Microsoft Azure: fundamentals and core administration

Skills you'll practise

• Explain Azure's four management scopes and the trust relationship between a subscription and a Microsoft Entra tenant
• Identify the effective access a user gets from Azure RBAC role assignments at different scopes, and distinguish Azure roles from Microsoft Entra roles
• Choose between Azure RBAC, Azure Policy and resource locks for a governance requirement, and predict the side effects of ReadOnly and CanNotDelete locks
• Use the Activity log to find who changed a resource, and set Cost Management budgets with actual and forecasted alerts
• Read a network security group rule set and predict whether traffic is allowed
• Explain what tags, managed disks, Azure Backup, Azure Advisor and Defender for Cloud provide at a high level

Course outline

1. 1.Microsoft Azure: fundamentals and core administrationVideo · 3 min
2. 2.How Azure is organized: tenant, scopes, regions and tagsLesson · 18 min
3. 3.Access and governance: Azure RBAC, Microsoft Entra roles, Azure Policy and locksLesson · 19 min
4. 4.Operating Azure: Activity log, costs, networking, VMs and backupLesson · 18 min
5. 5.Microsoft Azure: fundamentals and core administration: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
6. 6.Final exam11 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out

Sources it draws on

The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.

• Microsoft Learn docs: What is Azure Resource Manager? (scope levels, resource groups)
• Microsoft Learn docs: Organize your resources with management groups
• Microsoft Learn docs: Add an existing Azure subscription to your tenant (subscription trust relationship)
• Microsoft Learn docs: What is Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)?
• Microsoft Learn docs: Azure roles, Microsoft Entra roles, and classic subscription administrator roles
• Microsoft Learn docs: List Azure deny assignments
• Microsoft Learn docs: Overview of Azure Policy
• Microsoft Learn docs: Azure Policy definitions effect basics
• Microsoft Learn docs: Details of the policy definition structure policy rules
• Microsoft Learn docs: Lock your Azure resources to protect your infrastructure
• Microsoft Learn docs: Use tags to organize your Azure resources and management hierarchy
• Microsoft Learn docs: Activity log in Azure Monitor
• Microsoft Learn docs: Tutorial: Create and manage budgets (Microsoft Cost Management)
• Microsoft Learn docs: What are Azure availability zones?
• Microsoft Learn docs: Azure region pairs and nonpaired regions

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