Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions Training Course

About This Course

In this course, students will learn how to design and develop services that access local and remote data from various sources. Students will also learn how to develop and deploy services to hybrid environments, including on-premises servers and Microsoft Azure.

Audience Profile

Primary: .NET developers who want to learn how to develop services and deploy them to hybrid environments.
Secondary: .NET developers with Web application development experience who are exploring developing new applications or porting existing applications to Microsoft Azure.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the basic concepts of service development and data access strategies using the .NET platform.
• Describe the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and its compute, data, and application hosting offerings.
• Design and develop a data-centric application using Visual Studio 2017 and Entity Framework Core.
• Design, implement, and consume HTTP services using ASP.NET Core.
• Extend HTTP services using ASP.NET Core.
• Host services on-premises and in Microsoft Azure.
• Deploy services to both on-premises and cloud environments and manage the interface and policy for their services.
• Choose a data storage solution, cache, distribute, and synchronize data.
• Monitor, log, and troubleshoot services.
• Describe claim-based identity concepts and standards, and implement authentication and authorization with Azure Active Directory.
• Create scalable service applications.

Gain the necessary knowledge for designing Azure AI solution by building a customer support chat Bot using artificial intelligence from the Microsoft Azure platform including language understanding and pre-built AI functionality in the Azure Cognitive Services.

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level professionals who wish to build and deploy AI-powered cloud applications using Microsoft Azure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Develop event-driven and serverless applications using Azure Functions.
• Manage Azure storage solutions and virtual machines.
• Deploy and scale web applications using Azure App Service and Docker containers.
• Integrate AI, machine learning, and natural language processing using Azure AI Services.
• Leverage GitHub Copilot to assist in AI-driven cloud application development.

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Azure ML's drag-and-drop platform to deploy Machine Learning workloads without having to purchase software and hardware and without having to worry about maintenance and deployment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Write highly-accurate machine learning models using Python, R, or zero-code tools.
• Leverage Azure's available data sets and algorithms to train and track machine learning and deep-learning models.
• Use Azures interactive workspace to collaboratively develop ML models.
• Choose from different Azure-supported ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.

About This Course

This two-day course is designed for AWS Sysops administrators interested in learning how Azure is different from AWS, and how Azure is administered. The workshops main topics are Azure Administration, Azure Networking, Azure Compute, Azure Storage, and Azure Governance. This workshop combines lecture with hands-on practical exercises and discussion/review. During the workshop students will build an end-to-end architecture that demonstrates the main features discussed in the course.

Audience Profile

The audience for this course is an AWS Sysops Administrator Associate or equivalent. This person has one to two years of experience in AWS deployment, management, and operations. Students taking this course are interested in learning how Azure is different from AWS, and how Azure is administered. Students may also be interested in taking the AZ-103 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam, or the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals exam.

About This Course

A three-day course designed to teach AWS (Amazon Web Services) developers how to prepare end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. In this course you will construct Azure App Service Web App solutions and Azure Functions, use blob or Cosmos DB storage in solutions, implement secure cloud solutions that include user authentication and authorization, implement API management, and develop event- and message-based solutions, and monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your Azure solutions. You will learn how developers use Azure services, with additional focus on features and tasks that differ from AWS, and what that means for you as you develop applications that will be hosted by using Azure services.

Audience Profile

Students in this course are experienced AWS developers interested in Azure development.

This course teaches Solutions Architects how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Lessons include virtualization, automation, networking, storage, identity, security, data platform, and application infrastructure. This course outlines how decisions in each of these areas affect an overall solution.

Audience profile

This course is for IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on Microsoft Azure. They should have broad knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. Azure Solution Architects use the Azure Portal and as they become more adept they use the Command Line Interface. Candidates must have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have experience with Azure development processes and DevOps processes.

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level IT professionals who wish to learn about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand basic cloud concepts.
• Identify core Azure services.
• Describe core solutions and management tools in Azure.
• Understand general security and network security features.
• Understand identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features.
• Understand Azure cost management and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at DevOps engineers, developers, and project managers who wish to utilize Azure DevOps to build and deploy optimized enterprise applications faster than traditional development approaches.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental DevOps vocabulary and principles.
• Install and configure the necessary Azure DevOps tools for software development.
• Utilize Azure DevOps tools and services to continuously adapt to the market.
• Build enterprise applications and evaluate current development processes upon Azure DevOps solutions.
• Manage teams more efficiently and accelerate software deployment time.
• Adopt DevOps development practices within the organization.

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists who wish to use Azure Machine Learning to build end-to-end machine learning models for predictive analysis.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Build machine learning models with zero programming experience.
• Create predictive algorithms with Azure Machine Learning.
• Deploy production ready machine learning algorithms.

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at security administrators who wish to secure Azure workloads.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Administrate host security, network security, and more.
• Set up storage and database security in Azure.
• Implement security monitoring using Azure resources.
• Prevent malicious cyber attacks on data and infrastructures.

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at security administrators who wish to learn how to configure Azure cloud security to secure workloads running in Azure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure host and network security.
• Configure Azure advanced security options.
• Use Azure to secure cloud computing workloads.
• Use endpoint protection services security against malware and viruses.
• Secure container workloads that are running in Azure.

This instructor-led, live training in Moldova (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to learn how to build microservices on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (ASF).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use ASF as a platform for building and managing microservices.
• Understand key microservices programming concepts and models.
• Create a cluster in Azure.
• Deploy microservices on premises or in the cloud.
• Debug and troubleshoot a live microservice application.

The Azure Bot Service combines the power of the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure functions to enable rapid development of intelligent bots.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to easily create an intelligent bot using Microsoft Azure

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn the fundamentals of intelligent bots
• Learn how to create intelligent bots using cloud applications
• Understand how to use the Microsoft Bot Framework, the Bot Builder SDK, and the Azure Bot Service
• Understand how to design bots using bot patterns
• Develop their first intelligent bot using Microsoft Azure

Audience

• Developers
• Hobbyists
• Engineers
• IT Professionals

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice