Architect storage infrastructure in Azure
Offered By: Microsoft via Microsoft Learn
Course Description
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
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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
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