AZ-700: Microsoft Azure Networking Essentials & Strategies

Explore Azure virtual networks and learn how isolation, private IP addressing, and address space organize resources. Configure subnets, route tables, network security groups, application security groups, and VNet peering.

Create and configure Azure virtual networks by defining address spaces and subnets, learn VNet peering for private IP address communication between vnets, and apply best practices.

Learn how network security groups (NSGs) control inbound and outbound traffic in Azure networks with rules based on source, destination, ports, and protocols, enabling allow or deny actions and filtering.

Azure firewall secures Azure virtual networks with a stateful, perimeter firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic via network and application rules, ensuring high availability and ASGs streamline policy management.

Leverage Azure VPN gateway to securely link an on premises network with Azure virtual networks using p2s and s2s VPN, enabling scalable, reliable hybrid connectivity.

Learn how load balancing distributes traffic across multiple resources to ensure high availability and efficient resource utilization, using Azure Load Balancer for layer four traffic and health probes.

Learn how Azure Load Balancer distributes traffic across virtual machines, enabling high availability and scalability; configure rules, health probes, public and internal options, and choose basic or standard SKUs.

Explore Azure dns, a fully managed service that maps domain names to ip addresses, provides high availability and global distribution, and supports creating dns zones with common record types.

Learn how Azure Traffic Manager enables load balancing across multiple endpoints by applying priority, weighted, performance, and geographic routing, with health monitoring and TTL considerations.

Explore advanced Azure Traffic Manager configurations to optimize load balancing and traffic routing. Learn performance based routing, subnet routing, and custom domains to direct users to the best endpoints.

Explore azure network security best practices, including vnets, nsgs, asgs, private endpoints, Azure firewall, and ddos protection, to protect resources and limit public exposure.

Strengthen your Azure security by implementing network isolation and micro-segmentation with vnets, subnets, and application security groups, then apply explicit nsg rules and centralized Azure firewall policies.

Explore Azure DDoS protection and network security appliances, detailing mitigation of malicious traffic, next generation firewalls and WAF, and the integration of third party appliances for unified security in Azure.

Explore Azure Network Watcher to troubleshoot and monitor your Azure network resources using topology visualization, VNet connection monitor, packet capture, and IP Flow Verify for health and performance.

Explore hybrid networking in Azure to seamlessly extend your on premises data centers to Azure resources via site-to-site VPNs, ExpressRoute, and Azure Virtual WAN.

Extend your on-premises network to Azure via a dedicated ExpressRoute circuit, enabling private or Microsoft peering for high performance, low latency, secure connectivity with an SLA.

Discover Azure private link to securely access Azure services over Azure backbone, using a private IP in your VNet with private endpoints and private DNS zones to keep traffic private.

Explore site-to-site VPN and VNet-to-VNet connectivity for hybrid Azure networks, enabling secure, encrypted communication between on-premises and Azure virtual networks. Learn gateway redundancy options, including active-active and active-passive modes.

Explore Azure Bastion, a fully managed service that provides secure rdp and ssh access to Azure VMs, eliminating the need to expose them to the public internet, through Azure portal.

Integrate Azure networking with other Azure services to optimize load balancing, security, and scalability using virtual machines, VM scale sets, load balancers, Application gateway, Express Route, and Private Link.

Apply Azure networking best practices to secure, monitor, and optimize cost-effective network deployments using vnets, nsgs, service endpoints, network watcher, and cost management tools.

Explore three Azure networking services: Azure CDN, Azure Front Door, and Azure Virtual Wan, to boost content delivery, global performance, and branch connectivity.

Explore real-world Azure networking scenarios, focusing on high availability, security, and scalability with load balancing, availability zones, Traffic Manager, NSGs, ASGs, WAF, DDoS protection, ExpressRoute, and VPN gateway redundancy.

Review key Azure networking concepts including virtual networks and Vnets, load balancers, application gateway, firewalls, VPN and ExpressRoute, and plan hands-on labs and certification.