Knowledge Enhancement / Cloud & IT Security
Azure Cloud Infrastructure (AZ-900)
Gain foundational knowledge of Microsoft Azure: core concepts and services, management tools, security, identity and governance, cost management and SLAs.
Program Overview
This course provides foundational-level knowledge of core Azure concepts; core Azure services; core solutions and management tools; general security and network security; governance, privacy and compliance features; and Azure cost management and service-level agreements.
There are no prerequisites, although the more technical knowledge a learner has, the more they will understand about the cloud.
Learning Objectives
- Explain cloud benefits such as high availability, scalability, elasticity, agility and disaster recovery
- Describe core Azure architecture: subscriptions, management groups, regions and availability zones
- Compare Azure compute, storage, networking and database services
- Choose the right Azure AI, monitoring, management, serverless and IoT services
- Apply Azure security, identity, governance and compliance features
- Estimate and manage Azure costs and understand SLAs
Audience Profile
IT professionals, students, business stakeholders and anyone new to Microsoft Azure who wants a foundational understanding of cloud concepts, and learners preparing for the AZ-900 certification.
Course Syllabus
Module 1: Describe Core Azure Concepts
Topics
- Introduction to Azure fundamentals
- Benefits of cloud computing in Azure
- High availability, scalability, elasticity, agility and disaster recovery
- Subscriptions, management groups and resources
- Regions, region pairs and availability zones
Module 2: Describe Core Azure Services
Topics
- Azure compute: Virtual Machines, Container Instances and Kubernetes
- Azure Storage: Blob, Disk and File storage
- Azure networking: Virtual Networks, VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute
- Azure databases: Cosmos DB, Azure SQL and Azure Database for MySQL
- Azure analytics services
Module 3: Core Solutions and Management Tools
Topics
- Choose the best Azure AI service
- Developer tools and DevOps services
- Monitoring services for visibility and outage mitigation
- Tools for managing and configuring Azure
- Serverless technologies
- Azure IoT services
Module 4: General Security and Network Security Features
Topics
- Security posture with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Microsoft Sentinel for security data
- Azure Dedicated Host
- Defense in depth
- Azure Firewall and network security groups
- Azure DDoS Protection
Module 5: Identity, Governance, Privacy and Compliance
Topics
- Authentication vs authorization
- Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory)
- Single sign-on, MFA and Conditional Access
- Cloud Adoption Framework and role-based access control
- Resource locks, tags, Azure Policy and Blueprints
- Compliance offerings and regulatory standards
Module 6: Cost Management and Service Level Agreements
Topics
- Total Cost of Ownership and Pricing calculators
- Ways to purchase Azure products and services
- Factors affecting cost and cost-saving practices
- SLAs, composite SLAs and service tiers
- Azure service lifecycle