- describe terms such as High Availability, Scalability, Elasticity, Agility, Fault Tolerance, and Disaster Recovery
- describe the principles of economies of scale
- Microsoft Learn: Economies of scale
- describe the differences between Capital Expenditure (CapEx) and Operational Expenditure (OpEx)
- Microsort Learn: Capital expenditure (CapEx) versus operational expenditure (OpEx)
- describe the consumption-based model
Describe the differences between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- describe Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
- describe Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
- describe Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- compare and contrast the three different service types
- describe Public cloud
- describe Private cloud
- describe Hybrid cloud
- compare and contrast the three different cloud models
- describe Regions
- describe Availability Zones
- describe Resource Groups
- describe Azure Resource Manager
- describe the benefits and usage of core Azure architectural components
- describe products available for Compute such as Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Services, Azure Container Instances (ACI) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Windows virtual machines in Azure
- Linux virtual machines in Azure
- What are virtual machine scale sets?
- App Service overview
- Introduction to Azure App Service on Linux
- Azure App Service plan overview
- Scale up an app in Azure App Service
- Get started with Autoscale in Azure
- App Service pricing
- What is Azure Container Instances?
- Choose an Azure compute service for your application
- Kubernetes core concepts for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Introduction to private Docker container registries in Azure
- describe products available for Networking such as Virtual Network, Load Balancer, VPN Gateway, Application Gateway and Content Delivery Network
- What is Azure Virtual Network?
- Overview of load-balancing options in Azure
- What is Azure Load Balancer?
- What is Azure Application Gateway?
- Azure Application Gateway features
- What is Traffic Manager?
- About Point-to-Site VPN
- What is VPN Gateway?
- VPN Gateway design
- Virtual network peering
- ExpressRoute overview
- What is a content delivery network on Azure?
- describe products available for Storage such as Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, and Archive Storage
- describe products available for Databases such as Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Database Migration service
- describe the Azure Marketplace and its usage scenarios
- describe Internet of Things (IoT) and products that are available for IoT on Azure such as IoT Hub and IoT Central
- describe Big Data and Analytics and products that are available for Big Data and Analytics such as Azure Synapse Analytics, HDInsight, and Azure Databricks
- What is Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW)?
- Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly SQL DW) architecture
- What is PolyBase?
- Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
- What is Azure HDInsight?
- What is Azure Databricks?
- Azure Event Hubs — A big data streaming platform and event ingestion service
- What is Azure Stream Analytics?
- describe Artificial Intelligence (AI) and products that are available for AI such as Azure Machine Learning Service and Studio
- describe Serverless computing and Azure products that are available for serverless computing such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid
- An introduction to Azure Functions
- Overview - What is Azure Logic Apps?
- Connectors for Azure Logic Apps
- What is Azure Event Grid?
- Choose between Azure messaging services - Event Grid, Event Hubs, and Service Bus
- Events, Data Points, and Messages - Choosing the right Azure messaging service for your data
- describe DevOps solutions available on Azure such as Azure DevOps and Azure DevTest Labs
- describe the benefits and outcomes of using Azure solutions
- describe Azure tools such as Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI and Cloud Shell
- describe Azure Advisor
- Introduction to Azure Advisor
- Improve the reliability of your application by using Azure Advisor
- Make resources more secure with Azure Advisor
- Improve the performance of Azure applications by using Azure Advisor
- Reduce service costs by using Azure Advisor
- Achieve operational excellence by using Azure Advisor
- describe Network Security Groups (NSG)
- describe Application Security Groups (ASG)
- describe User Defined Routes (UDR)
- describe Azure Firewall
- describe Azure DDoS Protection
- choose an appropriate Azure security solution
- describe the difference between authentication and authorization
- describe Azure Active Directory
- What is Azure Active Directory?
- What is Azure AD Privileged Identity Management?
- What is Azure Active Directory Identity Protection?
- What is Conditional Access?
- What are managed identities for Azure resources?
- Azure Active Directory pricing
- Assign or remove licenses in the Azure Active Directory portal
- Registering your application in Azure AD
- Remote access to on-premises applications through Azure AD Application Proxy
- What authentication and verification methods are available in Azure Active Directory?
- Associate or add an Azure subscription to your Azure Active Directory tenant
- describe Azure Multi-Factor Authentication
- describe Azure Security Center
- describe Azure Security Center usage scenarios
- describe Key Vault
- describe Azure Information Protection (AIP)
- describe Azure Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
- describe policies and initiatives with Azure Policy
- describe Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- describe Locks
- describe Azure Advisor security assistance
- describe Azure Blueprints
- describe Azure Monitor
- describe Azure Service Health
- describe the use cases and benefits of Azure Monitor and Azure Service Health
- describe industry compliance terms such as GDPR, ISO and NIST
- describe the Microsoft Privacy Statement
- describe the Trust center
- describe the Service Trust Portal
- describe Compliance Manager
- determine if Azure is compliant for a business need
- describe Azure Government cloud services
- describe Azure China cloud services
- describe an Azure Subscription
- describe the uses and options with Azure subscriptions such access control and offer types
- describe subscription management using Management groups
- describe options for purchasing Azure products and services
- describe options around Azure Free account
- describe the factors affecting costs such as resource types, services, locations, ingress and egress traffic
- describe Zones for billing purposes
- describe the Pricing calculator
- describe the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) calculator
- describe best practices for minimizing Azure costs such as performing cost analysis, creating spending limits and quotas, using tags to identify cost owners, using Azure reservations and using Azure Advisor recommendations
- describe Azure Cost Management
- describe a Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- describe Composite SLAs
- describe how to determine an appropriate SLA for an application
- describe Public and Private Preview features
- describe the term General Availability (GA)
- describe how to monitor feature updates and product changes
- Understand describe support plans that are available such as Developer, Standard, Professional Direct and Premier
- Understand describe how to open a support ticket
- Understand describe available support channels outside of support plan channels
- describe the Knowledge Center