Welcome to Skylines Academy – your first stop for the AZ-104 Certification Course!
Skylines Academy presents the latest edition of the Microsoft Azure Administrator Certification Course: AZ-104. Master Instructor Nick Colyer brings you updated content to match the new AZ-104 curriculum.
Nick’s AZ-103 course (previous version of the AZ-104) had rave reviews and has helped thousands of students across the globe pass the exam. The course rating is:
4.7 Star Rating!
Student Reviews for the Azure Administrator Associate Course by Nick Colyer:
"Very easy to digest videos. The length is perfect to cover the topic but not bore. The presentation style is great and you clearly point to additional resources were needed which is helpful."
“Five stars!”
“Wonderful course and content. I was able to pass the exam with help from the course and all the study resources.”
“I enjoy the course. I am able to go back to the modules to watch again and again. Every time I re-watch, I find few more things that I missed or did not understand well from the previous watching. So very helpful. Thanks very much.”
Course Description:
Want to become an Azure admin and not sure where to start? You’ve come to the right place! The Skylines Academy AZ-104 Azure Administrator course by Nick Colyer will not only teach you all about core Azure services in-depth, it will go into detail through demonstrations so you can administer Azure.
During your Azure Administrator journey, Skylines Academy will lead you through a series of sections, modules, and demos to prepare you for taking, and ultimately passing, the Microsoft Azure AZ-104 exam.
Lectures will educate you on the fundamental terms and principles of the Azure platform and demos will enable you with a hands-on experience using scenarios to empower you in the real world.
During this course, you will learn how to:
- Access Azure and how you’ll be using Azure PowerShell and CLI to administer the environment
- Create and allocate accounts and subscriptions as a starting point
- Manage AD identity objects and verify user credentials
- Enforce governance for your Azure subscriptions
- Implement and allocate various storage types
- Spin up virtual machines (VMs) based on the needs of your use case
- Utilize Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates application deployment efficiencies
- Run containerized applications to cut costs
- Create and configure web apps
- Implement a network standard as the backbone of your Azure environment
- Monitor the Azure platform to detect threats and inefficiencies
- Deploy a backup policy to ensure your environment is recoverable
Requirements:
- You’ll need to spin up a free Azure account for a more hands-on experience
- We recommend you take the AZ-900 course and exam to form foundational knowledge of the Azure platform
- Previous knowledge of data center technology areas such as compute, network, and storage is highly recommended
- Drive to learn about cloud and Microsoft Azure
Course Curriculum
- Demo: Resource Groups and Tagging (4:27)
- Demo: Moving Resources Between Resource Groups (3:19)
- Lecture: Resource Locks (1:17)
- Demo: Resource Locks (6:32)
- Lecture: Azure Policies (1:12)
- Demo: Azure Policies and Management Groups (11:54)
- Demo: Quotas, Cost Analysis and Tagging (7:30)
- Artifact: Tagging Standards Spreadsheet
- Artifact: Naming Standards Spreadsheet
- Lecture: Types of Data (2:17)
- Lecture: SQL Services Overview (4:22)
- Lecture: Azure Storage (3:47)
- Lecture: Storage Account Overview (4:56)
- Demo: Storage Account Portal (18:19)
- Article: Storage Replication Options Explained
- Demo: Storage Account PowerShell (7:43)
- Demo: Use Storage Explorer with Azure Storage (3:22)
- Artifact: PowerShell Script
- Demo: AZ Copy v10 (14:48)
- Artifact: AZ Copy Script File
- Lecture: Manage Permissions (5:25)
- Demo: Create and Manage Shared Access Signatures (SAS) (4:24)
- Lecture: Storage Keys (0:59)
- Lecture: Custom Domains (2:14)
- Lecture: Import/Export (3:48)
- Demo: Azure Files (3:35)
- Demo: Azure File Sync (11:55)
- Lecture: VMs Overview (5:01)
- Lecture: VM Azure Compute Units (ACUs) (2:16)
- Lecture: VM - Supported OS Versions (2:50)
- Lecture: VM Limitations (1:41)
- Demo: Create a VM (14:01)
- Demo: Deploy VM with Powershell (9:39)
- Artifact: Script - Deploy VM with PowerShell
- Lecture: VM Images (0:50)
- Demo: Create a Custom Image (3:40)
- Lecture: PowerShell DSC Overview (4:52)
- Demo: PowerShell DSC Example (4:43)
- Lecture: Custom Script Extension (1:22)
- Lecture: VM Availability Overview (4:14)
- Lecture: Availability Zones (1:49)
- Demo: Configure Availability Set for 2 VMs (5:58)
- Lecture: VM Scaling Overview (2:46)
- Demo: Create a VM Scale Set (4:01)
- Lecture: VM Storage Overview (7:25)
- Demo: Add Disk (2:58)
- Lecture: Disk Caching (1:25)
- Demo: Enable Disk Caching (3:28)
- Lecture: Disk Encryption (7:27)
- Demo: Create a Key Vault for Disk Encryption (2:56)
- Demo: Configure Disk Encryption on Windows (4:33)
- Lecture: ARM Overview (1:29)
- Lecture: ARM Templates Overview (3:22)
- Demo: Using PowerShell and Azure CLI to Query Resource Providers (3:50)
- Demo: Demo: Creating and Deploying ARM Templates (11:20)
- Lecture: ARM Functions and Linking Templates (2:53)
- Demo: ARM Count Loops (3:32)
- Demo: Save Deployment as ARM Template (1:45)
- Lecture: App Services Overview (10:09)
- Demo: Create an App Service Plan in the Azure Portal (4:59)
- Demo: Create and Deploy a Web App (6:00)
- Lecture: App Service Monitoring (8:12)
- Lecture: App Service Settings Overview (4:52)
- Demo: Configure Application Settings (3:03)
- Lecture: Deployment Slots (2:24)
- Demo: Swapping Deployments with Deployment Slots (5:31)
- Lecture: Network Overview (3:32)
- Demo: Create VNet in Azure Portal (5:46)
- Demo: Create VNet in PowerShell (9:25)
- Artifact: Create a VNet in PowerShell Demo Script
- Lecture: Internet Access and DNS (3:08)
- Demo: Azure Private DNS Zones (10:48)
- Demo: Azure Public DNS Zone (4:10)
- Lecture: Network Security Overview (5:26)
- Lecture: Network Security Groups (NSGs) (6:48)
- Demo: Create and Configure a Network Security Group (NSG) (3:51)
- Lecture: Azure Firewall (3:28)
- Demo: Configure Azure Firewall (21:50)
- Lecture: Azure Load Balancer Technologies (14:35)
- Demo: Configure App Gateway (7:39)
- Demo: Create and Configure an Azure Load Balancer (8:01)
- Demo: Azure VM Networking Review (6:24)
- Lecture: Hybrid Connectivity Options (12:18)
- Lecture: Routing and Peering (3:26)
- Demo: Create User-defined Routes and VNet Peering (6:06)
- Lecture: Hybrid Scenarios (3:23)
- Lecture: Azure Backup Overview (7:25)
- Demo: Configuring Azure Backup, Backing up and Restoring a Windows VM (8:19)
- Demo: Configuring the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) Agent (6:14)
- Lecture: Azure Site Recovery (ASR) (5:54)
- Demo: Azure Site Recovery - Prepare Azure (5:32)
- Demo: Azure Site Recovery - Setup Recovery from VMware (22:08)
- Lecture: Recovery Options Review (2:45)
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Instructor Bio:
Nick Colyer has over 25 years of experience in the IT Industry and currently works as a Chief Cloud Architect for AHEAD, LLC in Chicago, IL.
Day-to-day Nick spends his time educating and enabling customers to adopt cloud platforms in a way that is not only meaningful to their business, but also empowers them for years to come in the IT industry.
Nick is a passionate teacher of technology and is certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Thousands of students have already trusted Nick with their IT training, and his courses routinely receive the highest reviews globally.
Nick often speaks at conferences including AHEAD Azure Innovation Days, VMWorld, the Looking Ahead Tech Summit, as well as tailored briefings for large enterprise companies across the United States.
You can regularly find Nick at community events and on Twitter (@vnickc).
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