Describing Cloud Concepts
- Defining cloud computing, the shared responsibility model, public, private and hybrid cloud with suitable use cases
- Consumption-based model, comparing cloud pricing models, serverless computing
- Benefits of cloud services: high availability and scalability, reliability and predictability, security and governance, manageability
- Cloud service types IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and their typical use cases
Describing Azure Architecture and Services
- Core components: Azure regions, region pairs and sovereign regions, availability zones, data centres; resources and resource groups, subscriptions, management groups and their hierarchy
- Compute: comparing containers, virtual machines and functions; Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, availability sets and Azure Virtual Desktop; resources required for virtual machines; hosting options for applications
- Networking: virtual networks, subnets, peering, Azure DNS, Azure VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute; public and private endpoints
- Storage: Azure Storage services, access tiers, redundancy options, storage accounts and storage types; moving files with AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer and Azure File Sync; migration with Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box
- Identity, access and security: Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Entra Domain Services, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication and passwordless sign-in, external identities, conditional access, role-based access control (Azure RBAC), Zero Trust, defence in depth, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Describing Azure Management and Governance
- Cost management: factors that influence cost, pricing calculator, cost management features in Azure, tags
- Governance and compliance: Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy, resource locks
- Managing and deploying resources: Azure portal, Azure Cloud Shell, Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, Azure Arc, infrastructure as code, Azure Resource Manager and ARM templates
- Monitoring: Azure Advisor, Azure Service Health, Azure Monitor with Log Analytics, alerts and Application Insights
