This book has been written for the candidates who want to learn and use the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, candidates who have just started his career with Cloud services, who is already working with Azure cloud services. This is also dedicated for those who are preparing themselves for one of the most popular cloud certifications Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions Exam. This is mainly focused on the hands-on lab exercises and real-world best practices rather than deep theoretical and conceptual lectures. However, we have covered enough concept and theory part of each of the mentioned topic. There are hundreds of theoretical documentations are available on the Microsoft Azure official documentation site and few other sites on the Internet community. But, there are very few articles on the step by step how to guide to implement, use, and configure Azure Cloud services. This guide will help you to become handy and expert on most of the Microsoft Azure Cloud services that will help you start your career with Cloud technologies. However, this guide also contains various real world, enterprise-level, best practices to implement and use for the production services. These step by step lab exercises will help you to design a highly-secure, scalable, and well-architecture enterprise-level Cloud solutions and designs.
We have covered the following topics in this guide along with step by step lab 01. Cloud Computing Introduction 02. Cloud Service Providers 03. Types of Cloud 04. Cloud Offering Classes 05. Microsoft Azure Introduction 06. Getting Started with Free Azure Subscription 07. Getting Familiarized with Azure Portal Options 08. Getting Azure Subscription Details 09. Creating Administrative Users for Azure Cloud Management 10. Enable Multi-Factor Authentication for Azure Accounts 11. Azure Pricing Calculator 12. Introduction Azure Virtual Network (vNet) 13. Creating an Azure Virtual Network 14. Introduction to Azure Resource Groups 15. Managing Resource Groups 16. Introduction Azure Virtual Machines 17. Understanding Azure VM Series Types 18. Creating Azure Virtual Machine 19. Connecting Azure Virtual Machines 20. Detailed Explanation of Azure Virtual Machine Options 21. Configure Disk in Azure Virtual Machine 22. Capturing VM Image in Azure Cloud 23. Creating Azure VM from Captured Image 24. Importing and Exporting Azure Virtual Machine 25. Azure Network Security Group (NSG)67 26. Creating and Applying NSG for Azure Virtual Network 27. Managing Azure Storage Services 28. Working with Azure Storage Explorer 29. Managing Azure Storage Using Azure CLI 30. Working with Azure Files Share 31. Mounting Azure Files Share 32. Azure Database Storage Services 33. Creating and Using Azure SQL Database 34. Restoring Azure SQL Database 35. Exporting Importing SQL Databases 36. Azure Active Directory 37. Azure Marketplace 38. Working with Azure VPN Gateways 39. Creating a Windows Server Virtual Machine 40. Connecting Your Windows VM Using P2S VPN Gateway Securely 41. Configuring vNet Peering Between Azure Virtual Networks 42. Working with Load Balancers in Azure Cloud 43. Configuring Azure Load Balancer 44. Configuring VM Scale Set in Azure Cloud 45. Configuring Application Gateway in Azure Cloud 46. Configuring WAF in Azure Cloud 47. Working with Azure Cloud Management Tools 48. Managing Azure Account Using PowerShell 49. Scheduling Auto and Stop Azure VMs