Your path

Step 1
What the cloud is and what you pay for~2 h
Step 2 · by the author’s design, after “What the cloud is and what you pay for”inside a rung the order is up to you
IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless and the responsibility boundary~2 h
Why move to the cloud: six benefits and the cost of each~2 h
Azure geography: regions, region pairs, availability zones~1.5 h
Management hierarchy: resource, resource group, subscription, management group~2 h
Step 3 · ~2 h
Virtual machines: sizes, availability sets, scale sets, AVDby the author’s design, after any one of these: “IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless and the responsibility boundary”, “Azure geography: regions, region pairs, availability zones”
Storage: services, access tiers, redundancyby the author’s design, after any one of these: “Azure geography: regions, region pairs, availability zones”, “Management hierarchy: resource, resource group, subscription, management group”
Identity: Entra ID, MFA, SSO, Conditional Accessby the author’s design, after any one of these: “IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless and the responsibility boundary”, “Management hierarchy: resource, resource group, subscription, management group”
Not on the exam: databases — SQL Database, Managed Instance, Cosmos DBoptional · by the author’s design, after “IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless and the responsibility boundary”
Step 4
Where an application should live: App Service, containers, Functions~2 h · by the author’s design, after any one of these: “IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless and the responsibility boundary”, “Virtual machines: sizes, availability sets, scale sets, AVD”
Networking: VNet, subnets, peering, VPN and ExpressRoute, DNS, endpoints~2.5 h · by the author’s design, after any one of these: “Azure geography: regions, region pairs, availability zones”, “Virtual machines: sizes, availability sets, scale sets, AVD”
Moving data: AzCopy, Storage Explorer, File Sync, Migrate, Data Box~1.5 h · by the author’s design, after “Storage: services, access tiers, redundancy”
Access and protection: RBAC, Zero Trust, defense in depth, Defender for Cloud~2 h · by the author’s design, after “Identity: Entra ID, MFA, SSO, Conditional Access”
Cost: what affects it, the calculator, Cost Management, tags~2 h · by the author’s design, after any one of these: “Management hierarchy: resource, resource group, subscription, management group”, “Virtual machines: sizes, availability sets, scale sets, AVD”
Step 5
How to pay less: reservations, savings plans, Hybrid Benefit, Spot~2 h · by the author’s design, after “Cost: what affects it, the calculator, Cost Management, tags”
Compliance and control: Azure Policy, resource locks, Purview~2 h · by the author’s design, after any one of these: “Management hierarchy: resource, resource group, subscription, management group”, “Access and protection: RBAC, Zero Trust, defense in depth, Defender for Cloud”
Monitoring: Advisor, Service Health, Monitor and Application Insights~2 h · by the author’s design, after any one of these: “Access and protection: RBAC, Zero Trust, defense in depth, Defender for Cloud”, “Cost: what affects it, the calculator, Cost Management, tags”
Not on the exam: traffic balancing — Load Balancer, App Gateway, Front Door, CDN~1.5 h · optional · by the author’s design, after “Networking: VNet, subnets, peering, VPN and ExpressRoute, DNS, endpoints”
Not on the exam: secrets and the perimeter — Key Vault, DDoS Protection, WAF~1.5 h · optional · by the author’s design, after any one of these: “Identity: Entra ID, MFA, SSO, Conditional Access”, “Access and protection: RBAC, Zero Trust, defense in depth, Defender for Cloud”
Step 6 · ~2 h
Management tools: portal, CLI, Cloud Shell, Arc, IaC and ARMby the author’s design, after any one of these: “Management hierarchy: resource, resource group, subscription, management group”, “Compliance and control: Azure Policy, resource locks, Purview”
Untangling confusions: what to tell apart on the examby the author’s design, after 2 of these: “Why move to the cloud: six benefits and the cost of each”, “Access and protection: RBAC, Zero Trust, defense in depth, Defender for Cloud”, “Monitoring: Advisor, Service Health, Monitor and Application Insights”
Step 7
The exam: format, tactics, discounts, proctoring~1.5 h · by the author’s design, after “Untangling confusions: what to tell apart on the exam”
Examfinal · in the browser, without the assistantclosed · enrol on the course

0 of 22 units done · ~37 h without the optional units, ~42 h with them

Virtual machines: sizes, availability sets, scale sets, AVD

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