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This course will provide foundational level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure. The course can be taken as an optional first step in learning about cloud services and Microsoft Azure, before taking further Microsoft Azure or Microsoft cloud services courses. The course will cover general cloud computing concepts as well as general cloud computing models and services such as Public, Private and Hybrid cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). It will also cover some core Azure services and solutions, as well as key Azure pillar services concerning security, privacy, compliance and trust. It will finally cover pricing and support services available with Azure.

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This course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, create and scale virtual machines, implement storage solutions, configure virtual networking, back up and share data, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement Azure Active Directory, secure identities, and monitor your solution.

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In this course students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to design, build, test and maintain Azure solutions. Topics covered: implement Azure IaaS services and features, provisioning virtual machines, using Batch Service to deploy/maintain resources, and how to create containerized solutions by using Azure Kubernetes Service. Implement Azure Platform as a Service feature and services in their development solutions, create and manage Azure App Service resources, integrate push and offline sync in their mobile apps, and how to document an API. Create and test Azure Functions, leverage Azure storage, Azure Table storage, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Blob, and developing against relational databases in Azure. Students will also gain the knowledge and skills for Azure authentication and authorization services, and throughout the course leveraging Azure CLI, REST, and application code. Finally, students will learn how to ensure applications hosted in Azure are operating efficiently and as intended, how Azure Monitor operates and use Azure Cache and CDN options to enhance the end-user experience by creating and managing their own APIs by using API Management.

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This course teaches students how to architect and design Azure based solutions using a broad range of Azure services. Students will learn how to manage their Azure resources, including deployment and configuration of virtual machines using the Azure portal, PowerShell and ARM templates, virtual networks, storage accounts including Azure blob storage, Azure AD and services using Role-based access control (RBAC). Students will also learn how to discover, assess, plan and implement a migration of on-premises resources and infrastructure to Azure, how to use Azure Site Recovery for performing the actual migration of workloads to Azure, how operations are done in parallel and asynchronously, how to build Logic App solutions that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across organizations by automating tasks and business processes as workflows. Finally, students will see how Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes it simple to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure, learn how to configure a message-based integration architecture, develop for asynchronous processing, create apps for autoscaling, and better understand Azure Cognitive Services solutions.

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This course teaches students how to manage security and identity within the context of Azure and be introduced to multiple SaaS services available in Azure that for integration into existing Azure solutions. Students will compare and contrast various database options on Azure, identify data streaming options for large-scale data ingest, and identify longer-term data storage options. Students will also learn how to deploy an ARM template to a resource group, author a complex deployment using the Azure Building Blocks tools, and integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service and finally, students will learn how to describe DNS and IP strategies for VNETs in Azure, compare connectivity options for ad-hoc and hybrid connectivity, distribute network traffic across multiple loads using load balancers, and design a hybrid connectivity scenario between cloud and on-premise.

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This course provides the knowledge and skills to implement DevOps processes including how to use source control, scale Git for enterprise, implement and manage build infrastructure, implement continuous integration in an Azure DevOps pipeline and implement a container build strategy. From there, students will learn how to design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, design a dependency management strategy and deploy an application infrastructure in DevOps pipelines. Instructors also cover how to implement infrastructure as code and configuration management, provision Azure infrastructure using common automation tools,  deploy an application infrastructure. Students will also learn how to integrate 3rd party deployment tools with Azure, such as Chef and Puppet to incorporate compliance and security into the release pipeline. Finally, students will learn how to recommend and design system feedback mechanisms, implement a process for routing system feedback to development teams, the skills needed to design a DevOps strategy, plan for transformation and create team structures. 



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In this course students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain the security posture, and identify and remediate vulnerabilities by using a variety of security tools. The course covers scripting and automation, virtualization, and cloud N-tier architecture.



In this course students will gain the necessary knowledge about how to use Azure services to develop, train, and deploy, machine learning solutions. The course starts with an overview of Azure services that support data science. From there, it focuses on using Azure's premier data science service, Azure Machine Learning service, to automate the data science pipeline. This course is focused on Azure and does not teach the student how to do data science. It is assumed students already know that.

Pass the DP-100 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure exam to be awarded the Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate certification.
Students learn how to develop data models that solve business problems using Azure technologies.

The Azure Data Scientist applies their knowledge of data science and machine learning to implement and run machine learning workloads on Azure; in particular, using Azure Machine Learning Service. This entails planning and creating a suitable working environment for data science workloads on Azure, running data experiments and training predictive models, managing and optimizing models, and deploying machine learning models into production.

This course is 50% presentation and demonstration and 50% hands-on learning using Microsoft Azure.

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In this course, the students will implement various data platform technologies into solutions that are in line with business and technical requirements including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid data scenarios incorporating both relational and No-SQL data. They will also learn how to process data using a range of technologies and languages for both streaming and batch data. Students will also explore how to implement data security including authentication, authorization, data policies and standards. They will also define and implement data solution monitoring for both the data storage and data processing activities. Finally, they will manage and troubleshoot Azure data solutions which includes the optimization and disaster recovery of big data, batch processing and streaming data solutions.

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In this course, the students will design various data platform technologies into solutions that are in line with business and technical requirements. This can include on-premises, cloud, and hybrid data scenarios which incorporate relational, No-SQL or Data Warehouse data. They will also learn how to design process architectures using a range of technologies for both streaming and batch data. Students will also explore how to design data security including data access, data policies and standards. They will also design Azure data solutions which includes the optimization, availability and disaster recovery of big data, batch processing and streaming data solutions.

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Gain the necessary knowledge for designing Azure AI solution by building a customer support chat Bot using artificial intelligence from the Microsoft Azure platform including language understanding and pre-built AI functionality in the Azure Cognitive Services.

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop you will learn the basics on how to use Visual Studio tools for Xamarin to build fully native Android, iOS, and Windows apps, sharing between 60 – 90% of code across device platforms. Xamarin apps are fully native—native UI, native performance and 100% access to all device platform APIs. Anything you can do in Objective-C, Swift, and Java you can do in C# with Xamarin, only much faster thanks to code sharing and reuse. We then introduce PowerApps, Microsoft’s Business Application Platform, which enables non-developers to build intelligent, scalable apps for desktop and mobile devices on top of cloud and on-premises services without writing code. We then turn our focus to Microsoft Flow which works with PowerApps to provide process and task automation.This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.

In this Microsoft Cloud Workshop, attendees will learn to design a hybrid cloud architecture using a combination of Azure Cloud and Azure Stack.   This functional architecture will enable customers to leverage their investments in Azure as a “cloud platform”, rather than Azure as a “place”.  Students will learn to determine which systems are good candidates for the Azure Cloud and which are better suited in a Private Cloud on Azure Stack. This workshop will include: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab.

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, students will learn how to build and configure an Internet of Things (IoT) Audit Solution using Azure Blockchain. Students will do this using Ethereum Blockchain with the use of Smart Contracts to collect device telemetry information in addition to enforce contract specifics related to conditions during transport of goods. Specifically, the IoT devices will report temperature and humidity data that will be validated through the Smart Contracts against agreed upon acceptable ranges. This workshop will include: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab.

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop we focus on how to build a resilient IaaS Architecture. Microsoft has a uniquely complete Cloud solution portfolio, from IaaS to PaaS and SaaS which opens the door to many unique scenarios for integrating solutions based on IaaS VMs with PaaS and SaaS services. This workshop walks through creation of a VM with related Networking, VPN, Storage, AD Identity services, Web and SQL tiers. We then add a VPM, Load Balancing, and Backup capability. Finally, we learn how to configure Traffic Manager, Operation Management Suite and Network Security Groups to ensure the environment in secure and well managed. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop we will learn how to create a Docker application and deploy it to the Azure Container Service. We then go on to set up load balancing to scale the application and deliver high availability. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop you will learn to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to accelerate time-to-value by simplifying setup and deployment of Azure environments, and to allow you to work with your solution as a group. This also helps with security, auditing, and tagging, and as you move from testing to staging, and production.  We then go on to learn how Azure DevOps provides an end-to-end DevOps solution including Agile Planning Tools, Repository, Build & Deployment Tools. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this Workshop you will learn how to upgrade from Oracle Databases and earlier SQL Server Databases to SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL DB.  SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 (and now also available on Linux) will offer higher availability, greater performance and faster analytics.  SQL Server 2016 and Azure DB supports virtually any data, of any size, with any application on any platform. SQL Server 2016 also boasts the fastest In-Memory technology on the planet across workloads helping customers to take performance and throughput to another level. It is also possible to build a hybrid data platform with frequently accessed data in SQL Server 2016 and less frequently accessed data in Azure’s SQL Database. Attend this workshop to upgrade to these latest versions to take advantage of these benefits to increase protection from security vulnerabilities. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will learn how to setup and configure a Virtual Network with Subnets in Azure. Students will also learn how to secure the Virtual Network with Firewall rules and route tables. Additionally, students will setup access to the Virtual Network with a "jump box" and a Site-to-Site VPN connection. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will create an Azure cloud governance plan to advise a manufacturing company of the features available in Azure. Discover features to bring governance to their Azure deployments, distributed administration, and allowance for secure remote connectivity and development work for their offshore developers. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will learn real-time analytics without IoT. Enable intelligent conversation in a machine learning-enabled, real-time chat pipeline and apply analytics to visualize customer sentiment in real-time for hospitals to allow guests to chat with one another, and to communicate directly with the concierge. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will implement an IoT solution for intelligent vending machines leveraging Facial feature recognition and Machine learning to drive on-demand pricing, enable real-time analytics, and cloud to device messaging flows. Learn how to create Machine Learning models in R, train the models at scale using R and Spark on HDInsight, then expose the model as a web service through R Server Operationalization. You will use IoT Hub to facilitate vending machine device registration and communication for product promotions, and enable real-time analytics with SQL Database in-memory and columnar indexing. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will implement an end-to-end solution simulating high velocity data emitted from smart meters and analyzed in Azure. Create a lambda architecture, filtering a subset of the telemetry data for real-time visualization on the hot path, and storing all of the data in long-term storage for the cold path. Learn how to register, activate, and collect telemetry data from devices through IoT Hub. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this whiteboard design session, attendees will learn how to migrate an existing Red hat Linux based deployment into Microsoft Azure and configure it for availability, connectivity, monitoring and general best practices with Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Azure Web Apps with Linux. This workshop will include: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab.

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, students will help a global publisher architect a solution to migrate their on-premises procurement system into Azure. Because of the desire to not change the existing application, this will involve moving the application and its dependencies onto Azure IaaS VMs. There are many questions and concerns the customer has, and they will look to the student to answer these and provide the end-state design and the high level steps to get there. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, students will learn how to build, setup, and configure a Web Application that performs media streaming using Azure Services; including the Video Indexer API. Students will also learn how to implement video processing using Logic Apps, Azure Functions, and Video Indexer API to encode and transcribe videos. This workshop will include: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab.

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will implement an architecture for an online concert ticket vendor to handle spikes in traffic built on top of Service Fabric and apply smooth updates or roll back failing updates. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will migrate a retail chain to from an existing data warehouse from an on-premises SQL Server into Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Prepare a detailed migration plan including data preparation, importing data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and architecting a data orchestration strategy to move data from the existing on-premises source systems to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



It this worksop, attendees will implement an end-to-end solution for e-commerce that is based on Azure App Services, Azure Active Directory, and Visual Studio Online. Attendees will ensure the solution is PCI-compliant, and appropriate security measures are put into place for both on-prem and public access scenarios. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will identify and compare IaaS and PaaS hosting options to save cost even further through the use of Azure App Service. Additionally, learn to improve resiliency and high availability through multi-region deployment. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab

This workshop is designed to help attendees gain a better understanding of how to integrate and deploy complex Open Source Software (OSS) workloads into Azure PaaS. Attendees will migrate an existing MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) stack application from a hosted environment into Azure PaaS services, and fully embrace modern DevOps tools.

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will architect SAP HANA Business Warehouse Solutions on Azure. Attendees will learn how to deploy SAP HANA in Azure for High Availability in the same region as well as across multiple regions. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session Hands-on lab

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, attendees will Deploy and configure SAP on Azure infrastructure and SAP NetWeaver deployment running on Azure infrastructure, including SAP NetWeaver ASCS and SAP NetWeaver database servers. This workshop includes: Whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab.

In course, you will work with a group to design an end-to-end solution that leverages many of Microsoft Azure’s security features.

At the end of this session, you will be better able to design and recommend solutions that help organizations properly secure their cloud-based applications while protecting their sensitive data.

A cloud workshop is a 1-day event that consists of an overview of the technology, a deep dive whiteboard design session and Hands-on lab where participants will a subset of the solution.



In this workshop, students will work with a media publishing company to design a hybrid cloud disaster recovery solution. Students will design the solution to handle large spikes in load and harden the security to include encryption of PCI data. Additionally students will implement an archival strategy to keep databases sizes in check. This workshop will include: Whiteboard design session.

Opsgility's developer division is quickly adopting DevOps concepts for the development of new software. The Director of IT wants to follow suit and adopt Infrastructure as Code for more agile management of servers. 

In this Live Hackathon, you or your team will be tasked with implementing authoring templates using Terraform that describe a web farm. From there, you will use Ansible to provision the web server and middleware on the application servers. 

Opsgility's data science team is operationalizing their work in the cloud. They are looking to automate the deployment and retraining of the machine learning models they build in support of other business applications. 

In this Live Hackathon, your team will be tasked with training and securely deploying a machine learning model. You will then be tasked with implementing a monitoring solution to track the performance of your production models. Finally, you will automate the retraining of your model.

Opsgility's data science and analytics teams are moving all new data processing operations to the cloud. The Director of Data Engineering wishes to build a cloud native data pipeline to handle retail sales ingestion. 

In this Live Hackathon, you or your team will be tasked with implementing a data transformation pipeline in Azure. You will pull data from multiple sources, prepare and clean the data, make the necessary transformations and publish the data for consumption by applications and analysts.

Opsgility's developer division is quickly adopting DevOps concepts for the development of new software. The Director of IT wants to follow suit and adopt Infrastructure as Code for more agile management of servers. 

In this Live Hackathon, you or your team will be tasked with implementing authoring templates using Azure Resource Manager that describe a web farm. From there, you will write scripts to provision the web server and middleware on the application servers. 

Join this hands-on workshop where you will learn about building AI solutions that leverage Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services. From there, you will complete a live hand-on challenge in Azure to earn a badge!

In the challenge, you will be acting as a developer tasked with augmenting a web site to make it easier for customers to find products and services. The solution you have been tasked with is to leverage Azure’s Artificial Intelligence capabilities to build a bot to improve customer experience. 

To complete the challenge and earn your badge, you will create a chat bot using the Azure Bot Framework and Azure Cognitive Services to improve the customer experience on the website.  

In this challenge, you will be tasked to build a new web application using Microsoft Azure. These exercises will test your ability to work with a C# Asp.Net Web Application deployed to an Azure App Service.  You will leverage your knowledge to integrate Azure storage, the Azure Content Delivery Network, Azure App Configuration, CosmosDb, and Logic Apps.  Additional tasks will make sure you are familiar with Application Insights and using telemetry from your applications.

Join this hands-on workshop where you will learn about building resilient solutions that leverage Azure Infrastructure as a Service. From there, you will complete a live hand-on challenge in Azure to earn a badge!

In the challenge, you are a new IT Professional for Contoso Mortgage, you are responsible for setting up infrastructure in the cloud. Contoso Mortgage has chosen Microsoft Azure as their cloud provider of choice. The closest Azure region to their headquarters is Central US. To try out the service, you have been asked to setup a new highly-available web server in Contoso Mortgage’s Azure subscription.



In this hands-on workshop, you will be introduced to Microsoft Azure and gain a solid understanding of the capabilities of Microsoft's Cloud Platform. As part of the workshop, you will learn about the various cloud computing models and use cases that Azure provides as well as see a demo packed session on the basics of using Microsoft Azure.

After the presentation, attendees will complete an Azure Challenge to get your hands-dirty with Azure. In the challenge, you will be tasked to complete a variety of basic Azure administration tasks. These challenges will expose you to the Azure portal and the most commonly-used Azure services. Each challenge is validated automatically so pay close attention to the requirements in each challenge. If you successfully complete all of the challenges during the time frame, you will be earn the Azure 101 Certification badge from Skill Me UP from Acclaim.