Microsoft Azure Cloud – Azure Certified Solutions Architect Training

🌐 What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform from Microsoft, similar to AWS. It provides a wide range of cloud services to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft-managed data centers across the globe.

🚀 Why Use Azure?
Seamless integration with Microsoft products (ideal for businesses using Windows, Office 365, etc.)

Hybrid cloud support: Easily connect on-premises and cloud systems

Scalable and flexible infrastructure on demand

Highly secure and compliant, trusted by governments and large enterprises

Pay-as-you-go pricing model for cost efficiency

👥 Who Uses Azure?
Enterprises running Windows Server or .NET-based applications

Organizations leveraging hybrid cloud infrastructure

Companies adopting AI, ML, or data analytics

Developers hosting web, mobile, or API-based apps

✅ Real-World Use Cases
BMW: Uses Azure for autonomous driving simulations

Adobe: Delivers Creative Cloud through Azure

Government agencies: Rely on Azure for secure infrastructure

Microsoft Cloud Course Contents (Implementing Solutions on Microsoft Cloud Platform) (AZ-900/AZ-104/AZ-303)

Course Duration: 2. months 
Fees: ₹10,000 (Includes Linux Basics + Azure Admin)
🔧 Module 1: Linux Basics (10 Days)

☁️ Module 2: Azure Administration (2 Months)

1. Introduction to 
● Cloud technology overview
● Overview of Cloud
● Managing Cloud with the portal
● Managing Cloud with Windows PowerShell
● Overview of Cloud Resource Manager

2. Implementing and managing Cloud networking
● Implementing and managing virtual networks
● Configuring virtual networks
● Configuring virtual network connectivity
● Configuring the Subnets
● Configuring Virtual Network Region Peering
● Configuring Virtual Network Global Peering
● Understanding Cloud to On-Prem Connectivity
● Deploying Virtual Network Gateway.
● Understanding User Defined Routes(UDR).
● Configuring Virtual Network Gateway with AWS over IPSec VPN.

3. Understanding and Configuring Network Security Groups(NSG)
● Understanding Network Security Groups(NSG)
● Creating and Updating Inbound & Outbound Security Rules.
● Understanding NSG Rule Hierarchy.
● Testing Network Security Groups and learning rule priority.
● Creating NSG Rules with Service tags.
● Understanding Application Security Groups (ASG).
● Creating NSG with Application Security Groups.

4. Understanding and Configuring Firewall
● Creating UDR and Cloud Firewall Subnet.
● Deploy Firewall.
● Configure routing on UDR and assigning to subnets.
● Create Network Rule Collection and check the traffic.
● Create Application Rule Collection and block traffic to websites.
● Understand SNAT and DNAT in Azure Firewall.
● Creating DNAT for Virtual machine using Azure Firewall.

5. Configuring Virtual Machines
● Deploy virtual machines in portal
● Deploy virtual machines using CLI
● Managing Virtual machine storage


6. Designing & Implementing Load Balancing
● Type of Load Balancers in Cloud
● Basic Vs Standard Load Balancer
● Deploying Basic Load Balancer 
● Configuring NAT using Basic Load Balancer.

7. Implement and configure DNS & amp; Standard Load Balancer
● Purchasing domain name for Godaddy.com
● Creating  DNS Zone and configuring it with Godaddy.
● Creating 3 Availability Sets and placing a single virtual machine in each AV-
Set.
● Create Standard Load Balancer and create a backend pool and assign
all the 3 AVSets.
● Check the Load Balancing between the servers in different AV-Sets.

8. Application gateway
● Understanding  Application Gateway architecture.
● Understanding Path Based Routing in AGW.
● Creating multiple VMs and configuring application gateway.
● Configuring the SSL Off-loading on Application gateway.
● Check pathing based routing using AGW.

9. Auto Scaling 
● Understanding Auto Scaling
● Creating a VM Image for Auto Scaling 

10. Planning and implementing Storage
● Understand Blob Storage
● Understand File Shares
● Configuring File Sync
● Manage Storage permissions
● Static Website deployment
● Custom domains

11. Configure and Manage  Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
● Backup VMware Servers to Cloud
● Backup VM  SQL instances
● Replication and failover groups
● Disaster recovery vault configuration

12. Planning and implementing SQL Database
● SQL database(PaaS) vs SQL database (IaaS)
● Structured vs Unstructured data
● MySQL Deployment

13. Implementing App services
● Web Apps overview ( PaaS)
● Deploying and Managing Web Apps
● Azure App Service  and Deployment plan
● Azure Deployment slots
● App Service Security

14. Implementing  Active Directory
● Domain services.
● Deploy and configure Active directory.
● Create and manage users and groups.
● Extending On-premise Active directory to Cloud.
● Configure domain users and groups to access Azure portal.

15. Implementing Azure-based management and automation
● Implementing  Automation.
● Managing  Automation.

16. Designing and developing apps for Containers
● Virtual Machine vs Containers.
● Install and configure Docker Engine.
● Deploy and manage Containers.
● Deploying container images using Container Instances(ACI).
● Introduction to Kubernetes Services(AKS).
● Creating AKS Cluster.
● Deploying application on AKS.

17. Configure Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Analytics
● Azure Monitoring and alerts configuration.
● Log analytics.
● Insights virtual machines and network.
● Insights applications and containers.

18. Migrate projects and customer billing optimization
● Migration projects.
● Recovery services vaults.
● Database migration services.
● cost calculator.
● price optimization.

19. NAT Gateway CDN WAF
● Deploy NAT Gateway for Private Subnets.

● Deploying CDN for Web Applications.
● Deploy Web Application Firewall for Securing Web Applications.

20. Introduction to Infrastructure as a Code(IaaC)
● Understanding JSON files.
● Introduction Resource Manager Templates(ARM).
● Deploying ARM Templates from  Powershell & Portal.
● Using ARM Functions and Dry Run with Powershell 7.0
● Working with ARM Template Modes.
● Deploy basic  Infrastructure with Terraform

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