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AZ-ADMIN-300: VM Fleet Management - Four Tools, One Scenario

The capstone. Deploy the same 3-tier IaaS fleet four ways — Az CLI, Az PowerShell, Bicep, ARM. Head-to-head. End with a challenge lab picking the right tool per phase of an incident-response drill.

AZ-ADMIN-130: ARM Templates - Fundamentals and Migration to Bicep

Read, maintain, and safely modernize ARM JSON templates. Master parameters, functions, copy loops, linked templates, arm-ttk testing, and the `bicep decompile` migration path.

AZ-ADMIN-100: Azure CLI Essentials for IaaS Administrators

Master the Azure CLI as a scripting-first admin toolkit — JMESPath, subscription/RG defaults, VM/VNet/Storage/RBAC lifecycle, tagging at scale. For admins moving from portal to reliable scripts.

AZ-ADMIN-110: Azure PowerShell for IaaS Administrators

Short-form Az PowerShell for IaaS admins — pipeline composition, splatting, Az.Tools.Predictor, and PSScriptAnalyzer linting. Companion to AZ-040 (course 444). VM/VNet/Storage/RBAC scenarios.

AZ-ADMIN-200: Enterprise Landing Zone with Bicep and azd

Ship a CAF-aligned Azure landing zone with Bicep + azd — hub-spoke, private DNS, RBAC baseline, Key Vault, Log Analytics, Azure Policy. PSRule.Rules.Azure enforces CAF/WAF in-loop.

AZ-ADMIN-120: Bicep Fundamentals for Azure Infrastructure

Move from portal clicks to codified Azure infrastructure with Bicep — modules, deployment scopes, what-if previews, deployment stacks, and CI linting for administrators who need reliable, reviewable deploys.

AZ-DEV-200: Infrastructure as Code with Bicep and GitHub Actions

AZ-DEV-190: Observability with Application Insights and OpenTelemetry

AZ-DEV-300: Capstone I — Build a Cloud-Native SaaS Application

AZ-DEV-180: API Management for Developers

AZ-DEV-170: Authentication and Identity on Azure

Master modern identity on Azure for .NET developers. Cover Entra ID app registrations, OpenID Connect + MSAL user sign-in, calling downstream APIs with On-Behalf-Of, Managed Identity + DefaultAzureCredential for service-to-service auth, workload identity federation for GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, custom API protection with scopes and roles, Entra External ID for consumer apps, and a zero-secret capstone.

AZ-DEV-160: Messaging and Event-Driven Systems on Azure

Deep dive into the three pillars of async communication on Azure: Service Bus for commands and enterprise messaging, Event Grid for reactive event-driven architectures, and Event Hubs for high-throughput streaming. Cover choosing between them, advanced patterns (sessions, dead-letter, claim-check, MQTT, capture), and a capstone building a full event-driven order-processing system that uses all three services.

AZ-DEV-150: Azure Container Apps for .NET Microservices

Deploy production-grade .NET 10 microservices on Azure Container Apps. Cover ACA fundamentals, chiseled container builds, KEDA autoscaling, Dapr integration, Container Apps Jobs, VNet integration, Managed Identity, and a full three-service microservices capstone with blue/green revisions, mTLS, and OTel observability.

AZ-DEV-140: Cosmos DB for NoSQL - A .NET Developer's Guide

Build production-grade applications on Cosmos DB (NoSQL API) with .NET 10. Cover data modeling for NoSQL, partitioning strategy, RU/s tuning, change feed processor patterns, global distribution, integrated vector search, and a capstone building a global multi-tenant Cosmos backend with change feed projections and semantic search.

AZ-DEV-130: Azure SQL Database for .NET Developers

Comprehensive Azure SQL Database for .NET developers. Cover the full family (single database, elastic pool, Managed Instance, Hyperscale), Entity Framework Core 9 patterns, passwordless authentication with Managed Identity, performance tuning, DR/HA, security features (RLS, Always Encrypted, Auditing), and modern DevOps with SQL Database Projects and DACPACs.

AZ-DEV-120: Azure Blob Storage for .NET Developers

.NET 10 + Azure.Storage.Blobs v12 end-to-end — blob types, auth, tiers, events, ADLS Gen2, capstone DMS.

AZ-DEV-110: Serverless Development with Azure Functions (.NET 10)

.NET 10 isolated worker Functions v4 end-to-end — triggers, bindings, Durable, hosting plans, MI security, App Insights.

AZ-DEV-100: Building Web Applications with Azure App Service

Take ASP.NET Core apps from a first-deploy to production on Azure App Service. Learn deployment slots, autoscale, VNet integration, managed identity, TLS, and Application Insights, then ship a multi-tier web app end-to-end.

DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

Prepare for the DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals exam with concept teaching plus Microsoft's current hands-on labs across Azure SQL, Storage, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI, capped by an end-to-end certification challenge. By the end you'll be able to describe core data concepts, identify considerations for relational and non-relational data on Azure, and explain modern analytics workloads.

AI-300: Operationalizing Machine Learning and Generative AI Solutions

Operationalize ML and generative AI on Azure — Azure ML lifecycle, Foundry evaluations, GitHub Actions OIDC, RAG tuning, fine-tuning. AI-300 exam prep.