getting started with microsoft azure in 30 mins
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Microsoft Azure
Getting Started with
in 30 Mins
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Agenda Why should you learn Azure Cloud Where to begin Identifying Azure Career Path Learning Resources Getting Azure subscription Guided Training Resources Azure Certifications Path Azure Certifications Study Planning Get Certified and excel in your career
Few things to note
Azure is a moving target Any material is time bound, requested to check the offi-
cial documentation for the validity of the content at any given time.
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Why should you learn Azure Cloud
All road goes to Cloud
Huge De-mand
Job Oppor-tunity
High Re-turns
Goal Setting & Planning
1. Set Goal & Get Started
2. Build Awareness and Understanding
3. Subscribe to Azure
4. Learning by Doing Hands-on Labs
5. Certification Preparation & Get Cer-tified
Systematic & Planned Learning
Where to begin
Where to begin…Its too overwhelming?
Lets look at your skill set
Develop-ers
IT Infra
SQL or Any Database
Back-ground
Developers Path
Develop-ers
IT Infra
SQL or Any Database
Back-ground
IT Infra Path
Develop-ers
IT Infra
SQL or Any Database
Back-ground
Any Database Path
Any De-velopers/Testers
IT Infra
SQL or Any Database
Back-ground
Now that I know my path…. How & where
do I start?
Step -1
Official Documentation
Books
Examples/ Code Samples
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Microsoft Channel 9
YouTube –Azure Channel
Microsoft Official Blog
Microsoft Partners Network
The MAPA
BorntoLearn – Certifications Community
MSDN
Technet
Step -2
Get Azure Subscription
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/free/
Credit Card???????• No I don’t have credit, because• I’m a student?• I’m a fresher without a credit card, how do I get started with
Azure?• Don’t want to use my Credit Card, because I’m afraid of being
charged?• I work for an enterprise but I don’t know whom should I contact?• I work in a startup with a financial crunch. How can I still use
Azure?• I’m an independent consultant and I don’t wish to use my credit
Card, is there any option?• I just lost my job, but I would like to horn my skills to get a better
job?
If you are!!!
Microsoft BizSpark
• $150 worth of Azure Credit per startup per month for up to five de-velopers.
IT Pro Cloud Es-sentials
• Expand IT knowl-edge and increase your skills by acti-vating your IT Pro Cloud Essentials benefits.
Visual Studio
Dev Es-sentials
• Offers Developers access to tools, services & re-sources for free in-cluding + 25$ USD per month upto 12 months
Microsoft Imagine for Stu-dents
• Microsoft Imag-ine software bene-fits are only avail-able for current full-time students.
Hands-on Labs
Training
On-Demand & Guided Training Providers
http://bit.ly/2kOHkVL
On-Demand Training Providers
Offline Training Providers
https://openedx.microsoft.com/
MooC
Microsoft Official Guidance1. Official Documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure2. Books (E-Book & Paperback) - https://mva.microsoft.com/ebooks 3. Examples/Code Samples (
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/resources/samples/)4. Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) - https://mva.microsoft.com/5. Channel9 - https://channel9.msdn.com/6. YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/windowsazure7. Official Blogs - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/8. MSDN - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/9. Others
Step -3
Azure Certification ProcessTo become a MCSA
pass any 2 of the fol-lowing
exams:
Microsoft Azure Certification Process
70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastruc-ture Solutions
Linux Foundation Certified System Ad-ministrator
To become a MCSA: Linux on Azure – pass the follow-ingexams
Azure Certifications List70-532 — Developing Microsoft Azure Solu-
tions.
•Design and imple-ment a website• Create and man-age virtual machines• Design and imple-ment cloud services• Design and imple-ment a storage strategy• Manage application and network services
70-533 — Implemen-ting Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solu-
tions
•Implement a website• Implement virtual machines• Implement cloud services• Implement storage• Implement an Azure Active Direc-tory• Implement virtual networks
70-534 — Architect-ing Microsoft Azure
Solution
•Design Azure infra-structure and net-working• Secure resources• Design an applica-tion storage and data access strategy• Design an ad-vanced application• Design websites• Design a manage-ment, monitoring, and business conti-nuity strategy
70-473 Designing and implementing
Cloud Data Platform Solutions
•Design and imple-ment database solu-tions for Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Database
•Manage database management sys-tems (DBMS) secu-rity
•Design for high availability, disaster recovery and scala-bility
•Monitor and manage database implemen-tations on Azure
70-475 Designing and Implementing Big Data Analytics
Solutions
•Design big data batch processing and interactive solutions
•Design big data real-time processing so-lutions
•Design Machine Learning solutions
•Operationalise end-to-end cloud analyt-ics solutions
To become a MCSE: Cloud Platform and In-frastructure
New Microsoft Azure Certification Process
Microsoft Azure Exams and Learning Content Roadmap MCSD VS MCSA
Certifications - Streamlining
Intended Audience:• Focused on developers with experience in developing Scalable Apps and Services offered by
Azure• Does not require any existing experience with the ASP.NET platform• Focuses on the architectural considerations and building a highly available solution in the
cloud
Benefits:Beginning to advanced insight on different services of Microsoft Azure like Storage, Virtual Ma-chines, Web Apps, Cloud Services, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Networks and how to access Azure services API call, build, configure & deploy applications for Azure through a hands-on in-structor led delivery model.
70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions (Developer)
Exam 70-532 – Certification Prep Timeline
Note:- 1 day = 2 hours of prep time
Weeks Activity Trackable Links Duration
Week 1
Go through MVA courses X Course 1 Course 2 Course 3 Course 4 Course 5 Exam Prep Session
15 hours
(6 Days)
Go through MPN courses Course 1 Course 2 Practice Test
Week 2Go through EP readiness cert prep series (6 sessions of 2-3 Hours each) Recording for Exam 70-532
15 hours
(6 days)
Week 3 Instructor Led Training X Course 20532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions 5 Days
Week 4, 5 & 6 Sign up for free trial X
Azure Free Trial worth $20020 days
Azure Free Trial for a Year
Week 7 & 8 Take practice test (2 times) XMicrosoft Official Practice Test 70-532 Microsoft Official Practice Test 70-532
10 days
Week 9 Take the exam
Schedule Exam 70-532
Total Prep Duration:47
days (ap-prox.)
70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (Infrastructure)
Intended Audience:For IT professionals who are familiar with implementing and managing on-premises IT deployments that include Active Directory Domain Services, Virtualization Technologies and applications.
Benefits:Provides you a beginner to advanced insight into different services of Microsoft Azure like Storage, Virtual Machines, Websites, Cloud Services, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Net-works, Backup & Site Recovery through a hands- on instructor led delivery model. Partic-ipants will be able to deploy, configure, monitor, and diagnose cloud services, create and manage Azure AD tenants and configure application integration with Azure AD.
Exam 70-533 – Certification Prep Timeline
Weeks Activity Trackable Links Duration
Week 1
Go through MVA courses X Course 1 Course 2 Course 3 Course 4 Course 5 Exam Prep Session
15 hours
6 DaysMicrosoft Cloud & Proud Initiative X Click here
Go through MPN courses Course 1 Course 2 Practice Test
Week 2Go through EP readiness cert prep series (6 ses-sions of 2-3 Hours each) Recording for Exam 70-533
15 hours
6 Days
Week 3 Instructor Led Training X Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 5 Days
Week 4, 5 &6 Sign up for free trial X
Azure Free Trial worth $20020 days
Azure Free Trial for a Year
Week 7 & 8 Take practice test ( 2 times) XMicrosoft Official Practice Test 70-533 Microsoft Official Practice Test 70-533
10 days
Week 9 Take the exam Schedule Exam 70-533
Total Prep Duration:46 days (ap-prox.)
Note:- 1 day = 2 hours of prep time
70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (Architect)Intended Audience: For Architects, who are interested in validating their Microsoft Azure solution design skills. Participants will be able to learn the features and capabilities of Azure services and will be able to identify tradeoffs and make decisions for designing public and hybrid cloud solutions. After completing this certification, participants will be able to identify appropriate infrastruc-ture solutions and platform solution to meet customer requirements.
Benefits:This course will give you a beginner to advanced insight on different services of Microsoft Azure like Storage, Virtual Machines, Websites, Cloud Services, Azure Active Directory, Vir-tual Networks, designing advanced application solutions with HDInsight, Machine Learning and HPC pack. This course includes, how to design solutions for Azure using a combination of different Azure services through a hands-on instructor led delivery model.
Exam 70-534 – Certification Prep Timeline
Weeks Activity Trackable Links Duration
Week 1
Go through MVA courses X Course 1 Course 2 Course 3 Course 4 Course 5 Exam Prep Session15 hours
6 DaysGo through MPN courses Course 1 Course 2 Practice Test
Week 2Go through EP readiness cert prep series (6 ses-sions of 2- 3 Hours each) Recording for Exam 70-534
15 hours
6 Days
Week 3, 4 &5 Sign up for free trial X
Azure Free Trial worth $200
20 daysAzure Free Trial for a Year
Week 6 & 7 Take practice test ( 2 times) XMicrosoft Official Practice Test 70-534 Microsoft Official Practice Test 70-534
10 days
Week 8 Take the exam
Schedule Exam 70-534
Total Prep Duration:42 days (ap-prox.)
Note:- 1 day = 2 hours of prep time
70-473: Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
Intended Audience:Focuses on designing and implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions on Microsoft Azure cloud by using SQL Server on-premises, SQL Server on Azure VM, Azure SQL, and Hybrid solutions where both on-premises and Azure cloud are used.
Benefit:As a participant you will learn how to design, implement and optimize data workloads in cloud, native and hybrid scenarios with on premise SQL Server, SQL Server on Azure VM and Azure SQL. You will also learn about implementing high-availability data solutions and disaster recovery options for your data platform. We would also discuss features such as data security, monitoring and managing database in cloud.
Exam Prep Series Activity Trackable Links Duration
Week 1 MVA Course XDesign and Implement Cloud DataPlatform Solutions 60 Mins
Week 2Go through EP readiness cert prep series (6 sessions of 2-3 Hours each) Recording for Exam 70-473
15 hours
(6 Days)
Week 3, 4 & 5 Sign up for free trail X
Azure Free Trial worth $200
20 daysAzure Free Trial for a Year
Week 6 & 7 Take practice test X Microsoft Official Practice Test 70-473 10 days
Week 8 Take the exam Exam 70-473
Total Prep Duration: 36 days (approx.)
Note:- 1 day = 2 hours of prep time
70-473: Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
70-475: Design and Implement Big Data Analytics Solutions
Intended Audience:For data professionals who have experience designing big data analytics solutions on Microsoft Azure. Candidates should be able to design big data batch processing and inter-active solutions as well as big data real-time processing solutions. Candidates should also be able to design machine-learning solutions and create and manage end-to-end cloud analytics solutions.
70-475: Design and Implement Big Data Analytics Solutions
Exam Prep Series Activity Trackable Links Duration
Week 1 MVA Course X Big Data Analytics 60 Mins
Week 2Go through EP readiness cert prep series (6 sessions of 2-3 Hours each) Recording for Exam 70-475
15 hours
(6 Days)
Week 3, 4 & 5 Sign up for free trial X
Azure Free Trial worth $200
20 daysAzure Free Trial for a Year
Week 6 & 7 Take practice test X Microsoft Official Practice Test 70-475 10 days
Week 8 Take the exam Exam 70-475
Total Prep Duration: 36 days (approx.)
Note:- 1 day = 2 hours of prep time
Enterprise Partners – Certification PrepWorkshop Content
Exam Prep Series Topics Recording Links
Recording for Exam 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
Cloud Deployment Model & Azure Storage Click HereAzure CDN, Azure VNet & Azure VMs Click HereCreating, deploying, monitoring Azure Websites, Web Jobs Click Here
Automate Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery, Creating and managing Azure VMs, Azure SQL Database
Click Here
Implement an Azure Active Directory & Design, develop and deploy Cloud Services Click HereMessaging Solutions, Distributed Caching, Business Continuity & Discussing Exam Objectives Click Here
Recording for Exam 70-533Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure So-lutions
Azure VNet & Azure VMs Part 1 Click HereAzure VNet & Azure VMs Part 2 Click HereCreating, deploying and managing Azure Web Apps Click HereImplement Azure Storage & Azure SQL Database Click HereImplement an Azure Active Directory & Provisioning resources using PowerShell Click HereImplementing Cloud Services, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery & Discussing Exam Objec-tives
Click Here
Recording for Exam 70-534 Ar-chitecting Microsoft Azure Solutions
Azure VMs & Vnets Click HereCloud Services & Azure Storage Click HereAzure Active Directory, Azure SQL & Azure Mobile Services Click HereAzure Monitoring, Azure CDN & Traffic Manager Click Here
HDInsight, Machine Learning, Media Services & Azure Automation Click HereBusiness Continuity and DR, Architecting on Azure and Exam Discussion Click Here
Enterprise Partners – Certification Prep Workshop Content
Exam Prep Series Topics Recording Links
Recording for Exam 70-473Designing and Implementing Cloud Data Platform Solutions
Understanding Azure Fundamentals and Introduction to Azure Services like Storage, Virtual Machines and Virtual Network Click HereMicrosoft Cloud Data Platform Options; Implementing SQL server on Azure VM; Scaling, Managing, High Availability and DR for SQL Server on Azure VM
Click Here
Introduction to Azure SQL. Scaling, Managing, High Availability, DR for Azure SQL
Click Here
Hybrid HA/DR Scenarios with SQL Server, Designing and Implementing Secu-rity
Click Here
Monitor and Manage Azure SQL and SQL Server on Azure VM; Design Considerations and Best Practices; Case Study Click HereIntroduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse; introduction to SSIS intigration with data warehouse; Connecting Azure SQL Database & Data Warehouse with Power BI
Click Here
Recording for Exam 70-475Design and Implement Big Data Analytics Solutions
Introduction to Big Data, Azure Storage and Azure SQL Click Here
Azure Data Lake, Introduction to Lambda Architecture, Batch Processing tools Click Here
Real-Time Processing tools, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics Click Here
Azure HDInsight Click Here
Azure Machine Learning Click Here
Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Data Science use cases Click Here
Certification PreparationBorn to Learnhttps://borntolearn.mslearn.net/goodstuff/p/microsoftspecialist
Microsoft Azure Courses in Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA)https://mva.microsoft.com/product-training/microsoft-azure#!lang=1033
Microsoft Partner Network (MPN)https://partner.microsoft.com/en-in
Microsoft Association for Practicing Architects (MAPA)https://www.the-mapa.com/
Microsoft Ignite - https://ignite.microsoft.com/ Azure Conference Azure Virtual Conference - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/ Tech Days Online & Offline Tech Summit - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/techsummit Future Decoded - https://futuredecoded.microsoft.com/ Global Azure Bootcamp - https://global.azurebootcamp.net/ Cloud Roadshow Build DevCon
Microsoft events to follow
• Global Events:https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/community/events/
• User group Meetups:https://www.meetup.com/find/events/?allMeetups=false&keywords=azure&radius=10
• Webinarshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/overview/webinars/https://www.microsoft.com/india/azurevidyapeeth/
Local Community UG Meetups & Webinars
Social Media handles to follow
https://www.facebook.com/microsoftazure/https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftLearning/https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftIndia/https://www.facebook.com/MicrosoftDeveloper.India/
https://twitter.com/Azure
• Stack Overflow• TechNet - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/• MSDN Community Forums• Azure Feedback• Google it….
Technical Support