Azure Fundamentals & Admin Training in Cork, Ireland

This combined training covers the foundational concepts of Microsoft Azure (AZ-900) along with core Azure administration skills (AZ-104). Participants learn cloud fundamentals, Azure services, identity management, governance, networking, VMs, storage, security, monitoring, and automation to manage Azure environments effectively.

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Cloud Concepts

• What is Cloud Computing?

• Shared Responsibility Model

• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS explained

• Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud models

Core Azure Architecture & Services

• Azure Regions, Availability Zones

• Resource Groups, Subscriptions

• Azure Compute Services (VMs, Web Apps, Containers)

• Azure Networking Basics

• Azure Storage Services

Azure Pricing, Cost Management & SLAs

• Pricing model and TCO

• Cost Calculator and Cost Optimization

• Azure Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Azure Security, Compliance & Identity Basics

• Azure Security Center

• Zero Trust Model

• Azure Active Directory Overview

• Authentication, MFA, SSO basics

Azure Administrator (AZ-104): Identity, Governance & Storage

Managing Azure AD Identities

• Users, Groups, Roles

• Azure AD Connect & Hybrid Identity

• Conditional Access overview

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Understanding RBAC

• Assigning roles and permissions

• Custom roles and access reviews

Azure Governance & Policies

• Azure Policy

• Resource Locks

• Tags and Naming Standards

• Blueprints (overview)

Azure Storage Management

• Storage Accounts (Types, Replication, Tiers)

• Blob, File, Queue, Table storage

• Securing storage: SAS tokens, Access Keys

• Azure Backup & Recovery

• Import/Export Service and Data Box

Azure Administrator (AZ-104): Compute, Networking & Load Balancing

Azure Virtual Machines

• VM provisioning, sizing, and scaling

• OS disk vs Data disk

• VM networking

• VM availability options (Scale Sets, Availability Sets)

Azure Virtual Networking

• VNet, Subnets, IP addressing

• Network Security Groups (NSGs)

• VNet Peering

• DNS and Azure Firewall

Load Balancing & Traffic Management

• Azure Load Balancer

• Application Gateway

• Traffic Manager

• Front Door (overview)

Containers & Serverless

• Azure Container Instances

• Azure Kubernetes Service (intro)

• Azure Functions basics

• Event-driven architecture

Azure Administrator (AZ-104): Monitoring, Automation & Practical Labs

Monitoring & Diagnostics

• Azure Monitor

• Log Analytics Workspace

• Alerts & Action Groups

• Application Insights basics

Azure Backup, Recovery & Site Resilience

• Backup vault configuration

• Restore operations

• Site Recovery (ASR)

• Disaster Recovery strategies

Automation & Deployment

• Azure CLI & PowerShell for administration

• ARM Templates basics

• Azure Bicep (intro)

• Azure Automation Runbooks

Hands-on Exercises

Summary and Conclusion