Microsoft Cloud Engineer

Microsoft Cloud Engineer for Skilld Candidates

Microsoft Cloud Engineer Course - Join this course if you have a minimum of 2 years of technical experience. This course is for candidates who have applied on our Skilld platform for the Azure Job

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Course curriculum

1. How to use this course
2. Please go through this course
1. 1.1 Overview of Cloud Computing
2. 1.2 Introduction to cloud computing
3. 1.3 What is cloud computing
4. 1.4 Describe the shared responsibility model
5. 2.1 Types of Cloud/Cloud models
6. 2.2 Consumption-based Cloud Model
7. 3.1 Cloud Computing Service Model
8. 3.2 Infrastructure as a Service
9. 3.3 Platform as a Service
10. 3.4 Software as a Service
11. 4.1 Benefits of Cloud Computing
12. 4.2 Benefits of high availability and scalability in the cloud
13. 4.3 benefits of reliability and predictability in the cloud
14. 4.4 Benefits of security and governance in the cloud
15. 4.5 Benefits of manageability in the cloud
16. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Introduction to Subscriptions
2. 1.2 Identify Azure regions
3. 1.3 Implement Azure subscriptions
4. 1.4 Obtain an Azure subscription
5. 1.5 Identify Azure subscription usage
6. 1.6 Implement Microsoft Cost Management
7. 1.7 Apply resource tagging
8. 1.8 Apply cost savings
9. 2.1 Introduction to Azure Active Directory
10. 2.2 What are user accounts in Azure Active Directory?
11. 2.3 Manage app and resource access by using Azure Active Directory groups
12. 2.4 Collaborate by using guest accounts and Azure Active Directory B2B
13. 3.1 Introduction to Azure Regions & Zones
14. 3.2 Overview of Azure subscriptions, management groups, and resources
15. 3.3 Azure regions, availability zones, and region pairs
16. 3.4 Azure resources and Azure Resource Manager
17. 3.5 Azure subscriptions and management groups
18. 4.1 LAB - Creation of Azure Subscription
19. 5.1 LAB - Creation of Users & Groups in Azure AD
20. 6.1 Overview of Role based access control (RBAC)
21. 6.2 What is Azure RBAC?
22. 7.1 LAB - Managing access to Azure Resources using RBAC
23. 7.2 LAB - Managing access to Azure Resources using RBAC
24. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Introduction to Resource Group
2. 1.2 Review Azure Resource Manager benefits
3. 1.3 Review Azure resource terminology
4. 1.4 Create resource groups
5. 1.5 Create Azure Resource Manager locks
6. 1.6 Reorganize Azure resources
7. 1.7 Remove resources and resource groups
8. 1.8 Determine resource limits
9. 2.1 Introduction to Virtual Network
10. 2.2 Explore Azure Virtual Networks
11. 2.3 Configure public IP services
12. 2.4 Design name resolution for your virtual network
13. 2.5 Enable cross-virtual network connectivity with peering
14. 2.6 Implement virtual network traffic routing
15. 2.7 Configure internet access with Azure Virtual NAT
16. 3.1 Introduction to Virtual Machines
17. 3.2 Compile a checklist for creating an Azure Virtual Machine
18. 3.3 Describe the options available to create and manage an Azure Virtual Machine
19. 3.4 Manage the availability of your Azure VMs
20. 3.5 Back up your virtual machines
21. 4.1 Introduction to High Availability Services (Availability Set & Availability Zone)
22. 4.2 Identify the availability requirements of Azure resources
23. 4.3 Design for Azure Front Door
24. 4.4 Design for Azure Traffic Manager
25. 4.5 Recommend a high availability solution for compute
26. 4.6 Recommend a high availability solution for relational data storage
27. 4.7 Recommend a high availability solution for non-relational data storage
28. 5.1 LAB - Creation of Resource Group through Azure Portal & Azure Powershell
29. 6.1 LAB - Creation of Virtual Network
30. 7.1 LAB-Creation of Standalone Virtual Machine & Virtual Machine in HA
31. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Overview of Storage Service in Azure
2. 1.2 Implement Azure Storage
3. 1.3 Explore Azure Storage services
4. 1.4 Determine storage account types
5. 1.5 Determine replication strategies
6. 1.6 Access storage
7. 1.7 Secure storage endpoints
8. 3.1 Introduction to Blob, File, Table & Queue
9. 3.2 Azure Storage account fundamentals
10. 3.3 Disk storage fundamentals
11. 3.4 Azure Blob storage fundamentals
12. 3.5 Azure Files fundamentals
13. 3.6 Understand Blob access tiers
14. 4.1 Storage account replication
15. 6.1 Introduction to Security within storage account
16. 6.2 Review Azure Storage security strategies
17. 6.3 Create shared access signatures
18. 6.4 Identify URI and SAS parameters
19. 6.5 Determine Azure Storage encryption
20. 6.6 Create customer-managed keys
21. 6.7 Apply Azure Storage security best practices
22. 7.1 Overview of Azure Managed Disks
23. 8.1 Lab - Creation of Storage account with different options
24. 8.2 Create a storage account - Portal
25. 8.3 Create a storage account - PowerShell
26. 8.4 Create a storage account - Azure CLI
27. 8.5 Create a storage account - Bicep
28. 8.6 Create a storage account - Template
29. 9.1 Lab - Manage storage accounts by using the Azure Explorer - IntelliJ
30. 9.2 Lab - Manage storage accounts by using the Azure Explorer - Eclipse
31. 10.1 Lab - Protecting data within storage account using secuity features of storage account
32. 10.2 Explore Azure Storage security features
33. 10.3 Understand storage account keys
34. 10.4 Control network access to your storage account
35. 10.5 Understand Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Storage
36. 10.6 Explore Azure Data Lake Storage security features
37. 11.1 - Lab - Working with Managed Disks
38. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Introduction Azure Recovery Services Vault
2. 1.2 Set storage redundancy
3. 1.3 Set Cross Region Restore
4. 1.4 Set encryption settings
5. 1.5 Previous backed-up data
6. 2.1 Understanding the Backup architecture & it's components
7. 2.2 What is Microsoft Azure
8. 2.3 Get started with Azure accounts
9. 2.4 Azure physical infrastructure
10. 2.5 Azure management infrastructure
11. 3.1 Introduction to Virtual Machine backup & Files and Folders backup
12. 3.2 Protect virtual machine data
13. 3.3 Create virtual machine snapshots
14. 3.4 Setup recovery services vault backup options
15. 3.5 Backup virtual machines
16. 3.6 Restore virtual machines
17. 3.7 Implement Azure Backup Server
18. 4.1 Understanding restoration process to restore the backed up components
19. 5.1 LAB - Performing backup of Azure Virtual Machine
20. 6.1 LAB - Performing backup of files & folders in Azure
21. 7.1 LAB - Performing restoration of Virtual Machine & Files and Folders
22. 8.1 LAB - Clean-up of resources
23. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Overview of Azure Monitor
2. 1.2 What is Azure Monitor?
3. 1.3 How Azure Monitor works
4. 1.4 When to use Azure Monitor
5. 2.1 Introduction to Log Analytics Workspace
6. 3.1 Understanding difference between between Metrics vs Log
7. 4.1 Collecting Logs from different resources
8. 4.2 Enable and configure App Service application logging
9. 4.3 View live application logging with the log streaming service
10. 4.4 Retrieve application log files
11. 5.1 Introduction to Kusto Query Language
12. 5.2 Understand the basic structure of a Kusto query
13. 5.3 Challenge
14. 5.4 Solution
15. 6.1 Setting up Alerts, Creating Dashboards
16. 6.2 Dashboards in Azure Data Explorer
17. 6.3 Exercise: Create a dashboard from a query
18. 6.4 Exercise: Add a new tile
19. 6.5 Dashboard parameters
20. 6.6 Exercise: Create a dashboard parameter
21. 6.7 Exercise: Create a cross-filter
22. 6.8 Share dashboards
23. 7.1 LAB - Configuring a virtual machine to send logs & metrics
24. 8.1 LAB - Collecting System, Security Logs along with Performance Counters
25. 9.1 LAB - Creating a Alert for Virtual Machine Shutdown
26. 10.1 LAB - Creating a Alert for High CPU Utilization
27. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 RECAP - Introduction to Azure Virtual Network
2. 1.2 Explore Azure Virtual Networks
3. 1.3 Configure public IP services
4. 1.4 Design name resolution for your virtual network
5. 1.5 Enable cross-virtual network connectivity with peering
6. 1.6 Implement virtual network traffic routing
7. 1.7 Configure internet access with Azure Virtual NAT
8. 2.1 Understanding different networking scenarios
9. 2.2 Azure Virtual Network fundamentals
10. 2.3 Azure Virtual Network settings
11. 2.4 Azure VPN Gateway fundamentals
12. 2.5 Azure ExpressRoute fundamentals
13. 3.1 Introduction to Azure VNET Peering, Point-to-Site
14. 3.2 Introduction to Azure VNET Peering - Site-to-Site & ExpressRoute
15. 4.1 Overview of Network Security Group
16. 4.2 Implement network security groups
17. 4.3 Determine network security group rules
18. 4.4 Determine network security group effective rules
19. 4.5 Create network security group rules
20. 4.6 Implement Application Security Groups
21. 5.1 Overview of Azure Bastion Host
22. 5.2 What is Azure Bastion?
23. 5.3 How Azure Bastion works
24. 5.4 When to use Azure Bastion
25. 6.1 LAB - Creation of VNets in different region and connecting them together using VNet Peering
26. 7.1 LAB - Setting up Point-to-Site VPN for Secure access to VMs
27. 8.1 LAB - Creating Network Security Group for granting/restricting access to VNet
28. 9.1 LAB - Securing access to VMs using Azure Bastion Host
29. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Understanding different Load Balancing Services in Azure
2. 1.2 Determine Azure load balancer uses
3. 1.3 Implement a public load balancer
4. 1.4 Implement an internal load balancer
5. 1.5 Determine load balancer SKUs
6. 1.6 Create backend pools
7. 1.7 Create load balancer rules
8. 1.8 Create health probes
9. 2.1 Discussing use cases for Azure Load Balancer and Azure Application Gateway
10. 2.2 Implement Application Gateway
11. 2.3 Determine Application Gateway routing
12. 2.4 Application Gateway component set up
13. 3.1 LAB - Setting up an Azure Load Balancer for a traditional Web application
14. 4.1 LAB - Configuring Path based routing using Azure Application Gateway
15. Knowledge Check
1. 1.1 Introduction to Azure Active Directory
2. 1.2 Describe Azure Active Directory benefits and features
3. 1.3 Describe Azure Active Directory concepts
4. 1.4 Compare Active Directory Domain Services to Azure Active Directory
5. 1.5 Select Azure Active Directory editions
6. 1.6 Implement Azure Active Directory join
7. 1.7 Implement Azure Active Directory self-service password reset
8. 2.1 Importance of Identities
9. 2.2 Create, configure, and manage users
10. 2.3 Configure Manages Identities
11. 3.1 Introduction to Azure AD Connect
12. 4.1 Overview of Conditional Access Policy
13. 5.1 LAB - Setting up a Domain Controller
14. 6.1 LAB - Configuration of Azure AD Connect to Sync Users from domain controller to Azure AD
15. 7.1 LAB - Setting up Conditional Access Policy to handle different use-cases
16. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Introduction to Infrastructure-as-a-code
2. 1.2 What is infrastructure as code?
3. 2.1 Difference between Imperative vs Declarative
4. 3.1 Introduction to Azure Resource Manager Template and Building Blocks
5. 5.1 Creating multiple resources of same type using copy, copyindex functions
6. 6.1 LAB - Deploying templates directly from Github repository
7. 7.1 LAB - Importing templates to Azure Portal and deploying resources
8. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Azure App Service core concepts
2. 1.2 Examine Azure App Service
3. 1.3 Examine Azure App Service plans
4. 1.4 Deploy to App Service
5. 1.5 Explore authentication and authorization in App Service
6. 1.6 Discover App Service networking features
7. 2.1 Creating an Azure App Service Web App
8. 3.1 Configuring and Monitoring App Service apps
9. 3.2 Stream logs from your applications
10. 3.3 Configure Application Insights to monitor applications
11. 3.4 Analyze application monitoring data
12. 3.5 Configure diagnostic settings
13. 3.6 Analyze logs
14. 4.1 Scaling App Service apps
15. 5.1 Azure App Service staging environments
16. 5.2 Create deployment slots
17. 5.3 Exercise - Create deployment slots
18. 5.4 Deploy a web app by swapping deployment slots
19. 5.5 Exercise - Deploy a web app by using deployment slots
20. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Azure Functions overview
2. 1.2 What is Azure Functions
3. 1.3 How Azure Functions works
4. 1.4 When to use Azure Functions
5. 2.1 Developing Azure Functions
6. 2.2 Explore Azure Functions development
7. 2.3 Create triggers and bindings
8. 2.4 Connect functions to Azure services
9. 2.5 Exercise: Create an Azure Function by using Visual Studio Code
10. 3.1 Implement Durable Functions
11. 3.2 Explore Durable Functions app patterns
12. 3.3 Discover the four function types
13. 3.4 Explore task hubs
14. 3.5 Explore durable orchestrations
15. 3.6 Control timing in Durable Functions
16. 3.7 Send and wait for events
17. Knowledge Check
1. 1.1 Azure Cosmos DB overview
2. 1.2 Identify key benefits of Azure Cosmos DB
3. 1.3 Explore the resource hierarchy
4. 1.4 Explore consistency levels
5. 1.5 Choose the right consistency level
6. 1.6 Explore supported APIs
7. 1.7 Discover request units
8. 1.8 Exercise: Create Azure Cosmos DB resources by using the Azure portal
9. 2.1 Azure Cosmos DB data structure
10. 2.2 What's the difference between NoSQL and relational databases?
11. 2.3 Identify access patterns for your app
12. 2.4 When to embed or reference data
13. 2.5 Choose a partition key
14. 2.6 Model small lookup tables
15. 3.1 Working with Azure Cosmos DB resources and data
16. 3.2 Explore Microsoft .NET SDK v3 for Azure Cosmos DB
17. 3.3 Exercise: Create resources by using the Microsoft .NET SDK v3
18. 3.4 Create stored procedures
19. 3.5 Create triggers and user-defined functions
20. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Microsoft Identity Platform v2.0
2. 1.2 Explore the Microsoft identity platform
3. 1.3 Explore service principals
4. 1.4 Discover permissions and consent
5. 1.5 Discover conditional access
6. 2.1 Authentication using the Microsoft Authentication Library
7. 2.2 Explore the Microsoft Authentication Library
8. 2.3 Initialize client applications
9. 2.4 Exercise: Implement interactive authentication by using MSAL.NET
10. 3.1 Using Microsoft Graph
11. 3.2 Discover Microsoft Graph
12. 3.3 Query Microsoft Graph by using REST
13. 3.4 Query Microsoft Graph by using SDKs
14. 3.5 Apply best practices to Microsoft Graph
15. 4.1 Authorizing data operations in Azure Storage
16. 4.2 Classify your data
17. 4.3 Determine operational needs
18. 4.4 Group multiple operations in a transaction
19. 4.5 Choose a storage solution on Azure
20. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Manage keys, secrets, and certificates by using the KeyVault API
2. 1.2 Guidelines for using Azure Key Vault
3. 1.3 Manage access to secrets, certificates, and keys
4. 1.4 Manage certificates
5. 2.1 Implement Managed Identities for Azure resources
6. 2.2 Explore managed identities
7. 2.3 Discover the managed identities authentication flow
8. 2.4 Configure managed identities
9. 2.5 Acquire an access token
10. 3.1 Secure app configuration data by using Azure App Configuration
11. 3.2 Explore the Azure App Configuration service
12. 3.3 Create paired keys and values
13. 3.4 Manage application features
14. 3.5 Secure app configuration data
15. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 API Management overview
2. 1.2 What is Azure API Management?
3. 1.3 How Azure API Management works
4. 1.4 When to use Azure API Management
5. 2.1 Defining policies for APIs
6. 3.1 Securing your APIs
7. 3.2 Remove technical information from API responses
8. 3.3 Exercise - Remove header information
9. 3.4 Mask URLs with a transformation policy
10. 3.5 Exercise - Mask URLs with a transformation policy
11. 3.6 Throttle API requests
12. 3.7 Exercise - Throttle API requests
13. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Azure Logic Apps overview
2. 1.2 What is Azure Logic Apps?
3. 1.3 How Azure Logic Apps works
4. 1.4 When to use Azure Logic Apps
5. 2.1 Creating custom connectors for Logic Apps
6. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Implement solutions that use Azure Event Grid
2. 1.2 Explore Azure Event Grid
3. 1.3 Discover event schemas
4. 1.4 Explore event delivery durability
5. 1.5 Control access to events
6. 1.6 Receive events by using webhooks
7. 1.7 Filter events
8. 2.1 Implement solutions that use Azure Event Hubs
9. 2.2 Discover Azure Event Hubs
10. 2.3 Explore Event Hubs Capture
11. 2.4 Scale your processing application
12. 2.5 Control access to events
13. 2.6 Perform common operations with the Event Hubs client library
14. 3.1 Implement solutions that use Azure Notification Hubs
15. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Implement solutions that use Azure Service Bus
2. 1.2 Choose a messaging platform
3. 1.3 Write code to send and receive messages by using a queue
4. 1.4 Write code to send and receive messages by using a topic
5. 2.1 Implement solutions that use Azure Queue Storage queues
6. Knowledge Check
1. 1.1 Overview of monitoring in Azure
2. 1.2 Explore Azure Monitor
3. 1.3 Configure and monitor metrics and logs
4. 1.4 Enable Log Analytics
5. 1.5 Manage connected sources for log analytics
6. 1.6 Enable Azure monitor Alerts
7. 1.7 Configure properties for diagnostic logging
8. 1.8 Perform try-this exercises
9. 2.1 Instrument an app for monitoring
10. 2.2 Explore Azure Monitor
11. 2.3 Explore Application Insights
12. 2.4 Discover log-based metrics
13. 2.5 Instrument an app for monitoring
14. 2.6 Select an availability test
15. 2.7 Troubleshoot app performance by using Application Map
16. 3.1 Analyzing and troubleshooting apps
17. 3.2 Troubleshoot issues with apps
18. 3.3 Troubleshoot issues with public and private channels
19. 4.1 Implement code that handles transient faults
20. 4.2 Describe common types of transient errors your app may encounter
21. 4.3 Detect transient errors in code
22. 4.4 Choose a retry policy to recover from a transient error
23. 4.5 Monitor errors in your app using logging
24. Knowledge check
1. 1.1 Develop for Azure Cache for Redis
2. 1.2 Explore Azure Cache for Redis
3. 1.3 Configure Azure Cache for Redis
4. 1.4 Interact with Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET
5. 1.5 Exercise: Connect an app to Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET Core
6. 2.1 Develop for storage on CDNs
7. 2.2 Explore Azure Content Delivery Networks
8. 2.3 Control cache behavior on Azure Content Delivery Networks
9. 2.4 Interact with Azure Content Delivery Networks by using .NET
10. Knowledge check

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Instructor(s)

Senior Mentor - Cloud Engineering Mohd Bari

An IT professional with 11+ years in the areas of Systems Administration, Technical Support, Networking, and Repairs & Maintenance of hardware. Ä Working as an Enterprise Systems Engineer (Wintel) in Microsoft environment in Administration and Management of Technologies like Active Directory, SCCM 2012, SCOM 2012, VCenter, Windows Server Systems (2008 & 2012), Exchange Server 2010, and Hyper-V, DFSR etc. MCSE MCSE o Enterprise Administrator in windows server 2008 & 2012 o Microsoft certified System Engineer Messaging Microsoft Certified Professional ID: 5990885 Microsoft Certified Trainer – Since 2010

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