Introduction to cloud computing, What is Microsoft Azure?, Microsoft Azure Services, Creating a Microsoft Azure Account, Azure Portal, Azure CLI, Azure Powershell, Azure Resources & Subscriptions, Azure Resource Manager, Microsoft Azure Architecture, Managing Azure Resources.

Hands-on Exercise: Move and organised resources in the resource groups Create a resource Groups and deploy resources in it.

Azure Storage, Azure Storage Account & its types, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files Storage
Azure Table Storage, Azure Queue Storage, Azure Storage Explorer, Attach & Detach an External Storage Account, Azure Shared Access Sgnature (SAS).

Hands-on Exercise: Create Storage Account, Create and manage Azure Blob, Create and manage Azure File Storage, Create and manage Azure Queue Storage, Create and manage Azure Table Storage, Download and Set Up Storage Explorer, Attach and detach external storage account in storage Explorer, Access Storage Services using Storage Explorer.

Azure Storage Replication, Why Azure Storage Replication?, Data Replication Options, Azure Import/Export Service, How Import/Export Service Works, Azure File Sync, Azure Backup Service, Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN).

Hands-on Exercise:  Create Archive Backup, Create SNapshot Backup, Create AZ Copy Backup, Create and Use CDN Endpoints.

Introduction to Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Configurations, Creating and Configuring An Azure VM, Data Disks in Azure, Creating VM from an existing OS disk, Azure VMs & Interfaces, Introduction to ARM templates, Introduction to VHD templates, Creating Virtual Machines using templates, Introduction to Custom Images of Azure VM.

Hands-on Exercise:  Create and congfigure a Virtual Machine, Creating a VM from VHD Template, Deploying a VM from a Custom Image.

Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Why Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Virtual Machine Availability Sets, Backing Up Azure Virtual Machines, VM Back Up Policies, Restoring Azure Virtual machines, Azure Site Recovery.

Hands-on Exercise:  Create and configure a Virtual Machine, Create a Scale Set, Creating a VM from VHD Template, Deploying a VM from a Custom Image, Take a back up of an Azure VM, Restore the VM, Create a Scale Set.

Introduction to Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Vnet Components, IP Addresess – Public & Private IPs, Azure Vnet Subnets, Azure Network Interface Cards (NIC), Network Security Group (NSG), NSG Rules, Creating Route Tables, Service Tags, Introduction to Azure DNS, Introduction to Private DNS.

Hands-on Exercise:  Assigning Static IP, Creating Azure Vnet from Scratch, Creating and Attaching NIC to VM, Creating and using NSG, Create and configure DNS.

Introduction to Azure Load Balancers, Troubleshooting Azure Load Balancers, Azure Network Watcher, Virtual Network Gateway, Vnet Peering, Vnet to Vnet Connection Gateway, Vnet Site to Site Connection, Azure Express Route, Express Route Circuits, Express Route Peering.

Hands-on Exercise:  Create and Configure Vnet to Vnet Peering, Create and Configure Vnet to Vnet Gateway Connection, Create Internal Load Balancer, Create Public Load Balancer, Estabalish site to site VPN gateway Connection.

What is Access Management in Azure?, Role Based Access Management (RBAC), Built in Roles in Access Management, Role Definitions, Structure of Role Definitions, Creating a Custom Role, Role Assignment in Azure Resources, Azure Users & Groups, RBAC Policies.

Hands-on Exercise:  Creating a Custom Role, Attach policies to the role, Assigning role to Azure resources.

What is Active Directory, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Why Azure Active Directory?, What is Windows Active Directory?, Windows AD Vs Azure AD, Azure AD Users, Azure AD Groups
Azure AD Domains, Azure AD Tenants.

Hands-on Exercise:  Create an Azure Active Directory, Create Azure AD Users – Guests and Members, Assign roles to Users, Create Azure AD Groups, Create a Custom Domain in Azure Active Directory.

What is Azure AD Connect?, Features of Azure AD Connect, Azure Active Directory, Authentication Options, AD Connect Password hash Synchronization, AD Connect Pass-through Authentication, AD Connect Federation Integration, Azure AD Connect Health Monitoring, Self Service password Reset (SSPR), Implementing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

Hands-on Exercise:  Configure Azure AD Connect, Manage Azure AD Connect Health operations, Enable and implement Self service password reset for a certain user, Enable and implement Multi factor Authentication for users.

Project 1 : Handling infrastructure solutions for Azure Cloud

Industry :  General

Problem Statement : How to handle the infrastructure solutions of Azure cloud for a fast growing company.

Description : This project will help you to deploy the Azure infrastructure solutions at scale. As part of the project you will learn how to manage Azure blog storage for unstructured data, deploying the various infrastructure tools and portals, working with Azure Active Directory, managing the Azure Virtual Machines, Windows PowerShell and more as part of the project.

Highlights :

• Architecture of Azure Infrastructure
• Optimizing Windows Server Workloads
• Connecting Azure AD with Windows AD.

Project 2 : Monitoring Azure Cloud for a BPO

Industry : Outsourcing

Problem Statement : Managing Microsoft Azure infrastructure for an outsourcing firm

Description :  In this project you will learn intricacies of the Azure platform and handle the Azure infrastructure solutions. You will connect the SQL database to Azure using the Azure infrastructure tools at scale. You will learn how to manage the data conversion and data entry services in the BPO, ensuring the smooth handling of the tech support, chat support, email support among other vital tasks of an Azure powered business process outsourcing firm.

Highlights :

• Configure, deploy and manage storage solutions
• Working with Azure Virtual Machines
• Managing Azure cloud deployment in real-time.