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Understand Cloud Concepts
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Learn high availability, scalability, elasticity, agility, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
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Understand the principles of economies of scale
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Overview and differences between Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
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Understand the consumption-based model
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Learn the differences between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
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Overview of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
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Overview of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
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Overview of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
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Learn about three different service types
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Differences between public, private and hybrid cloud models
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Describe public cloud
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Describe private cloud
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Describe hybrid cloud
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Compare and contrast the three different cloud models
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Understand core Azure services
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Learn about core Azure architectural components
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Describe Regions
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Describe Availability Zones
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Describe Resource Groups
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Describe Azure Resource Manager
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Overview of benefits and usage of core Azure architectural components
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Describe some of the core products available in Azure
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Learn about products available for Compute such as Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Service Functions, Azure Container Instances and Azure Kubernetes Service
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Explain products available for Networking, for example Virtual Network, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway and Content Delivery Network
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Explain products available for Storage, for example Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, and Archive Storage
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Explain products available for Databases, for example Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database Migration service
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Describe the Azure Marketplace and its usage scenarios
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Explain some of the solutions available on Azure
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Explain IoT and products that are available for IoT on Azure, for example IoT Hub and IoT Central
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Explain Big Data and Analytics and products that are available for Big Data and Analytics, for example SQL Data Warehouse, HDInsight, and Azure Databricks
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Explain Artificial Intelligence and products that are available for AI, for example Azure Machine Learning Service and Studio
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Example Serverless computing and Azure products that are available for serverless Computing, for example Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid
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Explain DevOps solutions available on Azure, for example Azure DevOps and Azure DevTest Labs
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Explain the benefits and outcomes of using Azure solutions
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Understand Azure management tools
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Overview of Azure tools such as Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI and Cloud Shell
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Understand Azure Advisor
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Understand security, privacy, compliance, and trust
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Describe Network Security Groups (NSG)
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Describe Application Security Groups (ASG)
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Describe User Defined Rules (UDR)
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Describe Azure Firewall
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Describe Azure DDoS Protection
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Choose an appropriate Azure security solution
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Describe core Azure Identity services
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Overview of difference between authentication and authorization
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Describe Azure Active Directory
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Describe Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
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Describe security tools and features of Azure
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Describe Azure Security Center
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Understand Azure Security Center usage scenarios
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Describe Key Vault
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Describe Azure Information Protection (AIP)
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Describe Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
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Describe Azure governance methodologies
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Describe policies and initiatives with Azure Policy
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Describe Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
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Describe Locks
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Describe Azure Advisor security assistance
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Describe Azure Blueprints
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Understand monitoring and reporting options in Azure
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Describe Azure Monitor
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Describe Azure Service Health
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Overview of use cases and benefits of Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health
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Overview of privacy, compliance and data protection standards in Azure
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Overview of industry compliance terms such as GDPR, ISO and NIST
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Overview of Microsoft Privacy Statement
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Describe the Trust center
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Describe the Service Trust Portal
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Describe Compliance Manage
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Determine if Azure is compliant for a business need
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Understand Azure Government cloud services
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Describe Azure China cloud services
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Understand Azure pricing and support
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Describe an Azure subscription
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Overview of uses and options with Azure subscriptions such access control and offer type
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Overview of subscription management using Management groups
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Understand planning and management of costs
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Overview of options for purchasing Azure products and services
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Understand options around Azure Free account
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Explain factors affecting costs such as resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic
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Understand Zones for billing purposes
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Understand the Pricing calculator
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Understand the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
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Learn best practices for minimizing Azure costs, for example - performing cost analysis, using tags to identify cost owners, creating spending limits and quotas, using Azure reservations and using Azure Advisor recommendations
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Describe Azure Cost Management
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Learn support options available with Azure
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Explain support plans that are available, for an example - Dev, Standard, Professional Direct and Premier
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Understand how to open a support ticket
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Explain available support channels outside of support plan channels
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Describe the Knowledge Center
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Describe Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
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Describe a Service Level Agreement (SLA
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Understand Composite SLAs
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Explain how to determine an appropriate SLA for an application
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Understand service lifecycle in Azure
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Understand public and private preview features
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Understand the term General Availability (GA)
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Explain how to monitor feature updates and product changes
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