1. Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Overview of Cloud
- Benefits of Cloud
- Five Cloud Characteristics (NIST)
- Three Cloud Service Models (NIST)
- Four Cloud Deployment Models (NIST)
- Introduction to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
2. Introduction to Azure
- Overview or terminology and core concepts
- Overview of the IaaS and SaaS portal features and relevant Azure services
- Overview of Azure key security features
- Understanding performance, resiliency, scalability and security.
3. Architecting your Solution using TOGAF
- Deeper dive into the following Azure services:
i. Azure Resource Manager
ii. DNS, DHCP, IP Addressing, Security Groups and User Defined Routes
iii. Load Balancer, Traffic Manager & Application Gateway
iv. Virtual Machines
v. Virtual Network
vi. Blob, Queue, File and Disk Storage
vii. Content Delivery Network
viii. Backup, Import / Export
ix. SQL
x. ExpressRoute
xi. Monitor & Application Insights
xii. Automation
xiii. Active Directory
xiv. KeyVault
xv. Queue Storage
xvi. Directory Services - Hands-On Labs
- Baseline discovery techniques aligned to TOGAF
- Future state architectures aligned to TOGAF
- Architecting public and hybrid cloud solutions using Azure components.
4. Designing App Service Web Apps, Application Storage and Data Access
- Deeper dive into applications and non-relational datastores
- Hands-On Labs
- Baseline discovery techniques aligned to TOGAF
- Future state architectures aligned to TOGAF
- Common tools for data migration
- Hybrid Cloud scenarios
- Event-Driven Scaling.
5. Designing an Advanced Application
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Deeper dive into the advanced application services
- Alignment to TOGAF
- Hybrid Cloud scenarios.6. Designing a Management, Monitoring & Business Continuity
- Overview of the Operations Management Suite Services
- Overview of the Application Insights Services
- Third-party monitoring
- Deeper dive into Hyper-V Replica and Azure Site Recovery
- Using PowerShell Automation
- Evaluating the use of DevOps Tools.