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Course Curriculum For MS Azure+Azure Devops

Module 1:
Introduction to Cloud Computing:
• Understanding different Cloud Models
• Advantages of Cloud Computing
• Different Cloud Services
• Different Cloud vendors in the market

Module 2:

Microsoft Azure Platform:

• Introduction to Azure
• Azure cloud computing features
• Azure Services
• Introduction of Azure Resources/Services with examples
• Azure management portal
• Advantage of Azure Cloud Computing
• Managing Azure resources with the Azure portal
• Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell
• Overview of Azure Resource Manager
• Azure management services.

• What is Azure Resource Groups

• Configuration and management of Azure Resource groups for hosting Azure services

Module 3:

Implementing Virtual Machines:

• Overview of Azure Resource Manager virtual machines
• Planning for Azure virtual machines
• Deploying Azure Resource Manager virtual machines
• Authoring Azure Resource Manager templates
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Module 4:

Managing Virtual Machines:

• Configuring Virtual Machines
• Configuring Virtual Machine Disks
• Managing and monitoring Azure Virtual Machines
• Addition of managed disks to an existing cloud server.
• Expansion of managed disk for cloud servers.

Module 5:

Create VM in Azure:
• Creation of VM’s with different windows flavours
• Configure VMs for high availability and scalability
• Configure high availabilities (AS, AZ, FD & UD details explanations with business case
scenarios)
• deploy and configure Scale Sets/Autoscaling/Horizontal scaling/VMSS
• Provisioning and deploying of the VM’s using ARM templates for automations.
• Configuring Azure Disk encryption.
• Horizontal and Vertical scaling of Azure VM’s
• Redeploy and reapply the VM’s with troubleshooting.
• Virtual machine scale set (VMSS).
• Implementation of Azure Key Vaults for storing secrets, certificates…etc for Azure
work loads with different permission @ users and group level.
• Hosting .NET applications on IIS
• Deploying VM for Linux operating system with different Linux commands

Module 6:

Create Storage Accounts and Store the Files:

• What is storage account
• Different types of replications in storage accounts
• Different types of Blob(Page blob, Append blob & Block blob),
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• Cloud storage services (ex: container/blob storage service, file storage service, table
storage service, & queue storage service)
• Create blob container.
• Creation of file storage services and file share server for different O/S
• Implementation of different accesses for container storage services.
• Maintenance and management of Storage Key and connection string.
• Implementation configuration of different types of Blob storage services(Page Blob,
Append Blob & Block Blob) with use case scenarios
• Implementation and configuration of Azure File share server for windows VM using
Azure storage key with business requirements.

Module 7:

Implementing and Managing Azure

Networking:
• Overview of Azure networking
• Implementing and managing Azure virtual networks
• Configuring Azure virtual networks
• Configuring Azure virtual network connectivity
• Deep dive and Implementation of Azure Load Balancers(Layer 4 and Layer 7 Load
Balancers (i)Load Balancer & (ii) Traffic Manager Profile)
• Troubleshooting and debugging of Load Balancer(LB) for deep knowledge on Load
Balancing concepts.
• Implementation of inbound and outbound rules for Load balancer
• Validation of network traffic via Load Balancer.
• Different types of load balancers (Basic & Standard) with features and business case
scenarios
• Implementation and details explanation of Network Security Groups(NSG) with
different inbound and outbound security rules

Module 8:

Implementing Azure App Services (PAAS):

• Introduction to App Service
• Planning app deployment in App Service
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• Implementing and maintaining web apps

• Create the .NET/Java/PHP web apps
• Implementation of Logic Apps as PAAS for queue storage service offerings
• Implementation of Function Apps for serverless concepts

Module 9:

Planning and Implementing Azure SQL

Database:
• Planning and deploying Azure SQL Database
• Implementing and managing Azure SQL Database
• Managing Azure SQL Database security
• Planning and deployment of SQL DB’s in Azure cloud computing with real time
scenarios.
• Different DB’s Deployment options.
• Databases purchasing models.(Vcore & DTU’s)
• Visualization of cloud DB server, Database and validation of data from on-
prem(private cloud)
• Implementation of Firewall security rules on Azure DB servers to access and connect
from on-prem SSMS.
• Creation of Database in on-premises and synch with azure cloud

Module 10:

Implementing PaaS Cloud Services:

• Planning and deploying PaaS services in Azure Cloud computing
• Managing and maintaining of PAAS cloud services
• Configuring deployment app services slots.
• Monitoring of cloud services in Azure Monitor(VM’s, SA, Vnet…etc)
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Module 11:

Configuring Alert and Metrics for VM /App

Services using Azure Monitor
• Deep dive, implementation, and Configuration of Azure Monitor.
• Setting up Alert rules, Metrics, Actions and Action groups in Azure monitor for
different Azure resources deployed in cloud computing.
• Analysis of activity logs, Metrics, LAW, Action groups, Alert rules in Azure monitor for
various IAAS & PASS services deployed in Public Cloud.
• Managing and Configuring Alerts in Azure Could for different performance
counters(ex: VM Start, VM Stop, CPU Percentage, VM Redeploy, VM Reapply…etc)
• Deploying an Alerts for Cloud App Service
• Deploying Alerts for Azure work loads
• Implementing of Action groups in Azure monitor for Azure resources/services
• Implementing and configuring Log Analytics Workspace for trouble shooting and
logs.
• Monitoring Cloud Services using Azure monitor.

• Crafting different chats for various performance counters of Azure Resources.

• Tracing Activity log in Azure Monitor for all the Azure Resources @ Azure Monitor
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Module 12:

Implementing Azure Active Directory:

• Deep dive of Azure Active Directory
• Different license offering of Azure Active Directory.
• On boarding members, Groups and users in Azure AD groups.
• Implementing & Assigning RBAC roles(IAM) at Resource, Resource group and @
subscription level.
• Validations for different on boarded users for Identity access management(IAM) for
different roles(Ex: Reader, Administrator, Owner, Contibutor…etc)
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Module 13:

Manage Azure subscriptions:

• Assign different roles and permissions to users @ subscriptions and RG level
• Deep dive of Azure subscriptions at Resource Manager level
• Detail walkthrough of Azure Resource Manager

Module 14:

Manage Resource Groups:

• Migration of Resources from one resource group to an another
• Configure resource locks
• Configure security standards for RG
• Identify auditing requirements.
• Implement and set tagging on resource groups and other Azure Resources
• Removing/Deleting resource groups for cost savings

Module 15:

Powershell:
• What is windows PowerShell.
• Provisioning of Azure Resources using PowerShell Scripting
• Advantages of PowerShell.
• Automations using azure PowerShell Scripts.
• Implementation & Configuration of Azure automation account for Software’s
packages installations in Azure VM’s
• Facilitating different tasks using Azure PowerShell scripts.

Module 16:
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Managed role-based access control (RBAC):

• Configure access to Azure resources by assigning roles.
• Verification of RBAC for different users after onboarding in Azure Active Directory
• Configure management access to Azure, troubleshoot RBAC, Assigning RBAC Roles
and different level of access as per the Business Requirement.

Module 17:

Traffic Manager:
• Introduction to Traffic manager
• Routing methods (Priority, Weighted,Performance,Geographic)
• How to configure different routing methods
• What is end point
• How to add the endpoints to traffic manager profile as App services..

https://dev.azure.com/(Azure Devops Services & tools)

Module 01:

• Getting Start with Microsoft Azure Devops

• What is Azure Devops platform
• Advantages of Azure Devops, who should learn Devops.??
• Why the IT Industry is adopting Devops, developing and executing the projects in
Devops??
• Software Development Life Cycle. Different roles and responsibilities in SDLC
• Overview & deep dive of Azure Devops portal
• Benefits and need of Devops.
• Relationship between Azure and Azure Devops(Different platforms for Cloud
resources and devops tools and services)
• Explanation of an Architecture, Organizations, and Projects creation in Azure Devops
portal
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• Azure Devops services, purpose, functionality of each Azure Devops services in

details
• Relationships between VSTS & Azure Devops
• Getting Access to Azure devops
• Creation of free trail account in Azure Devops Portal(https://dev.azure.com/ )

Module 02:
• Detail explanation, implementation and configuration of Azure Devops organizations
and its features
• Detail explanation, implementation and configuration of Azure Devops
projects(Public & Private projects) with all features and settings
• On boarding of users in Azure Devops organizations and projects and provide the
access to different users
• Azure Devops Projects configuration with different version control system(Git &
TFVC)
• Explanation and implementation of different work item process(Basic, Agile, CMMI &
Scrum) for Azure Devops Projects

Module 03:

Introduction Azure DevOps

• Azure Repos
➢ Different Types of Version Control in Repo’s (i.e., GIT v/s TFVC)
➢ What is GIT? How GIT Works? How TFVC works?
➢ Common features of GIT & TFVC
➢ Which we have to use (GIT & TFVC) for our development projects
➢ Creation of new projects with either GIT or TFVC Version Control
➢ Choosing the version controls (GIT/TFVC) while creating the new projects in
Azure Devops
➢ Setting up GIT in local systems or Local development servers (dev
environments)
➢ Installing different versions of GIT depending on our operating systems
(Windows, MAC O/S... Etc.)
➢ Cloning of Repos from Azure Repo to our local systems
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➢ Creation of branches for the existing projects enhancements and initiating of

pull request.
➢ Merging the code to master branches.

Module 04:

• Azure Pipelines
➢ Where can we store our project code to use pipeline?

➢ Where can we deploy (Servers, VM’s...? etc.) our project code, is pipeline free
to use?

➢ What is CI/CD?? What is the advantage of CI/CD? When CI/CD will be

triggered??

➢ Creation of new Build (CI) pipelines and building of projects automatically in

organizations.

➢ Setting and Getting Success/Error notifications via emails.

➢ Viewing Build logs to fix the errors, debugging & trouble shooting the logs of
the build and determining what exactly is the errors/exceptions behind that
Build of the code.
➢ Key Concepts of Azure Devops Pipelines.
➢ What are Agents. Approvals, Artifacts. Environments. Jobs. Run. Stage.
Trigger in Azure Devops pipelines
➢ Implementation of Build (CI) Pipeline using classic editor and without
creating a YAML file
➢ Instead of using YAML file how to create a pipeline using classic editor.

Module 05:

• Azure Test Plan

➢ Different types of testing’s that we can perform for Azure Devops projects work
items.
➢ Detail explanations of different types of test suites that we can design in Azure
Devops
➢ Implementation of Test suites, Test cases & Test plans in Azure Devops projects.
➢ Importing the Testcases from different work items as per the test plans
➢ Execution of Testcases for different Test suites and Test plans
➢ Writing the test cases for different worktimes and executing for Pass/Failed/Not
applicable.…etc.
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Module 06:

• Azure Boards
➢ Introduction & Implementation to Kanban Board (How it looks like, how can
we create a Kanban Board? How to open Kanban Boards…etc.)
➢ Implementation of work items in Azure Devops. How to update work item
status? What is task and how to add tasks to an issue all details explanation
with POC...etc.
➢ Introduction and implementation Backlogs
➢ Introduction & Implementation of new Sprints in Azure Devops
➢ Assigning work items to a particular sprint from the Backlogs
➢ Creation of a new projects with Agile Process
➢ Detail explanation and implementation of Backlogs in Agile projects or agile
workflow process
➢ Implementation of work items & sub work items in Backlogs.
➢ Creating and editing of sprints in Agile process

➢ Assigning of work items to sprints.

Module 07:

CI/CD Process Using VSTS and Azure

• Task Creation Based on the Application Repository
• Create the CI Process
• Build Setup
• Authenticate Build to Azure Web service
• Test Cases Build
• Build alerts Configuration
• IAAS Deployments
• PAAS Deployments
• Alerts Configuration Using Azure
• Build And deployments through Powershell

Module 08:
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Source Control Management (SCM)

• Version controlling mechanism using Azure Repos
• Branching & merging strategy
• Various branching & merging strategies and their scenarios
• Git commands
• Creation of .net projects in local repo and pushing in server repo using Git
commands.
• Merging, pushing, pulling of projects branches in Azure Repo’s
• Project enhancements with files and code changes with real time scenario’s @ server
repo and with git commands.
• Implementation of branching mechanism @ local and server repo’s with Git
commands.

Module 09:

Continuous Integration (CI)

• Continuous Integration using Azure Pipelines
• Pipeline creation
• Environments
• Tasks
• Best Practices
• Azure Docker image deployment
• Deployment and configuration of customized Azure Docker container instance and
Azure container registry with node js applications.
• Provisioning of Azure Container Instances and Container Registry for Docker
containers on Linux Operating systems for Node js applications.

Module 10:

Continuous Deployment (CD)

• Deployment Pipeline using Azure Pipelines
• Automation of Application Configuration (web.config, app.config etc)
• Automated workflows for Deployments
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• Integration with Artifact management

Module 11:

Working with Azure App Service

• Overview of App Service
• Deployment in App Service
• Deploy and maintaining web Apps
• Configuring app with deployment slots
• Configuring the app with DevOps.
• Hosting .Net web applications on App Serivces(PAAS) in Azure cloud computing.

Module 12:

Release Management
• Automation using Azure Release Pipeline
• Fundamentals of SCRUM boards in Azure DevOps

• Configuring the automation for CI/CD pipelines for deployment of web apps on
Azure Infrastructure.

• Configuring and automating the deployment approvals with Superiors and

deployment times.

Module 13:

Containerizations
• Deep understanding of Containerization

• Virtual machines V/S Docker Containers

• Advantages of containers.

• Deployment of Azure container Instances with on top of Linux O/S with a simple web

application.
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• Deployment of Azure container Instances with container registry with customized

node .Js web applications(as per business requirements) and hosting this image with

ACI.

Module 14:

Terraforms:
• Understanding of terraform scripting.

• Purpose, advantages, and use of terraform scripting.

• Workflow of terraform scripts execution.

• Configuring and making the environments ready to write and execute the terraform

scripts for cloud resources.

• Writing & executing the terraform scripts for different Azure resources as per the

business needs…. etc.

• Writing & executing the terraform scripts for different Azure resources deployment

in Azure cloud computing platform

• Multiple commands to execute terraform scripts.

Module 15:
Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS):
• Azure Kubernetes cluster deployment by considering node size,
node count, node pools, enablement of virtual nodes, cluster Vnet,
cluster subnets, Kubernetes version…etc in Azure cloud platform.
• Execution Kubectl commands to get the details and insights of
Kubernetes components….node pools, pods, containers, Kubernetes
worker nodes, namespaces of Kubernetes cluster, namespaces of
the pods…..etc
• Installation of Azure Kubernetes services AKS CLI in private cloud to
do the governance and operations from local command prompt for
deployment AKS containers, pods, and application deployments
inside the Kubernetes cluster pods.
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• Implementation of Yml code to provision virtual machine, app name

deployment, port numbers, Operating system, Load Balancers…etc
as per the need of project requirements.
• Triggering AKS commands to login to Kubernetes cluster, maintain
and manage the Kubernetes cluster and its components.
• Deployment of a web application on Kubernetes pods by triggering
the various AKS commands and its services.
• Testing of the deployed application in Kubernetes pods by
considering the IP addresses of Pods which are same as LB(as this is
mentioned in the Yaml file)

Module 16:

Ansible Scripting:

• Preparing the Ansible playbooks for provisioning resources in Azure cloud

computing like RG, VM, SA, NSG, NIC…etc to fulfil the business requirements….

etc.

• Building of IAAS Resources in cloud platforms using Ansible Playbooks,

• Handling Ansible scripts for cloud services.