AZ-104: Monitor and back up Azure resources

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Free Online Course: AZ-104: Monitor and back up Azure resources provided by Microsoft Learn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4-5 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.

Overview
    • Module 1: You will learn how to configure backup and restore policies that meet your company's regulatory needs.
    • After completing this module, you will be able to:

      • Identify features and usage cases for Azure Backup.
      • Configure Recovery Services Vault backup options.
      • Implement on-premises file and folder backup.
      • Configure the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent.
    • Module 2: You will learn how to configure virtual machine backups including restore operations.
    • After completing this module, you will be able to:

      • Identify features and usage cases for different Azure backup methods.
      • Configure virtual machine snapshots and backup options.
      • Implement virtual machine backup and restore, including soft delete.
      • Compare the Azure Backup (MARS) agent to the Azure Backup Server (MABS).
      • Perform site-to-site recovery by using Azure Site Recovery.
    • Module 3: You will learn how to configure Azure Monitor including querying the activity log.
    • After completing this module, you will be able to:

      • Identify the features and usage cases for Azure Monitor.
      • Configure and interpret metrics and logs.
      • Identify the Azure Monitor components and data types.
      • Configure the Activity Log.
    • Module 4: You will learn how to configure Azure alerts including action groups.
    • After completing this module, you will be able to:

      • Configure Azure Monitor alerts.
      • Create alert rules and action groups.
    • Module 5: You will learn how to configure Log Analytics including structuring queries.
    • After completing this module, you will be able to:

      • Identify the features and usage cases for Log Analytics.
      • Create a Log Analytics workspace and configure connected and data sources.
      • Structure a Log Analytics query and review results.
    • Module 6: You will learn how to configure Network Watcher and troubleshoot common networking problems.
    • After completing this module, you will be able to:

      • Identify the features and usage cases for Azure Network Watcher.
      • Configure diagnostic capabilities like IP Flow Verify, Next Hop, and Network Topology.
    • Module 7: Respond to incidents and activities in your infrastructure through alerting capabilities in Azure Monitor.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Configure alerts on events in your Azure resources based on metrics, log events, and Activity log events
      • Learn how to use smart groups to identify and group related alerts to reduce alert noise
    • Module 8: Use Azure Monitor logs to extract valuable information about your infrastructure from log data.
    • In this module, you will:

      • Identify the features and capabilities of Azure Monitor logs
      • Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
    • Module 9: Learn how to use Azure Monitor VM Insights to monitor your organization's Azure virtual machines.
      • Evaluate Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights.
      • Configure a Log Analytics workspace.
      • Build queries from the Heartbeat and InsightsMetrics tables.

Syllabus
    • Module 1: Configure file and folder backups
      • Introduction
      • Describe Azure backup benefits
      • Implement Azure backup center
      • Setup recovery service vault backup options
      • Configure on-premises file and folder backups
      • Manage the Azure recovery services agent
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary and resources
    • Module 2: Configure virtual machine backups
      • Introduction
      • Protect virtual machine data
      • Create virtual machine snapshots
      • Setup recovery services vault backup options
      • Backup virtual machines
      • Restore virtual machines
      • Implement Azure Backup Server
      • Compare backup options
      • Manage soft delete
      • Implement Azure Site Recovery
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary and resources
    • Module 3: Configure Azure Monitor
      • Introduction
      • Describe Azure Monitor key capabilities
      • Describe Azure Monitor components
      • Define metrics and logs
      • Identify data types
      • Describe activity log events
      • Query the activity log
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary and resources
    • Module 4: Configure Azure alerts
      • Introduction
      • Manage Azure Monitor alerts
      • Create alert rules
      • Create action groups
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary and resources
    • Module 5: Configure Log Analytics
      • Introduction
      • Determine Log Analytics uses
      • Create a workspace
      • Define connected sources
      • Define data sources
      • Visualize Log Analytics data
      • Structure Log Analytics queries
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary and resources
    • Module 6: Configure Network Watcher
      • Introduction
      • Describe Network Watcher features
      • Review flow verify diagnostics
      • Review next hop diagnostics
      • Visualize the network topology
      • Knowledge check
      • Summary and resources
    • Module 7: Improve incident response with alerting on Azure
      • Introduction
      • Explore the different alert types that Azure Monitor supports
      • Use metric alerts for alerts about performance issues in your Azure environment
      • Exercise - Use metric alerts to alert on performance issues in your Azure environment
      • Use log alerts to alert on events in your application
      • Use activity log alerts to alert on events within your Azure infrastructure
      • Exercise - Use activity log alerts to alert on events within your Azure infrastructure
      • Use smart groups to reduce alert noise in Azure Monitor
      • Summary
    • Module 8: Analyze your Azure infrastructure by using Azure Monitor logs
      • Introduction
      • Features of Azure Monitor logs
      • Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
      • Exercise - Create basic Azure Monitor log queries to extract information from log data
      • Summary
    • Module 9: Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
      • Introduction
      • What are Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights?
      • Exercise - Set up a Log Analytics workspace and Azure Monitor VM Insights
      • Build log queries by using the Kusto Query Language
      • Exercise - Build log queries
      • Summary