Microsoft Azure Certification Study Guides

A Pro study guide on Azure: 244 lessons in 14 parts, 6 hands-on Practical use cases. A Pro plan opens every lesson, practice question and Practical.

What you will learn

• Cloud and Azure foundations - Cloud concepts, regions and zones, the shape of an Azure estate and how to design AI-enabled and SAP workloads on it. (5 lessons)
• Identity and access - Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, privileged access, managed identities and signing users in safely. (15 lessons)
• Security, protection and compliance - Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, encryption, Sentinel, Zero Trust and protecting data, workloads and AI. (36 lessons)
• Governance, cost and management - Azure Policy, locks, tags, cost management, compliance and keeping a large estate under control. (11 lessons)
• Compute, containers and desktops - Virtual machines, App Service, Functions, containers, AKS, Azure Virtual Desktop and picking the right compute. (16 lessons)
• Storage and databases - Storage accounts, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, relational and non-relational data and how to choose between them. (29 lessons)
• Networking and connectivity - Virtual networks, routing, DNS, VPN, ExpressRoute, load balancing, firewalls and private access. (23 lessons)
• Data analytics and Databricks - Data types and roles, ETL and ELT, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Delta Lake and Power BI. (15 lessons)
• Machine learning - Azure Machine Learning: workspaces, training jobs, automated ML, pipelines, registries and online endpoints. (12 lessons)
• Azure AI services - Vision, language, speech, document intelligence and Azure AI Search, and how to pick the right AI service. (11 lessons)
• Generative AI and agents - Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, prompts, retrieval augmented generation, agents, evaluation and safety. (22 lessons)
• DevOps, deployment and infrastructure as code - Pipelines, Git workflows, ARM and Bicep templates, release strategies, containers delivery and automation. (19 lessons)
• Monitoring, backup and resilience - Azure Monitor, logs and alerts, backup, high availability and disaster recovery. (23 lessons)
• Messaging, events, APIs and migration - Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs, API Management, change feed and moving workloads to Azure. (7 lessons)

Hands-on Practical use cases

• Global static website
• Serverless API for a mobile app
• Highly available three-tier web app
• Event-driven order pipeline
• Data lake and analytics
• Company knowledge assistant (RAG)

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