Configure virtual machines:

• Learn how to configure virtual machines including sizing, storage, and connections.
  • Review cloud services responsibilities
  • Plan virtual machines
  • Determine virtual machine sizing
  • Determine virtual machine storage
  • Create virtual machines in the Azure portal
  • Connect to virtual machines
  • Interactive lab simulation

Add & Size Disks in Azure Virtual Machines:

• Understand and create the different types of disk storage available to Azure virtual machines (VMs).
  • Understand storage options for virtual machines (VMs)
  • Exercise – Add a data disk to a VM
  • Determine whether to use premium storage
  • Resize virtual machine disks
  • Exercise – Resize a VM disk

Monitor Your Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Monitor:

• Learn how to monitor your Azure VMs by using Azure Monitor to collect and analyze VM host and client metrics and logs.
  • Monitoring for Azure VMs
  • Monitor VM host data
  • Use Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
  • Collect client performance counters by using VM insights
  • Collect VM client event logs

Protect Your Virtual Machines by Using Azure Backup:

• Use Azure Backup to help protect on-premises servers, virtual machines, SQL Server, Azure file shares, and other workloads.
  • Azure Backup features and scenarios
  • Back up an Azure virtual machine by using Azure Backup
  • Exercise – Back up an Azure virtual machine
  • Restore virtual machine data
  • Exercise – Restore Azure virtual machine data

Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI:

• Learn how to use the cross-platform Azure CLI to create, start, stop, and perform other management tasks related to virtual machines in Azure.
  • What is the Azure CLI?
  • Exercise – Create a virtual machine
  • Exercise – Test your new virtual machine
  • Exercise – Explore other VM images
  • Exercise – Sizing VMs properly
  • Exercise – Query system and runtime information about the VM
  • Exercise – Start and stop your VM with the Azure CLI
  • Exercise – Install software on your VM

Implement access management for Azure resources:

• Explore how to use built-in Azure roles, managed identities, and RBAC-policy to control access to Azure resources. Identity is the key to secure solutions.
  • Assign Azure roles
  • Configure custom Azure roles
  • Create and configure managed identities
  • Access Azure resources with managed identities
  • Analyze Azure role permissions
  • Configure Azure Key Vault RBAC policies
  • Retrieve objects from Azure Key Vault
  • Explore Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync:

• Learn how to configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync.
  • Compare storage for file shares and blob data
  • Manage Azure file shares
  • Create file share snapshots
  • Implement soft delete for Azure Files
  • Use Azure Storage Explorer
  • Deploy Azure File Sync

Copy and move blobs from one container or storage account to another using the AzCopy command:

• Learn how to use AzCopy to copy and move blobs between contains and storage accounts both synchronously and asynchronously.
  • Move Azure Storage blobs using AzCopy
  • Exercise – Move Azure Storage blobs using AzCopy

Guided Project: Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure:

• In this guided project module, you prepare and study for the Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure Applied Skill. 
  • Exercise – Create and configure Linux virtual machines
  • Exercise – Monitor virtual machines
  • Exercise – Configure storage for virtual machines
  • Exercise – Back up virtual machines