This intensive 12-day training program prepares participants to achieve two Microsoft certifications:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
The course builds skills in deploying, configuring, and managing Azure services while providing the foundational knowledge of cloud concepts, Azure architecture, and governance.
By the end of the program, participants will be able to:
Understand core Azure services, workloads, and pricing models.
Manage Azure subscriptions, users, groups, and identities.
Deploy and configure virtual networks, compute resources, and storage solutions.
Implement security, governance, and compliance measures.
Monitor, back up, and troubleshoot Azure resources.
Confidently sit for and pass AZ-900 and AZ-104 certification exams.
Introduction to Cloud Computing & Azure
Cloud models: Public, Private, Hybrid
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS concepts
Benefits of cloud adoption
Azure Core Services
Compute: VMs, App Services
Networking: VNets, VPN Gateway
Storage: Blob, Files, Tables, Queues
Azure Architecture & Management Tools
Azure Portal, CLI, PowerShell
Resource Manager (ARM) & Resource Groups
Azure Pricing, SLAs, and Lifecycle
Pricing Calculator & TCO Calculator
Service Level Agreements
Azure subscription lifecycle
Security, Privacy & Compliance in Azure
Azure Security Center & Defender
Compliance offerings and trust center
Manage Azure Active Directory (Entra ID)
Create & manage users, groups, and licenses
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Subscriptions and governance features (Azure Policy, Blueprints)
Configure VNets, subnets, and IP addressing
Network security groups (NSGs)
Azure DNS & name resolution
Azure Bastion for secure management
Site-to-Site VPN
ExpressRoute concepts
Virtual network peering
Network routing & service endpoints
Deploy & configure Azure VMs
VM sizing & availability sets/zones
Custom images & VM extensions
Azure App Services & containers basics
Storage accounts & replication types
Blob storage lifecycle management
Azure Files & Azure File Sync
Securing storage with shared access signatures (SAS)
Azure Key Vault
Azure Firewall & DDoS protection
Defender for Cloud workloads
Secure access to storage and compute
Azure Monitor & Log Analytics
Alerts & action groups
Backup and Site Recovery
Troubleshooting common issues
Azure Policy & compliance auditing
ARM templates for automation
Azure Automation runbooks
Cost management and optimization
Key topic reviews
Practice questions and lab simulations
Exam strategies & time management
Full real-world deployment scenario
End-to-end Azure solution build
Q&A session and final readiness check
Scheduling certification exam