Your cart is empty.
Keep shopping
Teach on Udemy
Turn what you know into an opportunity and reach millions around the world.
Learn MoreAZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5(24 ratings)
52 students
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Certification
Created byStone River eLearning
Last updated 3/2021
English
What you'll learn
- Get to know the Azure concepts, services and solutions
- Understand cloud fundamentals
- Understand the cloud models and services
- Familiarize with core components and services of Azure
- Understand Azure management, monitoring and analysis
- Implement and understand the identity management in Azure
- Know the Azure security center and its components
- Grab the basic knowledge about privacy and compliance
- Calculate the price and manage costs
- Understand Azure availability
Explore related topics
Course content
4 sections • 93 lectures • 3h 44m total length
- Instructor Introduction1:48
Meet your AZN 900 fundamentals instructor, Patrick Loaner, who brings over 20 years in IT, from helpdesk to Active Directory, Exchange, Office 365, and Azure migrations.
- Course Introduction1:54
Explore cloud fundamentals, including private and public clouds and service models, and learn Azure management, Azure AD identities, and subscription access, plus cost management and governance.
- Azure Concepts, Services, and Solutions1:08
Explore Azure fundamentals by examining cloud concepts, models, and services, then navigate core components like compute, networking, security, and databases, with virtual machines as a key example for Azure solutions.
- Topic A: Cloud Fundamentals0:40
Explore the fundamentals of the cloud and demystify what the cloud means for end users and IT personnel, clarifying common ambiguities in modern computing.
- Defining Cloud Computing4:15
Understand cloud computing as the evolution of virtualization using data centers that provide a shared pool of compute, memory, networking, and storage, with on-demand provisioning of VMs, networks, and databases.
- Benefits of Cloud Computing6:38
Explore how cloud computing extends virtualization with scalability, elasticity, and a pay-as-you-go consumption model. Discover automatic replication, backups, high availability, disaster recovery, and regional agility, with opex versus capex considerations.
- Pay As You Go2:05
Pay-as-you-go, a consumption-based model, lets you pay only for what you use with no upfront costs, and you can auto start/stop resources on Azure to scale as needed.
- Topic B: Cloud Models and Services0:20
Explore cloud models to understand who controls what and what you can utilize from a cloud offering, and examine the various services you can implement within the cloud.
- Overview of Cloud Models and Services1:00
Identify private, public, and hybrid cloud models and explain where compute, storage, and networking resources reside. Contrast organization-owned data centers with provider-owned data centers like Azure and Office 365.
- Private Cloud Model4:11
Define private cloud as an organization-managed pool of resources enabling dynamic provisioning and automated virtual machine deployment via a web portal.
- Public Cloud Model1:37
Explain how the public cloud model delivers multitenant infrastructure and services managed by a provider, accessible via the internet or VPNs, with Azure as the primary focus.
- Hybrid Cloud Model1:48
Explain the hybrid cloud model as a mix of on-prem and cloud resources, e.g., domain controllers on prem and web servers in Azure, with Exchange hybrid and Azure AD hybrid.
- Comparing Cloud Models0:52
Compare cloud models by contrasting public cloud's pay-as-you-go, rapid provisioning, fault tolerance, and high availability with private cloud's required infrastructure and maintenance, emphasizing capital expenses versus operational expenses.
- Cloud Services2:39
Explore cloud services as software, platform, and infrastructure offerings, including storage as a service, and understand the shared responsibility model that defines provider and customer roles.
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)1:12
Azure provides infrastructure as a service with dynamic provisioning of virtual machines. Create virtual networks and storage, connect to on-prem resources, and use Azure Migrate for on-prem to cloud migration.
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)0:43
Leverage platform as a service to deploy software in a ready environment, with Azure providing it; avoid infrastructure management and focus on building, testing, and deploying applications for greater efficiency.
- Software as a Service (SaaS)1:06
Discover software as a service, where cloud providers host applications with limited organizational control and pay-as-you-go access to email, file storage, and collaboration tools like Exchange Online, SharePoint, and Teams.
- Demo - Examining Microsoft 365 SaaS5:00
Explore Microsoft 365 as a software as a service, reviewing licenses and admin centers, with Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and the shared responsibility model.
- Topic C: Core Azure Components and Service Offerings0:23
Explore core Azure components and service offerings, learn to deploy VMs and virtual networks, and explore high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability options provided by these components.
- Core Resources Overview1:54
Discover how core resources provide compute, storage, and networking for on demand Azure services. Explore architectural components like resource groups, regions, and availability options to understand high level Azure fundamentals.
- Azure Subscriptions5:12
Create a tenant and a pay-as-you-go Azure subscription with authenticated access, while using Azure AD identity management, role-based access control, and management groups for controlled access and isolation.
- Azure Resources2:06
Demonstrates resource groups as management containers for resources such as virtual machines, storage accounts, networks, apps, and databases, with group-level access, regional association, and the Azure resource manager model.
- Resource Manager0:50
Explore the resource manager, the latest model that organizes resources in a group, controls access, and enables client access via the Azure portal, PowerShell, cli, and rest clients.
- Azure Regions and Region Pairs3:01
Explore Azure regions and region pairs, highlighting latency reduction, data residency, and automatic replication with 300-mile separation to support rolling updates and global deployments.
- Availability Options1:22
Choose availability options when deploying virtual machines: a single machine with no redundancy or availability zones for high availability within a region, and region pairs for multi-region disaster recovery.
- Demo - Examining Azure Components and Resources4:40
Explore the Azure portal to review subscriptions, access control, and role assignments, and work with resource groups; discover marketplace services like virtual machines, networks, and databases.
- Compute Resources1:04
Choose and configure Azure on-demand compute resources—cpu, memory, storage, networking, and operating systems—using standard virtual machines, with Windows desktop options and Linux or Windows server options.
- Demo - Creating a Virtual Machine in Azure11:08
Demonstrate how to create a virtual machine in Azure via the portal, configuring image, size, storage, networking, and public IP, then connect with RDP.
- Storage Resources2:52
Explore Azure storage types and storage accounts for VMs and applications, including containers, file shares, tables, and queues, plus blob storage for unstructured data, with tier and region options.
- Demo - Creating Storage Accounts5:45
Create storage accounts in the Azure portal, selecting storage type (storage v2/general-purpose v2/blob or file storage), name, location, and redundancy, networking, plus data protection and access options.
- Networking Resources1:53
Explore how networking resources connect Azure-hosted and on-premises workloads through virtual networks, default subnets, and VPN gateways, including site-to-site and express route options.
- Demo - Working with Azure Networking5:02
Explore Azure networking by creating and configuring virtual networks, subnets, and address spaces, including a DMZ subnet, DNS settings, and site-to-site VPN with a virtual network gateway.
- Additional Azure Services5:26
Explore azure's additional services, including app services, container services with orchestration, Windows virtual desktop, and relational databases like Cosmos, sql database, mysql, and postgresql, highlighting ias and paas.
- Demo - Examining Additional Azure Services3:50
Explore Azure's additional services, including App Services, managed databases, and Windows Virtual Desktop, with practical steps to configure resources, choose deployment types, and consult documentation.
- Azure Core Solutions4:18
Explore Azure core solutions, including Internet of Things, IoT central, hub, Azure Sphere, IoT product selector, plus big data and AI services like Synapse Analytics and Cognitive Services.
- Application Development1:19
Explore Azure application development services for cloud-based and web apps, including DevOps tools, pipelines, repositories, kanban boards, and GitHub Actions to automate build, test, and deployment.
- Chapter 1 Review1:05
Explore the Azure cloud fundamentals, including public vs private clouds, resource location, elasticity and scalability, pay-as-you-go models, and cloud models and services like IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Chapter 1 Quiz
- Azure Management and Monitoring1:25
Master Azure management and monitoring through the portal, PowerShell, and CLI, while tracking resources, performance, and availability. Understand Azure AD for identity, users, groups, and hybrid or cloud setups.
- Topic A: Understanding Azure Management0:17
Explore Azure management tools for creating virtual machines, managing virtual networks, and setting up Azure services and core solutions, and learn the options to access them.
- Azure Management Tools1:39
Explore multiple Azure management tools, including the Azure portal and Azure app, and decide when Web UI or PowerShell is best for automation, while transitioning to the Azure resource model.
- Azure Management Portal1:37
Explore the Azure management portal, a web-based admin tool with customizable dashboards and quickstart tutorials, linking to analytics, resources, and PowerShell access for management.
- Demo - Overview of Azure Management Portal4:26
Demonstrate the Azure management portal as the primary web-based admin tool, outlining subscriptions, resource groups, dashboards, tiles, shortcuts, and navigation, plus search, Azure Cloud Shell, and Azure CLI.
- Command Line Management2:11
Install Azure PowerShell locally with install-module to connect to your subscriptions, meeting .NET 4.7.2 and Windows prerequisites. Compare Azure CLI's distinct syntax and use Cloud Shell for browser-based, authenticated access.
- Demo - Examining Command Line Tools8:28
Explore azure command line tools, including azure cli and powershell in cloud shell, and learn how to manage resource groups with commands, tab completion, and help.
- Additional Tools1:02
Discover how the Azure mobile app enables on-the-go resource management on iOS and Android, including health monitoring, issue diagnosis, and command execution with admin privileges.
- Demo - Creating Azure Resources Using Management Tools2:59
Explore Azure Monitor, log analytics, and service health to track resource activity, alerts, and metrics, while managing costs and troubleshooting with event logs.
- Topic B: Monitoring and Analytics in Azure0:17
Explore monitoring and analytics in Azure using the Azure portal and management tools to keep resources healthy and running efficiently.
- Monitoring and Analytics Overview0:42
Learn to monitor Azure infrastructure with management tools, using cost and security metrics and alerts when systems are unavailable to manage performance and reliability.
- Azure Advisor1:02
Azure advisor analyzes your configurations using usage telemetry and current workloads to deliver proactive, personalized, actionable recommendations across reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational excellence.
- Azure Monitor0:49
Maximize the availability and performance of cloud and on-premises applications with the Azure Monitor solution. Analyze telemetry, activity logs, and metrics with Application Insights and Log Analytics, plus smart alerts.
- Service Health0:40
Gain a personalized view of Azure service health, showing regions and resources your tenant uses with outages and maintenance advisories, and configure alerts to receive notifications only for deployed services.
- Topic C: Identity Management in Azure0:18
Explore identity management in Azure and learn how authentication and authorization with Azure AD safeguard access to cloud resources.
- Identity Fundamentals1:06
Explore how identity management distinguishes authentication from authorization, showing how authentication verifies who you are via credentials like username and password, and authorization defines what you can access.
- Azure Active Directory1:51
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's identity and access management for cloud resources, linking on-premises AD with Azure AD Connect to enable hybrid setups, single sign-on, and management with Intune.
- Azure AD Scenarios3:53
Compare cloud-only and directory-synchronized Azure AD authentication, and explain how Azure AD Connect pushes on premise users, groups, and passwords to the cloud, with password replication and centralized management.
- Multi-Factor Authentication2:05
Explore multi-factor authentication, which uses a second or third factor such as authenticator app notifications, SMS, or calls, to prevent unauthorized account access across Microsoft 365.
- Policy Management1:16
Conditional access policies replace on-premises group policy, enabling MFA and access controls for cloud apps, based on Azure AD licenses such as P1/P2 included in some Microsoft 365 plans.
- Demo - Examining Azure AD7:46
Explore Azure Active Directory across portals, manage users and licenses, view audit logs and sign-in details, and configure conditional access, MFA, and push applications to users with Intune.
- Chapter 2 Review0:52
Explore anger management, identity management, and monitoring capabilities in Azure. Compare the portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI for managing core services and discuss Azure AD Connect with on-prem connectivity.
- Chapter 2 Quiz
- Azure Security and Compliance1:09
Explore Azure security and compliance across on-premises and cloud networks, and learn how Azure Security Center and other security components protect data privacy and meet regulatory requirements.
- Topic A: Azure Security Center0:30
Explore Azure security center, a management service that provides a unified view of your infrastructure and strengthens your security posture across on-premises and cloud data centers with advanced threat protection.
- Azure Security Center1:36
Azure Security Center provides centralized security and compliance monitoring, threat protection, workload assessment, and personalized recommendations, with Just-In-Time access control and policy driven alerts that improve security across the tenant.
- Demo - Azure Security Center4:33
Explore Azure Security Center as a one stop shop for securing Azure resources, enabling Azure Defender, and monitoring a secure score with remediation for vulnerabilities and policy controls.
- Topic B: Azure Security Components0:22
Explore how the Azure security center acts as a one-stop shop for security across Azure workloads and components, and identify the additional Azure security components essential for fundamentals.
- Overview of Security Components2:24
Explore Azure security components that enable defense in depth, including firewalls, network security groups, Sentinel, and key vaults, integrating with Azure AD and advanced threat protection to protect resources.
- Security Posture3:05
Assess your organization's security posture by evaluating security budgets, the shared responsibility model in cloud, and documented policies, while applying defense in depth across network, data, and application levels.
- Defense in Depth3:13
Defense in depth applies a layered security approach across networks and systems, mitigating threats at each layer from data at rest to network attacks like distributed denial of service.
- Secure Networking3:18
Explore secure networking in Azure by examining the Azure firewall, application gateway, NSGs, and VM host firewalls, and learn baseline rules and DDoS protection for inbound and outbound traffic.
- Additional Security Components1:36
Learn how security information management aggregates data from endpoints, networks, and systems to detect and respond to threats, and how key vaults and hardware security modules safeguard secrets and encryption.
- Demo - Azure Security Components6:05
Explore Windows firewall and other Azure security components like a DMZ network, configure network security groups and web application firewall policies, and secure keys with vaults and private endpoints.
- Topic C: Azure Security, Privacy, and Compliance0:26
Explore Azure security options with a focus on privacy and compliance. Describe Microsoft's goals in privacy and compliance and what they guarantee customers as a public cloud provider.
- Overview of Governance2:07
Explore governance in Azure, including RBAC for fine-grained access, resource tagging for organization and billing, and resource locks to prevent changes, guided by the Cloud Adoption Framework.
- Demo - Governance Components4:06
Explore Azure governance components including resource locks, policy-based tags, and role-based access control to protect and manage resources across subscriptions and resource groups.
- Security and Compliance Offerings1:23
Protect against threats by delivering security, privacy, and compliance built into the design for multitenant environments, with contractual agreements, transparency, and comprehensive compliance offerings including NASD, NIST, HIPAA, and CJIS.
- Trust Center2:03
Explore the trust center to learn Microsoft Azure security and compliance offerings, with role-specific guidance, privacy statements, and online services terms.
- Demo - Trust Center3:43
Explore the Azure trust center to access documentation on security, privacy, compliance, and governance, including global compliance offerings, audits, and data residency details to plan secure Azure deployments.
- Chapter 3 Review0:40
Explore Azure Security Center, secure score, and defense in depth with key vaults, firewalls, and network security gateways, plus privacy and compliance governance offerings.
- Chapter 3 Quiz
- Azure Availability and Cost Management0:50
Explore Azure availability, service level agreements, and cost management to optimize performance and control cloud expenses, avoiding overprovisioning with Azure tools for cost efficiency.
- Topic A: Azure Cost Management0:27
Discover Azure cost management as a built-in Azure utility, and learn how the pricing calculator and total cost of ownership calculator estimate cloud expenses. Identify factors that affect cost.
- Overview of Cost Management0:50
Learn to plan and adapt cost management for Azure using the pricing calculator, total cost of ownership calculator, and Azure Cost Management to optimize expenses.
- Price Factors3:52
Identify the six price factors that impact Azure costs—resource types, location, latency, bandwidth (including zones), services, and billing terms—plus how licensing and reservations cut expenses.
- Calculating Prices2:07
Learn to use the Azure pricing calculator to estimate costs across compute, storage, networking, and platform services using region, tier, availability, and billing options.
- Demo - Using Price Calculator5:15
Explore the Azure pricing calculator to estimate costs for virtual machines and storage, compare regions, discounts, reserved options, and hybrid benefit before deployment.
- Total Cost of Ownership1:38
Understand total cost of ownership (TCO) as a tool to estimate savings from migrating to Azure cloud, using the TCO calculator to compare on-premises and cloud resources.
- Cost Management0:57
Explore Azure cost management, a built-in suite in the admin portal that monitors cloud spending, sets budgets and alerts, and provides optimization recommendations for Azure and AWS resources.
- Demo - TCO Calculator and Cost Management6:30
Explore the Azure tco calculator to compare five-year on-premises costs with azure savings, and learn to navigate cost management tools like cost analysis, budgets, alerts, and recommendations.
- Best Practices2:20
Balance cost optimization with Azure capabilities by applying best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, remote access, and accessibility; set spending limits and tag resources to track ownership across regions.
- Topic B: Understanding Azure Availability0:09
Explore Azure availability and the service level agreements that drive that availability for customers, and learn how these SLAs ensure reliability.
- Service Level Agreements2:54
Understand Azure's service level agreement (SLA) as Microsoft’s obligation on availability and performance, with levels varying by product, location, and features, measured in nines and credited when unmet.
- Demo - Examining SLAs1:53
Explore Azure service level agreements for virtual machines and VPN gateways, including availability zones, instance counts, credits, and minutes of downtime, to plan reliable cloud deployments.
- Azure Preview0:52
Explore Azure previews to test prerelease features across products, services, software, and regions, provide feedback through the portal, and learn how public preview becomes generally available.
- Chapter 4 Review0:36
Evaluate Azure availability and cost management, plan for costs before implementation, apply cost-saving best practices, and use Microsoft calculators and tools to ensure high availability within service-level agreements.
- Course Closure2:33
Learn core Azure fundamentals, cloud models, and resources, with identity, RBAC, security tools, and cost management to prepare for the AZ-900 exam.
- Chapter 4 Quiz
Requirements
- There is no required prerequisite for this course however, the candidates are expected to have a basic knowledge of computing principles, cloud operations as well as private and public clouds.
Description
The Microsoft Azure Fundamentals is a comprehensive course that covers the basics of Azure cloud services. Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform that offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). The modern enterprises are keen to move their digital assets from the on-premise datacenters to cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services etc. The digital era is seeing increased adoption of cloud due to the fact that it provides excellent savings on CapEx and also provides up-to-date infrastructure and services.
This course is designed in such a way that it helps the students to understand the offerings of Microsoft Azure as well as how to adopt any service offered by Microsoft Azure. The course covers desktop lifecycle, management and monitoring, security and compliance and lastly availability and cost management. It is an excellent opportunity for students to thoroughly understand the basics of Microsoft Azure and then move on to the more advanced courses related to their field of employment, studies or job.
All in all, the course provides an excellent opportunity to students to understand the overall architecture of Microsoft Azure platform and explore its features, functionalities along with the management and pricing structure to be able to decide for their organizations about the time to move on to the public cloud platform.
Who this course is for:
- Network administrators working in enterprises
- System administrators working in enterprises
- Employees of cloud service providers
- Public/Private cloud administrators