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

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.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Secure identities with Azure Active Directory and users and groups.
Implement identity solutions spanning on-premises and cloud-based capabilities
Apply monitoring solutions for collecting, combining, and analyzing data from different sources.
Manage subscriptions, accounts, Azure policies, and Role-Based Access Control.
Administer Azure using the Resource Manager, Azure portal, Cloud Shell, and CLI.
Configure intersite connectivity solutions like VNet Peering, and virtual network gateways.
Administer Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.

Course Outline

1 - INTRODUCTION TO AZURE

Subscriptions and accounts
Resource groups and templates in Azure Resource Manager

2 - AZURE GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Azure regions
Azure Availability Zones
Comparison with AWS

3 - IMPLEMENT AZURE ACTIVE DIRECTORY

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

4 - IMPLEMENT AND MANAGE HYBRID IDENTITIES

Introduction to Azure AD Connect
Comparison with AWS

5 - IMPLEMENT VIRTUAL NETWORKING

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

6 - IMPLEMENT VMS FOR WINDOWS AND LINUX

Configure high availability
Comparison with AWS

7 - IMPLEMENT LOAD BALANCING AND NETWORK SECURITY

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

8 - IMPLEMENT CONTAINER-BASED APPLICATIONS

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

9 - IMPLEMENT AN APPLICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

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

10 - IMPLEMENT STORAGE ACCOUNTS

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

11 - IMPLEMENT NOSQL DATABASES

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

12 - IMPLEMENT AZURE SQL DATABASES

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

13 - IMPLEMENT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MONITORING

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

14 - IMPLEMENT AND MANAGE AZURE GOVERNANCE SOLUTIONS

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

15 - MANAGE SECURITY FOR APPLICATIONS

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

16 - MIGRATION, BACKUP, AND DISASTER RECOVERY MANAGEMENT

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

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.