Microsoft Azure Beginners Guide

Tags: Microsoft Certification , Microsoft AZ-900

Beginning your journey on Microsoft Azure

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- Ability to understand how to start working with Azure
- Spin up Virtual Machines
- Work with Storage options such as BLOB
- SQL Server

What you'll learn

Ability to understand how to start working with Azure

Spin up Virtual Machines

Work with Storage options such as BLOB

SQL Server

Basic Understanding of services such as Azure Functions

Azure Web apps etc

Be prepared when taking the AZ-900 certification exam

* Requirements

* Basic IT knowledge on Networks
* databases
* Basic understand on what is a cloud platform
* Basic understanding on how Web servers work
* Basic understanding on developing web applications

Description

Course Updates

v6.0 - August 2021

A refresh carried out for most of the chapters in the course - This was to align with any changes to the User Interface and new features for Azure services.
Also questions commonly asked by students are also now included in the videos.

v5.1 - February 2021

Added new chapters to the course including the following
- Azure Synapse Analytics-Creating a workspace and dedicated SQL pool
- Lab - Azure Synapse - Setting up Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory
- Lab - Azure Synapse - Transferring data Azure Data Factory
- Azure Bot Service
Also added a completely new section to serve as a good revision for key concepts discussed in the course
Updated chapters on .Net programs for working with the Blob and queue service in Azure Storage Accounts

v5.0 - November 2020

Aligned course updates based on exam objectives changed in November 2020
Added chapters that include
- Lab on Azure Kubernetes
- The various tools in Azure DevOps services
- Shared Responsibility Model
- Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Refreshed chapters that include
- Azure Security Center
- Availability sets and Availability Zones understanding
- Azure storage accounts - Blob and File service

v4.2 - June 2020

Refreshed the chapters on Azure Regions, Deploying a Windows Virtual Machine, Azure Marketplace

v4.1 April 2020

Updated chapters on Network Security Groups , Azure SQL database , Azure Web Apps , Communication within an Azure virtual network
Added chapters on Example Invoice, Azure Container Instances, Availability Zones implementation

v4.0 March 2020

Refreshed several chapters including the creation of virtual machines, Azure Functions , Azure Logic Apps to reflect User interface changes in Azure.
Added chapters on "Important Points" at the end of each section.

v3.0 October 2019

Refresh on existing topics to reflect Azure changes
Added chapters on cloud concepts
Added chapters on security, privacy and compliance
Added chapters on pricing and support

v2.0 June 2019

Feedback from Students

"Perfectly what need for beginner's in azure"

"I got exactly what I wanted, an overview of Azure services to the perfect level of details, not too high level and not too detailed. The instructor was methodical and straight to the point."

Cloud Computing is the next big thing , just look around you at how the digital world is evolving. Big players such as Amazon , Microsoft , Google are working towards the goal of allowing customers to embrace cloud computing.

Microsoft has made big strides in this domain , and its no surprise as to why they are one of the leaders when it comes to Cloud Computing.

This course is designed to help students get themselves familiar with Microsoft's Cloud platform , Microsoft Azure.

In this course you will learn the following

1. Creating a Free Account in Azure

2. Working with Virtual Machines

3. Working with Azure Storage - BLOB , Table , Queues , Files

4. Introduction to Azure SQL Databases and CosmosDB

5. Basic Networking concepts in Azure

6. A Basic understanding on various services such as Azure Functions , Azure Logic Apps , Azure Scale Sets etc.

Don't get left behind. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION is the need of the hour and Cloud computing is one of the backbone for empower the world towards this goal.

Who this course is for:

Students who wish to start learning how to use the Azure Platform
Students who want to get a head start to the Microsoft Azure Cloud Certifications

Course content

11 sections • 216 lectures

Introduction 12 lectures

Important Course Instructions Preview 00:04

This chapter gives instructions which are important for the course

Slides and Diagrams download Preview 00:04

How is the course structured Preview 04:38

UPDATED - Introduction to Cloud Computing Preview 03:35

This chapters looks at what is Cloud Computing

UPDATED - Introduction to Microsoft Azure Preview 01:36

This chapter gives an introduction to Azure

UPDATED - Azure Free Account Preview 04:33

This chapter gives information on the Azure Free Account

NEW - Creating an Azure Free Account Preview 03:38

UPDATED - Tour around the portal Preview 04:32

This chapter gives a tour around the Azure portal

NEW - What is an Azure service Preview 01:46

This chapter gives an introduction to an Azure service

UPDATED - What is a resource group Preview 03:10

This chapter gives an explanation on resource groups in Azure

Azure Regions Preview 02:00

This chapter focuses on Azure regions

What are Azure subscriptions Preview 01:35

This chapter talks about Azure subscriptions

Azure Core Services - Azure Virtual Machines 29 lectures

What are we going to start with Preview 01:02

This chapter looks into what we are going to cover first

Deploying a virtual machine Preview 03:28

This chapter looks into deploying the virtual machine

UPDATED - Lab - Deploying a Windows Virtual Machine - Part 1 Preview 13:41

This chapter looks into deploying an Azure virtual machine

UPDATED - Lab - Deploying a Windows Virtual Machine - Part 2 Preview 11:54

UPDATED - Connecting to an Azure Windows Virtual Machine Preview 03:58

This chapter looks into connecting to an Azure virtual machine

UPDATED - Installing IIS on the VM Preview 07:37

This chapter looks into installing Internet Information services on the virtual machine

Virtual Machine Types Preview 03:06

This chapter focuses on Virtual Machine Types

UPDATED - Understanding the costing for virtual machines Preview 04:47

This chapter looks into costing for virtual machines

Review on the virtual machine service Preview 03:19

UPDATED - Lab - State of the Virtual Machine - Temporary storage Preview 11:33

This chapter looks at the state of the virtual machine

UPDATED - Lab - State of the Virtual Machine - IP address Preview 05:49

UPDATED - Lab - Creating a Linux Virtual Machine Preview 04:16

This chapter looks into creating a Linux machine

UPDATED - Lab - Deploying a web server on the Linux machine Preview 02:33

This chapter looks into deploying a web server on the Linux machine

NEW - Creating a virtual machine - Why choose a region Preview 03:56

This chapter looks into aspects such as why to choose a region when creating a resource on Azure

NEW - Creating a virtual machine - Deciding the region Preview 02:42

This chapter looks into deciding a region when creating a machine

UPDATED - Note on creating virtual machines Preview 06:19

This chapter looks into knowing limitations when creating the virtual machines

NEW - Review - Subscription, Resource and Resource group Preview 03:00

This chapter looks into a review on subscriptions, resource and resource groups

NEW - Keeping a check on the remaining credit Preview 00:57

This chapter looks into seeing how much is left as part of your Azure subscription

UPDATED - Azure Marketplace for Virtual Machines Preview 06:29

This chapter looks at the Azure Marketplace

Availability Sets Preview 09:08

This chapter looks into Availability sets

UPDATED - Lab - Availability Sets Preview 10:33

This chapter looks into deploying Availability sets

Availability Zones Preview 04:54

This chapter looks into Availability Zones

UPDATED - Lab - Availability Zones for virtual machines Preview 06:55

This chapter looks into using Availability zones

Quick note on Availability Sets and Zones Preview 03:39

This chapter looks into a quick note on Availability sets and zones

NEW - Availability sets and Zones review Preview 03:52

This chapter looks into a quick review on Availability sets and zones

Azure Dedicated Host Preview 04:52

This chapter looks into Azure Dedicated Host

What is a Workload Preview 01:43

This chapter looks into workloads

Important Points Preview 02:21

Section Quiz

Azure Core Services - Networking 11 lectures

Azure Virtual Network Preview 05:54

This chapter looks at the basics of Networking

UPDATED - Lab - Creating an Azure virtual network Preview 06:53

This chapter looks into creating an Azure virtual network

NEW - Did you notice something Preview 02:42

UPDATED - Lab - Communication across virtual machines in a virtual network Preview 07:15

This chapter looks into communication across virtual machines in a virtual network

Network Security Groups Preview 03:16

This chapter looks at Network Security Groups

UPDATED - Lab - Network Security Groups Preview 08:24

This chapter looks at a lab on Network Security Groups

Application Security Groups Preview 03:44

This chapter looks into Application Security Groups

Network connectivity options Preview 06:32

This chapter looks into network connectivity options

Azure ExpressRoute Preview 01:59

This chapter looks into Azure ExpressRoute

Important Points Preview 02:07

Section Quiz

Azure Core Services - Azure Storage 41 lectures

Introduction to Azure Storage Preview 01:44

This chapter focuses on Azure Storage options

UPDATED - Lab - Creating a storage account Preview 04:37

This chapter looks into creating an Azure Storage account

UPDATED - Lab - Working with the BLOB service Preview 06:03

This chapter looks at working objects in BLOB storage

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Storage Accounts - BLOB service - Access tiers Preview 06:08

This chapter looks into access tiers for Azure Blob storage

UPDATED - Azure Storage Accounts - Data Redundancy Preview 05:57

This chapter looks into data redundancy for Azure Storage accounts

Azure File shares Preview 03:55

This chapter focuses on Azure File Storage

UPDATED - Lab - Working with Azure File shares Preview 06:13

This chapter looks into working with Azure File shares

UPDATED - Azure Queue Storage Preview 03:54

This chapter looks into Azure Queue Storage

UPDATED - Azure Table Storage Preview 05:34

This chapter looks at Azure Table storage

NEW - Azure Storage Accounts - Review on what we learnt Preview 05:02

This chapter looks into a review on Azure Storage Accounts

Region pairs Preview 01:48

This chapter looks into Region pairs

OPTIONAL - Lab - Installing Visual Studio 2019 - Community Edition Preview 03:18

This chapter is an optional chapter on installing Visual Studio. It can be used for the subsequent chapters

Optional - Quick look at development - Azure Blob Storage Preview 07:52

This chapter looks into working on Azure Blob storage from a .Net program

Azure SQL Databases Preview 02:56

This chapter looks at Azure SQL Databases

UPDATED - Lab - Azure SQL Database Preview 10:22

This chapter looks at a lab on Azure SQL databases

UPDATED - Lab - Azure SQL Database - Adding data Preview 04:03

This chapter looks into adding data into a table in a Azure SQL database

Lab - Azure SQL Database - Adding data - Resource Preview 00:26

SQL Databases - IaaS vs PaaS option Preview 04:10

This chapter looks into the SQL database options

UPDATED - Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Preview 04:40

This chapter looks into the Azure SQL Managed Instance option

Other SQL databases on Azure Preview 01:54

This chapter looks into other Azure database options

Lab - Azure Database for MySQL Preview 07:15

This chapter looks Azure Database for MySQL

Lab - Azure Database for PostgreSQL Preview 05:42

This chapter looks into Azure database for PostgreSQL

Commands for other databases Preview 00:20

NEW - Azure SQL Database - Review Preview 07:24

This chapter looks into a review of the Azure SQL database option

Enterprise Data Warehouse Architecture Preview 04:47

UPDATED - Lab - Enterprise Data Warehouse - Azure Data Lake Gen2 storage account Preview 04:12

This chapter looks Azure Data Lake Gen2 Storage accounts

UPDATED - Lab - Enterprise Data Warehouse - Creating an Azure Synapse workspace Preview 05:03

This chapter looks Azure Synapse

UPDATED - Lab - Enterprise Data Warehouse - Using pipelines to transfer data Preview 10:39

This chapter looks into transferring data via pipelines in Azure Synapse

UPDATED - Azure Cosmos DB Introduction Preview 04:25

This chapter looks into Azure Cosmos DB

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Cosmos DB - SQL API Preview 09:54

This chapter looks into a lab on Azure Cosmos DB

Lab - Azure Cosmos DB - SQL API - Resources Preview 00:08

Azure SQL Database vs CosmosDB Preview 02:30

This chapter looks into when to use Azure SQL database and Cosmos DB as options

Azure Databricks Preview 01:00

UPDATED - Lab - Azure Databricks Preview 09:30

This chapter looks into Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks - Resources Preview 00:13

NEW - Azure Databricks - Review Preview 00:42

This chapter looks into a review on Azure Databricks

A sample architecture - use case 1 Preview 03:57

A sample architecture - use case 2 Preview 04:17

Important Points - Part 1 Preview 02:43

Important Points - Part 2 Preview 00:50

Section Quiz

Understand cloud concepts 11 lectures

Benefits of the cloud - High Availability Preview 02:57

This chapter looks at Benefits of cloud - High Availability

Benefits of the cloud - Scalability Preview 01:19

This chapter looks at Benefits of cloud - Scalability

Benefits of the cloud - Disaster recovery Preview 04:43

This chapter looks at Benefits of cloud - Disaster recovery

Benefits of the cloud - Elasticity Preview 02:38

This chapter looks at Benefits of cloud - Elasticity

Benefits of the cloud - Fault tolerance Preview 02:22

This chapter looks at Benefits of cloud - Fault tolerance

Cloud service model Preview 03:16

This chapter looks into Cloud Model types

Cloud model types Preview 02:53

This chapter looks into Cloud Model types

Economies of scale Preview 05:55

This chapter looks into Economies of scale

Shared Responsibility Model Preview 04:08

This chapter looks into the Shared Responsibility Model