AZ-720 Troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Connectivity course
What you'll learn
- Learn the concepts and perform hands on activities needed to pass the AZ-720 exam
- Gain a tremendous amount of knowledge involving troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Services
- Get loads of hands on experience with troubleshooting Microsoft Azure Services
- Utilize hands on simulations that can be access anytime, anywhere!
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of the various IT related Azure services
Description
We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!
Have access to the following:
Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer
Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material
Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience
TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:
Introduction
Welcome to the course
Understanding the Microsoft Environment
Having a Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains
Having a Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization
Having a Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services
Order of concepts covered in the course
Questions for John Christopher
Setting up for hands on
IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course
Creating a free Azure Account
Activating Azure AD P2 license
Troubleshoot backup issues
Review and interpret backup logs
Troubleshoot Azure VM backup issues including restarting a failed backup job
Troubleshoot issues with Azure Backup agent
Troubleshoot Azure Backup Server issues
Troubleshoot scheduled backups
Troubleshoot recovery issues
Troubleshoot Azure Site Recovery issues
Troubleshoot site recovery in hybrid scenarios
Troubleshoot restore issues for the various Azure Backup Solutions
Troubleshoot issues recovering files from Azure VM backup
Cleaning up resources
Troubleshoot virtual network (VNet) connectivity
Foundations of vNet connectivity concepts
Troubleshoot virtual private network (VPN) gateway transit issues
Troubleshoot hub-and-spoke VNet configuration issues
Troubleshoot global VNet peering connectivity issues
Troubleshoot peered connections
Troubleshoot name resolution issues
Troubleshoot name resolution in scenarios that use Azure-provided names
Troubleshoot name resolution in scenarios that use custom DNS servers
Review and interpret DNS audit logs
Troubleshoot name resolution for Azure private DNS zones
Troubleshoot issues with DNS records at public DNS providers
Troubleshoot domain delegation issues
Cleaning up before the next lesson
Troubleshoot point-to-site virtual private network (VPN) connectivity
Setting up a VPN Gateway
Troubleshoot Windows VPN/OpenVPN client configuration issues
Troubleshoot macOS VPN client configuration issues
Troubleshoot issues with certificate-based VPN connections
Troubleshoot issues with RADIUS-based VPN connections
Troubleshoot authentication issues in Azure AD, part of Microsoft Entra
Troubleshoot site-to-site virtual private network connectivity
Review & interpret network logs & captured network traffic from a VPN gateway
Determine the root cause for latency issues with VPNs
Review and interpret VPN gateway configuration scripts
Reset a VPN gateway
Troubleshoot VPN gateway issues by running Log Analytics querie
Cleaning up my azure resources
Troubleshoot Azure ExpressRoute connectivity issues
Adding an express route circuit resource to Azure
Determine whether routes are correctly configured and operational
Validate the peering configuration for an ExpressRoute circuit
Reset an ExpressRoute circuit
Troubleshoot route filtering
Troubleshoot custom defined routes
Determine the root cause of latency issues related to ExpressRoute
Cleaning up ExpressRoute resources
Troubleshoot PaaS services
Troubleshoot PaaS connectivity issues
Troubleshoot firewalls for PaaS services
Troubleshoot PaaS configuration issues
Determine the root cause for service-level throttling
Troubleshoot PaaS integration issues
Troubleshoot subnet delegation issues
Grasping concepts of Service Endpoints vs Private Endpoints
Troubleshoot issues with private endpoints and service endpoints
Cleaning up PaaS services in this section
Troubleshoot Azure AD authentication
Determine why on-premises systems cannot access Azure resources
Troubleshoot Azure AD configuration issues
Troubleshoot self-service password reset issues
Troubleshoot issues with multifactor authentication
Troubleshoot hybrid authentication
Foundational concepts for Azure AD Hybrid authentication
Troubleshoot issues with Azure AD Connect and Azure AD Connect cloud sync
Troubleshoot issues with integration between Azure AD and Azure AD DS
Troubleshoot issues with integration between Azure AD and AD FS
Troubleshoot issues with pass-through authentication and password hash synchronization
Foundational concepts on understanding Azure AD Application proxy
Troubleshoot issues with Azure AD Application Proxy
Troubleshoot authorization issues
Troubleshoot role-based access control (RBAC) issues
Troubleshoot issues storing encrypted passwords in Azure Key Vault
Troubleshoot authorization issues related to Azure AD Conditional Access policies
Troubleshoot Azure network security groups (NSGs)
Troubleshoot NSG configuration issues
Review and interpret NSG flow logs
Determine whether one or more Azure vNics are associated with an ASG
Troubleshoot Azure Firewall issues
Troubleshoot application, network, and NAT/DNAT rules
Troubleshoot Azure Firewall Manager configuration issues
Cleaning up vNet and Azure Firewall resources
Troubleshoot latency issues
Determine the root cause for Azure VM-level throttling
Determine the latency issues when connecting to Azure VMs
Troubleshoot bandwidth availability issues
Determine whether resource response times meet service-level agreements (SLAs)
Troubleshoot routing and traffic control
Review and interpret route tables
Troubleshoot issues caused by asymmetric routing
Troubleshoot issues with UDRs, routing configs & service chaining aka peering
Troubleshoot issues related to forced tunneling
Troubleshoot Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) issues
Cleaning up routing related sources in Azure
Troubleshoot load-balancing issues
Setting up web servers and a load balancer for this lesson
Determine whether VMs in a load-balanced backend pool are healthy
Troubleshoot issues with Azure Load Balancer
Review and interpret load balancer rules
Troubleshoot traffic distribution issues
Evaluate the configuration of Azure Traffic Manager
Troubleshoot issues with Azure Traffic Manager profiles
Troubleshoot port exhaustion issues
Understanding Azure Application Gateway vs Azure Front Door
Troubleshoot issues with Azure Front Door
Troubleshoot issues with Azure Application Gateway
Troubleshoot Azure Bastion and just-in-time (JIT) VM access
Troubleshoot issues deploying Azure Bastion
Validate connectivity with an Azure VM
Troubleshoot JIT VM configuration issues
Cleaning up remaining Azure resources
FINAL - Where do I go from here?
BONUS Lecture
Who this course is for:
- IT people interested in learning and passing the Microsoft AZ-720 exam!
Instructor
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John Christopher is a Technical Instructor that has been in the business for over 20 years. His first experience with information technology occurred in the early 90s when he ran an MS-DOS based BBS(Bulletin Board System) as a System Operator. In the late 90s, after working with Windows NT 3.50 performing backups for Regal Group, he decided to get Windows NT Microsoft Certified.
In 1998 he got his first Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer certification. Shortly after getting certified, he began working as a Junior Administrator and Instructor for Knowledge Alliance. From there John was able to become one of the first people in the world to gain an MCSE for the Windows 2000 operating system and he began teaching full time for a company called Productivity Point International. At Productivity Point, John got Citrix Metaframe certified and began teaching Citrix along with Microsoft classes. Productivity Point began experiencing financial troubles and John moved on to work with another training company in 2001
For many years at the training company in Atlanta John was the network administrator and held the title of Senior Technical Instructor for the company. John designed and administered their network from the ground up, going from a single floor in a single building, to multiple floors in multiple buildings and locations. He furthered his certifications, gaining the MCSE for 2003, 2008(MCITP), 2012, A+, Network+, Security+, Exchange, and CCNA. Along with his Network admin duties, John taught hundreds of students during his 11 years for the company. During all his years of training, John has had the honor of doing lots of classes with the military, along with quite a few classes within on-site military bases. In 2012, he decided to break away from the company he had been working for and do consulting and contract teaching. Currently, John gets hired by many different training companies to teach technical training classes all over the United States. He is also hired as a consultant to go into companies and work on their networks and implement, along with troubleshoot real world scenarios.