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Chapter 1

• Introducing Cloud Computing Configurations and Deployments
• Introducing Cloud Computing
• Virtualization
• Cloud Service Models
• Cloud Reference Designs and Delivery Models
• Introducing Cloud Concepts and Components
• Connecting the Cloud to the Outside World
• Deciding Whether to Move to the Cloud
• Selecting Cloud Compute Resources
• Hypervisor Affinity Rules
• Validating and Preparing for the Move to the Cloud
• Choosing Elements and Objects in the Cloud
• Internet of Things
• Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Creating and Validating a Cloud Deployment
• The Cloud Shared Resource Pooling Model
• Organizational Uses of the Cloud
• Scaling and Architecting Cloud Systems Based
• on Requirements
• Understanding Cloud Performance
• Delivering High Availability Operations
• Managing and Connecting to Your Cloud Resources
• Is My Data Safe? (Replication and Synchronization)
• Understanding Load Balancers
• Cloud Testing
• Verifying System Requirements
• Correct Scaling for Your Requirements
• Making Sure the Cloud Is Always Available
• Remote Management of VMs
• Monitoring Your Cloud Resources
• Writing It All Down (Documentation)
• Creating Baselines
• Shared Responsibility Model

Chapter 2

• Cloud Deployments
• Executing a Cloud Deployment
• Understanding Deployment and Change Management
• Cloud Deployment Models
• Network Deployment Considerations
• Service Level Agreements
• Matching Data Center Resources to Cloud Resources
• What Are Available and Proposed Hardware Resources?
• Templates and Images
• Physical Resource High Availability
• Introducing Disaster Recovery
• Physical Hardware Performance Benchmarks
• Cost Savings When Using the Cloud
• Energy Savings in the Cloud
• Shared vs. Dedicated Hardware Resources in a Cloud
• Data Center
• Microservices
• Configuring and Deploying Storage
• Identifying Storage Configurations
• Storage Provisioning
• Storage Priorities: Understanding Storage Tiers
• Managing and Protecting Your Stored Data 95 Storage Security
• Considerations
• Accessing Your Storage in the Cloud
• Performing a Server Migration
• Different Types of Server Migrations
• Addressing Application Portability
• Workload Migration Common Procedures
• Examining Infrastructure Capable of Supporting
• a Migration
• Managing User Identities and Roles
• RBAC: Identifying Users and What Their Roles Are
• What Happens When You Authenticate?
• Understanding Federation
• Single Sign-On Systems
• Understanding Infrastructure Services

Chapter 3

Security in the Cloud

• Cloud Security Compliance and Configurations
• Establishing Your Company’s Security Policies
• Selecting and Applying the Security Policies to Your Cloud Operations
• Some Common Regulatory Requirements
• Encrypting Your Data
• Remote Access Protocols
• Automating Cloud Security
• Security Best Practices
• Access Control
• Accessing Cloud-Based Objects
• Cloud Service Models and Security
• Cloud Deployment Models and Security
• Role-Based Access Control
• Mandatory Access Control
• Discretionary Access Control
• Multifactor Authentication
• Single Sign-On

Chapter 4

Implementing Cloud Security

• Implementing Security in the Cloud
• Data Classification
• Segmenting Your Deployment
• Implementing Encryption
• Applying Multifactor Authentication
• Regulatory and Compliance Issues During Implementation
• Cloud Access Security Broker
• Automating Cloud Security
• Automation Tools
• Techniques for Implementing Cloud Security
• Security Services

Chapter 5

Maintaining Cloud Operations

Applying Security Patches

• Patching Cloud Resources
• Patching Methodologies
• Patching Order of Operations and Dependencies

Updating Cloud Elements

• Hotfix
• Patch
• Version Update
•  Rollback
• Workflow Automation
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Virtualization Automation Tools and Activities

Storage Operations

• Types of Backups
• Backup Targets
• Backup and Restore Operations

Chpter 6

Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Ongoing Maintenance

Implementing a Disaster Recovery and Business

• Continuity Plan
• Service Provider Responsibilities and Capabilities
• Disaster Recovery Models and Techniques

Business Continuity

• Establishing a Business Continuity Plan
• Establishing Service Level Agreements

Cloud Maintenance

• Establishing Maintenance Windows
• Maintenance Interruptions to Operations
• Maintenance Automation Impact and Scope
• Common Maintenance Automation Tasks

Chapter 7

Cloud Management

• Cloud Metrics
• Monitoring Your Deployment
• Cloud Support Agreements
• Standard Cloud Maintenance Responsibilities
• Configuration Management Applications and Tools
• Change Management Processes
• Adding and Removing Cloud Resources
• Determining Usage Patterns
• Bursting
• Migrating Between Cloud Providers
• Scaling Resources to Meet Requirements
• Extending the Scope of the Cloud
• Understanding Application Life Cycles
• Organizational Changes
• Managing Account Provisioning
• Account Identification
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Lockout Policies
• Password Complexity
• Account Automation and Orchestration

Chapter 8

Cloud Management Baselines, Performance, and SLAs

• Measuring Your Deployment Against the Baseline
• Object Tracking for Baseline Validation
• Applying Changes to the Cloud to Meet Baseline Requirements
• Changing Operations to Meet Expected
• Performance/Capacity Requirements
• Cloud Accounting, Chargeback, and Reporting

Chapter 9

Troubleshooting

Incident Management

• Incident Types
• Logging Incidents
• Prioritizing Incidents
• Preparation
• Templates
• Time Synchronization
• Workflow
• Troubleshooting Cloud Capacity Issues
• Capacity Boundaries in the Cloud
• Troubleshooting Automation and Orchestration
• Process and Workflow Issues

Chapter 10

Troubleshooting Networking and Security Issues and Understanding Methodologies

Troubleshooting Cloud Networking Issues

• Identifying the Common Networking Issues in the Cloud
• Network Troubleshooting and Connectivity Tools
• Remote Access Tools

Troubleshooting Security Issues

• Account Privilege Escalation
• Network Access Issues
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Federations
• Certificate Configuration Issues
• Device- Hardening Settings
• External Attacks
• Internal Attacks
• Maintain Sufficient Security Controls and Processes
• Network Access Tunneling and Encryption
• Troubleshooting Methodology
• Identifying the Problem
• Establishing a Theory
• Testing the Theory
• Creating and Implementing a Plan of Action
• Verifying the Resolution
• Documenting the Ordeal

 Azure AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

• 01-Cloud Computing and Vocabulary
• 02-Principle of economies of scale
• 03-CapEx vs OpEx and their differences
• 04-Consumption-based Model
• 05-IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS cloud service models
• 06-Public, Private & Hybrid cloud deployment models
• 07-Geographies Regions & Availability Zones
• 08-Resources Resource Groups & Resource Manager
• 09-Compute Services VMs VM Scale Set App Service Functions ACI AKS
• 10-Networking Services Virtual Network VPN Gateway CDN Load Balancer App GW
• 11-Azure Storage Services Blob Queue Table Files Disk and Storage Tiers
• 12-Database Services Cosmos DB SQL Database Db for MySQL & PostgreSQL
• 13- Azure Marketplace
• 14-Azure IoT Services IoT Hub IoT Central Azure Sphere
• 15-Azure Big Data & Analytics Services Synapse HDInsight Databricks
• 16- Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services Machine Learning Studio & Service
• 17-Azure Serverless Computing Services Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid
• 18-Azure DevOps Solutions Azure DevOps DevTest Labs
• 19-Azure Tools Azure Portal CLI PowerShell & Cloud Shell
• 20-Azure Advisor
• 21-Azure Security Groups Network and Application Security Groups (NSG ASG)
• 22-User-defined Routes (UDR) with Route Tables
• 23-Azure Firewall
• 24- Azure DDoS Protection Distributed Denial of Service
• 25-Azure Identity Services Authentication Authorization & Active Directory (AD)
• 26-Azure Security Center
• 27-Azure Key Vault Secret Key and Certificate Management
• 28-Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
• 29-Azure Resource Locks
• 30-Azure Resource Tags
• 31-Azure Policy
• 32-Azure Blueprints
• 33-Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
• 34-Core tenets of Security Privacy Compliance (Trust Center DPA OST and more.)
• 35-Cost Affecting Factors
• 36-Cost Reduction Methods Reservations Hybrid Benefit Spot VM Pricing & TCO
• 37-Azure Cost Management
• 38-SLA and Composite SLA in Azure
• 39-Service Lifecycle in Azure Public Preview and General Availability

 Az-104

• Creating and managing groups in Azure AD
• Manage devices in Azure AD
• Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) In Azure AD
•  Azure role-based access control (RBAC)
•  Azure Policy and Resource Lock
• Storage Account management
• Redundancy in Storage Account
• Manage access keys in storage account
• Network topics in Storage Account
• Types of Backups from Storage Account
• Deploy Azure File Sync
•  Copy or move data to Azure Storage by using AzCopy
•  Azure Virtual Network
• Network Security Group (NSG)
• ARM (Azure Resource Manager) template
• Create and Manage Virtual Machine
• Types of virtual machine disks and Their management
• Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) Options
• Sharing in Managed Disk
• Create a snapshot of a virtual hard disk
• Custom Script Extension
• Advanced settings of virtual machines in Azure
• Azure Bastion
• Backing up virtual machines in the Azure environment
• Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS)
• Availability Sets and Availability Zones Concepts
• Availability Set in Azure environment
• Availability Zone in Azure environment
• Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Specialized VM images
• Generalized VM images
• Proximity Placement Groups
• Web App Services
• Docker and Container
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Monitoring
• Load Balancer using Availability Set
• Load Balancers using Scale Sets
• Azure Load Balancer
• Application Gateway Service
• Multiple Sites in Azure Application Gateway Service
• Azure Virtual Network Peering
• Point To Site (P2S) VPN
• Site To Site VPN
• Azure Virtual Wan
• ExpressRoute Virtual Network Gateway
• Azure Network Watcher
• Virtual Network Traffic Routing
• Azure Firewall
• Map Domain to IP Address
• Private DNS Server
• Public DNS Server