Microsoft Windows Azure Training and Certification

Microsoft Windows Azure (Cloud Computing) Training delivers the course Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions. This course imparts the skills to work on the Microsoft Azure platform to provide solutions to business issues addressing the online medium. It builds the capabilities in the aspirants to move an existing ASP.NET MVC application to Azure along with its functionality. The learners will get hold of the approaches to optimize the software development life cycle.

Microsoft Windows Azure Course Objectives

• Compare different Azure services and manage the service instances using Management Portals.
• Identify different virtual machine (VM) hosting options, deploy workload, and monitor VM.
• Create and customize VM.
• Create, host and monitor Azure website.
• Build high performance cloud applications using ASP.NET
• Understand cloud services and analyze applications in cloud service role instances
• Work on Azure SQL databases
• Perform file storing and grant access permissions
• Implement queue concept in Azure and use Service Bus Relay to connect a WCF Service and client(s)
• Use PowerShell to automate Azure service management.

Microsoft Windows Azure Course Target Audience

IT professionals looking forward to taking job responsibilities as to deploying and monitoring virtual machines.

Microsoft Windows Azure Course Prerequisites

The candidates must possess the following skillset:

• Understanding of C# and ASP.NET
• Working experience with Azure platform

1. Development using the Microsoft Azure Platform

• Azure Services
• Management Portals

2. Establishing a Development Environment using Azure Virtual Machines

• Constructing Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure Virtual Machine Workloads
• Migrating Azure Virtual Machine Instances.

3. Managing Infrastructure in Azure

• Azure Virtual Networks
• Highly Available Azure Virtual Machines
• Virtual Machine Configuration Management
• Customizing Azure Virtual Machine Networking

4. Web Infrastructure in the Azure Platform

• Azure Web Sites
• Hosting Web Applications in Azure
• Configuring an Azure Web Site
• Publishing an Azure Web Site
• Monitoring an Azure Web Site.

5. Designing Cloud Applications for Resiliency

• Application Design Practices for Highly Available Applications
• Building High Performance Applications using ASP.NET
• Common Cloud Application Patterns
• Caching Application Data

6. Processing Background Logic using Azure

• Understanding Cloud Services
• Cloud Service Web Roles
• Customizing Cloud Service Configurations
• Updating and Managing Azure Cloud Service Deployments
• Cloud Service Worker Roles
• Cloud Service Worker Role Processing
• Caching Data using Roles
• Analyzing Applications in Cloud Service Role Instances

7. Storing Tabular Data in Azure

• Azure SQL Databases Overview
• Managing SQL Databases in Azure
• Using Azure SQL Databases with SQL Server Data Tools
• Migrating Data to Azure SQL Databases
• Replication and Recovery of Azure SQL Database Instances
• Azure Storage Overview
• Azure Storage Tables Overview
• Table Entity Transactions

8. Storing Files and Media in Azure

• Azure Storage Blobs
• Controlling Access to Storage Blobs & Containers
• Monitoring Storage Blobs
• Configuring Azure Storage Accounts
• Azure Files
• Uploading and Migrating Storage Data

9. Storing Data in Queues using Azure

• Queue Mechanisms in Azure
• Azure Storage Queues Overview
• Handling Storage Queue Messages
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Service Bus Queues
• Azure Service Bus Relay
• Azure Service Bus Notification Hubs

10. Automating Integration with Azure Resources

• Azure SDK Client Libraries
• Scripting Azure Service Management using PowerShell
• Azure REST Interface
• Azure Resource Manager

11. Implementing Security in Web Applications using Azure

• Azure Active Directory
• Azure AD Directories
• Azure AD Access Control Service
• Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication

12. Deploying Web Applications to Azure

• Deployment Strategies for Web Applications
• Deploying Azure Web Sites
• Deploying Azure Cloud Services
• Continuous Integration
• Monitoring Cloud Applications