Hands-On Learning with Real-World Scenarios

Experience Industry-Leading Quality Standards

Implementing Best Practices in Cloud Management

Optimizing Cloud Costs and Resources

Security and Compliance in Azure

Trainer: Umer Azeem

Deep dive into Azure Cloud Administration, Pre-Requisites, and Success Strategies.

Current industry trends and market value.

Real World Projects discussions and guidelines for both beginners and experienced professionals.

Understanding Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Models (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS), Types of Clouds, and Datacenter in a Container.

Types of Clouds: Private, Public, Hybrid.

Azure Signup Procedure and Trial Usage.

Managing Azure Subscriptions and Billing.

Deployment models in Azure: Classic (ASM) and Resource Manager (ARM).

Using Azure CLI/PowerShell for administration and deployment.

Networking concepts in Azure.

Managing Azure Resources, Resource Manager, and Resource Groups.

Understanding Data Transfer Charges on Azure.

Properly stopping Azure VMs to save costs.

VM Start/Stop Automation Jobs.

Cleaning up Azure Resources.

Troubleshooting VM Access issues for Windows and Linux.

Managing Azure Virtual Machines and their types.

Backup and Restore of Azure Virtual Machine Images.

Creating Custom Virtual Machine Images.

Deploying custom scripts through VM Extensions in Azure.

Network Security Groups and their configuration with VMs and VNet/Subnets.

Managed identities: System Assigned, User Assigned.

Implementing Azure Key Vault for secure management of keys, secrets, and passwords.

Azure VIP, DIP, PIP concepts.

Azure Virtual Network (VNET) Architecture.

Azure Virtual Network - Cross Premise connectivity.

Azure VNet to VNet connection peering.

Azure NAT Gateway implementation.

Quickly swapping OS Disks for restore/troubleshooting.

Network Watcher for network diagnostics.

Azure Monitor for comprehensive monitoring.

Log Analytics Workspace – KQL Queries for log analysis.

Managing Azure Storage Accounts and their types (Blob, FileShare, Queue, Table).

Azure Storage File Sync Service.

Blob Temporary Access using Shared Access Signature/Policy.

Blob Automation with AZCopy for upload/download/sync.

Working with Blobfuse.

Storage Explorer Online/Desktop usage.

Managed vs unmanaged disks on Azure.

Managed to Unmanaged disk conversion and vice-versa.

Copying Managed disks to custom Storage Accounts using SAS URL.

Copying virtual machine disk VHDs between storage accounts.

Availability Sets for high availability.

Azure Scale Sets - Auto Scaling configurations.

Azure App Services deployments – CI/CD Automation (overview).

Working with Azure Load Balancers (internal, external, global).

Azure Front Door with multiple websites.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) to prevent OWASP vulnerabilities.

Deploying End-to-End High Available applications on Azure.

Azure Security Center/Azure Defender for threat protection.

Installing Endpoint Protection on VMs.

Working with Azure Firewall.

Application Gateway Load Balancer.

Configuring L7 Load balancing and Content-based Routing.

Virtual Network Gateway.

VPN implementation as per industry requirements – in-depth details.

Azure Images, Endpoints, and VM Agents.

Azure Web App Services.

Websites Scaling / Redundancy.

Azure DNS Private / Public.

Azure DNS Forwarder managed solution.

Azure Traffic Manager.

DNS Delegation Concept.

Resizing Virtual Machines.

Encrypting Disks.

Creating and configuring virtual machines in Azure, and managing their disks.

Using Azure SQL Database to create, configure, and manage SQL databases.

SQL Server database replication on Azure.

Creating Recovery Services vaults.

Creating and managing Azure Active Directory.

Enabling ADDS on Azure – Active Directory Domain Services.

Azure AD Connect for hybrid identity.

Installing and configuring Azure Backup Server on-Premise.

Copying VHD from classic to ARM Storage account.

Creating Classic VNet in Azure Portal.

Backup and Recovery of VMs (Recovery Services vaults).

Creating Site-to-Site VPN with Azure Network - On Premise.

Remote Access VPN for Azure Resources.

Azure to On-Premise Site-to-Site VPN.

Deploying Open VPN on Azure.

Moving On-Premise data to Azure Cloud.

Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

On-Premise to Azure Migration strategies.

VHD Import/Export.

Snapshot Export.

VM Auto/Schedule Backup Using Recovery Service Vault.

Instant File Recovery.

Migration to Azure Using VHD Upload.

Azure to On-Premise Migration – VHD Download.

Azure Web Server Proxy.

Azure Web App Deployment Slots.

Hosting/deploying web apps on Azure Windows/Linux.

Deploying Web Apps using Visual Studio.

Web App Deployment methods.

Web App SSL configuration with Custom Domain.

Web App MySQL-inapp – WordPress deployment.

Web App VNET Integration.

Private Endpoints and integration with DNS/VNET.

Moving Azure Resources.

Securing Web App with Azure Web App Firewall.

Deploying Azure App Service On Docker Container.

Azure Container Apps – CICD automation (overview).

Azure Container Service (ACS) – Hosting a Container/Docker Image.

Working with Azure Container Registry (ACR).

Azure Web App for custom Container – Automation deployment.

Configuring SSH to Web App Docker Container, Updating Docker File.

Understanding Azure Automation Account and its real use cases.

IAM: Delegation - Granting specific roles to specific Users.

Azure Billing and Tagging for cost management.

Role-based Access Control (RBAC) Custom Roles.