Introduction
  • Important Course Instructions
  • How the course has been structured
  • Introduction to Cloud Computing
  • Introduction to Cloud Computing - Example
  • Introduction to Microsoft Azure
  • Azure Free Account
  • Azure Free Account - Extra Bits
  • Tour around the portal
  • Resource and Resource Group
  • Azure Regions
  • What are Azure subscriptions
  • Introductory Quiz
Azure Core Services - Azure Virtual Machines
  • What are we going to start with
  • The Virtual Machine Service
  • Deploying a virtual machine
  • Lab - Deploying a Windows Virtual Machine
  • Connecting to an Azure Windows Virtual Machine
  • Initial common Issues with Azure Virtual Machines
  • Installing IIS on the VM
  • Virtual Machine Types
  • Costing
  • State of the Virtual Machine
  • Lab - State of the Virtual Machine
  • Lab - Creating a Linux Virtual Machine
  • Quick note on creating virtual machines
  • Azure Marketplace for Virtual Machines
  • Availability Sets
  • Lab - Availability Sets
  • Availability Zones
  • Lab - Availability Zones for virtual machines
  • Quick note on Availability Sets and Zones
  • Azure Dedicated Host
  • Deleting resources
  • What is a Workload
  • Important Points
  • Section Quiz
Azure Core Services - Networking
  • Networking - IP Addressing
  • Azure Virtual Network
  • Lab - Creating an Azure virtual network
  • Lab - Communication across virtual machines in a virtual network
  • Network Security Groups
  • UPDATED - Lab - Network Security Groups
  • Application Security Groups
  • Network connectivity options
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • Important Points
  • Section Quiz
Azure Core Services - Azure Storage
  • Introduction to Azure Storage
  • Azure storage accounts - service types
  • UPDATED - Lab - Creating a storage account
  • UPDATED - Lab - Working with the BLOB service
  • UPDATED - Lab - Azure Storage Accounts - BLOB service - Access tiers
  • NEW - Azure Storage Accounts - Data Redundancy
  • Azure File shares
  • Lab - Working with Azure File shares
  • Azure Queue Storage
  • Azure Table Storage
  • Region pairs
  • UPDATED - OPTIONAL - Lab - Installing Visual Studio 2019 - Community Edition
  • Optional - Quick look at development - Azure Blob Storage
  • Optional - Quick look at development - Azure Queue Storage
  • Azure SQL Databases
  • Lab - Azure SQL Database
  • Lab - Azure SQL Database - SQL Query Editor
  • SQL Databases - IaaS vs PaaS option
  • Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
  • Lab - Azure Database for MySQL
  • Lab - Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Commands for other databases
  • Why even consider having a SQL data warehouse
  • Lab - Azure Synapse Analytics-Creating a workspace and dedicated SQL pool
  • Lab - Azure Synapse - Setting up Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory
  • Lab - Azure Synapse - Transferring data Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Synapse and Power BI
  • Lab - Azure Data Lake Storage
  • UPDATED - Azure Cosmos DB Introduction
  • UPDATED - Lab - Azure Cosmos DB - SQL API
  • Lab - Azure Cosmos DB - SQL API - Resources
  • Azure SQL Database vs CosmosDB
  • Azure Databricks
  • Azure Databricks - Resources
  • A sample architecture - use case 1
  • A sample architecture - use case 2
  • Important Points - Part 1
  • Important Points - Part 2
  • Section Quiz
Understand cloud concepts
  • Benefits of the cloud - High Availability
  • Benefits of the cloud - Scalability
  • Benefits of the cloud - Disaster recovery
  • Benefits of the cloud - Elasticity
  • Benefits of the cloud - Fault tolerance
  • Cloud service model
  • Cloud model types
  • Economies of scale
  • Shared Responsibility Model