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On this 10-day accelerated MCSA: Cloud Platform and MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure course you'll become an expert in Microsoft cloud technologies and learn how to manage a modern data centre. This course is more than 40% faster than other traditional providers.
You'll leave us with an expertise covering the full breadth of architecting, developing and administering Azure solutions and infrastructure. You'll master skills including:
Using our unique Lecture | Lab | Review technique, your Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) will immerse you in Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC). This technique, which combines both theoretical and practical tasks, will accelerate your learning as well as provide you with the hands-on experience you'll need to apply your skills to the real-world.
You'll prepare for and sit the following exams at the Firebrand Training Centre. This is covered by your Certification Guarantee.
Earning both the MCSA: Cloud Platform and MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure certifications qualifies you for a roles including cloud administrator, cloud architect, computer support specialist and information security analyst.
On this course, you will follow the pathway below:
Step 1. Attain MCSA: Cloud Platform
Step 2. Complete the following elective for MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure
Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs): You'll be trained by our Microsoft Certified Trainers meaning you'll get to benefit from their wealth of knowledge and experience.
Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC): As Microsoft Learning Partners, we can ensure that you'll have access to the latest curriculums and the most up-to-date content.
This module introduces cloud solutions in general and then focuses on the services that Azure offers. The module goes on to describe the portals that you can use to manage Azure subscriptions and services before introducing the Azure PowerShell modules and Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) as scripting technologies for managing Azure. Finally, the module provides explanations and guidance for the use of the classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
Lessons
Lab : Managing Microsoft Azure
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to plan virtual networks in Azure and implement and manage virtual networks. It also explains how to configure cross-premises connectivity and connectivity between virtual networks in Azure. Additionally, it explains how to configure an Azure virtual network and provides an overview of Azure classic networking.
Lessons
Lab : Using a deployment template and Azure PowerShell to implement Azure virtual networks
Lab : Configuring VNet peering
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module introduces the fundamentals of Azure VMs, and discusses the different ways in which you can deploy and manage them.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Azure VMs
Lab : Deploying Azure VMs by using Azure Resource Manager templates
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to configure and manage Azure VMs, including configuring virtual machine disks and monitoring Azure VMs.
Lessons
Lab : Managing Azure VMs
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains the different types of apps that you can create by using the Azure App Service, and how you can select an App Service plan and deployment method for apps in Azure. It also explains how to use Microsoft Visual Studio, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients, Azure PowerShell, and Azure CLI to deploy Azure web and mobile apps. Additionally, the module explains how to configure web apps and use the Azure WebJobs feature to run custom tasks. It also explains how to monitor the performance of web apps and create and configure mobile apps. Lastly, this module explains how to use Azure Traffic Manager to distribute requests between two or more app services.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing web apps
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Module 6: Planning and implementing storage, backup, and recovery services
This module explains how to plan and implement storage, backup, and recovery services. It explains how to choose appropriate Azure Storage options to address business needs and how to implement and manage Azure Storage. It also explains how to improve web-application performance by implementing Azure Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Lastly, this module explains how to protect cloud-resident and on-premises workloads by using Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
Lessons
Lab : Planning and implementing Azure Storage
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to implement containers in Azure. It starts by introducing the concept of containers and presents different options for implementing containers on Windows and Linux Azure VMs. Next, it explains container orchestration in the context of Azure Container Service (ACS) and describes how to use ACS to deploy Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and DC/OS clusters.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing containers on Azure VMs
Lab : Implementing Azure Container Service
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Module 8: Implementing Azure Cloud Services
This module explains how to plan and deploy Azure Cloud Services. It also explains how to manage and maintain Azure Cloud Services.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing Azure Cloud Services
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to implement Azure AD. It explains how to create and manage Azure AD tenants. It also explains how to configure single sign-on (SSO) for cloud applications and resources, and implement Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for cloud resources. Lastly, it explains the functionality of Azure AD Premium, and how to implement Azure Multi-Factor Authentication.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing Azure AD
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to manage Active Directory in a hybrid environment. It explains how to extend an on-premises Active Directory domain to Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments and synchronise user, group, and computer accounts between on-premises AD DS and Azure AD. This module also explains how to set up SSO by using federation and pass-through authentication between on-premises Active Directory and Azure AD.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing and managing Azure AD synchronisation
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to implement Azure-based management and automation. It explains how to implement Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) solutions and Azure Automation. The module also describes how to create different types of Azure Automation runbooks and implement Azure Automation - based management by using runbooks.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing Automation
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Microsoft Azure provides a collection of services that you can use as building blocks for your cloud applications.
Lessons
Lab: Exploring the Azure Portal
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Although many Microsoft Azure services use virtual machines, sometimes your application might have a unique need where it requires a virtual machine that is completely unmanaged. Azure provides networking, backup, and virtualization services as part of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering.
Lessons
Lab: Creating an Azure Virtual Machine for Development and Testing
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module provides an overview of the Azure Web Apps service.
Lessons
Lab: Creating an ASP.NET Web App by Using Azure Web Apps
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Dynamic web applications must store the data that is being managed and manipulated by end users. ASP.NET technologies such as ADO.NET and Entity Framework provide a way for accessing data in SQL Server. In the cloud, the Microsoft Azure platform provides a database as a service offering that allows developers to use SQL in the same way as they would in an on-premises location.
Lessons
Lab: Storing Event Data in Azure SQL Databases
After completing this module, students will be able to:
As a developer, you should keep in mind certain considerations while designing applications for the cloud. Although there are many platform improvements available in the ASP.NET ecosystem, you need to rethink the way you design your applications, and the patterns that are used, with respect to the scalability and reliability metrics present for the cloud applications.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Many new application workloads require new databases that offer scale and flexibility far beyond the capabilities of a traditional relational database. In Azure, there is a wide variety of NoSQL database services available for applications to store unstructured data in a flexible, schema-free and scalable fashion.
Lessons
Lab: Storing Event Registration Data in Azure Storage Tables
After completing this module, students will be able to:
When you want to scale to different cloud instances, storing files to a local disk becomes a difficult process to maintain and eventually an unreliable method of storage. Azure provides a Blob storage mechanism that not only offers high performance but also supports integration to Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) for low latency downloads.
Lessons
Lab: Storing Generated Documents in Azure Storage Blobs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
With web applications presenting content and worker roles processing the logic, there needs to be a mechanism that facilitates the communication between these different entities. Microsoft Azure provides two queuing mechanisms that you can use for this purpose.
Lessons
Lab: Using Queues and Service Bus to Manage Communication Between Web Applications in Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Although you can manage most of the Azure services by using both of the Azure portals or Microsoft Visual Studio, you can use scripting to completely automate the management of the same resources. This module will look at automating the lifecycle of the services by using client libraries, Windows PowerShell, REST, and the Resource Manager.
Lessons
Lab: Automating the Creation of Azure Assets using PowerShell and Azure CLI
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Although you can deploy your cloud applications manually, it is in your best interest to begin automating cloud-based deployments. Automation creates many benefits including the ability to trace past actions, easier repetition of deployment tasks and reduced possibility of human error.
Lessons
Lab: Deploying Templated Environments Using the Cloud Shell
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Just like on-premises applications, applications in the cloud need streamlined security mechanisms that are flexible. Azure Active Directory is an identity provider that can provide identity and access functionality for your custom applications or SaaS applications.
Lessons
Lab: Integrating Azure Active Directory with the Events Administration Portal
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module introduces and reviews common Azure patterns and architectures as prescribed by the Microsoft Patterns & Practices team. Each pattern is grouped into performance, resiliency, and scalability categories and described in the context of similar patterns within the category.
Lessons
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module establishes a basic understanding of Azure Resource Manager and the core concepts of deployments, resources, templates, resource groups, and tags. The module will dive deeply into the automated deployment of resources using ARM templates.
Lessons
Lab : Getting Started with Azure Resource Manager
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module identifies workloads that are ideally deployed using Infrastructure-as-a-Service services in Azure. The module focuses on the VM Scale Sets and Virtual Machine services in Azure and how to best deploy workloads to these services using best practices and features such as Availability Sets.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Infrastructure Workloads to Azure
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module describes services that use infrastructure but manage the infrastructure on behalf of the user instead of obfuscating the infrastructure resources. The module focuses on infrastructure-backed PaaS options such as Azure Service Fabric, Container Service, and App Service Environments. The module will explore how to deploy custom workloads to these services such as an HPC batch processing task.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Managed Server Workloads to Azure
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module describes how solutions can leverage serverless application hosting services in Azure to host web applications, REST APIs, integration workflows and HPC workloads without the requirement to manage specific server resources. The module focuses on App Services-related components such as Web Apps, API Apps, Mobile Apps, Logic Apps, and Functions.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Serverless Workloads to Azure
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module describes how many Azure services use the Azure Storage service as a backing store for other application solution in Azure. The module dives into critical considerations when using Azure Storage as a supplemental service for an all-up Azure solution.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Azure Storage to Support Other Workloads in Azure
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module compares the various relational and non-relational data storage options available in Azure. Options are explored as groups such as relational databases (Azure SQL Database, MySQL, and PostgreSQL on Azure), non-relational (Azure Cosmos DB, Storage Tables), streaming (Stream Analytics) and storage (Data Factory, Data Warehouse, Data Lake).
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Database Instances in Azure
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module describes the various networking and connectivity options available for solutions deployed on Azure. The module explores connectivity options ranging from ad-hoc connections to long-term hybrid connectivity scenarios. The module also discusses some of the performance and security concerns related to balancing workloads across multiple compute instances, connecting on-premise infrastructure to the cloud and creating gateways for on-premise data.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Network Components for Use in Azure Solutions
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module discusses both security and identity within the context of Azure. For security, this module reviews the various options for monitoring security, the options available for securing data and the options for securing application secrets. For identity, this module focuses specifically on Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and the various features available such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Managed Service Identity, Azure AD Connect, ADFS and Azure AD B2B/B2C.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Services to Secure Secrets in Azure
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module introduces multiple SaaS services available in Azure that are available for integration into existing Azure solutions. These services include Cognitive Services, Bot Service, Machine Learning and Media Services.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Service Instances as Components of Overall Azure Solutions
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module describes and compares the integration and messaging services available for solutions hosted on the Azure platform. Messaging services described include Azure Storage Queues, Service Bus Queues, Service Bus Relay, IoT Hubs, Event Hubs, and Notification Hubs. Integration services include Azure Functions and Logic Apps.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Messaging Components to Facilitate Communication Between Azure Resources
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
This module covers the monitoring and automation solutions available after an Azure solution has been architected, designed and possibly deployed. The module reviews services that are used to monitor individual applications, the Azure platform, and networked components. This module also covers automation and backup options to enable business-continuity scenarios for solutions hosted in Azure.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Configuration Management Solutions to Azure
After completing this module, you’ll be able to:
You'll sit the following exams during the course at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:
70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
The skills you'll be tested on include:
70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
The skills you'll be tested on include:
Exam 70-535: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
The skills you'll be tested on include:
Your accelerated course includes:
Before attending this accelerated course, you should be able to:
We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.
Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.
If you have any doubts as to whether you meet the pre-requisites please call (0)8 44 68 27 85 and speak to one of our enrolment consultants, who can help you with a training plan.
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