MCA Azure Administrator w/ MCE Azure DevOps COMBO Training & Certification Boot Camp – 12 Days

Describe core Azure services

In this module, you learn about core Azure services like Azure database, Azure compute, Azure storage, and Azure Networking.

Lessons

• Explore Azure database and analytics services
• Explore Azure compute services
• Explore Azure Storage services
• Explore Azure networking services

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Understand the breadth of services available in Azure including compute, network, storage, and datab
• Identify virtualization services such as Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Container Instances, Azure Ku
• Compare Azure’s database services such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure Database for MySQL, Azur
• Examine Azure networking resources such as Virtual Networks, VPN Gateways, and Azure ExpressRoute
• Summarize Azure storage services such Azure Blob Storage, Azure Disk Storage, and Azure File Storage

Describe core solutions and management tools on Azure

In this module, you’ll learn about AI machine learning, Azure DevOps, monitoring fundamentals, management fundamentals, serverless computing fundamentals. and IoT fundamentals.

Lessons

• Choose the best AI service for your needs
• Choose the best tools to help organizations build better solutions
• Choose the best monitoring service for visibility, insight, and outage mitigation
• Choose the best tools for managing and configuring your Azure environment
• Choose the best Azure serverless technology for your business scenario
• Choose the best Azure IoT service for your application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Choose the correct Azure Artificial Intelligence service to address different kinds of business chal
• Choose the best software development process tools and services for a given business scenario.
• Choose the correct cloud monitoring service to address different kinds of business challenges.
• Choose the correct Azure management tool to address different kinds of technical needs and challenge
• Choose the right serverless computing technology for your business scenario.
• Choose the best Azure IoT service for a given business scenario.

Describe general security and network security features

In this module, you will learn how to protect yourself against security threats, and secure your networks with Azure.

Lessons

• Protect against security threats on Azure
• Secure network connectivity on Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Strengthen your security posture and protect against threats by using Azure Security Center.
• Collect and act on security data from many different sources by using Azure Sentinel.
• Manage dedicated physical servers to host your Azure VMs for Windows and Linux by using Azure Dedica
• Identify the layers that make up a defense in depth strategy.
• Explain how Azure Firewall enables you to control what traffic is allowed on the network.
• Configure network security groups to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources within a Mic
• Explain how Azure DDoS Protection helps protect your Azure resources from DDoS attacks.

Describe identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features

In this module, you will learn about Azure identity services, how to build a cloud governance strategy, and privacy, compliance and data protection standards on Azure.

Lessons

• Secure access to your applications by using Azure identity services
• Build a cloud governance strategy on Azure
• Examine privacy, compliance, and data protection standards on Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the difference between authentication and authorization.
• Describe how Azure Active Directory provides identity and access management.
• Explain the role single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication, and Conditional Access play.
• Make organizational decisions about your cloud environment by using the CAF for Azure.
• Define who can access cloud resources by using Azure role-based access control.
• Apply a resource lock to prevent accidental deletion of your Azure resources.
• Apply tags to your Azure resources to help describe their purpose.
• Control and audit how your resources are created by using Azure Policy.
• Enable governance at scale across multiple Azure subscriptions by using Azure Blueprints.
• Explain the types of compliance offerings that are available on Azure.
• Gain insight into regulatory standards and compliance on Azure.
• Explain Azure capabilities that are specific to government agencies.

Describe Azure cost management and service level agreements

Identity

In this module, you will learn how to secure identities with Azure Active Directory, and implement users and groups.

Lessons

• Azure Active Directory
• Users and Groups

Lab : Manage Azure Active Directory Identities

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Secure and manage identities with Azure Active Directory.
• Implement and manage users and groups.

Governance and Compliance

In this module, you will learn about managing your subscriptions and accounts, implementing Azure policies, and using Role-Based Access Control.

Lessons

• Subscriptions and Accounts
• Azure Policy
• Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

Lab : Manage Subscriptions and RBAC

Lab : Manage Governance via Azure Policy

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement and manage Azure subscriptions and accounts.
• Implement Azure Policy, including custom policies.
• Use RBAC to assign permissions.

Azure Administration

In this module, you will learn about the tools an Azure Administrator uses to manage their infrastructure. This includes the Azure Portal, Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and Resource Manager Templates. This module includes:

Lessons

• Azure Resource Manager
• Azure Portal and Cloud Shell
• Azure PowerShell and CLI
• ARM Templates

Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using the Azure Portal

Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using ARM Templates

Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using Azure PowerShell (optional)

Lab : Manage Azure resources by Using Azure CLI (optional)

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Leverage Azure Resource Manager to organize resources.
• Use the Azure Portal and Cloud Shell.
• Use Azure PowerShell and CLI.
• Use ARM Templates to deploy resources.

Virtual Networking

In this module, you will learn about basic virtual networking concepts like virtual networks and subnetting, IP addressing, network security groups, Azure Firewall, and Azure DNS.

Lessons

• Virtual Networks
• IP Addressing
• Network Security groups
• Azure Firewall
• Azure DNS

Lab : Implement Virtual Networking

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement virtual networks and subnets.
• Configure public and private IP addressing.
• Configure network security groups.
• Configure Azure Firewall.
• Configure private and public DNS zones.

Intersite Connectivity

In this module, you will learn about intersite connectivity features including VNet Peering, Virtual Network Gateways, and Site-to-Site Connections.

Lessons

• VNet Peering
• VPN Gateway Connections
• ExpressRoute and Virtual WAN

Lab : Implement Intersite Connectivity

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure VNet Peering.
• Configure VPN gateways.
• Choose the appropriate intersite connectivity solution.

Network Traffic Management

In this module, you will learn about network traffic strategies including network routing and service endpoints, Azure Load Balancer, and Azure Application Gateway.

Lessons

• Network Routing and Endpoints
• Azure Load Balancer
• Azure Application Gateway

Lab : Implement Traffic Management

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure network routing including custom routes and service endpoints.
• Configure an Azure Load Balancer.
• Configure and Azure Application Gateway.

Azure Storage

In this module, you will learn about basic storage features including storage accounts, blob storage, Azure files and File Sync, storage security, and storage tools.

Lessons

• Storage Accounts
• Blob Storage
• Storage Security
• Azure Files and File Sync
• Managing Storage

Lab : Manage Azure storage

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create Azure storage accounts.
• Configure blob containers.
• Secure Azure storage.
• Configure Azure files shares and file sync.
• Manage storage with tools such as Storage Explorer

Azure Virtual Machines

In this module, you will learn about Azure virtual machines including planning, creating, availability and extensions.

Lessons

• Virtual Machine Planning
• Creating Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Availability
• Virtual Machine Extensions

Lab : Manage virtual machines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan for virtual machine implementations.
• Create virtual machines.
• Configure virtual machine availability, including scale sets.
• Use virtual machine extensions.

Serverless Computing

In this module, you will learn how to administer serverless computing features like Azure App Service, Azure Container Instances, and Kubernetes.

Lessons

• Azure App Service Plans
• Azure App Service
• Container Services
• Azure Kubernetes Service

Lab : Implement Web Apps

Lab : Implement Azure Container Instances

Lab : Implement Azure Kubernetes Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create an app service plan.
• Create a web app.
• Implement Azure Container Instances.
• Implement Azure Kubernetes Service.

Data Protection

In this module, you will learn about backing up files and folders, and virtual machine backups.

Lessons

• File and Folder Backups
• Virtual Machine Backups

Lab : Implement Data Protection

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Backup and restore file and folders.
• Backup and restore virtual machines.

Monitoring

Planning for DevOps

Lessons

• Transformation Planning
• Project Selection
• Team Structures
• Migrating to Azure DevOps

Lab : Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and KPIs
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Design a tool integration strategy
• Design a license management strategy (e.g. VSTS users)
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Design an authentication and access strategy
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources

Getting started with Source Control

Lessons

• What is Source Control
• Benefits of Source Control
• Types of Source Control Systems
• Introduction to Azure Repos
• Introduction to GitHub
• Migrating from Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to Git in Azure Repos
• Authenticating to Git in Azure Repos

Lab : Version Controlling with Git

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the benefits of using Source Control
• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git

Scaling Git for enterprise DevOps

Lessons

• How to Structure your Git Repo
• Git Branching Workflows
• Collaborating with Pull Requests in Azure Repos
• Why care about GitHooks
• Fostering Inner Source

Lab : Code Review with Pull Requests

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain how to structure Git repos
• Describe Git branching workflows
• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
• Leverage Git hooks for automation
• Use git to foster inner source across the organization

Consolidating Artifacts & Designing a Dependency Management Strategy

Lessons

• Packaging Dependencies
• Package Management
• Migrating and Consolidating Artifacts

Lab : Updating Packages

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Recommend artifact management tools and practices
• Abstract common packages to enable sharing and reuse
• Migrate and consolidate artifacts
• Migrate and integrate source control measures

Implementing Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Lessons

• The concept of pipelines in DevOps
• Azure Pipelines
• Evaluate use of Hosted vs Private Agents
• Agent Pools
• Pipelines and Concurrency
• Azure DevOps and Open Source Projects (Public Projects)
• Azure Pipelines YAML vs Visual Designer
• Continuous Integration Overview
• Implementing a Build Strategy
• Integration with Azure Pipelines
• Integrate External Source Control with Azure Pipelines
• Set Up Private Agents
• Analyze and Integrate Docker Multi-Stage Builds

Lab : Enabling Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines

Lab : Integrating External Source Control with Azure Pipelines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement and manage build infrastructure
• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure DevOps

Managing Application Config and Secrets

Lessons

• Introduction to Security
• Implement secure and compliant development process
• Rethinking application config data
• Manage secrets, tokens, and certificates
• Implement tools for managing security and compliance in a pipeline

Lab : Integrating Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage application config and secrets
• Implement tools for managing security and compliance in pipeline

Managing Code Quality and Security Policies

Lessons

• Managing Code Quality
• Managing Security Policies

Lab : Managing Technical Debt with Azure DevOps and SonarCloud

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Manage code quality including: technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
• Manage security policies with open source and OWASP

Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Lessons

• Implementing a Container Build Strategy

Lab : Modernizing Existing ASP.NET Apps with Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Implement a container strategy including how containers are different from virtual machines and how microservices use containers
• Implement containers using Docker

Manage Artifact versioning, security & compliance

Lessons

• Package security
• Open source software
• Integrating license and vulnerability scans
• Implement a versioning strategy

Lab : Manage Open Source Security and License with WhiteSource

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Inspect open source software packages for security and license compliance to align with corporate standards
• Configure build pipeline to access package security and license rating
• Configure secure access to package feeds
• Inspect codebase to identify code dependencies that can be converted to packages
• Identify and recommend standardized package types and versions across the solution
• Refactor existing build pipelines to implement version strategy that publishes packages
• Manage security and compliance

Design a Release Strategy

Lessons

• Introduction to Continuous Delivery
• Release strategy recommendations
• Building a High-Quality Release pipeline
• Choosing a deployment pattern
• Choosing the right release management tool

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Differentiate between a release and a deployment
• Define the components of a release pipeline
• Explain things to consider when designing your release strategy
• Classify a release versus a release process and outline how to control the quality of both
• Describe the principle of release gates and how to deal with release notes and documentation
• Explain deployment patterns, both in the traditional sense and in the modern sense
• Choose a release management tool

Set up a Release Management Workflow

Lessons

• Create a Release Pipeline
• Provision and Configure Environments
• Manage and Modularize Tasks and Templates
• Integrate Secrets with the release pipeline
• Configure Automated Integration and Functional Test Automation
• Automate Inspection of Health

Lab : Configuring Pipelines as Code with YAML

Lab : Setting up secrets in the pipeline with Azure Key vault

Lab : Setting up and Running Functional Tests

Lab : Using Azure Monitor as release gate

Lab : Creating a release Dashboard

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Explain the terminology used in Azure DevOps and other Release Management Tooling
• Describe what a Build and Release task is, what it can do, and some available deployment tasks
• Classify an Agent, Agent Queue, and Agent Pool
• Explain why you sometimes need multiple release jobs in one release pipeline
• Differentiate between multi-agent and multi-configuration release job
• Use release variables and stage variables in your release pipeline
• Deploy to an environment securely using a service connection
• Embed testing in the pipeline
• List the different ways to inspect the health of your pipeline and release by using alerts, service hooks, and reports
• Create a release gate

Implement an appropriate deployment pattern

Lessons

• Introduction to Deployment Patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Feature Toggles
• Canary Releases
• Dark Launching
• AB Testing
• Progressive Exposure Deployment

Lab : Feature Flag Management with LaunchDarkly and Azure DevOps

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe deployment patterns
• Implement Blue Green Deployment
• Implement Canary Release
• Implement Progressive Exposure Deployment

Implement process for routing system feedback to development teams

Lessons

• Implement Tools to Track System Usage, Feature Usage, and Flow
• Implement Routing for Mobile Application Crash Report Data
• Develop Monitoring and Status Dashboards
• Integrate and Configure Ticketing Systems

Lab : Monitoring Application Performance

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure crash report integration for client applications
• Develop monitoring and status dashboards
• Implement routing for client application crash report data
• Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow
• Integrate and configure ticketing systems with development team’s work management

Infrastructure and Configuration Azure Tools

Lessons

• Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management
• Create Azure Resources using ARM Templates
• Create Azure Resources using Azure CLI
• Create Azure Resources by using Azure PowerShell
• Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Azure Automation with DevOps
• Additional Automation Tools

Lab : Azure Deployments using Resource Manager Templates

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Apply infrastructure and configuration as code principles
• Deploy and manage infrastructure using Microsoft automation technologies such as ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI

Azure Deployment Models and Services

Lessons

• Deployment Modules and Options
• Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Services
• Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services
• Serverless and HPC Computer Services
• Azure Service Fabric

Lab : Deploying a Dockerized Java app to Azure Web App for Containers

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe deployment models and services that are available with Azure

Create and Manage Kubernetes Service Infrastructure

Lessons

• Azure Kubernetes Service

Lab : Deploying a multi-container application to Azure Kubernetes Service

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure a Managed Kubernetes cluster

Third Party Infrastructure as Code Tools available with Azure

Lessons

• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Terraform

Lab : Infrastructure as Code

Lab : Automating Your Infrastructure Deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Deploy and configure infrastructure using 3rd party tools and services with Azure, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform

Implement Compliance and Security in your Infrastructure

Lessons

• Security and Compliance Principles with DevOps
• Azure security Center

Lab : Implement Security and Compliance in an Azure DevOps Pipeline

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure

Recommend and design system feedback mechanisms

Lessons

• The inner loop
• Continuous Experimentation mindset
• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback
• Design process to automate application analytics

Lab : Integration between Azure DevOps and Teams

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Design practices to measure end-user satisfaction
• Design processes to capture and analyze user feedback from external sources
• Design routing for client application crash report data
• Recommend monitoring tools and technologies
• Recommend system and feature usage tracking tools

Optimize feedback mechanisms