• What is Cloud Computing
• Cloud Characteristics
• Cloud Computing Service Models
• Deployment Models in Cloud Computing
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Job Roles.
• Cloud Computing Platforms and Certifications.

• Introduction to Azure
• Why, What and Benefits of Azure
• Azure Hosting Models
• Azure Services
• Subscribing to Microsoft Azure
• Azure Portals
• Azure Key Concepts
• Azure Resource Group
• Installing Microsoft Azure SDK

•   Introduction
•  About Virtual Machine Workloads
•  Comparing VM with Web Apps and Cloud Services
•  Create a Windows Virtual Machine using Portal / PowerShell / ARM Templates
•  Deploy popular application frameworks by using Azure Resource Manager templates
•  Understand and Capture VM Images
•  Upload an on-premise VHD to Storage Account
•  Deploy a New VM from the Captured Image
•  Manage ARM VM availability
•  Virtual Machine Scale Sets
•  Virtual Machine Disk Types and Disk Caching
•  VM Storage

•   Manage batch jobs by using Batch Service API
•  Run a batch job by using Azure CLI, Azure portal,     and other tools
•  Write code to run an Azure Batch Services batch    job

Azure App Services - Web Apps 

• Introduction
• App Service - Application Types
• Deploy Web Apps
  • Deploying Web App directly from Visual Studio
  • Automate deployment from Dropbox and One Drive
  • Create, configure and deploy packages
  • Implement pre- and post-deployment actions;
  • App Service plans
    • Create App Service Plan
    • Migrate Web Apps between App Service plans;
    • Create a Web App within an App Service plan
  • Configuring Web Apps
    • Application Settings Configuration,
    • Database Connection Strings,
    • Configuring Handlers and Virtual Directories,
  • Configure a custom domain name
  • Enable SSL for your custom domain
  • Understanding Deployment Slots and Roll back deployments;
  • Configure Web Apps for scale and resilience
    • Horizontal and Vertical Scaling of a Web App
    • Configure auto-scale
    • Change the size of an instance
  • Azure Traffic Manager to Scale out Globally
  • Monitoring, Debugging and Diagnosis
    • Retrieve Diagnostics data
    • View Streaming Logs
    • Configure endpoint monitoring
    • Configuring Alerts
    • Configure diagnostics
    • Use remote debugging
    • Monitor Web App resources

Azure Web Jobs

• Introduction
• Developing and Hosting Web Jobs Application
• Azure WebJobs SDK
• Sample Application including WebApps and WebJobs.

Implement Azure Functions

• About Azure Functions.
• Azure Webjobs vs Azure Functions
• Create an Azure Function
• Create an event processing function
  • Timer Triggered Function,
  • GitHub Webhook Triggered Function.
  • Blog Storage Triggered Function
• Implement an Azure-connected functions
  • Adding message to Storage Queue
  • Connecting to SQL Database

App Service - API Apps

• Introduction
• Creating an API App
• Deploying an API App
• Consuming an API App
• Authentication and Authorization in API App.
• Using API App in Logic App

App Service - Mobile Apps

• Mobile Apps Introduction
• Creating Server Service and Client Application
• Working with Easy tables using Azure Portal
• Developing Windows 8.1 Client Application
• Mobile App Authentication
  • Facebook Authentication
  • Azure Active Directory Authentication
• Enabling Offline Sync
• Implementing Push Notification

Azure App Service - Logic Apps

• Introduction
• Creating a Simple Logic App
• Handling array of Items using for-each and condition
• Understanding Triggers and Actions
• Using Custom API App in Logic App

Implement Azure Search within Solution

• About Search Service,
• Create Search Service,
• Create Index
• Import Data,
• Handle Search Results
• Programming Search in .NET using Azure Search SDK

API Management Service

• Overview of API Management
• Components of API Management System.
• API Apps vs API Management.
• Create managed APIs.
• Configure API management policies.
• Protect APIs with rate limits.
• Add caching to improve performance.

Azure Service Bus

• Service Bus Basics
• Hosting WCF Service in Azure
• Relayed Messaging
• Service Bus Queues
• Topics and Subscriptions
• Notification Hubs
• Monitoring Event Hubs
• Handling Sessions
• Handling Transactions

Develop event-based solutions

• Implement solutions that use Azure Event Grid
• Implement solutions that use Azure Notification Hubs
• Implement solutions that use Azure Event Hub

Implement authentication

• Implement authentication by using certificates, forms-based authentication, or tokens
• Implement multi-factor or Windows authentication by using Azure AD
• Implement OAuth2 authentication
• Implement Managed Service Identity (MSI)/Service Principal authentication

Implement access control

• Implement CBAC (Claims-Based Access Control) authorization
• Implement RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) authorization
• Create shared access signatures

Key Vault

• Secrets vs Keys
• Accessing Keys and Secrets
• Use cases for Key Vault
• Use Azure Key Vault from a Web Application
• Using Key Vault with ARM Template
• Encrypt and Decrypt BLOBS in Azure Storage

Develop code to support scalability of apps and services

• Implement autoscaling rules and patterns
• Implement code that handles transient faults

Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions

• Store and retrieve data in Azure Redis cache
• Develop code to implement CDNs in solutions
• Invalidate cache content (CDN or Redis)

Redis Caching

• Caching Overview
• What is Redis Cache
• Creating a Redis Cache
• Developing Redis Cache Client
• Controlling Expiration

Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging

• Configure instrumentation in an app or service by using Application Insights
• Analyze and troubleshoot solutions by using Azure Monitor
• Implement Application Insights Web Test and Alerts

• Caching Overview
• What is Redis Cache
• Creating a Redis Cache
• Developing Redis Cache Client
• Controlling Expiration

• Introduction
• App Service - Application Types
• Deploy Web Apps
  • Deploying Web App directly from Visual Studio
  • Automate deployment from Dropbox and One Drive
  • Create, configure and deploy packages
  • Implement pre- and post-deployment actions;
• App Service plans
  • Create App Service Plan
  • Migrate Web Apps between App Service plans;
  • Create a Web App within an App Service plan
• Configuring Web Apps
  • Application Settings Configuration,
  • Database Connection Strings,
  • Configuring Handlers and Virtual Directories,
• Configure a custom domain name
• Enable SSL for your custom domain
• Understanding Deployment Slots and Roll back deployments;
• Configure Web Apps for scale and resilience
  • Horizontal and Vertical Scaling of a Web App
  • Configure auto-scale
  • Change the size of an instance
• Azure Traffic Manager to Scale out Globally
• Monitoring, Debugging and Diagnosis
  • Retrieve Diagnostics data
  • View Streaming Logs
  • Configure endpoint monitoring
  • Configuring Alerts
  • Configure diagnostics
  • Use remote debugging
  • Monitor Web App resources

• Introduction
• Developing and Hosting Web Jobs Application
• Azure WebJobs SDK
• Sample Application including WebApps and WebJobs.

• About Azure Functions.
• Azure Web Jobs vs Azure Functions
• Create an Azure Function
• Create an event processing function
  • Timer Triggered Function,
  • GitHub Webhook Triggered Function.
  • Blog Storage Triggered Function
• Implement an Azure-connected functions
  • Adding message to Storage Queue
  • Connecting to SQL Database

• Introduction
• Creating an API App
• Deploying an API App
• Consuming an API App
• Authentication and Authorization in API App.
• Using API App in Logic App

• Introduction
• Creating a Simple Logic App
• Handling array of Items using for-each and condition
• Understanding Triggers and Actions
• Using Custom API App in Logic App

• Mobile Apps Introduction
• Creating Server Service and Client Application
• Working with Easy tables using Azure Portal
• Developing Windows 8.1 Client Application
• Mobile App Authentication
  • Facebook Authentication
  • Azure Active Directory Authentication
• Enabling Offline Sync
• Implementing Push Notification

• Service Fabric Application Model
• Service Fabric Programming Model
• Prepare development environment
• Create a .NET Service Fabric Application
• Making the service to listen and connect with other services
• Specifying environment specific parameters
• Deploying Service Fabric application to Azure
• Service Fabric Explorer

• Kubernetes Architecture
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Cluster
• Creating a Container Image using Docker
• Publish an Image to Azure Container Registry
• Azure Container Instance
• Configure diagnostic settings on resources
• Hosting Container in AKS Cluster using YAML

• Implement authentication by using certificates
• Forms-based authentication
• Tokens
• Windows-integrated authentication
• Implement multi-factor authentication by using Azure AD options

• Implement Claims-Based Access Control (CBAC)
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) authorization

• Encrypt and decrypt data at rest
• Encrypt data with Always Encrypted
• Implement Azure Confidential Compute
• SSL/TLS communications;

• Secrets vs  Keys
• Accessing Keys and Secrets
• Use cases for key valut
• Use Azure key vault  from a Web Application
• Using Key Valut with ARM Template
• Encrypt and Decrypt BLOBS in Azure storage