AZ-100 Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment Certification personal Study Guide.

AZ-100 certification is 1 of 2 required certifications to aquire the title,

Microsoft Certified - Azure Administrator Associate

Here is the Link for more detail about the title.

• $165.00 USD
• Pricing can differ if you live in a different country other than US and/or if you are currently a student.

• Manage Azure subscriptions and resources (15-20%)
• Implement and manage storage (20-25%)
• Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs) (20-25%)
• Configure and manage virtual networks (20-25%)
• Manage identities (15-20%)

Here is the Link for more detail about the AZ-100 certification.

This exam AZ-100 will prepare Candidates for this exam are Azure Administrators who manage cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities.

Candidates have a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle, and take requests for infrastructure services, applications, and environments.

They make recommendations on services to use for optimal performance and scale, as well as provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.

Following lists are specific topics this particular exam will cover.

1. Manage Azure Subscriotions and resources.

2. Implement and manage storage.

3. Deploy and manage virtual machines (VMs).

4. Configure and manage virtual networks.

5. Manage identities.

We will dive each topics indepth later here.

Following are the list of useful links associated with this exam.

• Azure Portal.
  • Main Azure landing portal page.
• Azure Sign Up details.
  • Info regarding Sign Up with Azure to get started.
• Azure Status Check.
  • Check Azure status across different regions.
• Azure HandsOn Labs.
  • Able to virtually create azure web environment for different type of labs.
• Azure List of All Exams.
  • See all list of exams offered by Microsoft.
• Azure Official Documentations.
  • Official Documentations on Azure products.
• Azure Fundmental e-Learning Path.
  • Great learning path with tutorials provided by MS.

Now, let's talk about each topics that are required on the exam.

• Manage Azure subscriptions

  May include but not limited to: Assign administrator permissions; configure cost center quotas and tagging; configure Azure subscription policies at Azure subscription level

  • Assign administrator permissions

    • Read Azure Document for more details.
    • To add more admin user: On the Azure portal, just Click All services -> Subscriptions -> Click on any Subscription -> Access control (IAM) -> Add role assignment.
      • Just chose the correct Role, Access Target, and User in the form to finish adding a admin.
    • Or Azure Active Directory -> Roles and administrators -> Click any Role -> Add Member to add users to a specific role.

  • Configure cost center quotas and tagging

    • Read Cost center Quota for more details.
    • Read Tags for more details.
    • To check the cost quota: On the azure portal, just click All services -> Subscriptions -> Click on any Subscription -> Cost analysis.
      • You can filter by different properties like tags, resource type, resource group, and timespan.
    • Tags are basically a key :: value pair that can be used to categorize your resources in your custom flavor.
    • You can set tags on resource creations(Not all), and also can be enforced by attaching Policy to resource group or subscription to force new resources to have tags on creation.

  • Configure Azure subscription policies at Azure subscription level

    • Read Create and Manage Policy for more details.
    • Understanding how to create and manage policies in Azure is important for staying compliant with your corporate standards and service level agreements. You can also gain a huge benefit of being able to enforce a condition for resources you create in the future.
    • To assign policy: On the azure portal, just click All services -> Policy -> Assignments on the left nav -> Assign Policy -> Scope it to a subscription or optionally a Resource Group then create assignment by filling up details.

• Analyze resource utilization and consumption

  May include but not limited to: Configure diagnostic settings on resources; create baseline for resources; create and test alerts; analyze alerts across subscription; analyze metrics across subscription; create action groups; monitor for unused resources; monitor spend; report on spend; utilize Log Search query functions; view alerts in Log Analytics.

  • Configure diagnostic settings on resources

    • Read Diagnostic Log for more details.
    • Diagnostic logs are bascially a resource level log in two different types (Tenant logs & Resource logs). Which is different from Activity log which is Subscription level event based logs.
    • Diagnostic settings must be turned on with each resources to start collecting diagnostic, Virtual Machine for instance requires an agent to be installed with a specific storage account that will track customized set of CPU/Memory/Disk/Network/etc & app logs/crash dump/sinks.
    • To access Diagnostic settings: Search Monitor service -> Click on Diagnostic settings -> update the filters to create Diagnostic log.

  • Create baseline for resources

    • Read Download Template for more details.
    • Baseline(Template) of resources is a template that contains information about all of the resources in a resource group and which then can be used to quickly duplicate a deployment.
    • To access this template: Search Resource Groups -> Click on any Resource Group -> then click Deployments on the nav bar -> click on any Deployment -> then click Template on the nav bar. Or access Automation Script nav bar from each resource level to download template for a specific Resource.
    • You can also save template into Template service (PREVIEW) with an ARM template.

  • Create and test alerts

    • Read All about Alerts for more details.
    • Alerts proactively notify you when important conditions are found in your monitoring data. They allow you to identify and address issues before the users of your system notice them.
    • To create alerts: Search Monitor -> Click on Alerts on nav bar -> click New alert rule -> then fillout Resource, Condition, Action Group, and alert details to finish creating alert.

  • Analyze alerts across subscription

    • Read All about Alerts for more details.
    • To access alert analysis: Search Monitor -> Click on Alerts on nav bar -> modify filters on subscription level.
    • You can also access each resource Alert details by going into it's(Resource) own details view, then Alerts on the nav bar.

  • Analyze metrics across subscription

    • Read for more details.

  • Create Action Groups

    • Read for more details.

  • Monitor for unused resources

    • Read for more details.

  • Monitor spend

    • Read for more details.

  • Report on spend

    • Read for more details.

  • Utilize log search query functions

    • Read for more details.

  • View alerts in Log Analytics

    • Read for more details.

• Manage resource groups

  May include but not limited to: Use Azure policies for resource groups; configure resource locks; configure resource policies; implement and set tagging on resource groups; move resources across resource groups; remove resource groups

  • Use Azure Policies for resource groups

    • Read for more details.

  • Configure resource locks

    • Read for more details.

  • Configure resource policies

    • Read for more details.

  • Implement and set tagging on resource groups

    • Read for more details.

  • Move resource across resource groups

    • Read for more details.

  • Remove resource groups

    • Read for more details.