[AZ-900] Microsoft Azure Fundamental Training: Step By Step Activity Guides/Hands-On Lab Exercise

This blog post gives a walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of [AZ-900] Microsoft Azure Fundamentals training program that you must perform to learn this course.

You can use these walkthroughs to familiarise yourself with the Azure cloud processes and interface. The walkthrough of the Step-By-Step Activity Guides of [AZ-900] Microsoft Azure Fundamentals training program will prepare you thoroughly for the AZ-900 certification.

Activity Guides:

I: Register For Azure Free Trial Account

The first thing you must do is to get a Trial Account for Microsoft Azure. (You get 200 USD FREE Credit from Microsoft to practice)

Microsoft Azure is one of the top choices for any organization due to its freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications. Here, we will look at how to register for the Microsoft Azure FREE Trial Account, click here.

Note: Get this first step by step activity guide absolutely FREE from here

After you register for Microsoft Cloud Trial Account, you should get an Email Like the below from Microsoft:

Azure Email Confirmation

II: Create A Virtual Machine In The Azure Portal

Azure Virtual Machines (VM) is one of several types of on-demand, scalable computing resources that Azure offers. Typically, you choose a VM when you need more control over the computing environment than the other choices offer.

This Guide gives you information about what you should consider before you create a VM, how you create it, and how you manage it. An Azure VM gives you the flexibility of virtualization without having to buy and maintain the physical hardware that runs it. However, you still need to maintain the VM by performing tasks, such as configuring, patching, and installing the software that runs on it.

This guide gives you step-by-step information on how to create a Virtual Machine on the Azure cloud and install and run an IIS Web Server.

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III: Deploy Azure Container Instances

Just as shipping industries use physical containers to isolate different cargos—for example, to transport in ships and trains—software development technologies increasingly use an approach called containerization.

A standard package of software—known as a container—bundles an application’s code together with the related configuration files and libraries and with the dependencies required for the app to run. This allows developers and IT pros to deploy applications seamlessly across environments.

In this guide, we will learn how to deploy a container instance on the Azure cloud.

IV: Create A Virtual Network

Azure Virtual Network (VNet) is the fundamental building block for your private network in Azure. VNet enables many types of Azure resources, such as Azure Virtual Machines (VM), to securely communicate with each other, the internet, and on-premises networks. VNet is similar to a traditional network that you’d operate in your data center but brings with it additional benefits of Azure’s infrastructure such as scale, availability, and isolation.

In this activity guide, we will create an Azure Virtual Network, connect two virtual machines to the VNet, and test the connection between them.

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V: Create Blob Storage

Microsoft Azure Storage provides massively scalable, durable, and highly available storage for data on the cloud, and serves as the data storage solution for modern applications.

This activity guide gives you step-by-step information on how to connect to Blob Storage to perform various operations such as create, update, get, and delete blobs in your Azure Storage account.

VI: Create A SQL Database

Azure SQL Database is a cloud-computing database service (Database as a Service), that is offered by Microsoft Azure Platform which helps to host and use a relational SQL database in the cloud without requiring any hardware or software installation

This walkthrough will show you how to create a SQL Database on Azure Cloud and test it with queries.

VII: Create A Web App

Azure App Service is actually a collection of four services, all of which are built to help you host and run web applications. The four services (Web Apps, Mobile Apps, API Apps, and Logic Apps) look different, but in the end, they all operate in very similar ways. Web Apps are the most commonly used of the four services, and this is the service that we will be using in this lab.

This walkthrough will show you how to create a Web App in Azure Cloud and test whether it successfully deploys.

VIII: Implement An Azure IoT Hub

Enable highly secure and reliable communication between your Internet of Things (IoT) application and the devices it manages. Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted solution back end to connect virtually any device. Extend your solution from the cloud to the edge with per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning.

In this guide, we will create an IoT hub, add an IoT device to it and test the device using the Raspberry Pi simulator.

IX: Implement Azure Functions

Azure Function is a serverless compute service that enables users to run event-triggered code without having to provision or manage infrastructure. Being a trigger-based service, it runs a script or piece of code in response to a variety of events.

In this guide, we will learn, How to implement this Azure Function service to automate our code, using Azure Portal.

X: Create A VM With A Template

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are JSON files where you define what you want to deploy to Azure. Templates help you implement an infrastructure-as-code solution for Azure. Your organization can repeatedly and reliably deploy the required infrastructure to different environments.

In this guide, we will deploy a virtual machine in the Azure cloud with a QuickStart template and examine monitoring capabilities.

Azure ARM Template

XI: Create A VM With PowerShell

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell.

In this activity guide, we will deploy a virtual machine in the Azure cloud using PowerShell and review Azure advisor recommendations.

XII: Create A VM Using CLI

In this guide, we will deploy a virtual machine in the Azure cloud using Bash rather than PowerShell and review Azure advisor recommendations.

XIII: Secure Network Traffic

Network traffic refers to the amount of data moving across a network at a given point in time. Network data is mostly encapsulated in network packets, which provide the load in the network. Network traffic is the main component for network traffic measurement, network traffic control, and simulation. The proper organization of network traffic helps in ensuring the quality of service in a given network. Network traffic is also known as data traffic.

This walkthrough will show you how to create a Virtual Machine in the Azure cloud in a virtual network and secure it by restricting access.

XIV: Implement Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys. Key Vault service supports two types of containers: vaults and managed HSM pools. Vaults support storing software and HSM-backed keys, secrets, and certificates. Managed HSM pools only support HSM-backed keys.

In this activity guide, we will create an Azure Key vault and then create a password secret within that key vault, providing a securely stored, centrally managed password for use with applications.

XV: Create An Azure Policy

Azure Policy helps to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at scale. Through its compliance dashboard, it provides an aggregated view to evaluate the overall state of the environment, with the ability to drill-down to the per-resource, per-policy granularity. It also helps to bring your resources to compliance through bulk remediation for existing resources and automatic remediation for new resources.

Common use cases for Azure Policy include implementing governance for resource consistency, regulatory compliance, security, cost, and management. Policy definitions for
these common use cases are already available in your Azure environment as built-ins to help you get started.

In this guide, we will create an Azure Policy to restrict the deployment of Azure resources to a specific location.

XVI: Manage Access With RBAC

Access management for cloud resources is a critical function for any organization that is using the cloud. Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) helps you manage who has access to Azure resources, what they can do with those resources, and what areas they have access to. Azure RBAC is an authorization system built on Azure Resource Manager that provides fine-grained access management of Azure resources.

In this activity guide, we will assign roles with restricted access and view activity logs.

XVII: Manage Resource Locks

As an administrator, you may need to lock a subscription, resource group, or resource to prevent other users in your organization from accidentally deleting or modifying critical resources. You can set the lock level to CanNotDelete or ReadOnly. In the portal, the locks are called Delete and Read-only respectively.

In this walkthrough, we will create a resource group, add a lock to the resource group and test deletion, test deleting a resource in the resource group, and remove the resource lock.

XVIII: Implement Resource Tagging

You apply tags to your Azure resources, resource groups, and subscriptions to logically organize them into a taxonomy. Each tag consists of a name and a value pair. For example, you can apply the name “Environment” and the value “Production” to all the resources in production.

In this activity, we will create a resource group, add a lock to the resource group and test deletion, test deleting a resource in the resource group, and remove the resource lock.

XIX: Explore The Trust Center

The Microsoft Service Trust Portal provides a variety of content, tools, and other resources about Microsoft security, privacy, and compliance practices.

In this walkthrough, we will access the Trust Center, Service Trust Portal (STP), and Compliance Manager.

XX: Use The Azure Pricing Calculator

This activity guide gives you a step-by-step process of estimating the cost of hosting a sample infrastructure by using the Azure Pricing Calculator.

XXI: Use the Azure TCO Calculator

In this guide, we will be using the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator to compare and measure the costs of hosting a sample infrastructure On-premises Vs on the Azure cloud.

XXII: Open A Support Request

This guide will walk you through the various Azure support plans available and how to create a technical as well as a billing support request.

XXIII: Calculate Composite SLAs

This activity guide cover steps to determine the SLA uptime percentage values for our Azure cloud application as well as how to calculate the application’s Composite SLA uptime percentage.

XXIV: Access Azure Preview features

This activity guide covers steps on how to access preview services and features as well as how to review the Azure Updates page.

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