Cloud Computing Administration: Microsoft Azure

This workshop is designed to provide participants with skills to manage cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities. Candidates have a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle, and take requests for infrastructure services, applications, and environments. Also, they make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate. Common tools you’d use include: PowerShell, the Command Line Interface, Azure Portal, ARM templates, operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking.

CONTENT

Manage Azure subscriptions and resources

• Manage Azure subscriptions
• Analyze resource utilization and consumption
• Manage resource groups
• Managed role-based access control (RBAC)

Implement and manage storage

• Create and configure storage accounts
• Import and export data to Azure
• Configure Azure files
• Implement Azure backup

Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs)

• Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux
• Automate deployment of VMs
• Manage Azure VM
• Manage VM backups

Configure and manage virtual networks

• Create connectivity between virtual networks
• Implement and manage virtual networking
• Configure name resolution
• Create and configure a Network Security Group (NSG)
• Implement Azure load balancer
• Monitor and troubleshoot virtual networking
• Integrate on premises network with Azure virtual network

Manage identities

• Manage Azure Active Directory (AD)
• Manage Azure AD objects (users, groups, and devices)
• Implement and manage hybrid identities
• Implement multi-factor authentication (MFA)

FOR WHOM:

Auditors, Computer Executives, Internal Control Officers, CIOs, IT Development Managers, Heads of Department, System Administrators/Engineers, IT Professionals, and Security department managers who form part of the contingency planning or review team.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.