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Course AZ-030T00-A: Microsoft Azure technologies for AWS architects

  • Duration: 4 days
  • Job Role: Solutions Architect
  • Exam: AZ-303

Course AZ-030T00-A: Microsoft Azure technologies for AWS architects

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This course teaches Solutions Architects who have previously designed for Amazon Web Services how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions for Azure. Lessons include virtualization, automation, networking, storage, identity, security, data platform, and application infrastructure. This course outlines how decisions in each theses area affects an overall solution.

Audience Profile

This course is for AWS Cloud Architects with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on AWS who now want to design for Microsoft Azure.

Prerequisites

  • Experience (>1year) as an AWS Architect designing secure and scalable AWS cloud solutions across storage structures, compute, networking, and the interaction with external resources/services.
  • Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
  • Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
  • Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, domain controllers, replication, Kerberos protocol, and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
  • Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.
  • Understanding of programming fundamentals and use of a scripting language.

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction to Azure

Module Overview

In this module, you’ll learn about how Azure organizes subscriptions and accounts, and you can set up resource groups and templates to standardize creation and life-cycle management of your resources.

Lessons

Subscriptions and accounts
Resource groups and templates in Azure Resource Manager

Lab Sessions

Use the Azure portal

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Determine the type of account and subscription best suited to your solution.
Create resource groups and templates to standardize and manage solutions.

Module 2: Azure global infrastructure

Module Overview

In this module, you’ll see the worldwide architecture of Microsoft Azure and how that architecture affects the availability and reliability of your applications and sites.

Lessons

Azure regions
Azure Availability Zones
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Create VMs inside an availability set

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implement an architecture that provides the availability and reliability required by your solution.

Module 3: Implement Azure Active Directory

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to secure identities with Azure Active Directory, and implement users and groups.

Lessons

Introduction to Azure Active Directory
Domains and custom domains
Safety features
Guest users in Azure Active Directory
Manage multiple directories
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Secure user sign-in events with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
Add Guest users to Azure AD in the Azure Portal

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Secure identities with Azure Active Directory.
Implement users and groups.

Module 4: Implement and manage hybrid identities

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to extend your on-premise Active Directory accounts to the cloud, and how to sync the accounts.

Lessons

Introduction to Azure AD Connect
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign-On
Enable Azure AD Self-Service Password Reset

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use your on-premise Active Directory account to authenticate to your cloud solution.
Sync accounts between on-premise and the cloud.

Module 5: Implement virtual networking

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn about basic virtual networking concepts like virtual networks and subnetting, IP addressing, Azure DNS, network security groups, and Azure Firewall.

Lessons

Azure Virtual Network and VNet peering
VPN and ExpressRoute connections
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

VNet Peering

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design virtual networks with security in mind.

Module 6: Implement VMs for Windows and Linux

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to configure VMs for high availability and how to deploy and configure scale sets.

Lessons

Configure high availability
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Create a VM Scale Set in the Azure Portal

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implement VMs to create high availability solutions.
Deploy and configure scale sets.

Module 7: Implement load balancing and network security

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to implement Azure Load Balancer, and how to set up security groups.

Lessons

Implement Azure Load Balancer
Implement an Azure Application Gateway
Implement Azure Firewall
Implement network security groups and application security groups
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Create a Load Balancer to Load Balance VMs

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implement the components of load balancing.
Set up network and application security groups.

Module 8: Implement container-based applications

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to configure the Azure Kubernetes Service and how to publish a solution on an Azure container.

Lessons

Configure Azure Kubernetes Service
Publish a solution on an Azure Container Instance
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Run Azure Container Instances
Deploy Kubernetes with AKS

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure Azure Kubernetes Service for your solution.
Publish your solution on an Azure Container Instance.

Module 9: Implement an application infrastructure

Module Overview

In this module, you’ll learn the basics of selecting an App Service plan, configuring your plan, and setting up Logic Apps and Azure Functions.

Lessons

Create an App Service plan
Create and configure Azure App Service
Configure networking for an App Service
Introduction to Logic Apps and Azure Functions
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Create an App Service and Web App
Create an App Service plan
Deploy staging slots

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Select an App Service plan suitable for your solution.
Configure the App Service.
Incorporate Logic Apps and Azure Functions into your solution.

Module 10: Implement storage accounts

Module Overview

In this module, you’ll be introduced to Azure Storage and how to configure network access, replication, authentication, access, and failover.

Lessons

Azure Storage core concepts
Managing the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
Working with Azure Blob storage
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Create a storage account in the portal
Blob Storage
Create a Shared Access Signature (Portal)

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Select an appropriate Azure Storage account for your solution.
Configure your storage account.

Module 11: Implement NoSQL databases

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn about Azure Cosmos DB and how to configure it.

Lessons

Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
Consistency
Select appropriate CosmosDB APIs
Set up replicas in CosmosDB
Comparison with AWS DynamoDB

Lab Sessions

Not available for this module

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure a NoSQL database solution by using Azure Cosmos DB.

Module 12: Implement Azure SQL databases

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to implement managed instances of Azure SQL database and how to configure it for high availability.

Lessons

Configure Azure SQL database settings
Implement Azure SQL Database managed instances
Configure high availability for an Azure SQL database
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Create an Azure SQL Database single database
Create an Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Implementing Azure SQL Database-Based Applications

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Implement managed instances of Azure SQL database.
Configure your database for high availability.

Module 13: Implement cloud infrastructure monitoring

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to use Azure Monitor to set alerts and how to log and manage costs.

Lessons

Monitor security
Monitor cost
Configure a Log Analytics workspace
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Azure Security Center
Log Analytics
Monitor costs with Azure Monitor

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Set up security monitoring for your solution.
Monitor costs by analyzing logs.

Module 14: Implement and manage Azure governance solutions

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to configure role-based access control and how to configure Azure Policy to force compliance with governance requirements.

Lessons

Assign RBAC roles
Configure management access to Azure
Implement and configure an Azure Policy
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Add users by using Azure Active Directory
Add an Azure Role Assignment
Enable system assigned managed identity on existing VM
Create and manage a policy to enforce compliance

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure RBAC roles for governance access.
Configure an Azure Policy to enforce compliance with governance requirements.

Module 15: Manage security for applications

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to implement and configure KeyVault, how to register and manage application in Azure Active Directory, and how to configure Azure Active Directory Managed Identities.

Lessons

Implement Azure Key Vault
Implement and configure Azure AD Managed Identities
Register and manage applications in Azure AD
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Create and encrypt a Windows virtual machine with the Azure portal

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Register your app in Azure Active Directory.
Configure Azure Active Directory for managed identities used by your app to access data.

Module 16: Migration, backup, and disaster recovery management

Module Overview

In this module, you will learn how to migrate workloads, and now to manage backup, disaster recovery, and updates.

Lessons

Migrate workloads
Implement Azure Backup for VMs
Implement disaster recovery
Comparison with AWS

Lab Sessions

Back up files and folders

Lab Lessons

Lab lessons not available

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Migrate workloads to the cloud and across VMs.
Implement cloud backups.
Implement disaster recovery options.
Implement update strategies that avoid negative impacts to availability and performance.

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