AZ-900: Learning Path 02 — Azure architecture and services

Rebai Hamida

4 min readFeb 10, 2023

Azure Accounts

Get started with Azure accounts - Training

To create and use Azure services, you need an Azure subscription. When you're completing Learn modules, most of the…

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Walkthrough — Create an Azure Account

Create an Azure account - Training

Find out how to start using Azure by creating an account where you'll see services and personal settings for identity…

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Exercise — Explore the Learn sandbox

Exercise - Explore the Learn sandbox - Training

In this exercise, you explore the Learn sandbox. You can interact with the Learn sandbox in three different ways…

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Azure architectural components

Introduction - Training

Introduction

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Regions

Describe Azure physical infrastructure - Training

Throughout your journey with Microsoft Azure, you'll hear and use terms like Regions, Availability Zones, Resources…

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Availability zones

Describe Azure physical infrastructure - Training

Throughout your journey with Microsoft Azure, you'll hear and use terms like Regions, Availability Zones, Resources…

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Region Pairs

Describe Azure physical infrastructure - Training

Throughout your journey with Microsoft Azure, you'll hear and use terms like Regions, Availability Zones, Resources…

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Azure Sovereign Regions (US Government services)

Describe Azure physical infrastructure - Training

Throughout your journey with Microsoft Azure, you'll hear and use terms like Regions, Availability Zones, Resources…

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Walkthrough — Explore the Azure Global infrastructure

Azure global infrastructure experience

Operating along more than 175,000 miles of fiber lines across 140 countries and more regions than any other provider…

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Azure Resources

Describe Azure management infrastructure - Training

The management infrastructure includes Azure resources and resource groups, subscriptions, and accounts. Understanding…

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Azure Subscriptions

Describe Azure management infrastructure - Training

The management infrastructure includes Azure resources and resource groups, subscriptions, and accounts. Understanding…

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Exercise — Create an Azure resource

Exercise - Create an Azure resource - Training

In this exercise, you'll use the Azure portal to create a resource. The focus of the exercise is observing how Azure…

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Compute and Networking

Describe Azure compute and networking services - Training

Introduction to Azure compute services (virtual machines, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Functions) and networking…

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Azure compute services

https://azure.microsoft.com/products/category/compute/

Azure virtual machines — VM scale sets — VM availability sets

Describe Azure Virtual Machines - Training

With Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), you can create and use VMs in the cloud. VMs provide infrastructure as a service…

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Exercise — Create a Virtual Machine

Exercise - Create an Azure Virtual Machine - Training

In this exercise, you create an Azure virtual machine (VM) and install Nginx, a popular web server. You could use the…

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Azure Virtual Desktop

Describe Azure Virtual Desktop - Training

Describe Azure Virtual Desktop

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What is Azure Virtual Desktop? - Azure

Azure Virtual Desktop is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the cloud.

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Azure Container Services

Describe Azure Containers - Training

While virtual machines are an excellent way to reduce costs versus the investments that are necessary for physical…

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Azure Functions

Describe Azure Functions - Training

Azure Functions is an event-driven, serverless compute option that doesn't require maintaining virtual machines or…

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Azure App Services

Describe application hosting options - Training

If you need to host your application on Azure, you might initially turn to a virtual machine (VM) or containers. Both…

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Azure networking services

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Walkthrough — Configure network access

Exercise - Configure network access - Training

In this exercise, you'll configure the access to the virtual machine (VM) you created earlier in this module. The…

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Azure networking services

Describe Azure Virtual Private Networks - Training

A virtual private network (VPN) uses an encrypted tunnel within another network. VPNs are typically deployed to connect…

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Describe Azure ExpressRoute - Training

Azure ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection, with…

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Azure DNS

Describe Azure DNS - Training

Azure DNS is a hosting service for DNS domains that provides name resolution by using Microsoft Azure infrastructure…

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Storage

Describe Azure storage services - Training

Azure storage services, tiers, redundancy options, and migration options and tools.

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Storage accounts

Describe Azure storage accounts - Training

The following video introduces the different services that should be available with Azure Storage. A storage account…

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Describe Azure storage redundancy - Training

Azure Storage always stores multiple copies of your data so that it's protected from planned and unplanned events such…

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Azure storage services

Describe Azure storage services - Training

The Azure Storage platform includes the following data services: Azure Blobs: A massively scalable object store for…

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Azure storage access tiers

Describe Azure storage services - Training

The Azure Storage platform includes the following data services: Azure Blobs: A massively scalable object store for…

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Exercise — Create a storage blob

Exercise - Create a storage blob - Training

In this task, we will create a new storage account. Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com Select…

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Azure Migrate — Azure Data Box

Identify Azure data migration options - Training

Now that you understand the different storage options within Azure, it's important to also understand how to get your…

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File management options

Identify Azure file movement options - Training

In addition to large scale migration using services like Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box, Azure also has tools…

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Identity, Access, and Security

Describe Azure identity, access, and security - Training

Describe Azure identity, access, and security

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Microsoft Entra ID

Describe Azure directory services — Training | Microsoft Learn

Describe Azure directory services

Describe Azure directory services — Training | Microsoft Learn

Compare Authentication and Authorization — Azure Multi-Factor Authentication

Describe Azure authentication methods - Training

Authentication is the process of establishing the identity of a person, service, or device. It requires the person…

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External Identities B2B — External Identities B2C

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Conditional Access

https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/modules/describe-azure-identity-access-security/5-conditional-access

What is Conditional Access in Azure Active Directory? - Microsoft Entra

The modern security perimeter now extends beyond an organization's network to include user and device identity…

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Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC)

https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/modules/describe-azure-identity-access-security/6-role-based-access-control

Azure RBAC — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/overview

Zero Trust

Describe zero trust model - Training

Zero Trust is a security model that assumes the worst case scenario and protects resources with that expectation. Zero…

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Defense in depth

Describe defense-in-depth - Training

The objective of defense-in-depth is to protect information and prevent it from being stolen by those who aren't…

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Training

Defender for Cloud is a monitoring tool for security posture management and threat protection. It monitors your cloud…

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