Architect storage infrastructure in Azure

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Free Online Course: Architect storage infrastructure in Azure provided by Microsoft Learn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 5-6 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
    • Module 1: Learn how using Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Cosmos DB - or a combination of them - for your business scenario is the best way to get the most performant solution.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Learn how to classify your data as structured, semi-structured, or unstructured
      • Learn how to determine the operational needs, latency requirements, and transaction requirements for your data
      • Determine whether your data requires transactions
    • Module 2: Discover ways to use an Azure Storage account to manage your data for billing, access, and storage location of your blobs, files, queues, and tables.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Decide how many storage accounts you need for your project
      • Determine the appropriate settings for each storage account
      • Create a storage account using the Azure portal
    • Module 3: Azure Storage Explorer allows you to quickly view all the storage services under your account. You can browse through, read, and edit data stored in those services through a user-friendly graphical interface.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Describe the features of Azure Storage Explorer
      • Install Storage Explorer
      • Use Storage Explorer to connect to Azure Storage services and manipulate stored data
    • Module 4: Create a simple application and add configuration, client library references, and C# or JavaScript code to connect it to Azure Storage.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Explore the data types and services supported by an Azure storage account.
      • Create a new Azure storage account using the Azure portal.
      • Create a new application and connect the app to an Azure Storage account.
    • Module 5: In this module, you learn how to make your application storage highly available by ensuring that you can fail over resources if there's an Azure region failure.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Identify the features of RA-GRS storage
      • Identify the application design considerations when you use RA-GRS
      • Implement the Circuit Breaker pattern in a sample application
    • Module 6: Learn how Azure Storage provides multilayered security to protect your data with access keys, secure networks, and Advanced Threat Protection monitoring.
    • In this module you will:

      • Explore the Azure Data Lake enterprise-class security features.
      • Understand storage account keys.
      • Understand shared access signatures.
      • Understand transport-level encryption with HTTPS.
      • Understand Advanced Threat Protection.
      • Control network access.
    • Module 7: Azure provides a variety of disk storage options for virtual machine workloads. Identify the features of capabilities of each type to ensure your application performs optimally.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Identify the types of disk storage available to virtual machines
      • Identify the capabilities of different disk storage
      • Identify the use cases for each type of disk storage
    • Module 8: Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure storage
    • In this module, you will:

      • Identify the tools used to troubleshoot issues with Azure storage
      • Identify the metrics and logs that can be used to troubleshoot and diagnose storage performance
      • Troubleshoot performance issues in Azure storage

Syllabus
    • Module 1: Choose a data storage approach in Azure
      • Introduction
      • Classify your data
      • Determine operational needs
      • Group multiple operations in a transaction
      • Choose a storage solution on Azure
      • Summary
    • Module 2: Create an Azure Storage account
      • Introduction
      • Decide how many storage accounts you need
      • Choose your account settings
      • Choose an account creation tool
      • Exercise - Create a storage account using the Azure portal
      • Knowledge check - Create a storage account
      • Summary
    • Module 3: Upload, download, and manage data with Azure Storage Explorer
      • Introduction
      • Connect Azure Storage Explorer to a storage account
      • Exercise - Connect Azure Storage Explorer to a storage account
      • Connect Azure Storage Explorer to Azure Cosmos DB and Data Lake
      • Exercise - Connect Azure Storage Explorer to Azure Cosmos DB and Data Lake
      • Summary
    • Module 4: Connect an app to Azure Storage
      • Introduction
      • Explore Azure storage services
      • Exercise - Create a new app to work with Azure storage
      • Exercise - Create an Azure storage account
      • Interact with the Azure Storage APIs
      • Exercise - Add the storage client library to your app
      • Connect to your Azure storage account
      • Exercise - Add Azure Storage configuration to your app
      • Exercise - Connect your application to your Azure Storage account
      • Exercise - Upload an image to your Azure Storage account
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary
    • Module 5: Make your application storage highly available with read-access geo-redundant storage
      • Introduction
      • Understand the role of an Azure storage account and its replication features
      • Exercise - Create an Azure storage account
      • Design HA applications to handle disaster recovery
      • Exercise - Deploy a highly available application
      • Summary
    • Module 6: Secure your Azure Storage account
      • Introduction
      • Explore Azure Storage security features
      • Understand storage account keys
      • Understand shared access signatures
      • Control network access to your storage account
      • Understand advanced threat protection for Azure Storage
      • Explore Azure Data Lake Storage security features
      • Summary
    • Module 7: Choose the right disk storage for your virtual machine workload
      • Introduction
      • Managed, unmanaged, and local disk storage
      • Disk types for virtual machines
      • Select a disk type for your workload
      • Summary
    • Module 8: Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot your Azure storage
      • Introduction
      • Identify the troubleshooting tools available in Azure
      • Troubleshoot with storage metrics
      • Exercise - Enabling storage metrics and view metric data
      • Troubleshoot with storage logging
      • Exercise - Enable storage logging and view log data
      • Summary