Azure Architecture: Azure 2021 Intermediate

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Azure AI Fundamentals: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

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Azure Data Fundamentals: Data Workloads

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Microsoft Azure: Getting Started

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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Management Tools

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Microsoft Azure Architect Design: VNet Design & Implementation

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Azure Network Configuration

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Azure AI Fundamentals: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in particular are solving a significant number of business and social problems and giving computers a new way to handle and process vast amounts of data. In this course, you'll learn about AI and machine learning concepts regarding regression, classification, and clustering algorithms. You'll explore how to manage datasets and work with labeled versus unlabeled data. You'll learn how supervised and unsupervised machine learning can be used, as well as how to build and use AIs safely, transparently, and fairly. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

18 videos | 1h 43m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Machine Learning with Azure Services

Azure ML provides a suite of services to help with machine learning by providing a single interface to build, manage, deploy, test, and collaborate via the Azure Machine Learning Studio. In this course, you'll learn about the Azure ML services provided, including as Machine Learning designer and automated machine learning. You'll explore how to access and use the Azure Machine Learning Studio and review the Machine Learning features available in the service. In particular, you'll learn about the features of the Computer Vision, Custom Vision, Face, and Form Recognizer services. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

18 videos | 1h 50m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Using Azure Machine Learning Studio

The Azure Machine Learning Studio is a complete web tool and graphical user interface for building, managing, deploying, evaluating, and testing machine learning algorithms and workloads from initial design to final deployment. In this course, you'll investigate the different features of the Azure ML Studio interface and use it to create datasets, ingest data, create models automatically, build prediction services, and finally, manage endpoints for a machine learning model. Furthermore, you'll explore the datastores, compute resources, experiments, pipelines, and model management interfaces that are utilized when working with Azure ML Studio. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

18 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Authoring with the Azure ML Studio Designer

The Azure Machine Learning Studio provides a proficient designer that can be used to build machine learning pipelines. In this course, you'll explore Azure ML Studio Designer and practice using its features for managing, normalizing, and transforming data for use in regression, classification, and clustering models. You'll also learn how to select features from a dataset and create datasets for training and validating models within Studio Designer. By the end of the course, you'll be able to use datasets, add transformations, normalize and clean data, split datasets, and configure and use a number of models, all within Azure ML Studio Designer. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Evaluating Models with the ML Designer

In order to build a powerful and useful machine learning deployment, you must be able to evaluate and verify the AI model and data, as well as the accuracy and effectiveness of its predictions. Azure Machine Learning Studio and the Designer provide multiple easy-to-use methods for evaluating and scoring a model. In this course, you'll learn how to score and evaluate models and interpret and evaluate the results from some common models. You'll also explore how to create an inference pipeline, add web service output to provide external access to the model, and deploy and test a predictive web service. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

16 videos | 2h 2m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection can be a critical part of almost any business and can be used for fraud detection, identifying failures, and noticing unusual patterns in logs, records, or any time series based data. In this course, you'll learn the purpose and uses for anomaly detection and how AI anomaly detection can be used to identify unusual patterns, failures, and fraud. You'll then learn about the challenges of detecting anomalies in real world situations and how AI-based anomaly detection can be used to mitigate those challenges. Finally, you'll learn how to build, configure, deploy, and test the Azure Anomaly Detection service to create anomaly detection services you can use in real world scenarios. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Natural Language Processing

A powerful feature of machine learning is Natural Language Processing. Natural language processing allows computers to identify and process natural language and can be used for speech-to-text and text-to-speech processing, sentiment analysis, and translation. In this course, you'll learn about the features, uses, and challenges of NLP and the Azure services supporting NLP. You'll also explore intents and entities. In particular, you'll learn to train models using the Azure services for text analytics, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, sentiment analysis, and translation. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Creating a Conversational AI Bot

Conversational bots are becoming a powerful tool for businesses since they can interact and respond to queries and questions similar to how a real person would. However, they are not limited to this use and can also become personal digital assistants and be used as knowledgebases. In this course, you'll learn about the QnA Maker for knowledgebase bots, how to create a conversational bot, how to connect the bot to external channels and apps, and even how to create a simple personal digital assistant. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

17 videos | 2h 1m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Computer Vision

Computer vision is the machine learning capability to allow computers to "see" similar to how a person can see, and be able to identify, distinguish, and interpret objects, people, and even text from images or video. In this course you will learn about the Azure ML Computer Vision service, Computer Vision Models, and how it can be trained and used to detect and classify objects in images and videos using a Classifier model and semantic segmentation. You'll also learn how to evaluate the results of an object detection model. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

15 videos | 1h 22m Assessment Badge

Azure AI Fundamentals: Face & Optical Character Recognition

An advanced and powerful feature of computer vision is the ability to detect, identify, and even analyze faces and forms in images and videos. In this course, you'll learn how to use the Azure Face Detection service and Computer Vision service to determine a person's age from an image and to determine their sentiment. You'll also explore how to use the Form Recognizer service to read and process forms using Optical Character Recognition. Finally, you'll learn how to use the Receipt and Custom Form Recognizer to process fields from receipts. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) exam.

16 videos | 1h 54m Assessment Badge

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Azure Data Fundamentals: Data Workloads

Data workloads refer to the system's ability to handle and process work. In this course, you'll learn about core data workloads and workload management, including the need for data solutions and the various types of data storage. You'll then explore transactional and analytical workloads, Azure Batch, and real time processing. Finally, you'll learn about the differences between batch data and streaming data and the fundamentals of relational data. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Data Analytics

Data analytics enables you to extract valuable insights from data and uncover patterns. In this course, you'll learn about data analytics core concepts. You'll examine data visualization, including business intelligence and reporting using Azure Data Explorer, a fully-managed big data analytics cloud platform. You'll then learn about SQL Server Reporting Services, data chart types, and different analytic techniques. You'll explore stream analytics and the associated data types. Finally, you'll learn to use extract, load, and transform data processing and also extract, transform, and load data processing. This course is one of a series that prepares you for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

13 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Relational Data Workloads

Relational data is stored in tables, which allows users to easily categorize and query the data. In this course, you'll learn about the characteristics of relational data and different relational databases. You'll explore how to use indexes and views in a relational database, as well as the different delivery models for relational data. Next, you'll examine Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, and Software as a Service. Finally, you'll learn about online transaction and analytical processing. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 20m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Relational Data Management

Relational data management ensures cloud database systems are versatile and functionable. In this course, you'll explore how to work with relational data on Azure, including basic management tasks for relational data such as SQL database and the security features within. You'll then learn about Azure Data Studio, Azure SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server, and the sqlcmd utility. Finally, you'll learn about SQL Managed Instance, Azure Synapse Analytics, as well as different connectivity issues such as authentication or firewall. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

14 videos | 1h 43m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Provisioning & Configuring Relational Data Services

Azure database services are fully managed, which frees up valuable time otherwise spent on managing them. In this course, you'll learn how to provision relational data services and a Microsoft Azure SQL Database. You'll explore how to provision a Microsoft Azure SQL Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. Next, you'll discover how to configure a Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Finally, you'll learn how to configure Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure SQL Querying Techniques

Azure SQL is used for extracting and organizing data that is stored in a relational database. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize and apply data querying techniques using SQL, Data Definition Language, and Data Manipulation Language. You'll start by learning about Structured Query Language including its uses, features, and limitations. You'll examine how to work with the Data Definition Language and Data Manipulation Language. Next, you'll learn how to query Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal, SSMS, Data Studio, and the sqlcmd utility. Finally, you'll discover how to query relational data in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Non-relational Data Workloads

Non-relational databases use a storage model that is optimized for the data being stored. In this course, you'll learn about characteristics of non-relational data, including the different types of non-relational data. You'll learn when to use non-relational versus relational data. Next, you'll explore the use of CSV and JSON files for non-relational data and the requirements of non-relational data stores. You'll examine free-form text for search, including architecture and challenges. Finally, you'll learn about time series solutions, including their benefits and challenges. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

9 videos | 52m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Non-relational Data Services

Non-relational data repositories can store data in its original format and allow fast storage and retrieval access. In this course, you'll learn about the non-relational data services, including Azure Table Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and Azure File Storage. You'll also learn how to provision and configure non-relational data services and manage Azure Blob Storage and Azure File Storage. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

10 videos | 54m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Cosmos DB

Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database for modern app development. In this course, you'll learn about non-relational data offerings on Azure, including Cosmos DB and the different entities in the resource model. You'll learn how to provision and configure Cosmos DB and query data. Next, you'll explore the various Cosmos DB APIs and learn how to use Core (SQL) API for Cosmos DB. Finally, you'll examine how to use the Cosmos DB API, as well as how to use the Cassandra, Azure Table, and Gremlin APIs in Cosmos DB. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

13 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Non-relational Data Management

Non-relational data does not use SQL for queries and instead it uses other programming languages and constructs to query the data. This course covers basic management tasks for non-relational data, including how to deploy data using the Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager Templates, Azure PowerShell, and the Azure CLI. You'll learn about Cosmos DB firewall, authentication, and other security components. Finally, you'll explore Azure Cosmos DB Explorer and Geo-replication, as well as various issues that may arise with access control, .NET SDKs, and Java SDKs. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

14 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Analytics Workloads

Azure Synapse Analytics is a limitless analytics service that brings together data warehousing and big data analytics. In this course, you will learn about analytics workloads, including Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Synapse SQL pool, Data Warehouse Units. You'll also learn about the difference between transactional and analytic workloads and batch and real time data processing. You'll use Azure Portal and Azure PowerShell to create a Synapse SQL pool and Azure Data Lake Analytics. You'll learn about data warehousing workloads and when to use a data warehouse solution. Finally, you'll learn about the different Azure Data Lake Analytics. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Modern Data Warehousing

Modern data warehousing lets you bring your data together at any scale and provide insights through analytics. This course, you'll learn about the components of a modern data warehouse and its architecture and how it can benefit your organization. You'll start by learning about modern data warehousing, and then the data warehousing architecture. You'll then learn about Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Databricks. You'll then go on to explore Azure Analysis Services and Azure HDInsights. Finally, you'll discover Azure Distributed Data Engineering Toolkit. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Data Ingestion & Processing

Data ingestion and processing allows your data to be assessed, used, and analyzed. In this course, you'll learn about Azure data ingestion and processing, including loading strategies for Synapse SQL Pools. You'll examine Azure data factory pipelines and activities, as well as how to create an Azure data factory. Next, you'll learn how to use the data factory copy data tool to copy data. Finally, you'll explore how to use SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake to ingest data. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

11 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Fundamentals: Azure Data Visualization

Power BI allows you to visualize your data and gain deeper insight by creating interactive and immersive dashboards and reports. In this course, you'll learn how to use Microsoft Power BI to optimize data, load datasets, and create dashboards. Next, you'll explore how to use Power BI for paginated and interactive reports, as well as for publishing reports. You'll also examine how to use the different types of Power BI visualizations. Finally, you'll learn about workflows and Power BI security and administration. This course is one in a series that prepares learners for the Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) exam.

12 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Azure Serverless Services: Messaging & Monitoring Essentials

Developers need to be aware of Azure messaging and monitoring services to enhance the Serverless deployment experience that saves time and lowers overhead cost. Use this course to investigate Azure messaging and notification essentials to manage events in Serverless applications and Azure monitoring services to control the environments with simplified configurations in the Azure cloud platform. Explore the capabilities of Azure Event Grid, differences between messages and events, and prominent messaging services provided by Azure. This course will also help you examine the advantages offered by Azure Notification Hubs and how they differ from Amazon SNS, the characteristics of Azure Monitor, and how to work with Application Insights and Log Analytics. After finishing this course, you'll have the knowledge to manage serverless applications with Azure messaging and monitoring services.

20 videos | 1h 52m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure: Getting Started

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service for building and managing applications and services. Discover how to sign up for an Azure account, and explore the Azure portal, store, SQL Database, and AppFabric.

7 videos | 35m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Management Tools

Explore the business case for using Azure and common management tools. In this course, you'll examine how Azure solutions can address business needs and which tools can be used to achieve this. You'll start by learning about common Azure solutions and which business problems they address. Next, you'll learn how to use the Azure portal and Cloud Shell, PowerShell, and the command line interface to deploy and manage Azure resources. Lastly, you'll learn how Azure services are exposed to developers through APIs. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

8 videos | 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Virtual Networking

Discover how to provision network configurations in the Azure cloud to allow resource communication. In this course, you'll create and configure various Azure network components. You'll start by creating VNets and subnets using the portal. Next, you'll deploy VNets and subnets using the CLI and PowerShell. Lastly, you will link VNets together through VNet peering using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

14 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Storage Accounts

Storing your data in the Azure cloud provides quick access to authorized apps and users from anywhere in the world, while maintaining multiple copies of that data. In this course, you'll learn to deploy and manage Azures storage accounts. You'll start by creating storage accounts using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then examine how to manage access keys using the portal, CLI and PowerShell. Next, you'll learn how to generate a storage account shared access signature. Lastly, you'll explore how to configure storage account security in the form of access policies, limit network access, and enable AD authentication. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

18 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Storage Account Content Management

To gain the benefits of cloud-stored data, you must know how to use the appropriate tools to access cloud storage in a secured manner. In this course, you'll explore various methods of uploading and managing storage account blobs, as well as enabling security and high availability. You'll start by examine how to upload blobs to a storage account using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then discover how to use the Storage Explorer GUI tool to manage storage account blobs. Next, you'll learn to enable replication using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell, as well as configure blob lifecycle management. Lastly, you'll learn how to use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to create a key vault and key for encrypting a storage account and how to enable storage account failover. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure Files

You can provide secured access to shared folders in the cloud using Azure Files. In this course, you'll explore Azure Files configuration and connectivity. You'll start by learning how to configure an Azure Files share using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you'll examine how to connect to Azure Files from a Windows host. Lastly, you'll discover how to connect to Azure Files share from a Linux host. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

8 videos | 22m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Deploying Azure Database Solutions

Microsoft Azure provides managed database solutions, which means technicians can focus on the database solution and not the underlying setup. In this course, you'll learn about NoSQL and SQL solutions available in Azure. You'll start by learning how to configure a NoSQL table within a storage account. You'll then examine how to deploy and configure a Cosmos DB NoSQL database. Next, you'll learn how to deploy and configure an Azure SQL database. Lastly, you'll see how to connect to Azure SQL database using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, enable Azure SQL high availability, and publish on-premises databases to Azure. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

12 videos | 46m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Securing Azure Networks

Securing Azure resources at the network level is crucial in protecting digital assets and remaining compliant with regulations. In this course, you'll secure Azure networks using firewall rules and a Bastion host. You'll start by examining how to create network security groups using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then learn how to troubleshoot effective security rules. Next, you'll discover how to deploy Azure Firewall with various types of rules. Lastly, you'll learn how to deploy Azure Bastion as a jump box solution to protect Azure VMs. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

14 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Deploying & Managing Azure VMs

Because virtual machines provide the underlying compute power for Azure workloads, knowing how to securely and efficiently manage VMs serves the best interests of cloud customers. In this course, you'll explore how to deploy, connect to, and manage VMs. You'll learn to deploy Windows and Linux VMs using the portal, PowerShell and the CLI. Next, you'll examine how to enable Linux SSH public key authentication and resize a VM. Lastly, you'll learn how to create disks and attach them to VMs, enable VM disk encryption, and deploy a virtual machine scale set. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure AD

Azure Active Directory (AD) provides centralized identity services that allow secure authentication and authorization to use Azure and Office 365 resources. In this course, you'll learn how to manage Azure AD users and security options. You'll start by examining how to deploy a new Azure AD tenant and navigate between tenants. Next, you'll learn to configure AD verification methods, and use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to create Azure AD users including guest users on an individual and a bulk basis. You'll then explore how to assign product licences to Azure AD users and configure Azure AD security settings including password reset, fraud alerts, conditional access, and multifactor authentication. Next, you'll learn how to configure sign-in security features including named locations, trusted IPs, MFA bypass, and banned passwords. Lastly, you'll explore how to enable Azure identity protection and register an app in Azure AD. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

21 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Deploying Azure AD Connect

Azure AD allows the continued use of on-premises Active Directory account authentication through AD Connect. In this course, you'll learn how to use AD Connect to link Azure AD with an on-premises AD environment. You'll start by examining how to configure a custom DNS domain for an Azure AD tenant. You'll then learn how to download, install, and configure the Azure AD Connect agent on an on-premises domain server. Lastly, you'll discover how to view Azure AD Connect health statistics and configure Azure Files permissions. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

10 videos | 45m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure AD Devices & Groups

Azure AD groups facilitate permissions management when registering devices with Azure AD and allow Azure AD user authentication on those devices. In this course, you'll learn about groups, devices, licenses, and group management in Azure AD. You'll start by learning how to create and manage groups using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then examine how to join devices to Azure AD and manage device settings. Next, you'll see how to create a dynamic group, assign licenses to groups, and enable group self-service. Lastly, you'll explore how to work with group member bulk tools and join a mobile device to Azure AD. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

17 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Managing Azure Web Applications

Azure App Services provide a simple way to host web applications with minimal fuss. In this course, you'll learn about running web apps, including containerized applications, in Azure. You'll start by examine how to deploy an app service plan and app service web app using the portal and Microsoft Visual Studio. You'll then learn how to use web app deployment slots and when to use Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps. Next, you'll explore how to enable a custom DNS domain name and HTTPS binding, as well as how to configure web app backup and then access the web app through the Kudu interface. Lastly, you'll see how to work with application container instances and clusters through Azure Kubernetes Service. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

18 videos | 1h 15m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Web App Availability & Security

Microsoft Azure provides tools that allow you to ensure the security and high availability of Azure workloads. In this course, you'll explore methods of improving the performance, security, and availability of Azure web apps. You'll start by learning how to deploy an Azure load balancer using the portal and from an ARM template. You'll then examine how to configure load balancer settings such as inbound NAT rules for back-end VM management. Next, you'll learn to deploy Application Gateway and Web Application Firewall. Lastly, you'll see how to configure the Azure Front Door Service. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

11 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Automating Azure Administrative Tasks

Automation provides a means of using cloud services in the most efficient manner possible to increase productivity and reduce costs. In this course, you'll explore various methods of automation. You'll start by learning how to create and deploy ARM template from a variety of sources through the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you'll examine how to use an existing on-premises VHD with an ARM template and how to import an ARM template. You'll then learn how to work with Azure graphical and PowerShell runbooks within an automation account. Lastly, you'll discover how to import runbooks and deploy them from the PowerShell Gallery. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

15 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure and Business Continuity

Microsoft Azure provides numerous methods for ensuring business continuity during disruptions. In this course, you'll learn how Azure solutions can provide business continuity in the event of disruptions. You'll start by learning how to plan and deploy a Recovery Services vault using the portal and PowerShell. You'll then examine how to configure Azure VM and on-premises file server backup. Next, you'll learn how to enable Azure VM failover. Lastly, you'll see how to configure update management. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

17 videos | 1h 18m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Azure Resource Governance

It's important to know how to secure the management and configuration of Azure resources through RBAC and policies. In this course, you'll learn how to work with RBAC and policy management. You'll start by exploring how to create and assign RBAC roles using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you'll learn how management groups can facilitate policy assignments in a multi-subscription environment. You'll learn how to initiate an Azure AD access review and work with policy assignment through the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. Lastly, you'll examine how to check policy compliance and enable policy remediation, as well as the purpose of Azure Blueprints. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Migrating to Azure

Azure provides various migration tools that can be used to assess and move workloads from on-premises to the Azure cloud. In this course, you will learn about various tools and methods for assessing and running Azure migrations. You'll start by exploring on-premises server, database, and web app assessments. Next, you'll learn about the migration process. Lastly, you'll learn when Azure Data Box should be used. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

10 videos | 45m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies: Monitoring Azure

Monitoring Azure resources is crucial for optimizing resource utilization, reducing costs, and enhancing the organizational security posture. In this course, you'll learn about monitoring individual resources as well as working with centralized monitoring. You'll start by examining the metrics for an individual Azure virtual machine. You'll then learn how to work with a Log Analytics workspace and its data sources to centralize log and performance metric data. Next, you'll examine how to work with Azure Monitor and dashboards, view performance metrics, and enable diagnostic logging. You'll see how to view web app metrics through Application Insights and view and manage Azure costs. Lastly, you'll learn how to configure action groups for alert notification, view Security Center recommendations, and work with Azure Sentinel. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-303: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies certification exam.

20 videos | 1h 40m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Manage Azure AD Groups & Devices

Learn how to create and manage Azure AD groups, as well as how to join both Windows 10 and Android devices to Azure AD, in this 18-video course, one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure AD groups; how to restore deleted Azure AD groups; and how to join a Windows 10 computer to an Azure AD domain. Next, learn how to manage Azure AD device settings; learn to disable a domain-joined Azure AD device; and learn to create a group with dynamic membership; enable dynamic group membership. Learn to assign licenses to a group; specify group owners; enable self-service group membership; and use bulk options for group add and remove. Learners will use the multifactor authentication (MFA) app to register an Android device with Azure AD; create a dynamic device group; and create a conditional access policy.

18 videos | 1h 1m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Manage Azure AD Users

In this 22-video course, learners discover how Azure AD serves as a central cloud-based identity provider. Examine creating and managing Azure AD users with graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools, and how to enable multifactor authentication (MFA). This course is one of several courses preparing learners for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered here include the role Azure AD plays in cloud authentication; how to use the portal to explore Azure AD; and how to use command-line interface (CLI) to navigate between Azure AD tenants. Next, learn how to use PowerShell to navigate Azure AD; manage Azure AD guest user accounts; and create Azure AD users through bulk create. Learn how MFA hardens user sign-in security, then how to enable and test Azure AD user MFA, enable users to reset their own passwords, and restore deleted Azure AD users. Assign licenses to users; configure banned passwords; and add Azure AD licensed features. Finally, assign an existing Azure subscription to a different Azure AD tenant; and configure Azure AD smart lockout feature.

22 videos | 1h 18m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Manage Azure AD Subscriptions and Costs

In this 19-video course, you will learn how to manage Azure subscriptions and resource groups; learn about management groups and how to create them; and explore how to analyze costs, configure budgets, and view billing information. Key concepts covered in this course include how subscriptions affect the Azure environment, including subscription types and support; using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure subscriptions; and recognizing how management groups are used to manage multiple subscriptions. You will learn how to use the portal to work with a management group; use the portal to analyze Azure costs; configure a budget scope; and view Azure billing information. Next, learn to create, manage, and delete resource groups using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; to move an Azure resource to a different resource group; and to view resource deployments to a resource group. View costs associated with a specific resource group scope; create a resource group budget; and create a custom ARM template in the portal. This one of a series of courses to help learners prepare for the AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 11m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Policies

Azure policies can be used to control resource creation, management, and configuration. In this 9-video course, one of a collection of courses used in preparation for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, you will learn about Azure policies, including policy assignment, compliance, and remediation; and examine Azure policies and how they apply to Azure permissions. Key concepts covered in this course include definitions, assignments, and parameters of Azure policies; learning to assign Azure policies for an Azure subscription and for your resource group; and identifying noncompliant resources by creating a policy assignment using Azure PowerShell and also by using a template. Then learn to create and assign a new custom policy with Azure portal; manage Azure policies and assignments by using the portal; and create an Azure AD Identity Protection resource. Configure a multifactor authentication (MFA) registration policy, a user risk policy, and a baseline policy. Finally, learn to define the purpose of Microsoft Azure policies, assign built-in policies using the portal and PowerShell, and enable admin account MFA through a baseline policy.

9 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Roles & Tags

Explore the management of Azure resources using Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in this 16-video course, one of a collection of course helping prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Learners will explore the management of Azure resources using RBAC and resource locking, as well as the use of resource tagging to facilitate easier searching and organization of resources, and examine how Azure roles assign permissions to different scopes. Key concepts covered in this course include how Azure roles assign permissions to different scopes; how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to assign a built-in Azure role; and how to create and assign a custom Azure role. Learn to recognize the benefits of resource locking; use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to prevent Azure resource modification or deletion; and use an ARM template to enable resource locking. Finally, learn benefits of tagging Azure resources; and use the portal, the CLI and PowerShell to tag Azure resources.

16 videos | 56m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Storage Accounts

In this 22-video course, one of several courses preparing learners for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, you will learn how to create and manage cloud storage with Azure storage accounts with graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line tools. Key concepts covered here are Azure storage account details, including storage tiers; how to use the portal, the command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to manage Azure storage accounts; and how to limit network access to a storage account. Next, use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to manage storage account blobs; use AzCopy to upload blobs to storage accounts; and manage blob lifecycle policies with the portal. Learn how to set access level for blob containers; create a storage account queue; and enable Azure AD authentication for a storage account. Then learn to refresh storage account keys; create a storage account shared access signature; and enable storage account replication. Finally, install and use Azure Storage Explorer tool; enable blob soft delete; use customer managed keys to encrypt cloud data; and generate and use a blob SAS token.

22 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Files

Azure file sharing and synchronization are key skills for an Azure administrator. Explore the use of Azure Files for creating and managing cloud-based shared folders, as well as file synchronization by using Azure File Sync, in this 10-video course. Prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam by examining how Azure file shares enable shared folders in the cloud, and how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure file shares. Other key concepts covered in this course include learning how Azure file shares enable shared folders in the cloud; how to use the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell to manage Azure file shares; and mapping a drive to Azure file shares by using Windows. Finally, learners observe how to map a mount point to Azure file shares by using Linux; learn the purpose of Azure File Sync; and learn how to enable an on-premises Azure File Sync gateway.

10 videos | 33m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Network Solutions

Azure network resources need to be carefully managed. Prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam with this 20-video course, which explores Azure network resources, Azure VNet peering, and Azure ExpressRoute. You will learn which Azure network configurations should be used, and how to use the portal, CLI, and PowerShell to manage VNets and subnets. Key concepts covered in this course include how to determine which Azure network configurations should be used; learning to manage VNets and subnets using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; and learning to manage IP address resources using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Next, you will learn to manage network interfaces by using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; configure routing table entries with the portal, the CLI and PowerShell; and learn the purpose of peering VNets and how to enable VNet peering. Use PowerShell to configure VNet peering; network links to Azure; and troubleshoot network issues by using both Network Performance Monitor and Network Watcher. Finally, learn how ExpressRoute provides dedicated private network links to Azure.

20 videos | 1h 28m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure DNS & Network Security

Explore the management of Azure DNS services and its benefits in this 22-video course, which examines how DNS (domain name system) name resolution works in Azure; how to use the portal, the command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to create a DNS zone; and how to enable custom DNS servers for a VNet. One of several preparing learners for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, this course's key concepts include how to create a DNS zone using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell; enabling custom DNS servers for a VNet; and how network security groups control inbound and outbound traffic flow. Next, you will learn how to manage network security groups with the portal, CLI, and PowerShell; recognize when VPN solutions should be used with Azure; and configure point-to-site and site-to-site VPNs. Learn the benefits of using Azure virtual WAN; how to deploy and manage Azure Firewall; and how to configure Azure Firewall application rules. Finally, learn how to deploy and manage Azure Bastion and how to deploy an Azure Virtual WAN hub.

22 videos | 1h 45m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Managing Azure Virtual Machines

In this course, you will explore deploying and managing Azure virtual machines (VMs), adding and encrypting VM disks, and enabling VM custom scripts. Examine Azure VM deployment requirements and how to use the portal, command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to deploy Azure VMs. This 22-video course is one of several preparing learners for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. The key concepts covered here include how to add data disks to your Windows VM in the Azure portal; how to add data disks to a Linux VM in Azure PowerShell; and how to add and remove network interfaces from an Azure VM. Learn to resize your VM with Azure portal; move your VM to another resource group, region, or zone; and redeploy a Windows VM and a Linux VM to a new Azure node. Next, learn to use the Custom Script Extension for Windows and Linux; and how to add and configure a data disk for a Windows and Linux VM, and move a VM to a different resource group, and resize a VM.

22 videos | 1h 26m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure App Service & Batch Jobs

In this 21-video course, learners will discover how to manage Azure App Service web applications and Azure Batch jobs. Learn about deploying and managing web apps, configuring Azure Batch, and managing Azure application container solutions while preparing for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered here include components that provide Azure-hosted web applications; how to deploy a code-based web application and a Docker-based web application; and how to use PowerShell to manage an Azure app service plan. Next, learn how to deploy a web application by using Microsoft Visual Studio; configure a custom DNS domain name for a web application; and enable HTTPS by using a custom DNS domain name for a web application. Then learn to configure web application staging with Azure deployment slots; enable scaling in an app service plan; enable backup for a web application; and learn automation benefits of Azure Batch. Finally, learn when to use Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Instances; manage the Azure Kubernetes Service; and manage Azure Container instances.

21 videos | 1h 25m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Availability Solutions

Azure offers a variety of high availability protection services, allowing you to protect systems and data. In this 22-video course, learn how to manage various Azure backup and recovery solutions while preparing for AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam. Key concepts covered in this course include how to deploy a virtual machine scale set; how load balancing can improve application performance and high availability; and how to configure an internal load balancer and a public load balancer, including health probes and rules. Next, learn how to deploy an application gateway to load balance an application; learn how Azure Site Recovery is used for disaster recovery; and configure site-to-site Azure recovery. Test VM failover after replication is enabled; learn benefits of using Azure Backup; and learn how to deploy an Azure Recovery Services vault. Then configure Azure Backup policies; use the portal, the command-line interface (CLI), and PowerShell to manage Azure Backup; restore Azure VMs; use Azure Backup to protect on-premises file servers; and restore deleted Azure virtual machine data.

22 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Monitoring Azure Resources

Discover how to effectively monitor your Azure deployments. In this 13-video course, one of several preparing learners for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, you will explore individual and centralized resource logging and performance monitoring, log querying, dashboards, alert notifications and application insight. Learn the various ways in which Azure resources can be monitored. Key concepts covered here include the various ways in which Azure resources can be monitored and how to monitor individual resources by examining logs and metrics; how to deploy a Log Analytics workspace; and how to configure Log Analytics Workspace data sources for centralized monitoring. Next, learn how to create a log query and save a query to a dashboard; learn to analyze performance metrics within and across subscriptions; and learn to create an actions group for alert notifications. Finally, learn how to enable Application Insights; and use Network Performance Monitor and Network Watcher to troubleshoot cloud network issues.

13 videos | 51m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Subscriptions & AD Tenants

As an Azure administrator, you will be expected to manage an organization's Azure environment, including Azure Active DIrectory (AD) and Azure subscriptions. Discover the relationship between subscriptions and Azure AD tenants. Explore how to manage Azure subscriptions using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell, as well as how to create and manage Azure AD tenants using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Investigate how to use Azure AD administrative units to organize users and groups, create a custom DNS domain name for Azure AD, and manage Azure AD applications. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure AD User & Group Management

Managing users, groups, and devices is a core skill for success as an Azure administrator. Creating users and assigning them to groups allows an administrator to provide a more streamlined and secure experience for users and their organization. Discover how to create Azure AD users using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Learn how to perform a bulk import to efficiently create users. Then, you'll invite external users to partake in Azure AD. Explore dynamic groups and find out how their membership can evolve based on defined criteria. Create your own dynamic user and device Azure AD groups. Practice restoring deleted groups and connecting devices to an Azure AD tenant. Finally, investigate how to assign product licenses to Azure AD users. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Authentication & Authorization

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to manage Azure authentication and authorization. Begin this course by discovering how authentication differs from authorization and the relationship to identity federation. Next, manage Azure AD service principals and managed identities. Enable MFA, banned passwords and other Azure AD security mechanisms. Finally, perform an Azure AD access review and configure Azure AD Connect. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

16 videos | 1h 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Management Groups & Resource Groups

As an Azure administrator, you will need the skills to determine how you will use resource groups and management groups. First, discover how management groups are used to organize Azure subscriptions and how resource groups can organize related resources under a single heading. Next, create a management group and organize subscriptions under it. Then, create and manage resource groups using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Finally, move Azure objects between resource groups, view resource group deployments, and delete a resource group and its resources. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Storage Account Blob Management

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to create and manage storage account blobs. Begin this course by learning to plan the number, location, and configuration of Azure storage accounts. Next, you will see how to create storage accounts and manage blobs using the portal, the CLI, AzCopy, and PowerShell. Learn to use Azure Storage Explorer to manage a storage account and enable storage account blob features such as soft delete and versioning. Finally, you will learn to configure immutable blob policies, manage storage tier and archiving, and automate blob life cycle management. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

15 videos | 1h 29m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Storage Account Access

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to control access to storage accounts. In this course you will learn to use role-based access control (RBAC) to limit access to storage accounts and configure storage account network access. You will explore the management of storage account access keys using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Next you will see how shared access signatures (SAS) are created using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Finally, you will learn to enable storage account geo-replication and encrypt a storage account using a customer-managed key. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Azure Files Shared Folders

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure shared folders in the Azure cloud. Discover how Azure Files allows for shared folders in the cloud that can be mapped from Windows and Linux hosts. Manage Azure Files shared folders using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Map a drive letter from a Windows host to an Azure Files share and configure a Linux mount point to an Azure Files share. Configure permissions for Azure shared folders and configure Azure File Sync. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Network Infrastructure Services

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure cloud network infrastructure services. Discover network infrastructure services available in the Azure cloud including virtual networks (VNets), subnets, and route tables. Create a Domain Name System (DNS) zone using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell, then configure custom DNS settings for a VNet. Explore subnet endpoints and manage VNets, subnets, and route tables using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

18 videos | 1h 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Network Connectivity

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to configure cloud network connectivity. Discover Azure cloud network connectivity options. Peer virtual networks (VNets) together using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Generate a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate using PowerShell, and configure a site-to-site and client-to-site virtual private network (VPN). Discover when ExpressRoute and Azure Virtual WAN should be used. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

12 videos | 1h 5m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Firewall Solutions

Network security is a high priority for Azure Administrators who need to rely on intelligent, scalable solutions with high availability. Build the skills you need to manage network security using Azure Firewall or Azure Network Security Group (NSG). Explore the ins and outs of NSGs, including different configurations to control traffic flowing in and out. Learn how to manage NSGs using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Then, focus on another essential solution, Azure Firewall, which provides more robust capabilities than NSGs. Discover how to configure Azure Firewall application, network, and network application rules. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 54m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Virtual Machines

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs), giving your organization the flexibility of multiple virtual operating systems without the cost and maintenance commitments that come with additional physical hardware. Discover virtual machine configuration settings in the Azure cloud. Deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines using the portal, the CLI, and PowerShell. Enable Secure Shell (SSH) public key authentication for Linux VMs and use Azure Bastion to manage VMs. Then, attach and encrypt VM disks, and deploy virtual machine extensions. Finally, create a virtual machine custom image and configure a virtual machine scale set. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

16 videos | 1h 34m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: App Services

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage web applications in the Azure cloud. Discover how to deploy a web application in the Azure cloud via the portal, as well as Microsoft Visual Studio. Explore how to create web app deployment slots to host testing configurations while keeping the production site up and running. Then, enable a custom DNS name, manage a key vault, enable an HTTPS binding, and manage various web app settings. Finally, discover how APIs are related to Azure and deploy a content delivery network. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

12 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Application Containers

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to deploy and manage application containers in the Azure cloud, saving your organization money, time, and resources. Discover how application containers differ from traditional applications and virtual machines. Learn how to install and manage Docker on both Windows and Linux hosts. Explore how to create a custom container image from a Dockerfile and deploy an Azure Container Registry, an Azure Container Instance, and a container group. Examine the role of Kubernetes in application containers and create and manage settings for an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

11 videos | 1h 3m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: ARM Templates

As an Azure Administrator, you must have the skills to create and manage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template deployments. Discover how ARM templates are created, focusing on their syntax and how they can be used to deploy and manage Azure resources. Create and modify ARM templates in various ways by using the portal, Microsoft Visual Studio, the CLI, and PowerShell. Create template deployments using GUI and command line tools and configure a virtual hard disk (VHD) template that will be used to deploy virtual machines. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 37m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Role-based Access Control

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage access to Azure resources, including what areas those resources can access and what specific actions they can perform, using role-based access control (RBAC). Discover how RBAC roles are assigned throughout the Azure hierarchy and explore various built-in roles, like owner, reader, or cost management contributor. Then, practice managing role assignments using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Create and assign a custom RBAC role and define your own permissions. Finally, learn how to assign Azure AD roles to administrators. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

8 videos | 38m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Policy & Resource Locking

As an Azure Administrator, you will need the skills to manage Azure resource configuration and compliance with security standards. Azure Policy allows you to create and monitor those compliance policies with powerful dashboard capabilities. Discover how to assign built-in Azure policies to the Azure hierarchy using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Create and assign a custom policy based on your own requirements and group related policies together in a policy initiative. Explore how resource locking can prevent unwanted resource configuration changes, and how to manage resource locks using the portal, an ARM template, the CLI, and PowerShell. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

13 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Import & Export Service

High-volume data migration is a problem Azure Administrators are tasked with. Learn how you can securely and efficiently transfer data in and out of Azure using import and export jobs. Discover how to prepare storage media for import and export jobs. First, download and unzip the waimportexport.exe tool. Then, prepare storage media for shipping to a Microsoft Azure data center and examine XML and JRN journal files. Next, practice using the portal to create a data import job and to specify shipping details. Finally, create an export job in the portal to get data out of an Azure storage account. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

7 videos | 32m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Cost Management

As an Azure Administrator, you must minimize monthly cloud computing charges. Azure Cost Management can help you plan for and manage costs by providing a unified view of cloud expenses across your organization. Discover the many ways to save on monthly cloud computing charges. Configure reserved virtual machine and database instances, configure auto-shutdown for applicable virtual machines. Learn how to view and analyze subscription costs in the portal. Explore the benefits of tagging Azure resources and find out how to tag resources using the portal, the CLI and PowerShell. Practice creating an Azure budget to monitor monthly spending, and view invoices and estimate costs using the Azure Pricing Calculator. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

14 videos | 1h 14m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Business Continuity

As an Azure Administrator, you must proactively plan for IT service disruptions in the cloud. Discover how Azure can ensure business continuity in the event of a disruption in a variety of ways. Plan how Azure Site Recovery (ASR) will be used, and explore how to enable backup of on-premises and cloud-based services to the Azure cloud. Examine how load balancing can improve app performance and fault tolerance. Enable virtual machine replication to a secondary region, back up a web app, and configure an Azure Load Balancer and Application Gateway. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

10 videos | 53m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Administrator: Monitoring

As an Azure Administrator, you must continuously monitor Azure services to optimize performance, control costs, and detect security anomalies. Discover the various tools that can be used to effectively monitor Azure services. Examine application details using Application Insights, work with logs, and monitor service performance metrics to proactively identify issues. Explore Azure Monitor and Azure Network Watcher to learn how to centrally monitor Azure resource and network activity. Finally, configure alerts and notifications of changes or unusual activity. This course can be used to prepare for exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator.

9 videos | 49m Assessment Badge

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Microsoft Azure Architect Design: VNet Design & Implementation

Azure network configurations provide the foundation upon which Azure services are deployed. In this course, you'll explore the configuration of Azure virtual networks and subnets using the portal, PowerShell, and the CLI. Next, you'll learn how to deploy a virtual network using an ARM template and then configure route table entries. Lastly, you'll examine how to create a DNS zone in Azure and configure custom VNet settings. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

18 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Network Connectivity & Security

Securing Azure network configuration protects digital assets. In the course, you'll explore how to peer VNets together using GUI and command line tools. Next, you'll learn how to configure VPN and WAN settings. Next, you'll discover how to deploy and manage Azure Firewall. Lastly, you'll examine when to use ExpressRoute network circuits and how to configure network security groups. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

17 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Storage Account & Key Vault Design

Azure storage accounts provide the basis for cloud storage, while key vaults serve as centralized storage for secrets. In this course, you'll explore how to deploy and manage storage accounts. Next, you'll learn how to enable storage account redundancy and configure a custom DNS domain name. You'll then examine how to configure a storage queue. Lastly, you'll learn how to create and configure an Azure key vault using GUI and command line tools. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

17 videos | 1h 17m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Storage Account Blob Management

Azure storage accounts support blob storage and management. In the course, you'll explore how to upload storage account blobs using the portal, CLI, and PowerShell. You'll then learn how to enable blob versioning and change feeds. Lastly, you'll examine how to upload blobs using AzCopy and enable blob lifecycle management. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

10 videos | 41m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Storage Account Security Planning

Azure provides mechanisms for securing storage account data. In this course, you'll explore storage account encryption, static web sites, access keys, and shared access signatures. Next, you'll learn about storage account failover, blob immutability, and container access levels. Lastly, you'll examine blob soft deletion and storage account network access. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

17 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Files Planning

Azure Files provide a cloud-based shared folder solution. In this course, you'll explore how to configure Azure Files using GUI and command line tools. Next, you'll examine how to map a Windows drive letter to Azure Files and how to use Linux to mount an Azure Files share. Lastly, you'll learn how to use Azure File Sync to allow on-premises file access that is copied to the cloud. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

10 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Database Solution Design

Modern web applications use back-end databases as data stores. In this course, you'll explore NoSQL and SQL Azure data solutions including Azure SQL and Cosmos DB. Next, you'll learn how to enable database high availability. Lastly, you'll examine Azure solutions that allow data integration including Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Synapse Analytics. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

10 videos | 43m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Virtual Machine Design & Deployment

Azure virtual machines provide the compute power that supports various workloads. In this course, you'll explore how to plan, implement, and deploy Windows and Linux VMs. Next, you'll learn how to configure SSH public key authentication for Linux. Then, you'll examine how to deploy Azure Bastion for secure remote VM management. Next, you'll learn to resize VMs, and attach and encrypt VM disks. Lastly, you'll examine how to deploy a virtual machine scale set and when to use VM dedicated hosting. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

21 videos | 1h 27m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure AD & User Implementation

Azure AD provides a cloud-based identity repository. In this course, you'll explore Azure AD features including single sign-on. Next, you'll learn how to deploy a new Azure AD tenant. You'll then examine how to configure user verification methods and create Azure AD users using GUI and command line tools. You'll see how to configure B2B settings and invite guest users individually and by using bulk create. Lastly, you'll explore how to enable self-service sign-up, assign licenses, and enable self-service password reset. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

15 videos | 1h Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure AD Groups, Apps, & Devices

Azure AD groups organize users with similar needs to facilitate permissions management. In this course, you'll explore Azure AD group creation using GUI and command line tools, as well as the bulk creation of groups. Next, you'll explore how to create and manage dynamic groups, assign licenses, and set group ownership. Lastly, you'll learn how to enable group self-service, join mobile devices to Azure AD, and configure an Azure AD app. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

18 videos | 55m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Security Management

Azure AD supports linking an on-premises AD installation with Azure AD. In this course, you'll start by exploring how to use Azure AD Connect to link on-premises AD to Azure AD. Next, you'll examine Azure AD Connect health statistics. You'll then learn how to deploy Azure AD Domain Services, join a Windows VM to the domain, and enable Azure AD DS for Azure Files. Next, you'll move on to learn how to configure Azure AD security settings such as fraud alerts, conditional access, MFA, locations, trusted IPs. and banned passwords. You'll explore Azure AD identity protection and managed identities. Lastly, you'll learn how to create resource and management groups. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

20 videos | 1h 10m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Security Governance

Azure AD can control Azure resource access in many ways. In this course, you'll learn about controlling resource access through role-based access control, Azure policies, including compliance and remediation, as well as Azure Blueprints. Next, you'll examine privileged identity management and identity protection notifications. Lastly, you'll explore how to configure Azure AD access reviews and virtual machine just-in-time access. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

19 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Windows Virtual Desktop and Containers

Azure can host user desktops that are accessible remotely. Azure container solutions allow the portable and timely support for application workloads. In this course, you'll explore the purpose of Windows Virtual Desktop, including how to create host pools, app groups, and workspaces. Next, you'll examine WVD connectivity using Windows, web browsers, and mobile devices. You'll then learn about the benefits of containerized applications. Lastly, you'll learn how to work with an Azure Container Registry, how to publish a container image, and how to deploy Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Instances. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

14 videos | 52m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure DevOps

Azure facilitates the creation and running of web applications. In this course, you'll start by exploring application architectural components and their Azure counterparts. Next, you'll learn how to deploy an Azure App Service using various methods. You'll then examine when to use Azure Functions and Logic Apps and how to configure custom DNS domain names and HTTPS bindings. You'll learn about Azure DevOps services such as Azure DevOps organizations and Pipelines. Finally, you'll explore deploying an Azure API gateway. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

16 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Business Continuity Planning

Azure provides a variety of business continuity solutions to minimize the impact of disruptions. In this course, you'll learn to plan the use of Azure Site Recovery services. Next, you'll examine how to create a Recovery Services vault and replication policies. You'll then explore how to configure Azure Backup policies, enable backup for Azure VMs and on-premises file servers, and perform restoration of backed up data. Next, you'll learn how to enable VM replication and conduct a failover test. Finally, you'll explore how to reuse a VM OS disk for a failed VM. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

14 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Application High Availability

Application workloads running in Azure can be optimized using various techniques. In this course, you'll start by exploring how to use load balancing to improve application performance and availability. Next, you'll learn how to configure inbound NAT rules to allow back-end VM management. You'll then examine how to configure Application Gateway and Azure Traffic Manager. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

9 videos | 36m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Reducing Azure Costs

While Azure charges constitute ongoing operational expenses, there are ways of reducing those charges. In this course, you'll learn how to identify and implement cost saving measures. You'll start by examining how to analyze costs and configure Azure budget notifications. Next, you'll learn how to create an action group and enable virtual machine auto-shutdown. Finally, you'll explore how cost savings are achieved through reserved instances and the removal of unnecessary Azure resources. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

12 videos | 48m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Data and Service Migration Planning

Organizations can reuse existing on-premises services with a proper migration plan. In this course, you will explore Azure migration options including how to conduct on-premises assessments and migrations. You will learn how to use the server migration tool, database migration assistant (DMA) and web app migration assistant. Lastly, you will explore how Azure Data Box allows the migration of large on-premises datasets. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

9 videos | 33m Assessment Badge

Microsoft Azure Architect Design: Azure Monitoring

Monitoring is key to ensuring optimal Azure resource performance and security. In this course, you will explore Azure monitoring solutions including Log Analytics workspaces, Azure Monitor and diagnostic logging. Next, you'll explore how application insights provides monitoring for Azure web applications. Lastly, you will explore how Azure Sentinel provide a cloud-based SIEM and SOAR solution. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design certification exam.

9 videos | 30m Assessment Badge

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Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Storage Accounts

Microsoft Azure Blob storage is a container system for storing a variety of file types. In this course, you'll learn about the capabilities of blob storage and how to architect a deployment for optimal performance and scalability. Then, you'll explore the options for redundancy and how to recover from disasters. You'll discover where Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, a feature set within blob storage, can be utilized for big data operations. You'll also learn how to plan for a data lake deployment, examine best practices, and explore how to deploy a Data Lake Gen2 account on Azure. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 11m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Designing Data Storage Structures

Planning the structure for data storage is integral to performance in big data operations. In this course, you'll learn about key considerations for data lakes and how to determine which file type and file format are the most appropriate for your use case. Then, you'll explore how to define how to design table storage for efficient querying and how data pruning can remove unnecessary data to accelerate transactions. You'll examine folder structures and data lake zones for organizing data effectively. Finally, you'll learn how to define storage tiers and how to manage the life cycle of data. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 8m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Partitioning

Partitioning data is key to ensuring efficient processing. In this course, you'll explore what data partitioning is and the strategies for implementation. You'll learn about transactional and analytical workloads and how to determine the best strategy for your files and table storage. Then, you'll examine design patterns for efficiency and performance. You'll learn about partitioning dedicated SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics and partitioning data lakes. Finally, you'll learn how data sharding across multiple data stores can be used for improving transaction performance. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Designing the Serving Layer

The serving layer is where data is stored for consumption by processing services. In this course, you'll explore dimensional data modeling and hierarchies. You'll learn how to define slowly changing dimensions and temporal design within databases. Then, you'll learn about the differences between the star and snowflake schemas as well as how to design a star schema. Next, you'll examine incremental data loading for stream processing and the options for analytical data stores. Finally, you'll learn about options for creating metastores for use by Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Physical Data Storage Structures

An effective storage structure is critical to big data implementation success. In this course, you'll explore data compression in databases and file storage. Then, you'll discover how partitioning and sharding are implemented in the database. Next, you'll explore designing tables in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool, and implement geo-replication for redundancy in both databases and Azure Blob storage. You'll also discover implementing distribution schemes in Azure Synapse Analytics. Finally, you'll discover data archiving and long-term retention policies for Azure Blob storage and Azure SQL Databases. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Logical Data Structures

Logical data structures, also called entity-relationship models, are models used to define a high-level model of data and the relationships contained within. In this course, you'll learn about the stages of data lake maturity. You'll explore temporal database tables and how to manage them. You'll also learn how to define slowly changing dimensions and how to implement them. You'll then move on to explore logical file and folder structures for data ingestion. You'll discover how PolyBase can be used to connect to external tables. Finally, you'll explore the best practices for accelerating queries. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 31m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: The Serving Layer

Implementing an effective serving layer requires consideration for the design, methods, and tools. In this course, you'll learn how traditional relational models can be replaced by the star schema and how to design a star schema. Then, you'll explore the purpose and structure of Parquet files used by Azure Databricks. You'll learn how to design and query a dimensional hierarchy. You'll move on to examine Azure Synapse Analytics, including deploying dedicated SQL pools and Apache Spark clusters. Finally you'll learn how to create shared metadata tables between Spark clusters. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 4m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Policies & Standards

Data policies and standards help to ensure a repeatable security standard is maintained. In this course, you'll learn about data encryption scenarios and best practices. You'll explore how Azure Transparent Database Encryption and Always Encrypted can be used to ensure data at rest is protected. Next, you'll examine how data classification and data masking can protect data being viewed. You'll learn to configure data retention and purging to ensure data is retained or removed. You'll also explore the various means of controlling access to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Finally, you'll learn how to plan a data auditing strategy and how to limit access to data at the row level in a database. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Securing Data Access

Securing access to data is a fundamental part of any security strategy. In this course, you'll explore how Azure Key Vault can be used to store and manage keys and secrets for accessing data. You'll discover how to connect to Azure resources through private and service endpoints and managed virtual networks and how to use Azure managed identities for connections between Azure resources. Next, you'll learn how to utilize access control lists and Azure role-based access control to provide only the necessary permissions to users to access your data. You'll also learn how token-based authentication works in Azure Databricks. Finally, you'll examine how to audit an Azure SQL Database to monitor for unauthorized access. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

12 videos | 1h 6m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Securing Data

The final line of defense for protecting against a data breach is securing the data itself. With today's cloud environments, data is often in transit, duplicated, and stored in various data centers around the world, making effective data protection a challenge. In this course, you'll explore the various methods available for encrypting data stored in SQL databases. You'll examine how to use DataFrames in Databricks, as well as how to implement Advanced Threat Protection and dynamic data masking in Azure databases. Finally, you'll learn how immutable blobs can be used to manage sensitive information. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 21m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 provides features to work with big data analytics using Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage systems provide performance, management, and security functionality. In this course, you'll learn about the features of the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and when to use this storage type. You'll explore features and methods for securing data for the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 service and data at rest. You'll examine methods for processing big data using the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 service and monitoring Azure Blob Storage. You'll learn how to manage directories, files, and Access Control Lists in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 using the .NET framework, as well as how to perform extract, transform, and load operations using Azure Databricks from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Finally, you'll learn how to access Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 data using Azure Databricks and Spark. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 47m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Flow Transformations

One of the key components of the Azure Cloud platform is the ability to store and process large amounts of data. Azure Data Flow Transformations can be used to ingest and transform data. In this course, you'll learn about the types of Azure Data Flow transformations that are available. You'll explore how to transform, split, and flatten data, as well as handle duplicate data, using Azure Data Mapping Data Flows. Next, you'll examine the types of expression functions available in Azure Data Flow and how to perform error handling for data rows that would truncate data. Finally, you'll learn how to transform and use derived columns to normalize data values, and how to ingest and transform data using Azure Spark and Scala. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 23m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Factory

Once you have data in storage, you'll need to have some mechanism for transforming the data into a usable format. Azure Data Factory is a data integration service that is used to create automated data pipelines that can be used to copy and transform data. In this course, you'll learn about the Azure Data Factory and the Integration Runtime. You'll explore the features of the Azure Data Factory such as linked services and datasets, pipelines and activities, and triggers. Finally, you'll learn how to create an Azure Data Factory using the Azure portal, create Azure Data Factory linked services and datasets, create Azure Data Factory pipelines and activities, and trigger the pipeline manually or using a schedule. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

13 videos | 2h 23m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Databricks

When working with big data, there needs to be a mechanism to process and transform this data quickly and efficiently. Azure Databricks is a service that provides the latest version of Apache Spark, which provides functionality for machine learning and data warehousing. In this course, you'll learn about the features of Azure Databricks such as clusters, notebooks, and jobs. Next, you'll learn about autoscaling local storage when configuring clusters. Next, you'll explore how to create, manage, and configure Azure Databricks clusters, as well as how to create, open, use, and delete notebooks. Finally, you'll learn how to create, open, use, and delete jobs. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 2m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Databrick Processing

When working with big data there needs to be a mechanism to process and transform this data quickly and efficiently. Azure Databricks is a service that provides the latest version of Apache Spark that provides functionality processing data from Azure Storage. In this course, you will learn about the types of processing that can be performed with Azure Databricks such as stream, batch, image and parallel processing. Next, you'll learn how to create an Azure Databricks workspace using an Apache Spark cluster, run jobs in the Azure Databricks Workspace jobs using a service principal and query data in SQL server using an Azure Databricks notebook. Next, you'll learn how to retrieve data from an Azure Blob Storage using Azure Databricks and the Azure Key Vault, implement a Cosmos DB service endpoint for Azure Databricks, and extract, transform, and load data using Azure Databricks. Finally, you'll learn how to stream data into Azure Databricks by using Event Hubs and perform sentiment analysis for steam data by making use of Azure Databricks. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 1h 49m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is a complex, serverless, and highly scalable processing engine that can be used to perform real-time analytics on multiple data streams. Alerts can be configured to forecast trends, trigger workflows, and detect irregularities. In this course, you'll learn to use Azure Stream Analytics to process streaming data. You'll examine how to implement security, create user-defined functions, and optimize jobs for Azure Stream Analytics, as well as explore the available inputs and outputs. Finally, you'll learn how to create an Azure Stream Analytics job, create an Azure Stream Analytics dedicated cluster, run Azure Functions from Azure Stream Analytics jobs, and monitor Azure Stream Analytics jobs. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

10 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics is an analytics service that provides functionality for data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics. Services provided include ingesting, exploring, preparing, managing, and serving data for BI and machine learning needs. In this course, you'll learn about the Azure Synapse Analytics platform and how it is used for data warehousing and big data analytics. Next, you'll learn how to create a Synapse Workspace, a dedicated SQL pool, and a serverless Apache Spark pool. You'll move on to explore how to analyze data using a dedicated SQL pool, Apache Spark for Azure Synapse, Serverless SQL Pools, and a Spark database, as well as how to analyze data that is in a storage account. You'll learn how to integrate pipelines using Synapse Studio, visualize data using a Power BI workspace, and monitor a Synapse Workspace. Finally, you'll learn about the Synapse Knowledge Center and the features of Azure Synapse Analytics and PolyBase. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

8 videos | 45m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Storage Monitoring

Being able to monitor data storage systems to ensure they are operational and working correctly is a crucial part of running your business. Azure provides the Azure Monitor service and the Azure Log Analytics service to perform this function. In this course, you'll learn about the features of Azure Log Analytics, as well as the Azure Monitor service and how it can be used to monitor storage data and monitor Azure Blob storage. Next, you'll explore how to access diagnostic logs to monitor Data Lake Storage Gen2, monitor the Azure Synapse Analytics jobs and the adaptive cache, and monitor Azure Cosmos DB using the portal and resource logs. Finally, you'll examine how to configure, manage, and view metric alerts using the Azure Monitor and activity log alerts using the Azure Monitor. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

12 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Process Monitoring

Being able to monitor data processes to ensure they are operational and working correctly is a crucial part of running your business. Azure provides the Azure Monitor service and the Azure Log Analytics service to perform this function. In this course, you'll learn about the features of the Azure Monitor tools and the concepts of continuous monitoring and visualization. Next, you'll examine how to create metric charts using the Azure Monitor, as well as how to collect and analyze Azure resource log data and perform queries against the Azure Monitor logs. You'll explore how to create and share dashboards that display data from Log Analytics, create Azure Monitor alerts, and use the Azure Data Factory Analytics solution to monitor pipelines. You'll learn how to send the Azure Databricks logs to the Azure Monitor and use the dashboard to analyze the Azure Databricks metrics. Finally, you'll learn how to enable monitoring for Azure Stream Analytics and configure alerts, and also query Azure Log Analytics and filter, sort, and group query results. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

15 videos | 1h 31m Assessment Badge

Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure: Data Solution Optimization

Ensuring that data storage and processing systems are operating efficiently will allow your organization to save both time and money. There are several tips and tricks that can be used to optimize both Azure Data Storage service and processes. In this course, you'll learn about cloud optimization, as well as some best practices for optimizing data using data partitions, Azure Data Lake Storage tuning, Azure Synapse Analytics tuning, and Azure Databricks auto-optimizing. Next, you'll learn about strategies for partitioning data using Azure-based storage solutions. You'll learn about the stages of the Azure Blob lifecycle management and how to optimize Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Stream Analytics, and Azure Synapse Analytics. Finally, you'll explore how to optimize Azure Data Storage services such Azure Cosmos DB using indexing and partitioning, as well as Azure Blob Storage and Azure Databricks. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Microsoft Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203) exam.

11 videos | 58m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning

Machine Learning uses real data to train algorithms that can be used for anomaly detection, computer vision, and natural language processing. In this course, you'll learn about datasets and how to manipulate data for them. Next, you'll learn the difference between labeled and unlabeled data and why some AI models require labeled data. You'll examine the features that should be used for a selected dataset. Next, you'll learn about the types of machine learning algorithms that are available, including regression algorithms, classification algorithms, and clustering algorithms. Finally, you'll explore the difference between supervised and unsupervised machine learning models. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 7m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Services

Azure Machine Learning Studio can be used to create and train machine learning models. Support is provided for multiple development tools, programming languages such as Python and R, and numerous machine learning frameworks. In this course, you'll learn about the services provided by the Azure Machine Learning Studio, how to create an Azure account, and how to register and signup to use Azure Machine Learning Studio. You'll also explore available Azure Machine Learning Studio components, which can be used to create machine learning workflows, ingest data from an Azure Blob storage resource, create and use an Azure Machine Learning workspaces, and create and use a compute resource. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

8 videos | 44m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Regression Models

Machine learning regression models are used to predict numeric labels for the features of an item. In this course, you'll learn more about using regression models in the Azure Machine Learning Studio. First, you'll learn about why regression models are used, the available types of regression models in machine learning, and the steps required to train a regression model. Next, you'll examine the best metrics for determining which regression model to use. You'll learn how to use a subset of data to train the regression model and run the training pipeline. Finally, you'll explore how to use an existing pipeline to create a new inference pipeline and create and deploy a predictive service. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

10 videos | 1h 12m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Classification Models

Machine learning classification models are used to predict the class or category that an item belongs to. For example, using patient characteristics such as age, weight, and BMI to predict if they are at risk for specific diseases. In this course, you'll learn about using classification models in the Azure Machine Learning Studio. You'll explore the available types of classification models and the steps required to train a classification model. Next, you'll learn the ideal metrics for determining the best classification model to use for the given data. Finally, you'll examine how to use an existing pipeline to create a new inference pipeline and create and deploy a predictive service for a classification model. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

10 videos | 1h 9m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Machine Learning Clustering Models

Machine learning clustering models are used to group similar items based on their features and use unsupervised learning. In this course, you'll learn about using clustering models in the Azure Machine Learning Studio. First, you'll explore the available types of clustering models in Azure Machine Learning Studio and the steps required to train a clustering model. Next, you'll learn how to train and evaluate a clustering model. Next, you'll examine how to create a K-means clustering model in Azure Machine Learning Studio. Finally, you'll learn how to create and deploy a new inference pipeline to create a predictive service for a clustering model. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

9 videos | 57m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Project Jupyter & Notebooks

Data scientists spend a majority of their time exploring and analyzing data, which may become the foundation for a machine learning model. The Azure Machine Learning Studio provides Jupyter Notebooks that can be used to perform data analysis. In this course, you'll learn about project Jupyter and how it is used for by data scientists to perform data analysis. You'll explore how to create a compute instance in Azure Machine Learning Studio and clone a sample training repository. Next, you'll learn how to use a Jupyter Notebook to perform basic data analysis and , create a regression model, classification model, and clustering model. Finally, you'll examine how to use Jupyter Notebook to perform deep learning using PyTorch and perform deep learning using TensorFlow. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

11 videos | 1h 33m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Machine Learning Workspaces

Azure Machine Learning workspaces provide an environment for performing experiments and managing data, computer targets, and other assets. Other assets can include notebooks, pipelines, and trained models. This course will focus on using the Azure Machine Learning SDK. In this course, you'll learn to create an Azure Machine Learning workspace by creating a machine learning resources, creating compute resources, and cloning a notebook. Next, you'll examine how to install the Machine Learning SDK for Python and create code to connect to a workspace. You'll learn to create Python scripts to run an experiment, log metrics, and retrieve and view logged metrics. Finally, you'll examine how to use the Azure Machine Learning SDK to run code experiments, create a script to train a model, and run a notebook using Jupyter to train predictive models. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

9 videos | 59m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Data Platform Services

One of the key components of Azure Cloud platform is the ability to store and process large amounts of data. Azure provides several data platforms for stored data and numerous services for processing data. In this course, you'll explore the differences between structured and unstructured data. You'll learn about some of the available data storage platforms, including Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Storage, and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. In addition, you'll learn about the data processing services such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Azure HDInsight, which are all available to perform operations on the data stored in each of the data platforms. This course is one in a collection that prepares learners for the Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100) exam.

12 videos | 1h 16m Assessment Badge

Azure Data Scientist Associate: Azure Storage Accounts

The Azure Cloud platform provides the ability to store various types of data. Azure provides the ability to store data blobs, files, tabula