Cloud Fundamentals with Microsoft Azure

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About Course

12 months of access. Your one-time payment gives you access to this course for 12 months from the day you are enrolled. It does not renew automatically. Want the whole catalogue? All-access membership is coming soon.

How this course works

  • 12 months of access from the day you enrol
  • Self-paced lessons, hands-on labs and resources
  • Certificate of completion when you finish
  • Secure checkout with card (Stripe) or PayPal

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Cloud skills are now expected of every infrastructure professional. This course explains the concepts behind cloud computing and shows how they come to life in Microsoft Azure: subscriptions and resource groups, virtual machines, storage, networking, identity and governance.

You will learn how to think about shared responsibility, cost and resilience, and how to apply the Well-Architected Framework to real decisions.

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What Will You Learn?

  • Explain cloud models and the shared responsibility model
  • Organize Azure with subscriptions, resource groups and tags
  • Understand virtual machines, storage and virtual networks
  • Apply role-based access control and Azure Policy
  • Control cost and plan for backup and recovery

Course Content

Cloud Concepts
Why organizations choose the cloud, who is responsible for what once they get there, and how Azure regions and availability zones shape resilience.

  • Why organizations move to the cloud
  • Shared responsibility model
  • Regions, availability zones and resilience
  • Module 1 quiz: Cloud Concepts

Core Azure Building Blocks
How Azure organizes resources, and how virtual machines and storage accounts work in practice.

Azure Networking
Designing virtual networks, controlling traffic with network security groups and firewalls, and connecting Azure to on-premises sites.

Identity, Governance and Cost
Controlling who can do what in Azure, setting guardrails with policy, locks and tags, and keeping spending visible and under control.

Running Workloads Well
Monitoring, protecting and continuously improving Azure workloads once they are live.