SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION · INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Azure Administrator

The Azure Administrator course is designed to provide practical, hands-on knowledge for managing and administering infrastructure in the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This course focuses on implementing, managing, and monitoring Azure resources in real-world enterprise environments. Participants will learn how to create and manage virtual machines, configure networking and storage services, implement identity and access management, and ensure security and compliance within Azure. The course is strongly practice-oriented and aligned with real operational scenarios

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01Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure6 lessons+

Cloud computing overview and benefits

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS differences with examples

Azure Tenant, Subscription, Management Group

Resource Group concept

Naming conventions and tagging strategy

Azure Portal navigation

02Azure Architecture and Regions3 lessons+

Azure Regions and Availability Zones

Paired regions and redundancy concepts

Resiliency and high availability principles

03Azure Cost Management5 lessons+

Overview of Azure billing and subscriptions

Cost analysis and dashboards

Budgets and alerts

Tags for cost tracking

Cost optimization strategies (resize, deallocate, auto-shutdown)

04Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) and Hybrid Identity5 lessons+

Azure AD Tenant and Directory

Users and Groups

Azure AD Connect overview

Password Hash Sync, Pass-through Authentication

Installing and configuring Azure AD Connect

05Azure Networking-16 lessons+

IP planning and VNet Architecture

Address spaces and Subnets

Service endpoints

VNET Peering

Public IP addresses

NAT Gateways

06Azure Networking-24 lessons+

NSG rules and priorities

Application Security Groups (ASG)

Route tables

Route servers

07Azure Firewall6 lessons+

Stateful firewall for VNet

Network rules (IP/port filtering)

Application rules (FQDN filtering)

Threat intelligence and logging

Deployment: AzureFirewallSubnet, DNAT & SNAT

High availability and automatic scaling

08Design and implement hybrid networking5 lessons+

ExpressRoute circuit overview

Peering types: Private, Microsoft, Public

VPN Gateway types

IPSec and IKE protocols

Configure Point-to-Site VPN

09First month Practical Exam0 lessons+

Topics announced with the cohort.

10Azure Virtual Machines Basics5 lessons+

VM types and sizes

Disk types: Standard vs Premium

Creating a Windows Server and Linux VM

Azure Bastion

Azure Arc

11Azure Virtual Machine Management5 lessons+

Resizing VMs and attaching disks

Snapshots and VM images

Availability Sets and Scale Sets

Boot diagnostics

Resource deletion and moving resources

12Azure Storage Basics3 lessons+

Types of storage accounts

Blob storage, File Shares, Access Tiers

Storage security and firewall

13Azure Backup4 lessons+

Recovery Services Vault overview

Backup policies

VM backup and restore

Soft delete and retention

14Azure DNS2 lessons+

Differences between Azure DNS public and private zones.

Create and configure a DNS zone for your domain

15Azure Load Balancer3 lessons+

Frontend and backend pool

Health probes

Public vs Internal LB

16Application Gateway3 lessons+

Layer 7 load balancing

SSL Offload

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

17Second month Practical Exam0 lessons+

Topics announced with the cohort.

18Azure Monitor3 lessons+

Metrics vs Logs

Diagnostic settings

Alert rules and action groups

19Log Analytics and KQL4 lessons+

Log Analytics workspace

Microsoft Sentinel

Kusto Query Language basics

Performance and security log monitoring

20Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)3 lessons+

Scope (Subscription, Resource Group, Resource)

Built-in roles

Custom role creation and assignment

21Azure Policy3 lessons+

Difference between Policy and RBAC

Built-in policy definitions

Compliance reporting and remediation

22Azure CLI, PowerShell, and Introduction to IaC4 lessons+

Managing Azure resources via CLI

PowerShell modules for Azure

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts

ARM templates & Bicep basics

23Third month Practical Exam0 lessons+

Topics announced with the cohort.

24Final Practical Exam0 lessons+

Topics announced with the cohort.

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Duration: 12 weeks · 13824 hours
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YOUR INSTRUCTOR TEAM

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Course delivery is supported by practitioners across engineering, architecture and production backend development.

Azer Chelebiyev

Senior System ArchitectAzercosmos

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