation of Devops Tools on cloud – Git, Docker, Selenium, Maven, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, Nagios

Introduction to DevOps

What is Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle, Traditional Models for SDLC, Why Devops?, What is Devops?, Devops Lifecycle, Devops Tools

Software Version Control

What is Version Control, Types of Version Control System, Introduction to SVN, Introduction to Git, Git Lifecycle, Common Git Commands, Working with Branches in Git, Merging Branches, Resolving Merge Conflicts, Git Workflow

Containerization with Docker

Introduction to Docker, Understanding Docker Lifecycle, Components of Docker Ecosystem, Common Docker Operations, Creating a DockerHub Account, Committing changes in a Container, Pushing a Container Image to DockerHub, Creating Custom Docker Images using Dockerfile, What are Docker Volumes, Deploying a Multi-Tier Application using Docker Network, Using Docker Compose to deploy containers, What is Container Orchestration, Container Orchestration Tools, Introduction to Docker Swarm, Deploying a 2-Node Cluster using Docker Swarm

Configuration Management with Puppet

• Need of Configuration Management
• Configuration Management Tools
• What is Puppet
• Puppet Architecture
• Setting up Master Slave using Puppet
• Puppet Manifests
• Puppet Modules
• Applying configuration using Puppet
• Puppet File Server

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Setting up Master Slave on AWS
• Testing Connection of nodes with Puppet
• Creating a Manifest
• Deploying Manifest on Node
• Creating a Module
• Deploying sample software on nodes using Puppet Modules and Manifests
• Implementing a File Server Module on Puppet

Configuration Management with Ansible

• What is Ansible?
• Ansible vs Puppet
• Ansible Architecture
• Setting up Master Slave using Ansible
• Ansible Playbook
• Ansible Roles
• Applying configuration using Ansible

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Installing Ansible on AWS
• Creating a Playbook using YAML
• Creating an Ansible Role
• Using Roles in Playbook

Continuous Testing

• What is Continuous Testing?
• What is Maven?
• Running Test Cases on Chromium Web Driver
• What is Headless Mode?

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Using Maven to import dependencies in Eclipse
• Implementing a headless test using Chrome WebDriver

Continuous Integration using Jenkins

Introduction to Continuous Integration, Jenkins Master Slave Architecture, Understanding CI/CD Pipelines, Creating an end to end automated CI/CD Pipeline

Continuous Orchestration using Kubernetes

Introduction to Kubernetes, Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes, Kubernetes Architecture, Deploying Kubernetes using Kubeadms, Alternate ways of deploying Kubernetes, YAML Files, Creating a Deployment in Kubernetes using YAML, Services in Kubernetes, Ingress in Kubernetes, Case Study – Kubernetes Architecture

Continuous Monitoring using Nagios

What is Continuous Monitoring, Introduction to Nagios, Nagios Architecture, Monitoring Services in Nagios, What are NRPE Plugins, Monitoring System Info using NRPE plugins

Azure with DevOps

Overview of Azure on Devops, Introduction to Azure Boards, Understanding Azure Repos, Use Azure Pipelines, Implement a code workflow in your build pipeline by using Git and GitHub, Run quality tests in your build pipeline by using Azure Pipelines, Manage build dependencies with Azure Artifacts, Host your own build agent in Azure Pipelines, Automate Docker and multi-container Kubernetes deployments with Azure Pipelines, Extend pipelines to add support for different deployment targets, such as Azure Functions.

Deploying Infrastructure with Terraform

• Installing Terraform – Windows Users
• Installing Terraform – Linux Users
• Choosing Right IDE for Terraform IAC development
• Creating first EC2 instance with Terraform
• Terraform Code – First EC2 Instance
• Understanding Resources & Providers
• Destroying Infrastructure with Terraform
• Destroying Specific Resource
• Understanding Terraform State files
• Understanding Desired & Current States
• Challenges with the current state on computed values
• Terraform Commands – State Files
• Terraform Provider Versioning
• Types of Terraform Providers
• Understanding Attributes and Output Values in Terraform
• Attribute Resource (Document)
• Referencing Cross-Account Resource Attributes
• Terraform Variables
• Data Types for Variables
• Fetching Data from Maps and List in Variable
• Terraform Format
• Validating Terraform Configuration Files

hands on

• Implementing remote-exec provisioners
• Implementing local-exec provisioners
• Integrating Ansible with Terraform

Terraform Modules & Workspaces

• Creating first EC2 instance with Terraform
• Understanding Resources & Providers
• Destroying Infrastructure with Terraform
• Destroying Specific Resource
• Understanding Terraform State files
• Understanding Desired & Current States
• Challenges with the current state on computed values
• Terraform Commands – State Files
• Terraform Provider Versioning
• Types of Terraform Providers
• Understanding Attributes and Output Values in Terraform
• Attribute Resource (Document)
• Fetching Data from Maps and List in Variable
• Terraform Format
• Validating Terraform Configuration Files
• Integrating with GIT for team management
• Terraform Provider UseCase – Resources in Multiple Regions

Hands-on Exercise – 

• Creating Infrastructure with Terraform Cloud
• Implementing remote-exec provisioners
• Implementing local-exec provisioners
• Handling Access & Secret Keys the Right Way in Providers
• Handling Multiple AWS Profiles with Terraform Providers

What projects I will be working on this Azure DevOps training?

Project 1 : Handling infrastructure solutions for Azure Cloud

Industry :  General

Problem Statement : How to handle the infrastructure solutions of Azure cloud for a fast growing company.

Description : This project will help you to deploy the Azure infrastructure solutions at scale. As part of the project you will learn how to manage Azure blog storage for unstructured data, deploying the various infrastructure tools and portals, working with Azure Active Directory, managing the Azure Virtual Machines, Windows PowerShell and more as part of the project.

Highlights :

• Architecture of Azure Infrastructure
• Optimizing Windows Server Workloads
• Connecting Azure AD with Windows AD.

Project 2 : Monitoring Azure Cloud for a BPO

Industry : Outsourcing

Problem Statement : Managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure for an outsourcing firm

Description :  In this project you will learn intricacies of the Azure platform and handle the Azure infrastructure solutions. You will connect the SQL database to Azure using the Azure infrastructure tools at scale. You will learn how to manage the data conversion and data entry services in the BPO, ensuring the smooth handling of the tech support, chat support, email support among other vital tasks of an Azure powered business process outsourcing firm.

Highlights :

• Configure, deploy and manage storage solutions
• Working with Azure Virtual Machines
• Managing Azure cloud deployment in real-time.

Project 3 : Containerizing various frameworks and NGINX Application using Docker.

Industry : General

Problem Statement : How to integrate the software projects deployed in diverse environments using Docker.

Topics : In this Docker project you will containerize the software running in different environment like Node.Js, MongoDB, NGINX, and ASP.NET. You will first setup these frameworks and the NGINX application on Docker container and then run them on the individual containers.

Highlights

• Setup Node.Js on Docker container
• Pull NGINX image from Docker hub
• Deploy PowerShell & Hyper-V.

Module 01 - Non-Relational Data Stores and Azure Data Lake Storage

1.1 Document data stores
1.2 Columnar data stores
1.3 Key/value data stores
1.4 Graph data stores
1.5 Time series data stores
1.6 Object data stores
1.7 External index
1.8 Why NoSQL or Non-Relational DB?
1.9 When to Choose NoSQL or Non-Relational DB?

• Best Uses
• Scenarios

1.10 Azure Data Lake Storage

• Definition
• Azure Data Lake-Key Components
• How it stores data?
• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• Why Data Lake?
• Data Lake Architecture

Module 02 - Data Lake and Azure Cosmos DB

2.1 Data Lake Key Concepts
2.2 Azure Cosmos DB
2.3 Why Azure Cosmos DB?
2.4 Azure Blob Storage
2.5 Why Azure Blob Storage?
2.6 Data Partitioning

• Horizontal partitioning
• Vertical partitioning
• Functional partitioning

2.7 Why Partitioning Data?
2.8 Consistency Levels in AzureCosmos DB

• Semantics of the five-consistency level

Hands-on:
1. Load Data fromAmazonS3 to ADLS Gen2 with Data Factory
2. Working with Azure Cosmos DB

Module 03 - Relational Data Stores

3.1 Introduction to Relational Data Stores
3.2 Azure SQL Database

• Deployment Models
• Service Tiers

Hands-on:
1. Create a Single Database Using Azure Portal
2. Create a managed instance
3. Create an elastic pool

3.3 Why SQL Database Elastic Pool?

Hands-on:
1. Create a SQL virtual machine
2. Configure active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database in the Azure portal and initiate failover.

Module 04 - Why Azure SQL?

4.1 Azure SQL Security Capabilities
4.2 High-Availability and Azure SQL Database

• Standard Availability Model
• Premium Availability Model

4.3 Azure Database for MySQL

Hands-on:
1. Design an Azure Database for MySQL database using the Azure portal
2. Connect using MySQL Workbench

4.4 Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Hands-on:
1. Design an Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Single Server

4.5 Azure Database For MariaDB
Hands-on:
1. Create an Azure Database for MariaDB server by using the Azure portal

4.6 What is PolyBase?

• Why PolyBase?

4.7 What is Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW)?

• SQL Analytics and SQL pool in Azure Synapse
• Key component of a big data solution
• SQL Analytics MPP architecture components

Hands-on:
1. Import Data From Blob Storage to Azure Synapse Analytics by Using PolyBase

Module 05 - Azure Batch

5.1 What is Azure Batch?
5.2 Intrinsically Parallel Workloads
5.3 Tightly Coupled Workloads
5.4 Additional Batch Capabilities
5.5 Working of Azure Batch

Hands-on:
1. Run a batch job using Azure Portal
2. Parallel File Processing with Azure Bath using the .NET API
3. Render a Blender Scene using Batch Explorer
4. Parallel R Simulation with Azure Batch

Module 06 - Azure Data Factory

6.1 Flow Process of Data Factory
6.2 Why Azure Data Factory
6.3 Integration Runtime in Azure Data Factory
6.4 Mapping Data Flows

Hands-on:
1. Transform data using Mapping data flows

Module 07 - Azure Data Bricks

7.1 What is Azure Databricks?
7.2 Azure Spark-based Analytics Platform
7.3 Apache Spark in Azure Databricks

Hands-on:
1. Run a Spark Job on Azure Databricks using the Azure portal
2. ETL Operation by using Azure Databricks
3. Stream data into Azure Databricks using Event Hubs

Module 08 - Azure Stream Analytics

8.1 Working of Stream Analytics
8.2 Key capabilities and benefits
Hands-on:
1. Analyse phone call data with stream analytics and visualize results in Power BI dashboard

8.3 Stream Analytics Windowing Functions

• Tumbling window
• Hopping Window
• Sliding Window
• Session Window

Module 09 - Monitoring & Security

9.1 What is Azure Monitor?

• Metrics
• Logs
• Metrics Vs Logs

9.2 What data does Azure Monitor collect?
9.3 What can you Monitor?

• Insights and Core Solutions

9.4 Alerts in Azure

• Flow of Alerts
• Key Attributes of an Alert Rule
• What can you set alert on?
• Manage alerts
• Alert States
• How to create an alert?

Hands-on:
1. Create, View, and Manage Metric alerts using Azure Monitor
2. Monitor your Azure Data Factory Pipelines proactively with Alerts

9.5 Azure Security Logging & Auditing

• Types of Logs in Azure
• Azure SQL Database Auditing
• Server-level vs. Database-level Auditing Policy

Hands-on:
1. Azure SQL Database Auditing

What projects I will be working on this Azure Data Factory training?

In this Azure Data Factory Project, you are supposed to automate the transformation of the real-time video list from the YouTube channel. You will be storing multiple files at the dynamic location of Azure Data Lake Store and the same needs to transformed and copied to any data store. The list of the channels should be displayed on PowerBI dynamically.
Project 01: Fetch the list of videos from the attached dataset of YouTube channel with the highest views and likes to promote advertisements on the channel which has maximum traffic.

Topics: Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Triggers, SQL, Power BI

Highlights:
1.1 Creating Azure Data Factory
1.2 Creating Pipelines
1.3 Creating a trigger that runs a pipeline on a schedule
1.4 Transforming data using SQL
1.5 Connecting Azure Data Lake to Power BI

Project 02: Working with Azure Data Factory, Data Lake and Azure SQL

Industry: General

Problem Statement: You are working as an Azure Architect for Zendrix Corp. This company is a service-based company and has its major revenue from the sales it makes for its subscription-based service.

The company needs to continuously monitor its lead flow from different countries. This helps them in strategizing how much they need to invest in Ad-Marketing for a particular country, this, in turn, helps them to achieve their desired sales targets.

Currently, the company has to manually synchronize data from their live SQL database to their BI tool, for checking the lead flow from different countries.

The company wants an automated solution, using which they will be able to see a live dashboard of the lead count. You as an Architect have suggested the following things:

Highlights:
2.1 Use of Power BI Heat maps
2.2 Use of Azure SQL instead of On-Premise SQL
2.3 Use of Data Factory to automate the data lifecycle from SQL to the BI tool.

Help them achieve the above goals.

Project 03: Identify the videos that get maximum traffic in selected YouTube channels

Industry: Marketing

Problem Statement: Getting the real-time list of maximum traffic fetching videos from YouTube channels to promote advertisements in the same channels (traffic should be considered on a weekly basis)

Description: There is a company ‘XYZ Pvt. Ltd’ that promotes advertisements in the maximum traffic generating YouTube channels (on a weekly basis) to drive profits. To maximize profitability, the marketing team that manages the posting of advertisements requires an interface using which they can get a real-time list of YouTube channels for promoting advertisements and monitoring the analytics of traffic on those channels.

Objective: As an Azure Data Factory specialist, you are supposed to automate the transformation of the real-time video list from YouTube channels on a weekly basis. This will help the marketing team promote advertisements on the right YouTube videos on targeted channels.

Note: The traffic can be analyzed on various parameters like the number of views, and likes or comments on a particular day. You can get these publicly available data from the YouTube API.

Case Study 01: Non-Relational Data Stores

Problem Statement: Knowledge check of non-relational databases: Categories and where to use them

Topics: NoSQL or Non-Relational Database, Azure Data Lake Storage and its key components.

Highlights:
1.1 Scenarios where you can use NoSQL or Non-Relational Database.
1.2 categories of Non-Relational or No SQL databases with relevant Azure services.
1.3 Azure Data Lake Storage and its key components.

Case Study 02: Non-Relational Data Stores

Problem Statement: Copy data from Azure Blob Storage to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2; Create an Azure Cosmos DB account and Demonstrate adding and removing regions from your Database account; Strategies for Partitioning data; Semantics of consistency levels in Cosmos DB

Topics: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Blob Storage, Strategies for Partitioning Data, Semantics of consistency levels in Cosmos DB

Highlights:
2.1 Azure Blob Storage
2.2 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
2.3 Azure Cosmos DB
2.4 Partitioning data
2.5 Consistency levels

Case Study 03: Relational Data Stores

Problem Statement: Knowledge check of Relational databases: Deployment models in Azure SQL; Create an elastic pool, Azure SQL Security Capabilities; Import Data From Blob Storage to Azure Synapse Analytics by Using PolyBase

Topics: Azure SQL, PolyBase, Azure Synapse Analytics

Highlights:
3.1 Deployment models in Azure SQL
3.2 Elastic Pool
3.3 Azure Synapse Analytics
3.4 PolyBase

Case Study 04: Azure Batch, Azure Data Factory

Problem Statement: Working of Azure Batch; Flow Process of Data Factory; Types of Integration Runtime in Azure Data Factory; Transform data using Mapping data flows

Topics: Azure Batch, Data Factory, Integration Runtime, Mapping Data Flows

Highlights:
4.1 Working of Azure Batch
4.2 Integration Runtime in Azure Data Factory
4.3 Transform data using Mapping data flows

Case Study 05: Azure Data Bricks, Azure Stream Analytics

Problem Statement: ETL Operation by using Azure Databricks; Working of Stream Analytics; Stream Analytics Windowing Functions

Topics: Azure Data Bricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Windowing Functions

Highlights:
5.1 ETL operation by using Azure Databricks
5.2 Working of Stream Analytics
5.3 Windowing Functions

Case Study 06: Monitoring & Security

Problem Statement: Create, View, and Manage Metric alerts using Azure Monitor; Azure SQL Database Auditing

Topics: Azure Monitor, Alerts in Azure, Azure Security Logging & Auditing

Highlights:
6.1 Azure Monitor
6.2 Alerts
6.3 Azure SQL Database Auditing

Introduction to Linux

Introduction to Linux, Basics of Shell, Basics of Kernel, CentOS 8 installation and VBox additions, Basic Linux Commands, ECHO and EXPR command, Set and unset a variable, Header of a shell script (#!).

Hands-on Exercise – Executing basic Linux commands, Installing CentOS 8 on VirtualBox and adding guest additions to the installed OS.

File Management

Text editors and file creation; Users, Groups and Processes; Root and Linux file hierarchy, Understanding file hierarchy, Understanding file permissions, chmod and chown commands, the LS command, Metacharacters, Editing a file using VIM, Displaying contents of a file, Copy, Move and Remove files.

Hands-on Exercise – Using VIM, Creating users and groups, Creating files and directories, Assigning file permissions and ownership using chmod and chown, Editing files in VIM.

Files and Processes

Everything is a file in UNIX/Linux (files, directories, executables, processes), Process control commands (ps and kill), other process control tools (top, nice, renice).

Hands-on Exercise – Executing ps and kill commands on running services, Monitoring the OS using top.

Introduction to Shell Scripting

What is shell scripting, Types of shell, Creating and writing a shell script, Changing the permission of the shell script, Executing the script, Environment variables, Defining a local and a global variable, User input in a shell script.

Hands-on Exercise – Creating a shell script, Writing and executing the shell script, creating a local and a global variable, taking input from the user in a shell script.

Conditional, Looping statements and Functions

What are Conditional statements, Using IF, IF-ELSE, Nested IF statements, What are Looping statements, Using WHILE, UNTIL and FOR statements, Using the case…esac statement, What is a Function, Creating a function in Linux, Calling functions.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing IF, IF-ELSE, Nested IF statements, Executing WHILE, UNTIL and FOR statements, Executing the case…..esac statement, creating a function in multiple ways, calling a function in a file, calling a function from another file.

Text Processing

Using GREP command, Using SED command, Using AWK command, Mounting a file to the virtual box, Creating a shared folder (mounting a folder), Using SORT command and Using pipes to combine multiple Commands.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing commands using GREP, Executing commands using SED, Executing commands using AWK, Mounting a folder in the Windows OS to the Linux OS, Installing VirtualBox guest additions on CentOS 8, Extracting zipped files.

Scheduling Tasks

What are Daemons, Introduction to Task scheduling in Linux, Scheduling a job in Linux, What is Cron and Crontab, How to use cron, Using the AT command.

Hands-on Exercise – Starting, Stopping and Restarting Daemon processes, Scheduling jobs using cron and crontab, Scheduling a one time task using AT, Managing scheduled tasks using ATQ and ATRM.

Advanced Shell Scripting

Why monitoring, Introduction to process monitoring, Top vs HTop, What does PGREP do, Introduction to file and folder monitoring, Monitoring tool inotifywait, inotifywait options for folder monitoring, Events of a folder in inotify, the FREE command.

Hands-on Exercise – Using Top to moniter the OS, Installing Htop, Using Htop to monitor the OS, Filtering and sorting using Htop, Installing inotify tools, monitoring a folder using inotifywait, monitoring a folder only for certaing events, using the FREE command.

Database Connectivity

Installing and configuring MySQL, Securing MySQL, Running Queries from terminal, Running Queries from a shell script.

Hands-on Exercise – Downloading and installing MySQL, Connecting to MySQL from terminal, Querying directly from the terminal, Pushing the query result inside a file, CRUD operations from a shell script.

Linux Networking

What is networking in Linux, Why do we need networking, Using networking commands – IFCONFIG, PING, Wget and cURL, SSH, SCP and FTP, Learning Firewall tools – iptables and firewalld, DNS and Resolving IP address, /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, nslookup and dig.

Hands-on Exercise – Executing all the networking commands, Using iptables and firewalld, Adding and removing ports, Resolving IP address in /etc/hosts, looking into a websites IP and nameservers using nslookup and dig.

What projects I will be working on this Linux Admin training?

Project: Installing WordPress on Centos7

Industry: Internet related

Problem Statement: How to install LAMP stack on Centos7 and creating a database for WordPress

Topics: In this project you will be working on creating your account on WordPress (with Database), then flush it using Flush Privileges and Install a PHP Module. We can get that package directly from CentOS’s default repositories using yumand also we will install and update the WordPress for the latest Template & Formats.

Highlight

• Centos server installation
• Creating a MySQL database
• WordPress installation & configuration

History of Computing and Cloud Computing

What is Cloud computing, need for Cloud computing, the first Cloud computing platform – AWS, how AWS evolved, the beginning of other players in the Cloud domain like Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Impact of Cloud Computing

How organizations are benefitting from Cloud computing, the example of Netflix and how it changed its business model and benefitted from AWS Cloud platform.

Technology Engineering of Cloud Computing

It is a multidisciplinary method encompassing contributions from diverse areas such as systems, software, web, performance, information technology engineering, security, platform, risk, and quality engineering.

Cloud Computing Solution Architectures

The architecture of Cloud computing solution, front-end, back-end, Cloud-based delivery, network, security mechanism.

Cloud Service Life Cycle

The lifecycle of a Cloud service like the acquisition, operation and termination of the services.

Service Transition and Service Transformation

Analysis of existing services for successful transition to the AWS Cloud, application transformation through Cloud adoption, seamless application transformation.

Consumer Perspective on Setting Up Cloud Environments

How to setup a Cloud environment, setting up a private Cloud infrastructure, what are the aspects to consider and so on.

Provider Perspective on Setting Up Cloud Environments

Choosing the right Cloud service provider depending on the needs like cost, security, uptime and so on.

Cloud Ecosystem

Working in a Cloud ecosystem, ensuring all the systems and processes in an organization are in sync with the Cloud ecosystem.

Types of XaaS Solutions

The various types of services that are offered as Anything as a Service, these could be computing, networking, storage or any other service that is offered to the customers based on pay as you go model.

Targeting the Right Solution Architecture

Deploying the right Cloud solution architecture to guide you to design and build the right Cloud solution, choosing the right architecture from conception, delivery, maintenance and releases.

IaaS Cloud

Evaluating a IaaS solution architecture, how to write a IaaS solution architecture, developing a IaaS business case, migrating to the Cloud, legacy transition and transformation of Cloud service.

PaaS Cloud

Evaluating a PaaS solution architecture, how to write a PaaS solution architecture, developing a PaaS business case, migrating to the Cloud, legacy transition and transformation of Cloud service.

SaaS Cloud

Evaluating a SaaS solution architecture, how to write a SaaS solution architecture, developing a SaaS business case, migrating to the Cloud, legacy transition and transformation of Cloud service.

Cloud Concepts

• What is Cloud Computing?
• Cloud Computing benefits
• Terminologies and key concepts
• Economies of scale
• OpEx vs CapEx
• Cloud models: Public, private, and hybrid cloud
• Characteristics of cloud models
• IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS
• Use cases of IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS
• Shared responsibility model of cloud models

Core Azure Services

• Azure regions
• Region pairs
• Region-wise feature availability
• Availability zones and sets
• Resource groups
• Azure Resource Manager
• Azure products and core services
• Azure Compute
• Azure virtual machines (VMs)
• Containers and virtual networks (VNets)
• VPN Gateway and Azure Load Balancer
• Azure Application Gateway
• Content delivery networks (CDNs) of Azure
• Working of CDNs
• Storage services of Azure
• Structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data
• Types of Azure Storage accounts
• Azure Storage account: Blob
• Database services of Azure
• Azure Marketplace and Azure SQL
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• IoT Hub
• Azure Big Data and SQL Data Warehouse
• Azure Analytics and Data Lake Analytics
• Azure HDInsights
• Machine Learning
• Services and Studio of Azure Machine Learning
• Server-less computing
• DevOps concepts
• Management tools of Azure
• Developing resources: Using Powershell, Azure CLI, and Cloud Shell
• Deployment using JSON
• Azure Advisor

Privacy, Compliance, Security, and Test

• Azure Firewall
• Azure DDOS
• Groups of network security
• Groups of application security
• AuthN and AuthZ
• Active Directory of Azure
• Multi-factor authentication
• Security center and key vault of Azure
• Azure Information and Advanced Threat Protection
• Azure Policy
• Role-based Access Control (RBAC) of Azure
• Azure locks and blueprints
• Governance of subscription
• Azure tags and monitoring
• Azure Service Health
• Terms and requirements of compliance
• Privacy statement and trust center of Microsoft
• Service Trust Portal

Azure Support and Pricing

• Azure subscriptions
• Management groups
• Available options for purchasing Azure product and services
• Usage of metrics
• Costing factors
• Zones for billing concepts
• Pricing calculator of Azure
• Azure’s total cost of ownership (TCO)
• Cost minimization techniques in Azure
• Azure support plans and cost management
• Service level agreements (SLAs)
• Composite SLAs
• Making improvements in Application SLAs
• Offering feedback and general availability
• Announcements, updates, and roadmaps of Azure

What are the projects I will be working on during this Azure 900 certification training?

Project 1: Firewall Implementation
Domain: Security
Problem Statement: As a Cloud Engineer of a company, implement firewalls of Azure and secure the data of your organization
Topics: Cloud models, usage metrics, and Azure firewalls
Highlights:
● Adapting cloud models
● Understanding the usage of metrics
● Implementing Azure firewalls

Project 2: Updating Cloud Services
Domain: Cloud
Problem Statement: Update the cloud services to store the data of your company
Topics: Availability zones, Azure TCO, and multi-factor authentication
Highlights:
● Using availability zones
● Implementing Azure TCO
● Performing multi-factor authentication