• What is Cloud Computing
• Cloud Characteristics
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Deployment Models in Cloud Computing
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

• Introduction to Azure
• Azure Hosting Models
• Azure Services
• Subscribing to Microsoft Azure
• Azure Portals
• Azure Resource Group
• Installing Microsoft Azure SDK

• Overview of Azure Networking
• Virtual Network Benefits
• Understanding Network Resources
• Create a VNet using Azure Portal
• Create a Subnet
• Setup Network Security Group
• Create a Public IP Address
• Create Network Interface Card with public, and private IP addresses
• Create a Virtual Machine
• Configure external and internal load balancing
• Implement Azure Application Gateway
• User Defined Routes (UDRs),
• Understanding and using Azure DNS at the virtual network level
• Design and implement a multi-site or hybrid network
o Point-to-Site Network
o Site-to-Site Network
o ExpressRoute Solution

• Introduction
• About Virtual Machine Workloads
• Comparing VM with Web Apps and Cloud Services
• Create a Windows Virtual Machine using Portal / PowerShell / ARM Templates
• Deploy popular application frameworks by using Azure Resource Manager templates
• Understand and Capture VM Images
• Upload an on-premise VHD to Storage Account
• Deploy a New VM from the Captured Image
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Virtual Machine Disk Types and VM Storage
• Virtual Machine Sizes in Azure
• Importing and Exporting Disks
• Configuring VM Security
• Perform configuration management
o VM Extensions & VM Agents
o Custom Script Extensions
o Desired State Configuration (DSC)
o Puppet or Chef
• Configure VM monitoring, configure alerts, diagnostic and monitoring storage location.
• Azure VM Backup and Restore Services

• Introduction
• App Service - Application Types
• Deploy Web Apps
o Deploying Web App directly from Visual Studio
o Automate deployment from Dropbox and One Drive
o Create, configure and deploy packages
o Implement pre- and post-deployment actions;
• App Service plans;
o Create App Service Plan
o Migrate Web Apps between App Service plans;

o Create a Web App within an App Service plan
• Configuring Web Apps
o Application Settings Configuration,
o Database Connection Strings,
o Configuring Handlers and Virtual Directories,
• Configure a custom domain name
• Enable SSL for your custom domain
• Understanding Deployment Slots and Roll back deployments;
• Configure Web Apps for scale and resilience
o Horizontal and Vertical Scaling of a Web App
o Configure auto-scale
o Change the size of an instance
• Azure Traffic Manager to Scale out Globally
• Monitoring, Debugging and Diagnosis
o Retrieve Diagnostics data
o View Streaming Logs
o Configure endpoint monitoring
o Configuring Alerts
o Configure diagnostics
o Use remote debugging
o Monitor Web App resources

• Introduction/Overview of SQL Database.
• Comparing SQL Azure Database to Azure / On-Premise SQL Server.
• Creating and Using SQL Server and SQL Database Services.
• Azure SQL Database Tools.
• Migrating on premise database to SQL Azure.
• Planning the Deployment of an Azure SQL Database
• Elastic Pools.
• Monitoring Azure SQL Database
• Configure SQL Database Auditing
• Manage Business Continuity
• Export and Import of Database
• Backup and Recovery options in SQL Database

• Active GEO-Replication
• Long Term Backup Retention

• Importance of Azure Storage Service
• Creating Storage Account
• Implement Azure storage blobs and Azure files
o Read data, change data, set metadata on a container, store data using block and page blobs, stream data using blobs, access blobs securely, implement async blob copy, configure a Content Delivery Network (CDN), design blob hierarchies, configure custom domains, scale blob storage
• Implement Azure files
• Manage access
o Create and manage shared access signatures, use stored access policies, regenerate keys. Configure and use Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
• Configure diagnostics, monitoring and analytics
o Set retention policies and logging levels, analyze logs

• Introduction
• Creating a Simple Logic App
• Handling array of Items using for-each and condition
• Understanding Triggers and Actions
• Using Custom API App in Logic App

• What is Cloud Service
• Cloud Service vs App Service
• Understand Cloud Service Roles
• Developing Cloud Service Application with Web Role
• Deploying Cloud Service Application
• Production and Staging Slots
• Using Azure Database in Cloud Service
• Adding Worker Role to the Solution.
• Delete deployments and a cloud service

• Configure application for SSL
• Configure Roles for Remote Desktop Login
• Running Multiple Websites
• Scaling a Cloud Service

• Installing the required modules
• Login to Azure Portal
• Managing Resource Group
• Managing App Service Plans and App Service Web Apps
• Create and Configure a Storage Account
• Managing Storage Accounts using PowerShell
• Understanding Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Exporting and Importing ARM templates.

• Implement ARM templates
▪ Author ARM templates; create ARM templates to deploy ARM Resource Providers resources; deploy templates with PowerShell, CLI, and REST API
• Control access

▪ Leverage service principles with ARM authentication, use Azure Active Directory Authentication with ARM, set management policies, lock resources
• Design role-based access control (RBAC)
▪ Secure resource scopes, such as the ability to create VMs and Azure Web Apps; implement Azure role-based access control (RBAC) standard roles; design Azure RBAC custom role