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AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

Subhashini Chellappan, L&D

Agenda
Part 1: Describe Azure Core Concepts
o Introduction to Azure Fundamentals
o Discuss Azure Fundamental Concepts
o Describe Core Azure Architectural Components

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Part 1: Introduction to Azure Fundamentals

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What is Cloud Computing?
 Delivery of computing services over the internet by using a pay-as-you-go pricing model

 Virtualization is the base for cloud computing

Benefits of Cloud Computing:

o You can lower your operating costs

o You can run your infrastructure more efficiently
o You can Scale your infrastructure based on need change

Compute Storage Databases Networking etc..

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What is Azure?
 Provides set of cloud services
 Build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive global network using your required tools and frameworks
Benefits of Azure:
o Be ready for the future: Continuous innovation helps your today’s development and future vision
o Build on your terms: Support for open sources, all languages, frameworks helps the organizations to build whatever they
want and deploy wherever they want to
o Operate hybrid seamlessly: Integrate and manage your environments with tools and services with the help of a hybrid cloud
solution
o Trust your cloud: Security, Compliance and Governance
 Provides more than 100 services

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What is Azure?
Interacting with Azure:

o Azure Portal

o Azure Cloud Shell

o Azure CLI

Azure Market Place:

o Connect users with Microsoft partners, independent software vendors, and startups that are offering their solutions and
services, which are optimized to run on Azure

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Azure Services

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Getting Started with Azure Account
Azure Free Account:

 Free access to popular Azure products for 12 months

 A credit to spend for the first 30 days
 Access to more than 25 products that are always free
 For sign up, you need,
o phone number
o credit card
o Microsoft or GitHub account.
 Credit card information is used for identity verification only. You
will be charged only when you upgrade to a paid subscription

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Part 1: Discuss Azure Fundamental Concepts

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Cloud Deployment Models
Public Cloud:
 Computing resources are offered over the public internet
Cloud
 Available to anyone who wants the service Deployment
Model
 Services are operated by a third-party cloud service provider
o No capital expenditures to scale up
o Applications can be quickly provisioned and deprovisioned
o Organizations pay only for what they use

Private Cloud:
Public Private
 Computing resources are used by one business or organization
Cloud Cloud
 Can be hosted in your organization data center or by a third-party
service provider Hybrid
Cloud

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Cloud Deployment Models
Private Cloud:
o Hardware must be purchased for start-up and maintenance. Cloud
Deployment
o Organizations have complete control over resources and security. Model

o Organizations are responsible for hardware maintenance and

updates

Hybrid Cloud:
 Combination of public cloud and private cloud
 Allows data and applications to be shared between them
o Provides the most flexibility Public Cloud Private
Cloud
o Organizations determine where to run their applications
o Organizations control security, compliance, or legal requirements Hybrid
Cloud

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Cloud Benefits and Consideration
Cloud Computing Advantages:
 High availability: Based on the service-level agreement (SLA), cloud-based apps can provide a continuous user experience even if
things go wrong
 Scalability: Apps in the cloud can scale vertically and horizontally
o Vertical Scaling: Adding RAM or CPUs to a virtual machine
o Horizontal Scaling: Adding Instances
 Elasticity: You can take the advantage of Auto scaling
 Agility: You can deploy and configure cloud-based resources quickly as per your need
 Geo-distribution: Go global in minutes
 Disaster recovery: You can take advantage of cloud-based backup services, data replication, and geo-distribution

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Cloud Benefits and Consideration
Two types of expenses:

 Capital Expenditure (CapEx) : Requires upfront cost

 Operational Expenditure (OpEx) : Consumption based model

Cloud Services are categorized as an OpEx.

Cloud computing is a Consumption based model.
o No upfront costs
o No need to purchase and manage costly infrastructure that users might not use to its fullest
o The ability to pay for additional resources when they are needed
o The ability to stop paying for resources that are no longer needed

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Cloud Service Models
IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): PaaS (Platform as a Service): SaaS (Software as a Service):
 Flexible category of cloud service  Managed hosting environment  Provides a completed product that
 Provides complete control over the  No need to configure servers to run is run and managed by the cloud
hardware applications Provider
 Shared responsibility model: User  Focus on application development, cloud  Ex: Microsoft Office 365
manages and maintains the service they provider handles all the management
provisioned, and cloud provider  Ex: Azure App Service
manages and maintains the cloud
infrastructure
 Ex: Virtual Machines

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Part 1: Describe Core Azure Architectural Components

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Azure Subscriptions, Management Groups and Resources
 Resources: Instances of services. Ex: VM’s, SQL databases
 Resource groups: Logical container that holds related resources for an
Azure solution
 Subscriptions:
o Linked to a single account, the one that was used to create a
subscription
o Used for billing purposes
o Groups together user accounts and the resources that have been
created by those user accounts
 Management groups:
o Helps you to manage access, policy, and compliance for multiple
Top-down hierarchy of organization subscription
o All subscriptions in a management group automatically inherit the
conditions applied to the management group

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Azure regions, availability zones, and region pairs
 Azure is made up of datacenters located around the globe
Azure Region:
o Geographical area that contains at least one but usually multiple datacenters
o Each data centers are networked together with a low-latency network
Azure Availability Zone:
o Physical data centers within an Azure region
o Each availability zone is made up of one or more datacenters
o Availability zones are connected through high-speed, private fiber-optic
networks
o You can use availability zone to build high availability and mission critical
application
Availability Zone Categories:
o Zonal services: You can pin resources in a specific zone
o Zone-redundant services: Resources will be replicated automatically across
zones
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Azure regions, availability zones, and region pairs
Region Pairs:
o Each Azure region is always paired with another region within the same geography at least 300 miles away
o Replicates the resources to reduce the likelihood of interruptions because of events such as natural disasters, power outages
etc..
o Ex: West US paired with East US

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Azure resources and Resource Manager
 Resources: Instances of services. Ex: VM’s, SQL databases

 Resource groups: Logical container that holds related resources for

an Azure solution

 Resource Manager:
o Deployment and management service
o Management layer that enables you to create, update, and
delete resources in your Azure account
o Infrastructure as a code
o JSON File
o Consistent results and capabilities in all the different tools

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Azure Subscriptions and Management Groups
Azure Subscription:
o Provides authenticated and authorized access to Azure products
and services
o Allows you to provision resources
o Logical unit of Azure services that links to an Azure account, which
is an identity in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)
o An account can have one subscription or multiple subscriptions
with different billing models and different access-management
policies
Two types of subscription boundaries
o Billing boundary: You can create multiple subscriptions for
different types of billing requirements
o Access control boundary: Applies access-management policies at

the subscription level

Azure Subscriptions and Management Groups
Azure Management Groups:

o A way for an organization to control and manage access, compliance, and policies for their subscription within their tenant.
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