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Course Slides: AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator
🟢 Overview: AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator
🟢 How This Course Works
🟢 Schedule, Key Terms and Resources
Module 1: Administer Identity
1.1 Understand Microsoft Entra ID
🟢 Overview
🟢 1.1.1 Examine Microsoft Entra ID
🟢 1.1.2 Compare Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory Domain Services
🔴 1.1.3 Examine Microsoft Entra ID as a directory service for cloud apps
🔴 1.1.4 Compare Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2 plans
🔴 1.1.5 Examine Microsoft Entra Domain Services
1.2 Create, configure, and manage identities
🟢 Overview
🟢 1.2.1 Create, configure, and manage users
🔴 1.2.2 Exercise - assign licenses to users
🔴 1.2.3 Exercise - restore or remove deleted users
🟢 1.2.4 Create, configure, and manage groups
🔴 1.2.5 Exercise - add groups in Microsoft Entra ID
🔴 1.2.6 Configure and manage device registration
🟢 1.2.7 Manage licenses
🔴 1.2.8 Exercise - change group license assignments
🔴 1.2.9 Exercise - change user license assignments
🔴 1.2.10 Create custom security attributes
🔴 1.2.11 Explore automatic user creation
🔴 1.2.12 What is Microsoft Entra B2B collaboration?
1.3 Allow users to reset their password with Microsoft Entra self-service password reset
🟢 Overview
🟢 1.3.1 What is self-service password reset in Microsoft Entra ID?
🔴 1.3.2 Implement Microsoft Entra self-service password reset
🔴 1.3.3 Exercise - Set up self-service password reset
🔴 1.3.4 Exercise - Customize directory branding
Lab 01: Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities
🔴 Overview
🔴 Lab 01: Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 2: Administer Governance and Compliance
2.1 Describe the core architectural components of Azure
🟢 Overview
🔴 2.1.1 What is Microsoft Azure
🔴 2.1.2 Get started with Azure accounts
🔴 2.1.3 Describe Azure physical infrastructure
🟢 2.1.4 Describe Azure management infrastructure
🔴 2.1.5 Tutorial: Create and manage budgets
2.2 Azure Policy initiatives
🟢 Overview
🔴 2.2.1 Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
🔴 2.2.2 Azure Policy design principles
🟢 2.2.3 Azure Policy resources
🟢 2.2.4 Azure Policy definitions
🟢 2.2.5 Evaluation of resources through Azure Policy
🔴 2.2.6 Lock your resources to protect your infrastructure
2.3 Secure your Azure resources with Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)
🟢 Overview
🟢 2.3.1 What is Azure RBAC?
🟡 2.3.1a RBAC scope and inheritance explorer
🔴 2.3.2 Exercise - List access using Azure RBAC and the Azure portal
🟢 2.3.3 Exercise - Grant access using Azure RBAC and the Azure portal
🔴 2.3.4 Exercise - View activity logs for Azure RBAC changes
Labs 02a and 02b: Administer Governance and Compliance
🟢 Overview
🔴 Lab 02a: Manage Subscriptions and RBAC
🟢 Lab 02b: Manage Governance via Azure Policy
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 3: Administer Azure Resources
3.1 Introduction to Azure Cloud Shell
🟢 Overview
🟢 3.1.1 What is Azure Cloud Shell?
🔴 3.1.2 How does Azure Cloud Shell work?
🔴 3.1.3 When should you use Azure Cloud Shell?
🟡 3.1.4 Introduction to Azure Copilot Agents
3.2 Deploy Azure infrastructure by using JSON ARM templates
🟢 Overview
🟢 3.2.1 Explore Azure Resource Manager template structure
🔴 3.2.2 Exercise - Create and deploy an Azure Resource Manager template
🟢 3.2.3 Add flexibility to your Azure Resource Manager template by using parameters and outputs
🔴 3.2.4 Exercise - Add parameters and outputs to your Azure Resource Manager template
🔴 3.2.5 Build your first Bicep file
Lab 03: Manage Azure resources by using Azure Resource Manager Templates
🟢 Overview
🟢 Lab 03: Manage Azure resources by using Azure Resource Manager Templates
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 4: Administer Virtual Networking
4.1 Configure virtual networks
🟢 Overview
🟢 4.1.1 Plan virtual networks
🟢 4.1.2 Create subnets
🔴 4.1.3 Create virtual networks
🟢 4.1.4 Plan IP addressing
🔴 4.1.5 Create public IP addressing
🔴 4.1.6 Associate public IP addresses
🔴 4.1.7 Allocate or assign private IP addresses
🔴 4.1.8 Exercise: Create and configure virtual networks
4.2 Configure network security groups
🟢 Overview
🟢 4.2.1 Implement network security groups
🔴 4.2.2 Determine network security group rules
🟢 4.2.3 Determine network security group effective rules
🟡 4.2.3a NSG effective rules evaluator
🔴 4.2.4 Create network security group rules
🟢 4.2.5 Implement application security groups
🔴 4.2.6 Exercise - Implement virtual networking
🔴 4.2.7 What is Azure Bastion?
🔴 4.2.8 What is a private endpoint?
🟡 4.2.9 What is Azure Firewall?
4.3 Host your domain on Azure DNS
🟢 Overview
🟢 4.3.1 What is Azure DNS?
🔴 4.3.2 Configure Azure DNS to host your domain
🔴 4.3.3 Exercise - Create a DNS zone and an A record by using Azure DNS
🔴 4.3.4 Dynamically resolve resource name by using alias record
🔴 4.3.5 Exercise - Create alias records for Azure DNS
Lab 04: Implement Virtual Networking
🟢 Overview
🟢 Lab 04: Implement Virtual Networking
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 5: Administer Intersite Connectivity
5.1 Configure Azure Virtual Network peering
🟢 Overview
🟢 5.1.1 Determine Azure Virtual Network peering uses
🟢 5.1.2 Determine gateway transit and connectivity
🟢 5.1.3 Create virtual network peering
🔴 5.1.4 Extend peering with user-defined routes and service chaining
🔴 5.1.5 Exercise - Implement Intersite Connectivity
🟡 5.1.6 Azure ExpressRoute and Azure Virtual WAN overviews
5.2 Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes
🟢 Overview
🟢 5.2.1 Identify routing capabilities of an Azure virtual network
🔴 5.2.2 Exercise - Create custom routes
🔴 5.2.3 What is an NVA?
🔴 5.2.4 Exercise - Create an NVA and virtual machines
🔴 5.2.5 Exercise - Route traffic through the NVA
Lab 05: Implement Intersite Connectivity
🔴 Overview
🔴 Lab 05: Implement Intersite Connectivity
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 6: Administer Network Traffic Management
6.1 Introduction to Azure Load Balancer
🟢 Overview
🟢 6.1.1 What is Azure Load Balancer?
🟢 6.1.2 How Azure Load Balancer works
🔴 6.1.3 When to use Azure Load Balancer
🟡 6.1.4 Azure Traffic Manager overview
6.2 Introduction to Azure Application Gateway
🟢 Overview
🟢 6.2.1 What is Azure Application Gateway?
🔴 6.2.2 How Azure Application Gateway works
🔴 6.2.3 When to use Azure Application Gateway
6.3 Introduction to Azure Network Watcher
🟢 Overview
🟢 6.3.1 What is Azure Network Watcher?
🟢 6.3.2 How Azure Network Watcher works
🔴 6.3.3 When to use Azure Network Watcher
Lab 06: Implement Network Traffic Management
🔴 Overview
🔴 Lab 06: Implement Network Traffic Management
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 7: Administer Azure Storage
7.1 Configure storage accounts
🟢 Overview
🔴 7.1.1 Implement Azure Storage
🔴 7.1.2 Explore Azure Storage services
🟢 7.1.3 Determine storage account types
🟢 7.1.4 Determine replication strategies
🟡 7.1.4a Storage redundancy chooser
🔴 7.1.5 Access storage
🟢 7.1.6 Secure storage endpoints
7.2 Configure Azure Blob Storage
🟢 Overview
🔴 7.2.1 Implement Azure Blob Storage
🔴 7.2.2 Create blob containers
🟢 7.2.3 Assign blob access tiers
🟢 7.2.4 Add blob lifecycle management rules
🔴 7.2.5 Determine blob object replication
🔴 7.2.6 Manage blobs
🔴 7.2.7 Determine Blob Storage pricing
🔴 7.2.8 Exercise - Provide storage for the public website
🔴 7.2.9 Blob versioning
7.3 Configure Azure Storage security
🟢 Overview
🔴 7.3.1 Review Azure Storage security strategies
🟢 7.3.2 Create shared access signatures
🔴 7.3.3 Identify URI and SAS parameters
🟢 7.3.4 Determine Azure Storage encryption
🔴 7.3.5 Create customer-managed keys
🔴 7.3.6 Apply Azure Storage security best practices
🔴 7.3.7 Exercise: Manage Azure Storage
7.4 Configure Azure Files
🟢 Overview
🟢 7.4.1 Compare storage for file shares and blob data
🟢 7.4.2 Manage Azure file shares
🟢 7.4.3 Create file share snapshots
🔴 7.4.4 Implement soft delete for Azure Files
🔴 7.4.5 Use Azure Storage Explorer
🔴 7.4.6 Consider Azure File Sync
🔴 7.4.7 Copy or move data to Azure Storage by using AzCopy v10
Lab 07: Manage Azure storage
🟢 Overview
🟢 Lab 07: Manage Azure storage
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 8: Administer Virtual Machines
8.1 Introduction to Azure virtual machines
🟢 Overview
🟢 8.1.1 Compile a checklist for creating an Azure Virtual Machine
🔴 8.1.2 Exercise - Create a VM using the Azure portal
🟢 8.1.3 Describe the options available to create and manage an Azure Virtual Machine
🔴 8.1.4 Manage the availability of your Azure VMs
🔴 8.1.5 Back up your virtual machines
🔴 8.1.6 Azure virtual machine extensions and features
8.2 Configure virtual machine availability
🟢 Overview
🔴 8.2.1 Plan for maintenance and downtime
🟢 8.2.2 Create availability sets
🔴 8.2.3 Review update domains and fault domains
🟢 8.2.4 Review availability zones
🔴 8.2.5 Compare vertical and horizontal scaling
🟢 8.2.6 Implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
🔴 8.2.7 Create Virtual Machine Scale Sets
🔴 8.2.8 Implement autoscale
🔴 8.2.9 Configure autoscale
Lab 08: Manage Virtual Machines
🟢 Overview
🟢 Lab 08: Manage Virtual Machines
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 9: Administer PaaS Compute Options
9.1 Configure Azure App Service plans
🟢 Overview
🟢 9.1.1 Implement Azure App Service plans
🔴 9.1.2 Determine Azure App Service plan pricing
🟢 9.1.3 Scale up and scale out Azure App Service
🔴 9.1.4 Configure Azure App Service autoscale
9.2 Configure Azure App Service
🟢 Overview
🔴 9.2.1 Implement Azure App Service
🟢 9.2.2 Create an app with App Service
🔴 9.2.3 Explore continuous integration and deployment
🟢 9.2.4 Create deployment slots
🔴 9.2.5 Add deployment slots
🔴 9.2.6 Secure your App Service app
🔴 9.2.7 Create custom domain names
🔴 9.2.8 Back up and restore your App Service app
🔴 9.2.9 Use Azure Application Insights
🔴 9.2.10 Exercise: Implement Web Apps
9.3 Configure Azure Container Instances
🟢 Overview
🔴 9.3.1 Compare containers to virtual machines
🟢 9.3.2 Review Azure Container Instances
🔴 9.3.3 Implement container groups
🟢 9.3.4 Review Azure Container Apps
🔴 9.3.5 Exercise: Implement Container Instances
🔴 9.3.6 Introduction to Azure Container Registry
🟡 9.3.7 What is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?
Labs 09a to 09c: Administer PaaS Compute Options
🔴 Overview
🔴 Lab 09a: Implement Web Apps
🔴 Lab 09b: Implement Azure Container Instances
🔴 Lab 09c: Implement Azure Container Apps
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 10: Administer Data Protection
10.1 Introduction to Azure Backup
🟢 Overview
🟢 10.1.1 What is Azure Backup?
🟢 10.1.2 How Azure Backup works
🔴 10.1.3 When to use Azure Backup
10.2 Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
🟢 Overview
🔴 10.2.1 Azure Backup features and scenarios
🟢 10.2.2 Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
🔴 10.2.3 Exercise - Back up an Azure virtual machine
🟢 10.2.4 Restore virtual machine data
🔴 10.2.5 Exercise - Restore Azure virtual machine data
🔴 10.2.6 Tutorial to set up Azure VM disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery
Lab 10: Implement Data Protection
🔴 Overview
🔴 Lab 10: Implement Data Protection
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
Module 11: Administer Monitoring
11.1 Monitor your Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor
🟢 Overview
🟢 11.1.1 Monitoring for Azure VMs
🔴 11.1.2 Monitor VM host data
🟢 11.1.3 Use Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
🟢 11.1.4 Collect client performance counters by using VM insights
🔴 11.1.5 Collect VM client event logs
11.2 Azure Monitor alerts and log queries (Microsoft documentation)
🟢 Overview
🟢 11.2.1 Overview of Azure Monitor alerts
🔴 11.2.2 Create and manage action groups in Azure Monitor
🔴 11.2.3 Alert processing rules for Azure Monitor alerts
🟢 11.2.4 Log queries in Azure Monitor
🔴 11.2.5 Log Analytics tutorial
Lab 11: Implement Monitoring
🔴 Overview
🔴 Lab 11: Implement Monitoring
🟢 Recap
🔴 Knowledge Check
AZ-104 Study Guide
🟡 Study Guide Overview
🟡 Domain 1: Manage Azure identities and governance
🟡 Domain 2: Implement and manage storage
🟡 Domain 3: Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
🟡 Domain 4: Implement and manage virtual networking
🟡 Domain 5: Monitor and maintain Azure resources
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