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Introduction to Azure IaaS Compute Solutions

Learning Objective: Get a brief overview of Microsoft Azure and its Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) Compute Solutions. Learn how to plan for VM deployment and create VMs using Azure Portal, PowerShell and C# code.   

Topics:

• Overview of Microsoft Azure  
• Azure Virtual Machines
• Configure Azure VMs for remote access
• Using Azure SDKs

Hands-On:

• Provision VMs by using the Azure Portal, PowerShell, and code

Implementing Azure Batch Service and Disk Encryption

Learning Objective: Learn how to create and use ARM templates for repeatable deployments and encrypt Azure VM disks. 

Also, learn to use Azure Batch, which creates and manages a pool of compute nodes (VMs), installs the applications you want to run, and schedules jobs to run on the nodes.

Topics:

• ARM templates for Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure Disk Encryption
• Azure Batch Services

Hands-On:

• Deploy ARM templates for VM
• Run a batch job by using Azure CLI, Azure portal and Code

Designing and Developing Applications that use Containers

Learning Objective: Build and run modern, portable, Microservices-based applications that benefit from Kubernetes orchestration and manage the availability of those application components.

Topics:

• Overview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 
• AKS clusters
• Azure Container Registry

Hands-On:

• Create an Azure Managed Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster 
• Create container images for solutions 
• Publish an image to the Azure Container Registry 
• Run containers by using Azure Container Instance or AKS 

Implementing Azure App Service Web Apps & Mobile Apps

Learning Objective:  Use Azure App Service Web Apps for hosting web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends. Add more power to application by implementing security, load balancing, autoscaling, and automated management. Also, build engaging cross-platform and native apps using Azure App Service Mobile Apps.

Topics:

• Azure App Service core concepts
• Azure App Service Web Apps
• WebJobs
• Azure App Service Mobile Apps
• Registering apps for Push notifications

Hands-On:

• Creating App Service web apps by using Azure CLI, Azure Portal, and PowerShell
• Creating continuous and triggered WebJobs
• Pushing an app on to the Mobile App service
• Registering apps for push notifications

Implementing Azure App Service API Apps & Azure Functions

Learning Objective: Learn how to create and document an Azure App Service API and implement Azure Functions, which is a solution for easily running small pieces of code, or "functions," in the cloud. 

Topics:

• Azure App Service API Apps
• API documentation
• Azure Functions overview 
• Durable functions 

Hands-On:

• Creating an APIM instance and a new API 
• Use Swashbuckle to create Swagger objects in ASP.NET Core 
• Creating functions, bindings, and triggers 
• Creating Durable functions

Developing Solutions that use Azure Table Storage and Cosmos DB

Learning Objective: Use Azure Table storage service, that stores structured NoSQL data in the cloud, providing a key/attribute store with a schema-less design. Also, learn how to use Azure Cosmos DB storage to manage containers and items, handle documents by using code, and implement scaling. 

Topics:

• Azure Table storage overview
• Authorization in Table storage
• Table service REST API 
• Azure Cosmos DB overview
• Managing containers and items
• Handle documents 
• Scaling
• Implement server-side programming

Hands-On:

• Perform Shared Key Authorization
• Use the Azure Table storage REST service to manage data 
• Create, read, update, and delete data by using appropriate APIs
• Creating and updating documents by using code

Developing Solutions that use Relational Database and Azure Blob Storage

Learning Objective: Learn about Azure SQL Database, a managed service which is a general-purpose relational database that supports structures such as relational data, JSON, spatial, and XML. Also learn about Azure Blob storage, which is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.

Topics:

• Azure SQL overview
• Database operations (CRUD)
• Azure Blob storage overview
• Working with Azure Blob storage
• Blob Leasing in Azure
• Hot Storage
• Cool Storage
• Archive Storage

Hands-On:

• Create, read, update, and delete database tables by using code
• Set and retrieve Blob storage properties and metadata
• Replicate and copy Blobs
• Implement Blob Leasing on Portal

Implementing Authentication and Access Control in Azure

Learning Objective: Learn about Microsoft identity platform, which is an evolution of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identity service and developer platform. It allows developers to build applications that sign in all Microsoft identities, get tokens to call Microsoft Graph, other Microsoft APIs, or APIs that developers have built. Also, learn about Claims-based and Role-based access control. 

Topics:

• Microsoft identity platform
• OAuth2 authentication
• Managed Identities
• Azure Key Vault 
• Claims-based authorization
• Role-based access control (RBAC) authorization

Hands-On:

• Implementing OAuth2 authentication in the solutions
• Using Azure Key Vault to store and retrieve authentication information
• Implementing multi-factor authentication
• Implementing Claims-based authorization
• Manage access to resources using RBAC through the REST API

Implementing Secure Data Solutions and Integrating Caching and CDN

Learning Objective:  This module covers securing data at rest and during transmission. You will also learn how to leverage Azure Cache for Redis and Azure CDNs to deliver assets to users more quickly.

Topics:

• Encryption options
• End-to-end encryption
• Azure confidential computing
• Managing cryptographic keys in Azure Key Vault 
• Azure Cache for Redis
• Develop for storage on CDNs

Hands-On:

• Encrypting data with Transparent Data Encryption 
• Managing and utilizing encryption keys by using the Azure key Vault 
• Configuring and interacting with Azure Redis Cache
• Managing Azure CDN

Instrument Monitoring, Logging and Scalability of Apps and Services

Learning Objective: This module covers adding code to your app to send the data to Azure Monitor, which is the central service that includes all the tools you need to monitor and optimize your solution. This module also covers how applications scale and how to handle troubleshooting.   

Topics:

• Overview of Azure Monitor 
• Application Insights 
• Autoscale patterns and best practices 
• Handling transient faults

Hands-On:

• Adding default code to web pages, console apps, and Windows desktop apps to support telemetry 
• Using dashboards and other tools to monitor and troubleshoot their app 
• Implementing Autoscale
• Implementing code that addresses singleton application instances
• Implementing code that handles transient faults

Connecting to and Consuming Azure and Third-party Services

Learning Objective: This module provides an overview of Logic Apps and API Management. In this module, you will also learn how to integrate Azure Search (Search-as-a-Service).   

Topics:

• Azure Logic Apps overview 
• Custom connectors for Logic Apps 
• Custom templates for Logic Apps
• Azure Search service
• Introduction to the API Management service
• Secure APIs
• Define API policies

Hands-On:

• Creating Logic Apps by using Visual Studio
• Creating an Azure Search index
• Importing searchable data
• Querying the Azure Search index 
• Secure APIs

Developing Event-based and Message-based Solutions in Azure

Learning Objective: Develop event-based solutions in Azure by integrating Azure Event Grid, Event Hubs, and Notification Hubs in your applications. Also, learn about Microsoft Azure Service Bus, which is a fully managed enterprise integration message broker.   

Topics:

• Azure Event Grid 
• Azure Event Hubs 
• Azure Notification Hubs 
• Azure Service Bus 
• Azure Queue Storage queues

Hands-On:

• Create and integrate Event Grid, Event Hubs and Notification Hubs
• Create and integrate Azure Service Bus