Azure Administrator

Build a solid foundation in cloud computing and Microsoft Azure with this beginner-friendly course designed to prepare you for the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification exam. Across 13 interactive, AI-guided labs, you'll learn core cloud concepts and get hands-on experience with Azure services no prior cloud experience required.The course begins with cloud computing fundamentals understanding the shared responsibility model, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS service models, and the benefits of cloud computing including high availability, scalability, and elasticity. You'll explore Azure's global infrastructure including regions, availability zones, and resource groups, and learn how Azure organizes and manages resources.Hands-on labs cover creating and configuring Azure resources through the portal and command-line tools, deploying virtual machines, configuring virtual networks with subnets and network security groups, working with Azure Storage accounts for blob, file, and table storage, and estimating costs with the Azure Pricing Calculator. You'll also explore identity and security with Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, and resource locks for governance.Additional topics include Azure management and governance tools such as Azure Policy, Management Groups, Azure Resource Manager templates, and Azure Monitor. Each lesson is led by an AI instructor who explains concepts in accessible language, guides you through practical exercises, and reinforces your learning with 6+ assessment questions aligned to AZ-900 exam objectives. Perfect for anyone starting their cloud journey IT professionals, students, business decision-makers, and career changers alike.

Prepare for the AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator certification exam with this comprehensive, hands-on course featuring 14 interactive labs that cover every exam domain. You'll work in live Azure environments with real subscriptions, building the practical skills that Azure administrators use daily.The course covers identity and access management with Microsoft Entra ID, including user and group management, role-based access control, and multi-factor authentication. You'll master governance and compliance through Azure Policy, resource locks, and management groups. Deep dives into Azure networking cover virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, VPN gateways, virtual network peering, Azure DNS, load balancers, and Application Gateway.You'll gain hands-on experience deploying and managing virtual machines across availability zones, configuring Azure Storage accounts with blob, file, table, and queue services, and implementing data protection strategies with backup and site recovery. The course also covers PaaS compute options including Azure App Service, container instances, and Azure Kubernetes Service, plus monitoring and troubleshooting with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and alerts.Each lab is guided by an AI instructor who teaches concepts interactively, walks you through exercises step-by-step, and validates your work with assessment questions mapped directly to the AZ-104 exam objectives. This course is designed for IT professionals with some Azure experience who are ready to become certified Azure Administrators.

Prepare for the AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions certification exam with this comprehensive course featuring 9 AI-guided teaching lessons, 9 hands-on lab exercises, and a comprehensive networking challenge. Master virtual networks, VPN gateways, ExpressRoute, Virtual WAN, load balancing, Application Gateway, Front Door, network security with DDoS and Azure Firewall, private endpoints and service endpoints, and network monitoring. Each topic includes an interactive AI teaching session followed by guided lab exercises, culminating in a final challenge to validate your skills.

Master PowerShell for enterprise administration and automation with this advanced course featuring 16 hands-on labs covering Windows Server, Azure, and Microsoft 365 management. You'll progress from PowerShell fundamentals to advanced scripting techniques, building the automation skills that modern IT administrators need daily.The course begins with PowerShell foundations understanding the command-line environment, discovering and executing cmdlets, working with the pipeline, and filtering and formatting output. You'll learn to navigate the object-oriented nature of PowerShell, using properties and methods to extract and manipulate data from any source. Core scripting topics include variables, arrays, hash tables, conditional logic, loops, error handling, and building reusable functions with parameters.You'll apply these skills to real-world administration scenarios: managing Active Directory users, groups, and organizational units; configuring Windows Server roles and features; managing Azure resources including virtual machines, storage accounts, and resource groups with the Az PowerShell module; and administering Microsoft 365 users, licenses, and Exchange Online mailboxes. Advanced topics include working with REST APIs, parsing JSON and XML data, creating scheduled tasks for automated reporting, and using PowerShell remoting for managing multiple servers simultaneously.Each lab is guided by an AI instructor who teaches concepts interactively and walks you through progressively complex exercises. This course is ideal for system administrators, IT professionals, and DevOps engineers who want to automate repetitive tasks, build consistent management workflows, and dramatically increase their operational efficiency.

Master administering Windows Server across on-premises, hybrid, and Azure environments. This course prepares you for the AZ-802 certification exam through hands-on labs running on real Azure VMs with Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition. By the end of this course you will be able to deploy and manage Active Directory Domain Services on Azure, manage Windows Server workloads with Azure Arc, configure Windows Server file services and storage, secure your Windows Server infrastructure, and monitor and troubleshoot production environments end to end.

Develop the architectural thinking and design skills needed to pass the AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions certification exam. This advanced, design-focused course features 10 interactive lessons that challenge you to make complex architectural decisions aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework.Unlike hands-on lab courses, AZ-305 emphasizes architectural trade-offs and decision-making. Each lesson covers a major exam domain: designing identity solutions with Microsoft Entra ID, governance strategies with management groups and Azure Policy, monitoring architectures with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, data storage solutions spanning relational databases, NoSQL, and data lakes, business continuity with backup, disaster recovery, and high availability patterns, and infrastructure solutions including compute, networking, and application architecture.Every lesson concludes with a realistic case study requiring you to apply design principles to solve complex, multi-faceted scenarios the same format used on the actual AZ-305 exam. You'll evaluate competing requirements across cost, performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence, and justify your architectural recommendations based on Microsoft best practices.The AI instructor guides you through each design domain, explains the trade-offs between different approaches, and challenges your thinking with probing questions. This course is designed for experienced Azure professionals particularly those with AZ-104 or equivalent administrator experience who are ready to move from implementing solutions to architecting them at the enterprise level.

Move from portal clicks to a scripted Azure workflow with the Azure CLI. Master JMESPath output filtering, subscription/RG defaults, config profiles, and the deploy commands administrators reach for every day VM lifecycle, disks and snapshots, virtual networks and NSGs, storage accounts, RBAC assignments, and tagging at scale. By the end of this course you will be able to script the day-to-day work of an Azure IaaS administrator with the CLI, produce output that is machine-parseable for downstream tooling, and gate scripts on --only-show-errors and --query patterns that production admins actually use.

A short-form complement to AZ-040. Skip the PowerShell language basics dive straight into managing Azure IaaS with the Az module. Learn the pipeline idioms that let you compose one `Get-AzVM` output into three downstream cmdlets, master splatting for readable multi-parameter Azure calls, and use `Az.Tools.Predictor` to accelerate interactive admin work. By the end of this course you will be able to write clean, pipeline-first admin scripts for Azure VMs, networking, storage, and role assignments, and lint them with PSScriptAnalyzer before shipping.

Master Microsoft's declarative language for provisioning Azure infrastructure. Move beyond portal clicks to reliable, reviewable, repeatable deployments with Bicep the modern IaC language that succeeded ARM JSON. Across 10 lessons pairing focused teaching with hands-on labs, you'll learn how a Bicep file becomes a deployment, how to compose reusable modules across resource groups and subscriptions, how to preview infrastructure changes safely with what-if and deployment stacks, and how to gate a template on a linter in CI. Every lab uses the in-browser VS Code container with the Bicep extension pre-installed. By the end of this course you will be able to design, deploy, and safely evolve production-grade Azure infrastructure using Bicep modules, deployment scopes, what-if previews, deployment stacks, and CI-based linting.

The legacy-fluency IaC course. Enterprise Azure teams still ship hundreds of ARM JSON templates today you need to read, modify, and eventually modernize them. Learn how ARM JSON deployments actually work, master parameters, variables, functions, copy loops, conditions, linked and nested templates, deploymentScripts, and template specs. Test every template with `arm-ttk`. Then decompile a real 400-line template to Bicep and clean it up. By the end of this course you will be able to confidently maintain existing ARM investments and modernize them to Bicep when the timing is right.

Build the landing zone your organization deploys on Monday morning. A realistic hub-spoke, subscription-vending, private DNS, RBAC, Key Vault, Log Analytics, and Azure Policy baseline codified with Bicep modules and shipped with `azd up`. Every design decision is grounded in the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework. `PSRule.Rules.Azure` runs in-loop as your CAF/WAF conscience. By the end of this course you will be able to design and ship an enterprise-grade Azure landing zone repo that you could pitch as your onboarding project.