Microsoft Azure Administrator (Microsoft Cloud Computing)

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.

Candidates should have a minimum of six months of hands-on experience administering Azure. Candidates should have a strong understanding of core Azure services, Azure workloads, security, and governance. Candidates for this exam should have experience in using PowerShell, the Command Line Interface, Azure Portal, and ARM templates.

Outline:

• Manage Azure identities and governance (15-20%)
• Describe characteristics of network topology architectures
• Manage role-based access control (RBAC)
• Manage subscriptions and governance
• Implement and manage storage (10-15%)
• Manage storage accounts
• Manage data in Azure Storage
• Deploy and manage Azure compute resources (25-30%)
• Configure VMs for high availability and scalability
• Automate deployment and configuration of VMs
• Create and configure containers
• Create and configure Web Apps
• Implement and manage virtual networking
• Configure name resolution
• Secure access to virtual networks
• Configure load balancing
• Monitor and troubleshoot virtual networking
• Integrate an on-premises network with an Azure virtual network
• Monitor and back up Azure resources (10-15%)
• Monitor resources by using Azure Monitor
• Implement backup and recovery