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Microsoft Learn – Additional Study Resources

Identity
• Create Azure users and groups in Azure Active Directory
• Manage users and groups in Azure Active Directory
• Secure your Azure resources with role-based access control
• Secure Azure Active Directory users with Multi-Factor Authentication
• Allow users to reset their password with Azure Active Directory self-service
password reset
• Secure your application by using OpenID Connect and Azure AD
Governance and Compliance
• Analyze costs and create budgets with Azure Cost Management
• Predict costs and optimize spending for Azure
• Control and organize Azure resources with Azure Resource Manager
• Apply and monitor infrastructure standards with Azure Policy
• Create custom roles for Azure resources with role-based access control
• Manage access to an Azure subscription by using Azure role-based access control
• Secure your Azure resources with role-based access control
Azure Administration
• Core Cloud Services – Manage services with the Azure portal
• Control and organize Azure resources with Azure Resource Manager
• Build Azure Resource Manager templates
• Automate Azure tasks using scripts with PowerShell
• Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI Virtual Networking
• Networking Fundamentals – Principals
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• Design an IP addressing schema for your Azure deployment
• Secure and isolate access to Azure resources by using network security groups
and service endpoints Intersite Connectivity
• Distribute your services across Azure virtual networks and integrate them by using
virtual network peering
• Connect your on-premises network to Azure with VPN Gateway
• Connect your on-premises network to the Microsoft global network by using
ExpressRoute
Network Traffic Management
• Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes
• Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Azure Load Balancer
• Load balance your web service traffic with Application Gateway
• Enhance your service availability and data locality by using Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Storage
• Create an Azure Storage account
• Secure your Azure Storage
• Optimize storage performance and costs using Blob storage tiers
• Make your application storage highly available with read-access geo-redundant
storage
• Copy and move blobs from one container or storage account to another from the
command line and in code
• Move large amounts of data to the cloud by using Azure Data Box family
• Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure storage
Azure Virtual Machines
• Build a scalable application with virtual machine scale sets
• Deploy Azure virtual machines from VHD templates
• Choose the right disk storage for your virtual machine workload
• Add and size disks in Azure virtual machines
• Protect your virtual machine settings with Azure Automation State Configuration
Serverless Computing
• Host a web application with Azure App service
• Stage a web app deployment for testing and rollback by using App Service
deployment slots
• Scale an App Service web app to efficiently meet demand with App Service scale
up and scale out
• Dynamically meet changing web app performance requirements with autoscale
rules
• Capture and view page load times in your Azure web app with Application Insights
• Run Docker containers with Azure Container Instances
• Introduction to the Azure Kubernetes Service
Data Protection
• Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
• Back up and restore your Azure SQL database
• Protect your Azure infrastructure with Azure Site Recovery
• Protect your on-premises infrastructure from disasters with Azure Site Recovery
Monitoring
• Analyze your Azure infrastructure by using Azure Monitor logs
• Improve incident response with alerting on Azure
• Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by collecting and analyzing
diagnostic data
• Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure storage

Optional lab exercises

Module 1

Module 2

Module3

Tutorial: Connect virtual networks with virtual network peering using the Azure portal

Module 4

If you get an error about “the subscription is not registered to use namespace microsoft.insights ”

goto Subscriptions –> Resource Providers and register microsoft.insights

Quickstart: Create a virtual machine scale set in the Azure portal

Tutorial: Create and manage a virtual machine scale set with Azure PowerShell

Connecting to a scale set using RDP

How to connect to a scale set

If the quickstart above doesnt allow you to RDP because no NSG was created that allows RDP, please do the following to create the NSG and try RDP again

Create NSG in Same Resource Group and Location as VMSS
Create Inbound Rule allowing RDP ANY ANY TCP 3389
Associate it to the Subnet

Tutorial: Automatically scale a virtual machine scale set with Azure PowerShell

Quickstart: Create and encrypt a Windows virtual machine with the Azure portal

Quickstart: Create and encrypt a Windows VM with the Azure CLI

Module 7

Quickstart: Create an Azure Cosmos account, database, container, and items from the Azure portal

Module 8

Quickstart: Create a single database in Azure SQL Database using Azure Portal

Module 9

Tutorial: Create and deploy your first ARM template

Module 10

alerts

Create, view, and manage activity log alerts by using Azure Monitor

Create, view, and manage log alerts using Azure Monitor

Create activity log alerts on service notifications using the Azure portal

Quickstart: Create activity log alerts on service notifications using an ARM template

log analytics

Send Azure Activity log to Log Analytics workspace using Azure portal

Module 11

Configure managed identities for Azure resources on a VM using the Azure portal

Quickstart: Set and retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault using the Azure portal

Quickstart: Set and retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault using Azure CLI

LAB_Manage_Azure_AD_Identities

Module13

Quickstart: Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster using the Azure portal

Tutorial: Deploy and use Azure Container Registry

Here is the Voting app code

Tutorial: Prepare an application for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Module 14

Module15

Practices

Quickstart: Create a Front Door for a highly available global web application

Quickstart: Create a Front Door using an ARM template

AZ-303 Labs student setup instructions

1) Create NEW email account xxxaz303ddmmyy@outlook.com password Pa55w.rd1234 where xxx = your initials and ddmmyy = starting date of your course

Ex: cyfaz303010221@outlook.com

The new Microsoft account is needed for the Azure Pass used for the labs in this course. The use of any other account is not supported for this class. Appreciate your understanding.

2) Md C:\Labfiles

3) Download and extract into C:\Labfiles

AZ-303-Microsoft-Azure-Architect-Technologies-master

4 ) Download and install Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code

Please Wait for your Instructor before redeeming your Azure Pass!

You MUST be signed out of all other email accounts you are logged into. Using Private browsing will not help.

5) Redeem the Azure pass with the link provided by the instructor

If you were unable to redeem the Azure pass in #5 , you will have to create Azure Free Trial account in #6 which will require a credit card for identity only.

6) Create new Azure account https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

Links to the labs in HTML format

Helpful Azure learning links

Microsoft Azure Forums The Azure forums are very active. You can search the threads for a
specific area of interest. You can also browse categories like Azure Storage, Pricing
and Billing, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Migrate.

Azure Architecture Center Gain access to the Azure Application Architecture Guide,
Azure Reference Architectures, and the Cloud Design Patterns.

Microsoft Learning Community Blog Get the latest information the certification
tests and exam study groups.

https://channel9.msdn.com/ Channel 9 provides a wealth of informational videos, shows, and
events.

Azure Tuesdays With Corey Corey Sanders answers your questions about
Microsoft Azure – Virtual Machines, Web Sites, Mobile Services, Dev/Test etc.

Azure Fridays Join Scott Hanselman as he engages one-on-one with the engineers
who build the services that power Microsoft Azure as they demo capabilities,
answer Scott’s questions, and share their insights.

Microsoft Azure Blog Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s
now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.

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