Microsoft Azure
Administration
Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Azure DevOps (AZ-400)
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Introduction to Cloud Computing
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Cloud technology overview
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Overview of Azure
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Managing Azure with the Azure portal
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Managing Azure with Windows PowerShell
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Overview of Azure Resource Manager
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Azure management services
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Implement and manage Azure Networking
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Overview of Azure networking
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Implementing and managing Azure virtual networks
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Configuring Azure virtual networks
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Configuring Azure virtual network connectivity
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Configuring the Subnets
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Configuring Virtual Network Region Peering
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Configuring Virtual Network Global Peering
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Understanding Azure to On-Premise Connectivity
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Deploying Azure Virtual Network Gateway.
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Understanding Route Tables (UDR).
Configuring Azure Virtual Network Gateway with AWS over IPSec VPN. -
Implementing Azure Service End Points.
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Implementing Azure NAT Gateway
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Implementing Azure Bastion
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Implementing P2S VPN using OpenVPN
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Understanding and Configuring Network Security Groups(NSG)
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Understanding Azure Network Security Groups(NSG)
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Creating and Updating Inbound & Outbound Security Rules.
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Understanding NSG Rule Hierarchy.
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Testing Network Security Groups and learning rule priority.
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Creating NSG Rules with Service tags.
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Understanding Application Security Groups (ASG).
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Creating NSG with Application Security Groups.
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Understanding and Configuring Azure Firewall
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Overview of Azure Firewall as a Service.
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Creating Route Table and AzureFirewallSubnet.
Deploy Azure Firewall. -
Configure routing on Route Table and assigning to subnets.
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Create Network Rule Collection and check the traffic.
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Create Application Rule Collection and block traffic to websites.
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Understand SNAT and DNAT in Azure Firewall.
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Creating DNAT for Azure machine using Azure Firewall.
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Implementing & Configuring Azure Virtual Machines
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Overview Azure virtual machines
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Deploy virtual machines in Azure portal
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Deploy virtual machines using Azure CLI
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Managing Azure Virtual machine storage
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Understanding Availability sets, Fault Domain & Update Domain.
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Creating & placing virtual machines in Availability Sets.
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Managing Azure Custom Images using Image Template and Image Gallery
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Azure Disk Snapshot Management
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Planning and implementing Azure Storage
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Azure Storage account overview
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Understand Blob Storage
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Understand File Shares
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Configuring Azure File-sync Service
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Data migration using Azure storage explorer
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Manage Azure Storage permissions
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Azure Static Website deployment
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Custom domains and Storage Private Endpoints.
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Deploying Azure CDN and Configure Caching.
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Configure and Manage Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
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Backup and disaster recovery overview
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Configure Azure Recovery Service Vault Policies and Retention
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Backup VMware Servers to Azure
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Backup Azure VM & Azure SQL instances
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Azure replication and fail-over groups
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Azure disaster recovery vault configuration
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How to implement full BCDR strategy using Azure ASR
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​Planning and implementing Azure PaaS Databases
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Azure MySQL & PostgreSQL SQL Deployment
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Azure SQL database(PaaS) vs SQL database (IaaS)
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Structured vs Unstructured data
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DTU vs vCore in Azure SQL
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Azure SQL Elastic Pool
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Understanding Cosmos DB and RU's
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Azure SQL Global Replication and Fail-over Groups​
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Azure Database Caching using Redis
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Implementing Azure PaaS Applications
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Serverless computing concepts
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Azure Web Apps overview ( PaaS)
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Deploying and Managing Web Apps
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Azure App Service plan
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Azure Deployment slots
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App Service Security
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Azure Web Apps for scale and resilience
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Azure App Service Kudo Console & Logging
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Understanding Azure Functions
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Creating Logic Apps & Execution
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Understanding Azure API management
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Implementing Azure Entra ID
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Azure Domain services & Entra ID overview.
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Extending On-premise Active directory to Azure.
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Create and manage users and groups.
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Deploy and configure Azure Entra ID Connect.
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Role based access control (RBAC) overview.
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Configure domain users and groups to access Azure portal.
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Azure Managed Identify vs Service Principle
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Designing and developing apps for Containers
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Virtual Machine vs Containers.
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Install and configure Docker Engine.
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Deploy and manage Containers.
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Deploying container images using Azure Container Instances(ACI).
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Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Services(AKS).
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Creating Azure AKS Cluster.
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Deploying application on AKS.
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Implementing Azure Management and Automation Solutions
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Implementing Azure Automation.
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Implementing Automation runbooks.
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Creating and Managing Azure DSC.
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Managing Azure Automation.
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Configure PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure ResourceGraph scripts using Runbooks

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Configure Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Analytics
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Azure Monitoring Overview
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Configure Azure monitoring and Alerts
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Configure logs into Log Analytics workspace
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Virtual machine, App Service and AKS App Insights using Azure Monitor
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How to Query data using Kusto KQL
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Configure Monitoring Dashboards
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Designing & Implementing HA Solutions using Azure Basic Load Balancer
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Overview on HA Solution's & Load Balancing
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Type of Load Balancers in Azure
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Basic Vs Standard Load Balancer
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Deploying Basic Load Balancer with Availability Sets.
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Creating Backend Pools, Health probes and Load Balance rules.
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Checking the Load Balancing scenarios.
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Configuring NAT using Basic Load Balancer.
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Designing & Implementing HA Solutions using Standard Load Balancer & Azure DNS
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Understanding Azure DNS.
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Buying a domain name for Godaddy.com
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Creating Azure DNS Zone and configuring it with Godaddy.
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Creating 3 Availability Sets and placing a single virtual machine in each AV-
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Create Azure Standard Load Balancer and create a backend pool and assign
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Check the Load Balancing between the servers in different AV-Sets.
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Create Host Records for Server and check the name resolution.
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Create the CNAME record for the Load Balancer and check the website
resolution.
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Designing & Implementing HA Solutions using Azure Application Gateway
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Understanding Azure Application Gateway architecture.
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Understanding Path Based Routing in AGW.
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Creating multiple VMs and configuring application gateway.
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Configuring the SSL Off-loading on Application gateway.
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Configure URL Rewriting in Applicaion Gateway
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Deploy Web Application Firewall for Securing Web Applications.​
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Designing & Implementing HA Solutions using Traffic Manager Profile
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Understanding Azure Traffic Manager Profile.
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Traffic Manager Routing Methods
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Distribute Traffic to set of Endpoints
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Overview on Nested Traffic Manager
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Cross-region disaster recovery and business continuity using Traffic Manager and Azure DNS
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Designing & Implementing HA Solutions using Azure Front Door
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Understanding Azure Front Door
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Configure Global HTTP Load Balancing using Front Door​
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Configure Front Door Caching
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Securely publish a Web Application using Front Door
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Configure WAF (Web Application Firewall) inspection for inbound traffic
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Configuring Auto Scaling with Virtual Machine Scale Sets(VMSS)
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Understanding Azure VMSS
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Creating a Azure VM Image for VMSS
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Deploy VMSS with the custom image.
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Performing stress testing on the VMSS.
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Check AutoScaling of VMs under stress testing
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Azure Migrate projects and customer billing optimization
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Azure Migration projects.
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Recovery services vault's ASR.
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Azure Database migration services.
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Azure cost calculator.
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Azure price optimization.
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Azure FinOps Using Costing & Billing
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Azure Management Groups and Tagging for Billing Dashboards
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Azure Management & Governance
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Understanding Azure Policies for Compliance & Governance
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Understanding Azure Security Bench marking
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Azure Landing Zones & Cloud Adoption Framework overview
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Understanding Azure Sentinel
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Introduction to Automation part 1 - IaaC
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Understanding JSON files.
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Introduction Azure Resource Manager Templates(ARM).
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Deploying ARM Templates from Azure Powershell & Azure Portal.
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Using ARM Functions and Dry Run with Powershell 7.0
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Working with ARM Template Modes.
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Deploy basic Azure Infrastructure with Terraform
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Azure Image management with Packer.
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Introduction to Automation part 2 - Azure DevOps
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Learning Azure DevOps application/tool.
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Creating KANBAN boards, Repos and branches
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Installing 3 rd Party Plugins
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Building software packers with Azure DevOps Build Pipelines.
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Deploying infrastructure using Release Pipelines.
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Azure integration with Service Pipelines.
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Integrating with 3rd Party Clouds and Applications using Plugins.
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Developing YAML Pipelines with Stages.
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Working with Secrets & Secure-files
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Complete CI/CD Pipeline with Azure DevOps.
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Azure Certification and Live Project Overview
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Azure Certification road map and focus areas
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Day to Day Operations overview and Project execution steps