Certification Course on Microsoft Azure Cloud Fundamentals

This course provides the basic knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Azure. It also covers the knowledge of cloud computing concepts, models, and services, such as public, private, and hybrid cloud, in addition to infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). The course gives knowledge of how Azure supports security, privacy, compliance, and trust.

Course Outcomes

After successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the foundational services relating to computing, storage and networking.
• Demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts, along with Azure services, workloads, security, privacy, pricing, and support.
• Recognise Azure platform terminology, key concepts and navigate the Azure Portal.
• Understand pricing and support models available with Microsoft.
• Describe Azure architecture and services.
• Describe Azure management and governance.

Contents

• Virtual Machines
• Azure App Service
• Containers
• Function App
• Azure storage accounts
• Cosmos DB
• Azure authentication
• Secure Data
• Caching and Content Delivery networks
• Monitoring and Logging
• Application Messaging

Textbooks & Supporting Literature

Michael Collier, Robin Shahan, “Fundamentals of Azure- Microsoft Azure Essentials”, Second Edition, Microsoft Press, 2016.

Online Material

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/exams/az-900/

Industry Collaboration

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