Microsoft Azure Administrator Complete Course

Explore Azure fundamentals and cloud computing, covering compute, networking, storage, and governance. Engage with interactive exercises to see how Azure services meet business goals, including AI and IoT.

Explore core cloud concepts, including shared responsibility and public, private, and hybrid models. Understand consumption-based pricing and scalable resources via internet-based infrastructure.

Explore how cloud computing shifts IT from CapEx to OpEx, highlighting pay-as-you-go, consumption-based pricing, scalable resources, and reduced upfront costs while avoiding overprovisioning.

Explore cloud computing fundamentals, including public, private, hybrid, multi-cloud models, the shared responsibility model, and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Understand how cloud spending shifts from capital expense to operational expense.

Describe how high availability maintains uptime through redundancy, automatic failover, and regional load balancing. Explain vertical and horizontal scaling to meet demand while optimizing reliability and cost in cloud systems.

Explore how cloud reliability and predictability enable resilient, cost-aware architectures using global data centers, auto scaling, load balancing, and real-time monitoring guided by the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Learn cloud resource management and automation strategies, including template-based deployment, automatic scaling, health monitoring, and API and PowerShell interfaces for efficient operations.

Describe infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and its contrasts with PaaS and SaaS, highlighting the shared responsibility model, control over resources, and practical cloud use cases.

Explore platform as a service, a cloud development and deployment environment with provider-managed infrastructure. This setup enables automatic scaling, high availability, and reduced development effort.

Explore software as a service, a cloud delivery model that provides fully developed, ready to use applications via the internet, with the provider handling maintenance and updates.

Describe Azure core components, regions, region pairs, sovereign regions, availability zones, data centers, and the resource hierarchy of subscriptions, management groups, and resource groups; explore getting started with Azure accounts.

Learn how to start with Azure by creating an account and subscribing, then manage multiple subscriptions for departments. Compare free, student, and paid options and understand payment and access controls.

Explore how Azure's physical infrastructure uses data centers organized into regions and availability zones, enabling reliable, scalable cloud services with zonal and zone-redundant options and region pairs.

Explore azure's resource hierarchy, from resources and resource groups to subscriptions and management groups. See how inheritance powers access control, policy enforcement, and cost management across multiple subscriptions for governance.

Explore how a real educational tech company designs azure infrastructure for scalability and cost management. Review root management groups, subscriptions, and resource groups, plus governance, security, and access controls.

Explain that a resource belongs to one resource group, with group-level policy applying to current and future resources, and that region pairs support disaster recovery.

Explore how Azure shifts CapEx to OpEx, renting compute, storage, and networking, and identify cost factors as resource types, region, consumption, licensing, and pay as you go vs reserved options.

Learn how the Azure pricing calculator estimates direct cloud costs for resources such as virtual machines, storage, and networking, and how the TCO calculator compares on-premises costs to Azure.

Navigate the Azure pricing calculator's products tab to add virtual machines, Azure SQL Database, and application gateway, review scenarios and saved estimates, and export your final estimate.

Use the total cost of ownership calculator to compare on premises and Azure costs, following a three-step process: define workloads, adjust assumptions, and view the report for a three-year analysis.

Master cost management with cost analysis, create budgets and alerts via the azure portal or consumption api, view costs by cycle, region, and resource, and automate responses when thresholds hit.

Learn to set up Azure cost management and budgets, monitor subscription spending, analyze costs by resource and location, and configure alerts to prevent unexpected bills.

Organize Azure resources with tags to manage costs, track workloads, and enforce governance. Learn how tags across subscriptions, resource groups, and policies enable SLA, security, and automation.

Learn how Azure tags organize resources and estimate migration costs with the total cost of ownership calculator, paving the way for governance and compliance tools in Azure.

Learn Microsoft Purview for governance and compliance across Azure, on-premises, and cloud platforms. Discover automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage.

Learn how Azure policy defines policies and initiatives to enforce and audit resource configurations for compliance, with inheritance across scopes, automatic remediation, exceptions, tagging, and DevOps integration.

Learn how resource locks prevent deleting or updating resources across resources, resource groups, and subscriptions, with inheritance and precedence over RBAC, and manage them via portal, PowerShell, CLI, and templates.

Configure a resource log on an Azure storage account, apply a read-only lock and a delete log, then create a container and delete the resource to see the effects.

Explore the service trust portal for security, privacy, and compliance documentation. Learn authentication with a Microsoft Entra organization account, the Non-Disclosure agreement requirement, and how to manage documents in MyLibrary.

Explore Azure governance and management tools, including Azure Policy for automated compliance and Microsoft Purview for data governance, with Azure Resource Logs preventing accidental deletions, all via Service Trust portal.

Explore Azure management tools from the portal and console, including Azure Portal, Azure Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure Arc, ARM, and ARM templates for governance and deployment.

Azure Arc extends Azure management to hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Project non-Azure resources into Azure Resource Manager for unified governance across servers, Kubernetes, data services, SQL, and external VMs.

Azure resource manager acts as the central deployment and management plane, enabling infrastructure as code with declarative templates (arm and bicep) and RBAC tagging for consistent, secure deployments.

Master ARM templates and Bicep language to achieve declarative configurations, repeatable results across environments, modular templates with idempotent deployments and automated orchestration.

Azure Arc extends management capabilities beyond the Azure environment, enabling cross-cloud and on-prem resources, while Bicep and ARM templates provide a declarative, infrastructure-as-code approach for consistent, repeatable deployments.

Explore Azure Advisor as a personalized cloud consultant delivering actionable recommendations across reliability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost optimization to enhance your Azure environment.

Explore Azure service health components: Azure status, resource health, and Azure Monitor, along with alerts for outages, planned maintenance, and authentication-backed insights.

Azure Monitor collects data from Azure resources, on premises systems, and multi-cloud deployments, enabling Log Analytics queries, custom visualizations, alerts with action groups, and Application Insights for application monitoring.

Explore how Azure Advisor delivers cost, security, reliability, and performance recommendations, and how Azure Service Health's resource health alerts you to outages with Azure Monitor's log analytics and insights.

Explore how Azure Cloud Shell delivers a browser-based command line with persistent storage, auto-updated Azure CLI and PowerShell, an integrated editor, and double encryption at rest with authentication.

Explore Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based, authenticated shell with persistent cloud drive storage, preconfigured Azure tools, and bash or PowerShell options for managing resources across devices.

Learn how to access Azure Cloud Shell from Windows via the Microsoft Azure browser login, manage scripts with cloud drive storage, and edit them using the Cloud Shell Editor.