AZ-1007 Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure

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

Module 1 Configuring Virtual Machines

• Review of cloud services responsibilities
• Planning virtual machines
• Determining the virtual machine's sizing
• Determining virtual machine storage
• Creating virtual machines in the Azure portal
• Connecting to virtual machines
• Interactive laboratory simulation

Module 2 Adding and sizing disks to Azure Virtual Machines

• Description of storage options for virtual machines (VMs)
• Exercise: Adding data disks to virtual machines
• Determining Premium Storage Usage
• Resizing virtual machine disks
• Exercise: Resizing a Virtual Machine Disk

Module 3 Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Monitor

• Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines
• Monitoring virtual machine host data
• Using Metrics Explorer to view detailed host metrics
• Collecting client performance counters using VM Insights
• Collecting client event logs from the virtual machine

Module 4 Protecting Virtual Machines with Azure Backup

• Azure Backup Features and Scenarios
• Backing up an Azure virtual machine with Azure Backup
• Exercise: Backing up an Azure virtual machine
• Restoring virtual machine data
• Exercise: Restoring Azure Virtual Machine Data

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: Sizing Virtual Machines Correctly
• Exercise: Viewing system and runtime environment information about the virtual machine
• Exercise: Starting and Stopping a Virtual Machine with the Azure CLI
• Exercise: Installing software on the virtual machine

Module 6 Implementing Access Management for Azure Resources
Assigning Azure Roles

• Configuring Azure Custom Roles
• Creating and configuring managed identities
• Access Azure resources with managed identities
• Analyzing Azure Role Permissions
• Configuring Azure Key Vault RBAC Policies
• Recovering objects from Azure Key Vault
• Exploring Microsoft Permissions Management

Module 7 Configuring Azure Files and Azure File Sync

• Comparing storage for file shares and blob data
• Managing Azure File Shares
• Creating snapshots of file shares
• Implementing soft delete for Azure Files
• Using Azure Storage Explorer
• Implementing Azure File Sync

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: Deploying and Managing Linux Virtual Machines in Azure

• Exercise: Creating and configuring Linux virtual machines
• Exercise: Monitoring Virtual Machines
• Exercise: Configuring Storage for Virtual Machines
• Exercise: Backing up virtual machines

• 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 administration of operating systems based on the Linux kernel.

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

This course is part of the Microsoft Applied Skills Credentials.

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

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