AZ-1007 Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure

Course AZ-1007: Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure

This course will prepare you for the applied skill of Implementing and managing Linux virtual machines in Microsoft Azure.

Intermediate - Administrator - Azure, Azure Virtual Machines - Virtual machine

Course aimed at

This course is designed for system administrators and IT professionals with prior experience in Azure and Linux. The ideal audience has knowledge of using the Azure Portal, the Azure CLI, and virtual machine (VM) management. It is aimed at those who want to learn how to deploy and manage Linux-based VMs in Azure, with a focus on tasks such as sizing, storage, monitoring, and security.

Course content AZ-1007

Module 1 Virtual Machine Configuration

• Review of cloud service responsibilities
• Virtual machine planning
• Determining the sizing of the virtual machine
• Determining the virtual machine storage
• Creating virtual machines in the Azure Portal
• Connecting to virtual machines
• Interactive laboratory simulation

Module 2: Adding disks to Azure Virtual Machines and adjusting their size

• Description of storage options for virtual machines (VMs)
• Exercise: Adding data disks to virtual machines
• Determining the use of Premium Storage
• Change the size of virtual machine disks
• Exercise: Changing the size of a virtual machine disk

Module 3 Monitoring Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor

• Monitoring Azure virtual machines
• Monitoring virtual machine host data
• Use the Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
• Collection of customer performance counters using VM Insights
• Collection of virtual machine client event logs

Module 4: Protecting Virtual Machines with Azure Backup

• Azure Backup features and scenarios
• Backing up an Azure virtual machine with Azure Backup
• Exercise: Performing a backup of an Azure virtual machine
• Virtual machine data restoration
• Exercise: Restoring data from Azure virtual machines

Module 5: Managing virtual machines with the Azure CLI

• What is the Azure CLI?
• Exercise: Creating a virtual machine
• Exercise: Testing the new virtual machine
• Exercise: Exploring other virtual machine images
• Exercise: Correctly adjusting the size of virtual machines
• Exercise: Querying system and environment information at runtime on the virtual machine
• Exercise: Starting and stopping a virtual machine using the Azure CLI
• Exercise: Installing software on the virtual machine

Module 6 Implementing access management for Azure resources
Azure role assignment

• Azure Custom Role Configuration
• Creation and configuration of managed identities
• Access Azure resources with managed identities
• Azure role permissions analysis
• Azure Key Vault RBAC Policy Configuration
• Recovering objects from Azure Key Vault
• Exploring Microsoft Permission Management Enter

Module 7 Azure Files and Azure File Sync Configuration

• Comparison of storage for shared file resources and blob data
• Azure file share management
• Creating snapshots of shared file resources
• Implementing temporary deletion for Azure Files
• Using Azure Storage Explorer
• Azure File Sync Implementation

Module 8 Copy and move blobs from one container or storage account to another using the AzCopy command

• Moving Azure Storage blobs using AzCopy
• Exercise: Moving Azure storage blobs using AzCopy

Module 9 Guided Project: Implementation and administration of Linux virtual machines in Azure

• Exercise: Creating and configuring Linux virtual machines
• Exercise: Monitoring virtual machines
• Exercise: Configuring storage for virtual machines
• Exercise: Virtual Machine Backup

Prerequisites

• Experience with the Azure Portal and CLI to create resources.
• Familiarity with identity management and role-based access control.
• Experience in creating and configuring Azure virtual machines.
• Practical knowledge of operating system administration based on the Linux kernel.

Language

• Course: English / Spanish
  
• Labs: English / Spanish

Microsoft Applied Skills

This course is part of the Microsoft Applied Skills Credentials.

To earn this Microsoft applied skills credential, students must demonstrate the ability to protect resources using Azure virtual network solutions.

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