AZ-104: Monitor and back up Azure resources

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.

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.

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.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Configure Azure Monitor alerts.
• Create alert rules and action groups.

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.

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.

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

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

• Evaluate Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights.
• Configure a Log Analytics workspace.
• Build queries from the Heartbeat and InsightsMetrics tables.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Introduction
• Manage Azure Monitor alerts
• Create alert rules
• Create action groups
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

• 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

• Introduction
• Describe Network Watcher features
• Review flow verify diagnostics
• Review next hop diagnostics
• Visualize the network topology
• Knowledge check
• Summary and resources

• 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

• 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

• 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