Learning Objectives

• Manage Azure subscriptions and resources
• Implement and manage Azure storage
• Deploy and manage Azure virtual machines
• Configure and manage Azure virtual networks
• Manage Azure identities

Intended Audience

• IT professionals who want to become Azure administrators
• IT professionals preparing for Microsoft’s AZ-103 exam

Prerequisites

• General knowledge of IT architecture

Deploy and configure infrastructure

Analyze resource utilization and consumption

• configure diagnostic settings on resources
• create baseline for resources
• create and test alerts
• analyze alerts across subscription
• analyze metrics across subscription
• create action groups
• monitor for unused resources
• monitor spend
• report on spend
• utilize Log Search query functions
• view alerts in Azure Monitor logs
• visualize diagnostics data using Azure Monitor Workbooks

Create and configure storage accounts

• configure network access to the storage account
• create and configure storage account
• generate shared access signature
• implement Azure AD authentication for storage
• install and use Azure Storage Explorer
• manage access keys
• monitor activity log by using Azure Monitor logs
• implement Azure storage replication

 implement Azure storage account failover

Create and configure a VM for Windows and Linux

• configure high availability
• configure monitoring
• configure networking
• configure storage
• configure virtual machine size
• implement dedicated hosts
• deploy and configure scale sets

Automate deployment of VMs

• modify Azure Resource Manager template
• configure location of new VMs
• configure VHD template
• deploy from template
• save a deployment as an Azure Resource Manager template
• deploy Windows and Linux VMs

Create connectivity between virtual networks

• create and configure Vnet peering
• create and configure Vnet to Vnet connections
• verify virtual network connectivity                                                               
• create virtual network gateway

Implement and manage virtual networking

• configure private IP addressing
• configure public IP addresses
• create and configure network routes
• create and configure network interface
• create and configure subnets
• create and configure virtual network
• create and configure Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups

Manage Azure Active Directory

• add custom domains
• configure Azure AD Identity Protection
• configure Azure AD Join
• configure self-service password reset
• implement conditional access policies
• manage multiple directories
• perform an access review

Implement and manage hybrid identities

• install and configure Azure AD Connect
• configure federation
• configure single sign-on
• manage and troubleshoot Azure AD Connect
• troubleshoot password sync and writeback

Implement solutions that use virtual machines (VM)

• provision VMs
• create Azure Resource Manager templates
• configure Azure Disk Encryption for VMs
• implement Azure Backup for VMs

Implement workloads and security

Migrate servers to Azure

• migrate servers using Azure Migrate

Configure serverless computing

• create and manage objects
• manage a Logic App resource
• manage Azure Function app settings
• manage Event Grid
• manage Service Bus

Implement application load balancing

• configure application gateway
• configure Azure Front Door service
• configure Azure Traffic Manager

Integrate on premises network with Azure virtual network

• create and configure Azure VPN Gateway
• create and configure site to site VPN
• configure ExpressRoute
• configure Virtual WAN
• verify on premises connectivity
• troubleshoot on premises connectivity with Azure

Implement multi factor authentication

• configure user accounts for MFA
• configure fraud alerts
• configure bypass options
• configure trusted IPs
• configure verification methods

Manage role-based access control

• create a custom role
• configure access to Azure resources by assigning roles
• configure management access to Azure
• troubleshoot RBAC
• implement Azure Policies
• assign RBAC Roles

Create and deploy apps

Create web apps by using PaaS

• create an Azure app service Web App
• create documentation for the API
• create an App Service Web App for Containers
• create an App Service background task by using WebJobs
• enable diagnostics logging

Design and develop apps that run in containers

• configure diagnostic settings on resources
• create a container image by using a Dockerfile
• create an Azure Kubernetes Service
• publish an image to the Azure Container Registry
• implement an application that runs on an Azure Container Instance

 manage container settings by using code

Implement authentication and secure data

Implement authentication

• implement authentication by using certificates, forms-based authentication, tokens, or

Windows-integrated authentication

• implement multi-factor authentication by using Azure AD
• implement OAuth2 authentication
• implement Managed Identities for Azure resources Service Principal authentication

Implement secure data solutions

• encrypt and decrypt data at rest and in transit
• encrypt data with Always Encrypted
• implement Azure Confidential Compute
• implement SSL/TLS communications
• create, read, update, and delete keys, secrets, and certificates by using the KeyVault API

Develop for the cloud and for Azure storage

Configure a message-based integration architecture

• configure an app or service to send emails
• configure Event Grid
• configure the Azure Relay service
• create and configure a Notification Hub
• create and configure an Event Hub
• create and configure a Service Bus
• configure queries across multiple products

Develop for autoscaling

• implement autoscaling rules and patterns (schedule, operational/system metrics)
• implement code that addresses singleton application instances
• implement code that addresses transient state

Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage

• create, read, update, and delete data by using appropriate APIs
• implement partitioning schemes
• set the appropriate consistency level for operations

Develop solutions that use a relational database

• provision and configure relational databases
• configure elastic pools for Azure SQL Database
• implement Azure SQL Database managed instances
• create, read, update, and delete data tables by using code

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