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1.0 Understand Cloud Concepts (15-20%)
1.1 Describe the benefits and considerations of using cloud services
Understand terms such as High Availability
Understand terms such as Scalability, Elasticity, Agility
Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
Understand the principles of economies of scale
Understand the differences between Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
Understand the consumption-based model
1.2 Describe the differences between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Describe Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Describe Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Describe Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Compare and contrast the three different service types
1.3 Describe the differences between Public, Private and Hybrid cloud models
Describe Public cloud
Describe Private cloud
Describe Hybrid cloud
Compare and contrast the three different cloud models
2.0 Understand Core Azure Services (30-35%)
2.1 Understand the core Azure architectural components
Describe Regions
Describe Availability Zones
Describe Resource Groups
Describe Azure Resource manager
Describe the benefits and usage of core Azure architectural components
2.2 Describe some of the core products available in Azure
Describe products available for Compute such as Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Service Functions, Azure Container Instances (ACI), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Describe products available for Networking such as Virtual Network, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway and Content Delivery Network
Describe products available for Storage such as Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, and Archive Storage
Describe products available for Databases such as Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure Database Migration service
Describe the Azure Marketplace and its usage scenarios
2.3 Describe some of the solutions available on Azure
Describe Internet of Things (IoT) and products that are available for IoT on Azure such as and IoT Central
IoT Hub
Describe Big Data and Analytics and products that are available for Big Data and Analytics such as SQL Data Warehouse, HDInsight and Azure Databricks
Describe Artificial Intelligence (AI) and products that are available for AI such as Azure Machine Learning Service and Studio
Describe Serverless computing and Azure products that are available for serverless computing such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps and Event Grid
Describe DevOps solutions available on Azure, such as Azure DevOps
Describe DevOps solutions available on Azure, such as Azure DevTest Labs
2.4 Understand Azure management tools
Understand Azure tools such as Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Cloud Shell
Understand Azure Advisor
3.0 Understand Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Trust (25-30%)
3.1 Understand securing network connectivity in Azure
Describe Network Security Groups (NSG)
Describe Application Security Groups (ASG)
Describe User Defined Rules (UDR)
Describe Azure Firewall
Describe Azure DDoS Protection
Choose an appropriate Azure security solution
3.2 Describe core Azure Identity services
Understand the difference between authentication and authorization
Describe Azure Active Directory
Describe Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
3.3 Describe security tools and features of Azure
Describe Key Vault
Describe Azure Information Protection (AIP)
Describe Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
Describe Azure Security Center
Understand Azure Security Center usage scenarios
3.4 Describe Azure governance methodologies
Describe policies and initiatives with Azure Policy
Describe Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Describe Locks
Describe Azure Advisor security assistance
Describe Azure Blueprints
3.5 Understand monitoring and reporting options in Azure
Describe Azure Monitor
Describe Azure Service Health
Understand the use cases and benefits of Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health
3.6 Understand privacy, compliance and data protection standards in Azure
Understand industry compliance terms such as GDPR, ISO and NIST
Understand the Microsoft Privacy Statement
Describe the Trust center
Describe the Service Trust Portal
Describe Compliance Manager
Determine if Azure is compliant for a business need
Understand Azure Government cloud services
Describe Azure China cloud services
4.0 Understand Azure pricing and support (20-25%)
4.1 Understand Azure subscriptions
Describe an Azure subscription
Understand the uses and options with Azure subscriptions, such access control and offer types
Understand subscription management using Management groups
4.2 Understand planning and management of costs
Understand the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
Understand the Pricing calculator
Understand options for purchasing Azure products and services
Understand options around Azure Free account
Understand the factors affecting costs such as resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic
Understand Zones for billing purposes
Understand best practices for minimizing Azure costs such as performing cost analysis, creating spending limits and quotas, using tags to identify cost owners, using Azure reservations, and using Azure Advisor recommendations
Describe Azure Cost Management
4.3 Understand the support options available with Azure
Understand support plans that are available such as Dev, Standard, Professional Direct and Premier
Understand how to open a support ticket
Understand available support channels outside of support plan channels
Describe the Knowledge Center
4.4 Describe Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Understand Composite SLAs
Describe a Service Level Agreement (SLA)
Understand how to determine an appropriate SLA for an application
4.5 Understand service lifecycle in Azure
Understand Public and Private Preview features
Understand the term General Availability (GA)
Understand how to monitor feature updates and product changes