AZ-104 Certification: Microsoft Azure Administrator

We really hope you’ll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

• Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

• Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

• Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:

Introduction

• Welcome to the course

• Understanding the Microsoft Environment

• Having a Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains

• Having a Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

• Having a Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

• Order of concepts covered in the course

Setting up for hands on

• Using Assignments in the course

• Creating a free Azure Account

• Activating an Entra ID P2 license

Manage Entra (formerly Azure AD) users and groups

• Creating users, guest accounts, and bulk updates

• Creating groups

• Manage licenses in Azure AD

• Create administrative units

• Manage user and group properties

• Manage device settings and device identity

• Configure self-service password reset (SSPR)

Manage Azure using command line tools

• Basic concepts of PowerShell

• Installing PowerShell modules and Connecting to Azure

• Interacting with Azure AD using PowerShell

• Using Cloudshell

• Using Azure CLI / Bash

• Installing Azure CLI locally

Manage access to Azure resources

• Understanding the assignment of roles in Azure

• Create custom role-based access control (RBAC) and Azure AD roles

• Provide access to Azure resources by assigning roles at different scopes

• Interpret access assignments

Manage Azure subscriptions and governance

• Configure management groups

• Manage subscriptions

• Manage costs by using alerts, budgets, and recommendations

• Manage resource groups

• Apply and manage tags on resources

• Configure and manage Azure Policy

• Configure resource locks

Configure access to storage

• Understanding storage accounts

• Create and configure storage accounts

• Configure Azure Storage firewalls and virtual networks

• Configure Azure AD authentication for a storage account

• Manage access keys

• Generate shared access signature tokens

• Configure stored access policies

• Configure storage encryption

Configure and manage storage accounts

• Create import and export jobs

• Manage data by using Azure Storage Explorer and AzCopy

• Understanding Azure Storage redundancy

• Implement Azure Storage redundancy

• Configure object replication

Configure Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage

• Create an Azure file share and Configuring storage tiers

• Configure Azure Blob Storage

• Configure blob lifecycle management

• Configure blob versioning

Automate deployment of resources by using ARM templates or Bicep files

• Interpret an ARM template or a Bicep file

• Modify an ARM template

• Deploy a template

• Create or modify an existing Bicep file

• Deploy virtual machine (VM) extensions

Create and configure virtual machines

• Create a VM

• Create a VM using PowerShell

• Manage images by using the Azure Compute Gallery

• Configure Azure Disk Encryption

• Move VMs from one resource group to another

• Manage VM sizes

• Add data disks

• Configure VM network settings

• Configure VM availability options

• Deploy and configure VM scale sets

Provision and manage containers in the Azure portal

• Understanding Azure Containers

• Configure sizing and scaling for Azure Container Instances

• Understanding container groups for Azure Container Instances

Create and configure an Azure App Service

• Understanding App Service Plans

• Create an App Service plan

• Configure scaling settings in an App Service plan

• Create an App Service

• Secure an App Service

• Configure custom domain names

• Configure backup for an App Service

• Configure networking settings

• Configure deployment settings

Configure and manage virtual networks in Azure

• Visualizing virtual networks and subnets in Azure

• Create and configure virtual networks and subnets

• Creating virtual networks with PowerShell

• Create and configure virtual network peering

• Configure private and public IP addresses

• Configure user-defined network routes

Configure secure access to virtual networks

• Create and configure network security groups (NSGs) and ASGs

• Evaluate effective security rules

• Implement Azure Bastion

• Visualizing service endpoints and private endpoints

• Configure service endpoints and private endpoints

Configure name resolution and load balancing

• Configure Azure DNS

• Visualizing Azure load balancing

• Setting up two VMs for load balancing

• Configure an internal or public load balancer

• Configure load balancing rules for two VMs

• Configure inbound NAT rules

• Configure SNAT outbound rules

• Removing the Load Balancer before moving on

• Start creating an Azure Application Gateway

• Specifying a back-end pool while creating an Application Gateway

• Setting the routing rules while creating an Application Gateway

• Finalizing the gateway creation

• Removing resources no longer needed

Monitor resources in Azure

• Configure and interpret metrics

• Configure Azure Monitor Logs

• Query and analyze logs

• Set up alerts and actions

• Configure monitoring of VMs, storage accounts, and networks by using VM insights

• Configure and use Azure Monitor for networks and on-premise connectivity

• Use Azure Network Watcher

• Troubleshoot external networking

• Troubleshoot virtual network connectivity

Implement backup and recovery

• Create an Azure Recovery Services vault

• Create and configure backup policy

• Perform backup and restore operations by using Azure Backup

• Configure Azure Site Recovery for Azure resources

• Configure and review backup reports

Finishing Up

• Where do I go from here?