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• Understand Microsoft Entra ID

• Describe Microsoft Entra ID

• Compare Microsoft Entra ID to Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

• Describe how Microsoft Entra ID is used as a directory for cloud apps

• Describe Microsoft Entra ID P1 and P2

• Describe Microsoft Entra Domain Services

• Configure user and group accounts

• Configure user's accounts and user account properties

• Create new user accounts

• Import bulk user accounts with a template

• Configure group accounts and assignment types

• Configure subscriptions

• Determine the correct region to locate Azure services

• Review features and use cases for Azure subscriptions

• Obtain an Azure subscription

• Understand billing and features for different Azure subscriptions

• Use Microsoft Cost Management for cost analysis

• Discover when to use Azure resource tagging

• Identify ways to reduce costs

• Configure Azure Policy

• Create management groups to target policies and spending budgets

• Implement Azure Policy with policy and initiative definitions

• Scope Azure policies and determine compliance

• Configure role-based access control

• Identify features and use cases for role-based access control

• List and create role definitions

• Create role assignments

• Identify differences between Azure RBAC and Microsoft Entra roles

• Manage access to subscriptions with RBAC

• Review built-in Azure RBAC roles

• Create Azure users and groups in Microsoft Entra ID

• Add users to Microsoft Entra ID

• Manage app and resource access by using Microsoft Entra groups

• Give guest users access in Microsoft Entra business-to-business (B2B)

• Secure your Azure resources with Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)

• Verify access to resources for yourself and others

• Grant access to resources

• View activity logs of Azure RBAC changes

• Allow users to reset their password with Microsoft Entra self-service password reset

• Decide whether to implement a self-service password reset

• Implement self-service password reset to meet your requirements

• Configure self-service password reset to customize the experience

• Configure virtual networks

• Describe Azure virtual network features and components

• Identify features and usage cases for subnets and subnetting

• Identify usage cases for private and public IP addresses

• Create a virtual network and assign IP address

• Configure network security groups

• Determine when to use network security groups

• Create network security groups

• Implement and evaluate network security group rules

• Describe the function of application security groups

• Configure Azure Virtual Network peering

• Identify usage cases and product features of Azure Virtual Network peering

• Configure your network to implement Azure VPN Gateway for transit connectivity

• Extend peering by using a hub and spoke network with user-defined routes and service chaining

• Configure network routing and endpoints

• Implement system routes and user-defined routes

• Configure a custom route

• Implement service endpoints

• Identify features and usage cases for Azure Private Link and endpoint services

• Configure Azure Load Balancer

• Identify features and usage cases for Azure Load Balancer

• Implement public and internal Azure load balancers

• Compare features of load balancer SKUs and configuration differences

• Configure back-end pools, load-balancing rules, session persistence, and health probes

• Configure Azure Application Gateway

• Identify features and usage cases for Azure Application Gateway

• Implement an Azure application gateway, including selecting a routing method

• Configure gateway components, such as listeners, health probes, and routing rules

• Design an IP addressing schema for your Azure deployment

• Identify the private IP addressing capabilities of Azure virtual networks

• Identify the public IP addressing capabilities of Azure

• Identify the requirements for IP addressing when integrating with on-premises networks

• Distribute your services across Azure virtual networks and integrate them by using virtual network peering

• Identify use cases for virtual network peering

• Identify the features and limitations of virtual network peering

• Configure peering connections between virtual networks

• Host your domain on Azure DNS

• Configure Azure DNS to host your domain

• Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes

• Identify the routing capabilities of an Azure virtual network

• Configure routing within a virtual network

• Deploy a basic network virtual appliance

• Configure routing to send traffic through a network virtual appliance

• Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Azure Load Balancer

• Identify the features and capabilities of Azure Load Balancer

• Deploy and configure an Azure Load Balancer

• Configure storage accounts

• Identify features and usage cases for Azure storage accounts

• Select between different types of Azure Storage and create storage accounts

• Select a storage replication strategy

• Configure secure network access to storage endpoints

• Configure Azure Blob Storage

• Understand the purpose and benefits of Azure Blob Storage

• Create and configure Azure Blob Storage accounts

• Manage containers and blobs within Azure Blob Storage

• Optimize blob storage performance and scalability

• Implement lifecycle management policies to automate data movement and deletion

• Determine the best pricing plans for your Azure Blob Storage

• Configure Azure Storage security

• Configure a shared access signature (SAS), including the uniform resource identifier (URI) and SAS parameters

• Configure Azure Storage encryption

• Implement customer-managed keys

• Recommend opportunities to improve Azure Storage security

• Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync

• Identify storage for file shares versus blob data

• Configure Azure file shares and file share snapshots

• Identify features and use cases of Azure File Sync

• Identify Azure File Sync components and configuration steps

• Create an Azure Storage account

• Decide how many storage accounts you need for your project

• Determine the appropriate settings for each storage account

• Create a storage account using the Azure portal

• Control access to Azure Storage with shared access signatures

• Identify the features of a shared access signature for Azure Storage

• Identify the features of stored access policies

• Programmatically generate and use a shared access signature to access storage

• Upload, download, and manage data with Azure Storage Explorer

• Describe the features of Azure Storage Explorer

• Install Storage Explorer

• Use Storage Explorer to connect to Azure Storage services and manipulate stored data

• Configure virtual machines

• Determine the responsibilities of cloud service providers and customers in a cloud computing environment

• Identify the key considerations and factors involved in planning for virtual machines. Considerations include workload requirements, resource allocation, and secure access

• Configure virtual machine storage and virtual machine sizing

• Create a virtual machine in the Azure portal

• Practice deploying an Azure virtual machine and verify the configuration

• Configure virtual machine availability

• Implement availability sets and availability zones

• Implement update and fault domains

• Implement Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

• Autoscale virtual machines

• Configure Azure App Service plans

• Identify features and usage cases for Azure App Service

• Select an appropriate Azure App Service plan pricing tier

• Scale an Azure App Service plan

• Configure Azure App Service

• Identify features and usage cases for Azure App Service

• Create an app with Azure App Service

• Configure deployment settings, specifically deployment slots

• Secure your Azure App Service app

• Configure custom domain names

• Back up and restore your Azure App Service app

• Configure Azure Application Insights

• Configure Azure Container Instances

• Identify when to use containers versus virtual machines

• Identify the features and usage cases of Azure Container Instances

• Implement Azure container groups

• Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI

• Create a virtual machine with the Azure CLI

• Resize virtual machines with the Azure CLI

• Perform basic management tasks using the Azure CLI

• Connect to a running VM with SSH and the Azure CLI

• Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure

• Create a Windows virtual machine using the Azure portal

• Connect to a running Windows virtual machine using Remote Desktop

• Install software and change the network configuration on a VM using the Azure portal

• Host a web application with Azure App Service

• Use the Azure portal to create an Azure App Service web app

• Use developer tools to create the code for a starter web application

• Deploy your code to Azure App Service

• Introduction to Azure Backup

• Evaluate whether Azure Backup is appropriate to use for your backup needs

• Describe how the features of Azure Backup work to provide backup solutions for your needs

• Configure virtual machine backups

• Identify features and usage cases for different Azure backup methods

• Configure virtual machine snapshots and backup options

• Implement virtual machine backup and restore, including soft delete

• Perform site-to-site recovery by using Azure Site Recovery

• Configure Azure Monitor

• Identify the features and usage cases for Azure Monitor

• Configure and interpret metrics and logs

• Identify the Azure Monitor components and data types

• Configure the Azure Monitor activity log

• Configure Log Analytics

• Identify the features and usage cases for Log Analytics

• Create a Log Analytics workspace

• Structure a Log Analytics query and review results

• Configure Network Watcher

• Identify the features and usage cases for Azure Network Watcher

• Configure diagnostic capabilities like IP Flow Verify, Next Hop, and Network Topology

• Improve incident response with Azure Monitor alerts

• Configure alerts on events in your Azure resources based on metrics, log events, and activity log events

• Learn how to use action groups in response to an alert, and how to use alert processing rules to override action groups when necessary

• Analyze your Azure infrastructure by using Azure Monitor logs

• Identify the features and capabilities of Azure Monitor logs

• Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data

• Monitor your Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor

• Understand which monitoring data you need to collect from your VM

• Enable and view recommended alerts and diagnostics

• Use Azure Monitor to collect and analyze VM host metrics data

• Use Azure Monitor Agent to collect VM client performance metrics and event logs

• Manage Microsoft Entra ID Identities

• Manage Subscriptions and RBAC

• Manage Governance via Azure Policy

• Manage Azure resources by using Azure Resource Manager Templates

• Implement Virtual Networking

• Implement Intersite Connectivity

• Implement Traffic Management

• Manage Azure storage

• Manage Virtual Machines

• Implement Web Apps

• Implement Azure Container Instances

• Implement Azure Container Apps

• Implement Data Protection

• Implement Monitoring