| 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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