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Microsoft

AZ-104: Monitor and back up Azure resources

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Overview

  • Module 1: You will learn how to configure backup and restore policies that meet your company's regulatory needs.
  • 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.
  • Module 2: You will learn how to configure virtual machine backups including restore operations.
  • 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.
  • Module 3: You will learn how to configure Azure Monitor including querying the activity log.
  • 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.
  • Module 4: You will learn how to configure Azure alerts including action groups.
  • After completing this module, you will be able to:

    • Configure Azure Monitor alerts.
    • Create alert rules and action groups.
  • Module 5: You will learn how to configure Log Analytics including structuring queries.
  • 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.
  • Module 6: You will learn how to configure Network Watcher and troubleshoot common networking problems.
  • 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.
  • Module 7: Respond to incidents and activities in your infrastructure through alerting capabilities in Azure Monitor.
  • 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
  • Module 8: Use Azure Monitor logs to extract valuable information about your infrastructure from log data.
  • 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
  • Module 9: Learn how to use Azure Monitor VM Insights to monitor your organization's Azure virtual machines.
    • Evaluate Azure Monitor Logs and Azure Monitor VM Insights.
    • Configure a Log Analytics workspace.
    • Build queries from the Heartbeat and InsightsMetrics tables.

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Configure file and folder backups
    • 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
  • Module 2: Configure virtual machine backups
    • 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
  • Module 3: Configure Azure Monitor
    • 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
  • Module 4: Configure Azure alerts
    • Introduction
    • Manage Azure Monitor alerts
    • Create alert rules
    • Create action groups
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 5: Configure Log Analytics
    • 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
  • Module 6: Configure Network Watcher
    • Introduction
    • Describe Network Watcher features
    • Review flow verify diagnostics
    • Review next hop diagnostics
    • Visualize the network topology
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 7: Improve incident response with alerting on Azure
    • 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
  • Module 8: Analyze your Azure infrastructure by using Azure Monitor logs
    • 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
  • Module 9: Monitor performance of virtual machines by using Azure Monitor VM Insights
    • 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

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