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On your accelerated MCSA: Cloud platform certification course, you'll develop an expertise in Microsoft cloud-related technologies. You'll build skills in Azure development and infrastructure, which you'll use to bring the benefits of cloud to your company whilst reducing IT costs.
Your Microsoft Certified Trainer will immerse you in Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC). Through our unique Lecture | Lab | Review technique, you'll get hands-on practical experience and in-depth review sessions to reinforce and accelerate your learning.
During your accelerate course, you'll cover a range of topics including:
Plus, on this accelerated MCSA: Cloud Platform course, you'll sit exams 70-532 and 70-533at the Firebrand Training Centre. Covered by your Certification Guarantee.
Achieving the MCSA: Cloud Platform will fulfill your prerequisite requirement to attempt the MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure certification.
Passing exams 70-532 and 70-533 previously resulted in achieving multiple Microsoft Specialist Certifications. Microsoft retired the Specialist credential on 31 March, 2017. The exams remain available and where applicable will count towards the relevant existing MCSA, MCSE or MCSD certification.
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You may be entitled to heavily-discounted training via Microsoft's Software Assurance Training Voucher (SATV) scheme. If your business has bought Microsoft software, check to see if it came bundled with free training vouchers! Vouchers can be exchanged against training for all Microsoft technologies. If you’re unsure, get in touch with us
Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs): You'll be trained by our Microsoft Certified Trainers meaning you'll get to benefit from their wealth of knowledge and experience.
Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC): As Microsoft Learning Partners, we can ensure that you'll have access to the latest curriculums and the most up-to-date content.
Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.
Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.
This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering training. Courses that include certification come with a Certification Guarantee. Pass first time or train again for free (just pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs). We do not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes.
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This module introduces cloud solutions in general and then focuses on the services that Azure offers. The module goes on to describe the portals that you can use to manage Azure subscriptions and services before introducing the Azure PowerShell modules and Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) as scripting technologies for managing Azure. Finally, the module provides explanations and guidance for the use of the classic and Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
Lessons
Lab : Managing Microsoft Azure
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to plan virtual networks in Azure and implement and manage virtual networks. It also explains how to configure cross-premises connectivity and connectivity between virtual networks in Azure. Additionally, it explains how to configure an Azure virtual network and provides an overview of Azure classic networking.
Lessons
Lab : Using a deployment template and Azure PowerShell to implement Azure virtual networks
Lab : Configuring VNet peering
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module introduces the fundamentals of Azure VMs, and discusses the different ways in which you can deploy and manage them.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying Azure VMs
Lab : Deploying Azure VMs by using Azure Resource Manager templates
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to configure and manage Azure VMs, including configuring virtual machine disks and monitoring Azure VMs.
Lessons
Lab : Managing Azure VMs
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains the different types of apps that you can create by using the Azure App Service, and how you can select an App Service plan and deployment method for apps in Azure. It also explains how to use Microsoft Visual Studio, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients, Azure PowerShell, and Azure CLI to deploy Azure web and mobile apps. Additionally, the module explains how to configure web apps and use the Azure WebJobs feature to run custom tasks. It also explains how to monitor the performance of web apps and create and configure mobile apps. Lastly, this module explains how to use Azure Traffic Manager to distribute requests between two or more app services.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing web apps
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Module 6: Planning and implementing storage, backup, and recovery services
This module explains how to plan and implement storage, backup, and recovery services. It explains how to choose appropriate Azure Storage options to address business needs and how to implement and manage Azure Storage. It also explains how to improve web-application performance by implementing Azure Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). Lastly, this module explains how to protect cloud-resident and on-premises workloads by using Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery.
Lessons
Lab : Planning and implementing Azure Storage
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to implement containers in Azure. It starts by introducing the concept of containers and presents different options for implementing containers on Windows and Linux Azure VMs. Next, it explains container orchestration in the context of Azure Container Service (ACS) and describes how to use ACS to deploy Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and DC/OS clusters.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing containers on Azure VMs
Lab : Implementing Azure Container Service
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Module 8: Implementing Azure Cloud Services
This module explains how to plan and deploy Azure Cloud Services. It also explains how to manage and maintain Azure Cloud Services.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing Azure Cloud Services
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to implement Azure AD. It explains how to create and manage Azure AD tenants. It also explains how to configure single sign-on (SSO) for cloud applications and resources, and implement Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for cloud resources. Lastly, it explains the functionality of Azure AD Premium, and how to implement Azure Multi-Factor Authentication.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing Azure AD
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to manage Active Directory in a hybrid environment. It explains how to extend an on-premises Active Directory domain to Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments and synchronise user, group, and computer accounts between on-premises AD DS and Azure AD. This module also explains how to set up SSO by using federation and pass-through authentication between on-premises Active Directory and Azure AD.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing and managing Azure AD synchronisation
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
This module explains how to implement Azure-based management and automation. It explains how to implement Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) solutions and Azure Automation. The module also describes how to create different types of Azure Automation runbooks and implement Azure Automation - based management by using runbooks.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing Automation
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
Microsoft Azure provides a collection of services that you can use as building blocks for your cloud applications.
Lessons
Lab: Exploring the Azure Portal
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Although many Microsoft Azure services use virtual machines, sometimes your application might have a unique need where it requires a virtual machine that is completely unmanaged. Azure provides networking, backup, and virtualization services as part of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering.
Lessons
Lab: Creating an Azure Virtual Machine for Development and Testing
After completing this module, students will be able to:
This module provides an overview of the Azure Web Apps service.
Lessons
Lab: Creating an ASP.NET Web App by Using Azure Web Apps
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Dynamic web applications must store the data that is being managed and manipulated by end users. ASP.NET technologies such as ADO.NET and Entity Framework provide a way for accessing data in SQL Server. In the cloud, the Microsoft Azure platform provides a database as a service offering that allows developers to use SQL in the same way as they would in an on-premises location.
Lessons
Lab: Storing Event Data in Azure SQL Databases
After completing this module, students will be able to:
As a developer, you should keep in mind certain considerations while designing applications for the cloud. Although there are many platform improvements available in the ASP.NET ecosystem, you need to rethink the way you design your applications, and the patterns that are used, with respect to the scalability and reliability metrics present for the cloud applications.
Lessons
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Many new application workloads require new databases that offer scale and flexibility far beyond the capabilities of a traditional relational database. In Azure, there is a wide variety of NoSQL database services available for applications to store unstructured data in a flexible, schema-free and scalable fashion.
Lessons
Lab: Storing Event Registration Data in Azure Storage Tables
After completing this module, students will be able to:
When you want to scale to different cloud instances, storing files to a local disk becomes a difficult process to maintain and eventually an unreliable method of storage. Azure provides a Blob storage mechanism that not only offers high performance but also supports integration to Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) for low latency downloads.
Lessons
Lab: Storing Generated Documents in Azure Storage Blobs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
With web applications presenting content and worker roles processing the logic, there needs to be a mechanism that facilitates the communication between these different entities. Microsoft Azure provides two queuing mechanisms that you can use for this purpose.
Lessons
Lab: Using Queues and Service Bus to Manage Communication Between Web Applications in Azure
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Although you can manage most of the Azure services by using both of the Azure portals or Microsoft Visual Studio, you can use scripting to completely automate the management of the same resources. This module will look at automating the lifecycle of the services by using client libraries, Windows PowerShell, REST, and the Resource Manager.
Lessons
Lab: Automating the Creation of Azure Assets using PowerShell and Azure CLI
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Although you can deploy your cloud applications manually, it is in your best interest to begin automating cloud-based deployments. Automation creates many benefits including the ability to trace past actions, easier repetition of deployment tasks and reduced possibility of human error.
Lessons
Lab: Deploying Templated Environments Using the Cloud Shell
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Just like on-premises applications, applications in the cloud need streamlined security mechanisms that are flexible. Azure Active Directory is an identity provider that can provide identity and access functionality for your custom applications or SaaS applications.
Lessons
Lab: Integrating Azure Active Directory with the Events Administration Portal
After completing this module, students will be able to:
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You'll sit the following exams during the course at the Firebrand Training Centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:
70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
The skills you'll be tested on include:
70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
The skills you'll be tested on include:
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Included in your training will be the following:
Firebrand Training offers top-quality technical education and certification training in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their studies and certification goals.
Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.
Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.
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There are several benefits of easy-to-use digital courseware: downloads are immediate, and you’ll always have your courseware available wherever you are. You won’t need to wait for a printed book to be delivered before you start learning – and it’s better for the environment. You can choose to download the courseware to your own device, or borrow one of ours.
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Before attending this course, you should have at least 6 months of hands-on experience working with Azure infrastructure. This includes an understanding of:
Completing the MCSA: Windows Server 2012 will also meet the prerequisites.
You should also have Azure development experience with the ability to:
Don’t worry - we’ll discuss your technical background, experience and qualifications to determine whether this accelerated course suits you.
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Firebrand is an immersive environment and requires commitment. Some prerequisites are simply guidelines; you may find your unique experience, attitude and determination enables you to succeed on your accelerated course.
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