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Microsoft Azure Administration and Infrastructure
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
- Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AZ-140)
- Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell (AZ-040)
- Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure (AZ-800)
- Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services (AZ-801)
- Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)
- Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions (AZ-700)
- Microsoft Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500)
Microsoft Azure AI / Machine Learning
- Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
- Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution (AI-102)
- Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure (DP-100)
Microsoft Azure Data
- Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
- Querying Data with Microsoft Transact-SQL (DP-080)
- Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure (DP-203)
- Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions (DP-300)
- Designing and Implementing Enterprise-Scale Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power BI (DP-500)
Microsoft Azure Developer
Microsoft Azure Training for Employees and Individuals in the Santa Monica area
Data Creative provides live, instructor-led Microsoft Azure classes. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. It provides both Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.
Microsoft Azure Training for Private Groups in the Santa Monica area
Data Creative can deliver live, in-person Microsoft Azure classes to your group at your location in the Santa Monica, California area. Our instructors will go onsite to deliver standard or customized classes to meet your needs, schedule and budget. Contact Data Creative today to learn more about our private group training capabilities.
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Santa Monica Azure Classes
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
AZ-900 Exam — 1 Day
This one-day instructor-led course will provide foundational level knowledge on cloud concepts; core Azure services; and Azure management and governance features and tools.
- Cloud Concepts
- Azure Architecture and Services
- Core Solutions
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Microsoft Azure Administrator
AZ-104 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution.
- Identity
- Governance and Compliance
- Azure Administration
- Virtual Networking
- Intersite Connectivity
- Network Traffic Management
- Azure Storage
- Azure Virtual Machines
- PaaS Compute Options
- Data Protection
- Monitoring
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Configuring and Operating Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop
AZ-140 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course teaches Azure administrators how to plan, deliver, and manage virtual desktop experiences and remote apps, for any device, on Azure. Lessons include implementing and managing networking for Azure Virtual Desktop, configuring host pools and session hosts, creating session host images, implementing, and managing FSLogix, monitoring Azure Virtual Desktop performance and health, and automating Azure Virtual Desktop management tasks. Students will learn through a mix of demonstrations and hands-on lab experiences deploying virtual desktop experiences and apps on Azure Virtual Desktop and optimizing them to run in multi-session virtual environments. Candidates of this course must have solid Azure administration skills. This course assumes prior experience, including virtualization, networking, identity, storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery. Students should have knowledge of on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure technologies as they relate to migrating to Azure Virtual Desktop. Students are expected to have used the tools common to the Azure environment, such as the Azure PowerShell and Cloud Shell.
- Plan an Azure Virtual Desktop Implementation
- Implement an Azure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Manage Access and Security
- Manage User Environments and Apps
- Monitor and maintain an Azure Virtual Desktop infrastructure
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Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell
AZ-040 Exam — 5 Days
This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to use PowerShell for administering and automating administration of Windows servers. This course provides students the skills to identify and build the command they require to perform a specific task. In addition, students learn how to build scripts to accomplish advanced tasks such as automating repetitive tasks and generating reports. This course provides prerequisite skills supporting a broad range of Microsoft products, including Windows Server, Windows Client, Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365. In keeping with that goal, this course will not focus on any one of those products, although Windows Server, which is the common platform for all of those products, will serve as the example for the techniques this course teaches.
- Getting started with Windows PowerShell
- Windows PowerShell for local systems administration
- Working with the Windows PowerShell pipeline
- Using PSProviders and PSDrives
- Querying management information by using CIM and WMI
- Working with variables, arrays, and hash tables
- Windows PowerShell scripting
- Administering remote computers with Windows PowerShell
- Managing Azure resources with PowerShell
- Managing Microsoft 365 services with PowerShell
- Using background jobs and scheduled jobs
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure
AZ-800 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course teaches IT Professionals how to manage core Windows Server workloads and services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. The course teaches IT Professionals how to implement and manage on-premises and hybrid solutions such as identity, management, compute, networking, and storage in a Windows Server hybrid environment.
- Identity services in Windows Server
- Implementing identity in hybrid scenarios
- Windows Server administration
- Facilitating hybrid management
- Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server
- Deploying and configuring Azure VMs
- Network infrastructure services in Windows Server
- Implementing hybrid networking infrastructure
- File servers and storage management in Windows Server
- Implementing a hybrid file server infrastructure
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Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services
AZ-801 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course is designed for IT professionals who configure advanced Windows Server services using on-premises, hybrid, and cloud technologies. These professionals manage and support an infrastructure that includes on-premises and Azure IaaS-hosted Windows Server-based workloads. The course teaches IT professionals how to leverage the hybrid capabilities of Azure, how to migrate virtual and physical server workloads to Azure IaaS, and how to manage and secure Azure VMs running Windows Server. The course also covers how to perform tasks related to high availability, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery. The course highlights various administrative tools and technologies including Windows Admin Center, PowerShell, Azure Arc, Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Security Center, Azure Migrate, and Azure Monitor.
- Windows Server security
- Implementing security solutions in hybrid scenarios
- Implementing high availability
- Disaster recovery in Windows Server
- Implementing recovery services in hybrid scenarios
- Upgrade and migrate in Windows Server
- Implementing migration in hybrid scenarios
- Server and performance monitoring in Windows Server
- Implementing operational monitoring in hybrid scenarios
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Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
AZ-305 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course teaches Azure Solution Architects how to design infrastructure solutions. Course topics cover governance, compute, application architecture, storage, data integration, authentication, networks, business continuity, and migrations. The course combines lecture with case studies to demonstrate basic architect design principles.
- Design governance and compute solutions
- Design storage and data integration solutions
- Design app architecture, access, and monitoring solutions
- Design network, continuity, and migration solutions
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Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions
AZ-700 Exam — 3 Days
This three-day instructor-led course teaches Network Engineers how to design, implement, and maintain Azure networking solutions. This course covers the process of designing, implementing, and managing core Azure networking infrastructure, Hybrid Networking connections, load balancing traffic, network routing, private access to Azure services, network security and monitoring. Learn how to design and implement a secure, reliable, network infrastructure in Azure and how to establish hybrid connectivity, routing, private access to Azure services, and monitoring in Azure.
- Introduction to Azure Virtual Networks
- Design and Implement Hybrid Networking
- Design and implement Azure ExpressRoute
- Load balancing non-HTTP(S) traffic in Azure
- Load balancing HTTP(S) traffic in Azure
- Design and implement network security
- Design and implement private access to Azure Services
- Design and implement network monitoring
Class Schedule
Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
AZ-500 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations. This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and play an integral role in protecting an organization’s data.
- Manage Identity and Access
- Implement Platform Protection
- Secure Data and Applications
- Manage Security Operations
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Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
AI-900 Exam — 1 Day
This one-day instructor-led course is designed for candidates looking to demonstrate foundational-level knowledge of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) concepts, and related Microsoft Azure services. You will learn how to use Azure services to create machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing solutions through hands-on activities. The course is intended for candidates with both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Data science and software engineering experience are not required; however, awareness of cloud basics and client-server applications would be beneficial.
- Explore Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
- Explore Fundamentals of Machine Learning
- Explore Fundamentals of Computer Vision
- Explore Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing
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Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution
AI-102 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course is designed to teach software developers how to create AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework to build computer vision, language analysis, knowledge mining, intelligent search, and conversational AI solutions on Azure.
- Introduction to AI on Azure
- Developing AI Apps with Cognitive Services
- Getting Started with Natural Language Processing
- Building Speech-Enabled Applications
- Creating Language Understanding Solutions
- Building a QnA Solution
- Conversational AI and the Azure Bot Service
- Getting Started with Computer Vision
- Developing Custom Vision Solutions
- Detecting, Analyzing, and Recognizing Faces
- Reading Text in Images and Documents
- Creating a Knowledge Mining Solution
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Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure
DP-100 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course teaches how to operate machine learning solutions at cloud scale using Azure Machine Learning. This course teaches you to leverage your existing knowledge of Python and machine learning to manage data ingestion and preparation, model training and deployment, and machine learning solution monitoring in Microsoft Azure.
- Design a data ingestion strategy for machine learning projects
- Design a machine learning model training solution
- Design a model deployment solution
- Explore Azure Machine Learning workspace resources and assets
- Explore developer tools for workspace interaction
- Make data available in Azure Machine Learning
- Work with compute targets in Azure Machine Learning
- Work with environments in Azure Machine Learning
- Find the best classification model with Automated Machine Learning
- Track model training in Jupyter notebooks with MLflow
- Run a training script as a command job in Azure Machine Learning
- Track model training with MLflow in jobs
- Run pipelines in Azure Machine Learning
- Perform hyperparameter tuning with Azure Machine Learning
- Deploy a model to a managed online endpoint
- Deploy a model to a batch endpoint
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Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals
DP-900 Exam — 1 Day
In this one-day instructor-led course, students will gain foundational knowledge of core data concepts and related Microsoft Azure data services. Students will learn about core data concepts such as relational, non-relational, big data, and analytics, and build their foundational knowledge of cloud data services within Microsoft Azure. Students will explore fundamental relational data concepts and relational database services in Azure. They will explore Azure storage for non-relational data and the fundamentals of Azure Cosmos DB. Students will learn about modern data warehousing, real-time analytics, and data visualization.
- Describe core data concepts
- Identify considerations for relational data on Azure
- Describe considerations for working with non-relational data on Azure
- Describe an analytics workload on Azure
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Querying Data with Microsoft Transact-SQL
DP-080 Exam — 2 Days
This two-day instructor-led course will teach the basics of Microsoft’s dialect of the standard SQL language: Transact-SQL. Topics include both querying and modifying data in relational databases that are hosted in Microsoft SQL Server-based database systems, including: Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and, Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Getting Started with Transact-SQL
- Sorting and Filtering Query Results
- Using Joins and Subqueries
- Using Built-in Functions
- Modifying Data
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Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure
DP-203 Exam — 4 Days
In this four-day instructor-led course, students will learn about the data engineering patterns and practices as it pertains to working with batch and real-time analytical solutions using Azure data platform technologies. Students will begin by understanding the core compute and storage technologies that are used to build an analytical solution, explore how to design an analytical serving layers and focus on data engineering considerations for working with source files, learn how to interactively explore data stored in files in a data lake, and more.
- Explore compute and storage options for data engineering workloads
- Run interactive queries using Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pools
- Data exploration and transformation in Azure Databricks
- Explore, transform, and load data into the Data Warehouse using Apache Spark
- Ingest and load data into the data warehouse
- Transform data with Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Pipelines
- Orchestrate data movement and transformation in Azure Synapse Pipelines
- End-to-end security with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Support Hybrid Transactional Analytical Processing (HTAP) with Azure Synapse Link
- Real-time Stream Processing with Stream Analytics
- Create a Stream Processing Solution with Event Hubs and Azure Databricks
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Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions
DP-300 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to administer a SQL Server database infrastructure for cloud, on-premises and hybrid relational databases and who work with the Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings. Additionally, it will be of use to individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL-based relational databases.
- Introduction to Azure Database Administration
- Plan and Implement Data Platform Resources
- Implement a Secure Environment for a Database Service
- Monitor and Optimize Operational Resources
- Optimize Query Performance
- Automate database tasks
- Plan and Implement a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution
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Designing and Implementing Enterprise-Scale Analytics Solutions Using Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power BI
DP-500 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course covers methods and practices for performing advanced data analytics at scale. Students will build on existing analytics experience and will learn to implement and manage a data analytics environment, query and transform data, implement and manage data models, and explore and visualize data. In this course, students will use Microsoft Purview, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI to build analytics solutions.
- Introduction to data analytics on Azure
- Govern data across an enterprise
- Model, query, and explore data in Azure Synapse
- Prepare data for tabular models in Power BI
- Design and build scalable tabular models
- Implement advanced data visualization techniques by using Power BI
- Implement and manage an analytics environment
- Manage the analytics development lifecycle
- Integrate an analytics platform into an existing IT infrastructure
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Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
AZ-204 Exam — 5 Days
This five-day instructor-led course teaches developers how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. Students will learn how to implement Azure compute solutions, create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, implement authentication and authorization, and secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities. Students will also learn how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, and include event- and message-based models in their solutions. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure solutions.
- Create Azure App Service web apps
- Implement Azure functions
- Develop solutions that use Blob storage
- Develop solutions that use Azure Cosmos DB
- Implement infrastructure as a service solutions
- Implement user authentication and authorization
- Implement secure cloud solutions
- Implement API Management
- Develop event-based solutions
- Develop message-based solutions
- Instrument solutions to support monitoring and logging
- Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions
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Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions
AZ-400 Exam — 4 Days
This four-day instructor-led course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms
- Get started on a DevOps transformation journey
- Development for enterprise DevOps
- Implement CI with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions
- Design and implement a release strategy
- Implement a secure continuous deployment using Azure Pipelines
- Manage infrastructure as code using Azure and DSC
- Implement security and validate code bases for compliance
- Design and implement a dependency management strategy
- Implement continuous feedback