Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

As businesses increasingly move operations to the cloud, employees today need to know more about IT than how to use a few applications on a computer.

The wide-scale migration of IT services to the cloud means that everyone who uses these applications should also know something about using them.

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals training will give the non-technical professional a basic understanding of Azure cloud services and how to make the most of them.

AZ-900 is exceedingly valuable course for new or aspiring IT professionals, experienced technical and non-technical professionals looking to validate foundational skills, and non-technical professionals.

This course primarily uses the Azure portal and command line interface to create resources and does not require scripting skills. Learners in this course will gain confidence to take other role-based courses and certifications, such as Azure Administrator.

This course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; and Azure management and governance features and tools.

• This list contains the skills measured on the exam required for this certification

• Describe cloud concepts

• Describe Azure architecture and services

• Describe Azure management and governance

Prerequisite
There are no prerequisites for taking this course, familiarity with cloud computing is helpful but isn’t necessary.

Course Objective
This Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals training goes step-by-step through the AZ-900 exam objectives, and covers topics such as:

•  Cloud concepts: benefits, economies of scale, CapEx vs. OpEx, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

• Cloud deployment models: public, private, hybrid

• Cloud cost control: purchasing options, cost factors, pricing calculator, TCO, saving money

• Customer support: service-level agreements, regions, geographies, zones, free Azure account, Azure portal, Containers, microservices, and serverless computing

•  Storage: overview, structured vs. unstructured data, storage tiers and encryption

•  Networking: overview, load balancing, CDN, security groups, network access, Internet of Things (IoT)

Job Roles

You will be able to fit-in the job roles such as:

• Azure Administrator Associate

• Azure Developer Associate

• Azure Security Engineer Associate

• Azure Data Engineer Associate

• Azure Cloud Service Operations Engineer

• Azure Platform Engineer