Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Bootcamp

Day 1

Cloud concepts (45 minutes)

• Presentation and demos: The benefits and considerations of using cloud services; describing the differences between categories of cloud services; describing the differences between types of cloud computing; the different offerings in Azure portal (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Hands-on exercises: Get familiar with the Azure portal and dashboard; create resources
• Q&A

Core Azure services: Part I (40 minutes)

• Presentation and demos: Core Azure architectural components; regions and region pairs; availability zones; management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups; Azure Resource Manager
• Q&A
• Break

Core Azure services: Part II (70 Minutes)

• Presentation and demos: Core resources available in Azure; virtual machines, Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances (ACI), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Windows Virtual Desktop; virtual networks, VPN gateway, virtual network peering, and ExpressRoute; container (blob) storage, disk storage, file storage, and storage tiers; Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and SQL Managed Instance
• Hands-on exercises: Explore Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Marketplace
• Q&A
• Break

Core solutions and management tools on Azure (35 minutes)

• Presentation and demos: Core solutions available in Azure; Azure Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, and Bot Service; Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevTest Labs; Azure management tools; Azure Advisor; Azure Monitor; Azure Service Health; Internet of Things (IoT) Hub, IoT Central, and Azure Sphere; HDInsight and Azure Databricks; using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, Cloud Shell, and Azure Mobile App
• Hands-on exercises: Work with Azure Synapse Analytics; work with Azure Functions and Logic Apps; use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
• Q&A

Day 2

General Azure security and network security features (75 minutes)

• Presentation and demos: Azure security features; Azure network security and the concept of defense in depth; Azure Security Center, including policy compliance, security alerts, secure score, and resource hygiene; Azure Sentinel; Azure Dedicated Hosts; Azure Firewall; Azure DDoS protection
• Hands-on exercises: Explore Key Vault; work with Network Security Groups (NSG)
• Q&A
• Break

Azure identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features (65 minutes)

• Presentation and demos: Core Azure identity services; the difference between authentication and authorization; Azure Active Directory; Conditional Access, multifactor authentication (MFA), and single sign-on (SSO); Azure governance features; using Azure Blueprints; Azure Cloud Adoption Framework; describing privacy and compliance resources; the purpose of the Microsoft privacy statement, data protection addendum (DPA), and Product Terms site; security, privacy, and compliance; Azure compliance documentation; Trust Center; Azure sovereign regions; resource locks
• Hands-on exercises: Role-based access control (RBAC); use tags; use Azure Policy
• Q&A
• Break

Azure cost management and service-level agreements (30 minutes)

• Presentation and demos: Methods for planning and managing costs; identifying factors that can affect costs (resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic); factors that can reduce costs (reserved instances, reserved capacity, hybrid use benefit, spot pricing); the purpose of an Azure service-level agreement; actions that can impact an SLA; the service lifecycle in Azure (public preview and general availability); pricing calculator and the total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator; Azure cost management
• Hands-on exercise: Use the Azure pricing calculator

Wrap-up and Q&A (10 minutes)