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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Professional Certifications     Microsoft     Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals     AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (2020)
Virtual machines are the underlying work engine supporting many Azure services.
In this course, you’ll explore how to deploy and manage virtual machines, load balancers, and network security groups. You'll begin by learning how to deploy Windows and Linux virtual machines using GUI and command line tools. Next, you'll examine how to use virtual machine scale sets with a load balancer to increase application high availability and performance. You'll then learn when Azure dedicated hosts should be used. Lastly, you'll learn how to control network traffic with network security groups through GUI and command line tools.
This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification.

Objectives

AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: Azure Virtual Machines & Security Groups

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • describe how virtual machines are deployed and managed in the Azure cloud
  • deploy an Azure VM using the GUI
  • deploy an Azure VM using the CLI
  • deploy an Azure VM using PowerShell
  • recognize the purpose of VM scale sets
  • implement a VM scale set
  • describe a basic network load balancer
  • use the portal to deploy a load balancer
  • recognize when to use dedicated hosts
  • describe the purpose of Azure network security groups
  • implement Azure network security groups using the GUI
  • implement Azure network security groups using the CLI
  • implement Azure network security groups using PowerShell
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course