This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate. Successful Azure Administrators start this role with experience in virtualization, networking, identity, and storage.

• Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
• Understanding of network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
• Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control.
• Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

• Manage identities and governance in Azure
• Configure virtual networks with Azure
• Monitor and back up resources in Azure

• Manage services with the Azure portal
• Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell
• Introduction to Bash
• Introduction to PowerShell
• Deploy Azure infrastructure by using JSON ARM templates

• Understand Microsoft Entra ID
• Create, configure, and manage identities
• Describe the core architectural components of Azure
• Azure Policy initiatives
• Secure your Azure resources with Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)
• Allow users to reset their password with Microsoft Entra self-service password reset

• Configure virtual networks
• Configure network security groups
• Host your domain on Azure DNS
• Configure Azure Virtual Network peering
• Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes
• Introduction to Azure Load Balancer
• Introduction to Azure Application Gateway
• Introduction to Azure Network Watcher

• Configure storage accounts
• Configure Azure Blob Storage
• Configure Azure Storage security
• Configure Azure Files

• Introduction to Azure virtual machines
• Configure virtual machine availability
• Configure Azure App Service plans
• Configure Azure App Service
• Configure Azure Container Instances

• Introduction to Azure Backup
• Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
• Improve incident response with Azure Monitor alerts