Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)

Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Introduction

Join our Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) training course, designed to empower IT professionals with the skills to effectively manage the Microsoft Azure environment.

This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution.

Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Course Objectives

• Master Azure Subscription Management: Learn to effectively manage and optimize Azure subscriptions.
• Secure Azure Environments: Gain expertise in securing Azure Active Directory and implementing robust security measures.
• Administer Azure Infrastructure: Develop skills in managing the Azure infrastructure, including virtual machines, web apps, and containers.
• Optimize Network and Storage Solutions: Acquire the ability to configure and manage virtual networking, network traffic, and storage solutions.
• Ensure Performance and Reliability: Focus on monitoring and optimizing Azure solutions for enhanced performance and reliability.
• Practical Application and Problem Solving: Engage in hands-on activities that foster real-world problem-solving skills and practical applications.

Prerequisites

This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate. Successful Azure Administrators start this role with experience in virtualization, networking, identity, and storage.

• Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
• Understanding of network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
• Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control.
• Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations

Audience

• This course is for Azure Administrators. Azure Administrators manage cloud services that span storage, networking, and compute cloud capabilities, with a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle. They take end-user requests for new cloud applications and make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor and adjust as appropriate. This role requires communicating and coordinating with vendors. Azure Administrators use the Azure Portal and as they become more proficient, they use PowerShell and the Command Line Interface.

Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Outline

Administer Identity

This module explains Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure AD). You’ll compare Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure AD). to Active Directory DS, learn about Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure AD) P1 and P2, and explore Microsoft Entra Domain Services for managing domain-joined devices and apps in the cloud.

• Configure Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure AD)
• Configure User and Groups Accounts
• Configure User and Groups Accounts

Labs:

• Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities

Administer Governance and Compliance

This module, you will learn about managing your subscriptions and accounts, implementing Azure policies, and using Role-Based Access Control.

• Configure Subscriptions
• Configure Azure Policy
• Configure Role Based Access Control

Labs:

• Manage Subscriptions and RBAC
• Manage Governance via Azure Policy Labs name

Administer Azure Resources

This module, you will learn about the tools an Azure Administrator uses to manage their infrastructure. This includes the Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and Resource Manager Templates.

• Configure Azure Resources with Tools
• Configure Resources with ARM Templates

Lab:

• Manage Azure resources by Using ARM Templates

Administer Virtual Networking

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

• Configure Virtual Networks
• Configure Network Security Groups
• Configure Azure DNS

Lab:

• Implement Virtual Networkingt

Administer Intersite Connectivity

This module, you will learn about intersite connectivity features including VNet Peering, Virtual Network Gateways, and Site-to-Site Connections.

• Configure Vnet Peering
• Configure Network Routing and Endpoints

Lab:

• Implement intersite connectivity

Administer Network Traffic Management

This module, you will learn about network traffic strategies including network routing and service endpoints, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, and Traffic Manager.

• Configure Azure Load Balancer
• Configure Application Gateway
• Configure Network Watcher

Lab:

• Implement traffic management

Administer Azure Storage

This module, you will learn about basic storage features including storage accounts, blob storage, Azure files and File Sync, storage security, and storage tools.

• Configure Storage Accounts
• Configure Blob Storage
• Configure Storage Security
• Configure Azure Files
• Configure Azure Files Sync

Lab:

• Manage Azure Storage

Administer Azure Virtual Machines

This module, you will learn about Azure virtual machines including planning, creating, availability and extensions.

• Configure Virtual Machines
• Configure Virtual Machine Availability

Lab:

• Manage Virtual Machine

Administer PaaS Compute Options

This module, you will learn administer serverless computing features like Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.

• Configure Azure App Service Plans
• Configure Azure App Services
• Configure Azure Container instances

Labs:

• Implement Web Apps
• Implement Azure Container
• Implement Azure Container Instances

Administer Data Protection

This module, you will learn about backing up files and folders, and virtual machine backups.

• Configure File and Folder Backups
• Configure Virtual Machine Backups

Lab:

• Implement Data Protection

Administer Monitoring

This module, you will learn about monitoring your Azure infrastructure including Azure Monitor, alerting, and log analytics.

• Configure Azure Monitor
• Configure Azure Alerts
• Configure Log analytics

Lab:

• Implementing Monitoring