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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
• 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

References

Optional lab exercises

Module 1

Quickstart – Configure a Windows virtual machine in Azure using Chef

How to make ms azure compatible with chef

Do a & b together, is quick easy try at terraform (recommended lab)

a) Quickstart: Configure Terraform using Azure Cloud Shell

b) Create a Linux VM with infrastructure in Azure using Terraform

Configure the Azure Terraform Visual Studio Code extension

Create an Azure VM cluster with Terraform and HCL

Create an Azure virtual machine scale set using Terraform

Module 2

Deploy DMZ between Azure and your on-premises datacenter

Module 5

Tutorial: Create and manage policies to enforce compliance

Quickstart: Define and assign a blueprint in the portal

Module 6

Tutorial: Work with Azure storage queues in .NET

Module 7

Quickstart: Use Azure Storage Explorer to create a blob

Module 8

azcopy login syntax

Note. Use azcopy login –tenant-id <tenantid> to use the Global Admin acocunt

Tutorial: Migrate on-premises data to cloud storage with AzCopy

Transfer data with AzCopy and Blob storage

Create and configure a self-hosted integration runtime

Module 9

Send Azure Activity log to Log Analytics workspace using Azure portal

Get started with log queries in Azure Monitor

Azure Sentinel. Why should you care-Tips & Tricks

Module10

#1 Use Azure portal to back up multiple virtual machines

#2 Configure a Backup for your Azure App Service and Database

You can do the following exercise #3 to have a SQL database for the following exercise #4

#3 Quickstart: Create an Azure SQL Database single database

#4 Back up a SQL Server database in an Azure VM

Module11

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

Module 12

Quickstart: Explore and analyze costs with cost analysis

Tutorial: Create and manage Azure budgets

Get rid of expired Resource Groups. Create ExpiredOn tag

The Simple way to keep your Azure Subscription “clean”. This run on a schedule and automatically delete all “expired” resources inside your Azure Subscription, and nothing else.

A Resource is “expired” when it has a tag expireOn older then the current date.

How to keep Azure subscriptions clean video

AzSubscriptionCleaner

Deploy Spot VMs using the Azure portal

Module 14

LAB_Manage_Azure_AD_Identities

ModuleAZ-304 Labs student setup instructions

1) Create NEW email account xxxaz304ddmmyy@outlook.com password Pa55w.rd1234 where xxx = your initials and ddmmyy = starting date of your course

Ex: cyfaz304310820@outlook.com

The new Microsoft account is needed for the Azure Pass used for the labs in this course. You can only use 1 free offer per account so is best to create a NEW account for this course. The use of any other account is not supported for this class. Appreciate your understanding. Lets have an awesome class!

2) Md C:\Labfiles

3) Download and extract into C:\Labfiles

AZ-304-Microsoft-Azure-Architect-Design-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.

Azure Tips & Tricks– – Michael Crump – Special collection of over 260+ tips, videos, conference talks that span the entire universe of the Azure platform.

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