Course Overview / Audience / Prerequisites / Topics

Course Overview

Audience

Prerequisites

• Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions, and the Azure Portal.
• Experience writing in an Azure supported language at the intermediate level. (C#, JavaScript, Python, or Java)
• Ability to write code to connect and perform operations on, a SQL or NoSQL database product. (SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra or similar)
• Experience writing code to handle authentication, authorization, and other security principles at the intermediate level.
• A general understanding of HTML, the HTTP protocol and REST API interfaces.

If you are new to Azure and cloud computing consider one of the following resources:

• Free online: Azure Fundamentals (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/paths/azure-fundamentals/)
• Instructor-led course: AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals

Topics

• Introduction
• Examine Azure App Service
• Examine Azure App Service plans
• Deploy to App Service
• Explore authentication and authorization in App Service
• Discover App Service networking features
• Exercise: Create a static HTML web app by using Azure Cloud Shell
• Knowledge check

Configure web app settings

• Introduction
• Configure application settings
• Configure general settings
• Configure path mappings
• Enable diagnostic logging
• Configure security certificates
• Knowledge check

Scale apps in Azure App Service

• Introduction
• Examine autoscale factors
• Identify autoscale factors
• Enable autoscale in App Service
• Explore autoscale best practices
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure App Service deployment slots

• Introduction
• Explore staging environments
• Examine slot swapping
• Swap deployment slots
• Route traffic in App Service
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure Functions

• Introduction
• Discover Azure Functions
• Compare Azure Functions hosting options
• Scale Azure Functions
• Knowledge check

Develop Azure Functions

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Functions development
• Create triggers and bindings
• Connect functions to Azure services
• Exercise: Create an Azure Function by using Visual Studio Code
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure Blob storage

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Blob storage
• Discover Azure Blob storage resource types
• Explore Azure Storage security features
• Discover static website hosting in Azure Storage
• Knowledge check

Manage the Azure Blob storage lifecycle

• Introduction
• Explore the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
• Discover Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Implement Blob storage lifecycle policies
• Rehydrate blob data from the archive tier
• Knowledge check

Work with Azure Blob storage

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Blob storage client library
• Create a client object
• Exercise: Create Blob storage resources by using the .NET client library
• Manage container properties and metadata by using .NET
• Set and retrieve properties and metadata for blob resources by using REST
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure Cosmos DB

• Introduction
• Identify key benefits of Azure Cosmos DB
• Explore the resource hierarchy
• Explore consistency levels
• Choose the right consistency level
• Explore supported APIs
• Discover request units
• Exercise: Create Azure Cosmos DB resources by using the Azure portal
• Knowledge check

Work with Azure Cosmos DB

• Introduction
• Explore Microsoft .NET SDK v3 for Azure Cosmos DB
• Exercise: Create resources by using the Microsoft .NET SDK v3
• Create stored procedures
• Create triggers and user-defined functions
• Explore change feed in Azure Cosmos DB
• Knowledge check

Manage container images in Azure Container Registry

• Introduction
• Discover the Azure Container Registry
• Explore storage capabilities
• Build and manage containers with tasks
• Explore elements of a Dockerfile
• Exercise: Build and run a container image by using Azure Container Registry Tasks
• Knowledge check

Run container images in Azure Container Instances

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Container Instances
• Exercise – Deploy a container instance by using the Azure CLI
• Run containerized tasks with restart policies
• Set environment variables in container instances
• Mount an Azure file share in Azure Container Instances
• Knowledge check

Implement Azure Container Apps

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Container Apps
• Exercise – Deploy a container app
• Explore containers in Azure Container Apps
• Implement authentication and authorization in Azure Container Apps
• Manage revisions and secrets in Azure Container Apps
• Explore Dapr integration with Azure Container Apps
• Knowledge check

Explore the Microsoft identity platform

• Introduction
• Explore the Microsoft identity platform
• Explore service principals
• Discover permissions and consent
• Discover conditional access
• Knowledge check

Implement authentication by using the Microsoft Authentication Library

• Introduction
• Explore the Microsoft Authentication Library
• Initialize client applications
• Exercise – Implement interactive authentication by using MSAL.NET
• Knowledge check

Implement shared access signatures

• Introduction
• Discover shared access signatures
• Choose when to use shared access signatures
• Explore stored access policies
• Knowledge check

Explore Microsoft Graph

• Introduction
• Discover Microsoft Graph
• Query Microsoft Graph by using REST
• Query Microsoft Graph by using SDKs
• Apply best practices to Microsoft Graph
• Knowledge check

Implement Azure Key Vault

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Key Vault
• Discover Azure Key Vault best practices
• Authenticate to Azure Key Vault
• Exercise: Set and retrieve a secret from Azure Key Vault by using Azure CLI
• Knowledge check

Implement managed identities

• Introduction
• Explore managed identities
• Discover the managed identities authentication flow
• Configure managed identities
• Acquire an access token
• Knowledge check

Implement Azure App Configuration

• Introduction
• Explore the Azure App Configuration service
• Create paired keys and values
• Manage application features
• Secure app configuration data
• Knowledge check

Explore API Management

• Introduction
• Discover the API Management service
• Explore API gateways
• Explore API Management policies
• Create advanced policies
• Secure APIs by using subscriptions
• Secure APIs by using certificates
• Exercise – Create a backend API
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure Event Grid

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Event Grid
• Discover event schemas
• Explore event delivery durability
• Control access to events
• Receive events by using webhooks
• Filter events
• Exercise – Route custom events to web endpoint by using Azure CLI
• Knowledge check

Explore Azure Event Hubs

• Introduction
• Discover Azure Event Hubs
• Explore Event Hubs Capture
• Scale your processing application
• Control access to events
• Perform common operations with the Event Hubs client library
• Knowledge check

Discover Azure message queues

• Introduction
• Choose a message queue solution
• Explore Azure Service Bus
• Discover Service Bus queues, topics, and subscriptions
• Explore Service Bus message payloads and serialization
• Exercise: Send and receive message from a Service Bus queue by using .NET.
• Explore Azure Queue Storage
• Create and manage Azure Queue Storage and messages by using .NET
• Knowledge check

Monitor app performance

• Introduction
• Explore Application Insights
• Discover log-based metrics
• Instrument an app for monitoring
• Select an availability test
• Troubleshoot app performance by using Application Map
• Knowledge check

Develop for Azure Cache for Redis

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Cache for Redis
• Configure Azure Cache for Redis
• Interact with Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET
• Exercise – Connect an app to Azure Cache for Redis by using .NET Core
• Knowledge check

Develop for storage on CDNs

• Introduction
• Explore Azure Content Delivery Networks
• Control cache behavior on Azure Content Delivery Networks
• Interact with Azure Content Delivery Networks by using .NET
• Knowledge check