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Architect storage infrastructure in Azure

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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.
  • In this module, you will:

    • 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.
  • In this module, you will:

    • 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.
  • In this module, you will:

    • 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.
  • In this module, you will:

    • 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.
  • In this module, you will:

    • 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.
  • In this module you will:

    • 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.
  • In this module, you will:

    • 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
  • In this module, you will:

    • 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

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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