Solutions Review listed the best Azure training and courses you can take right now that every cloud professional should consider.
Are you a cloud professional or IT engineer looking to gain new knowledge in Microsoft Azure or brush up your skills? Do you want to earn an Azure certification, but you don’t know how to prepare yourself for the exams? Online courses and training allow IT professionals to practice their Azure knowledge and sharpen their skills through digital lectures and interactive guides.
Below, we’ve listed the best online Azure courses and training you can take right now that are great resources for cloud and IT professionals. We’ve also included links to the training and courses so you can enroll in any course you want.
*Note: Prices of courses may vary. Courses are listed in alphabetical order.
Created by: Jim Chesire
Length: 8 hours
Cost: $159 USD
“Azure App Service is a popular and fast-changing technology that makes it easy to start a website in minutes. After you’ve created your site, you’ll want to explore more advanced features like SSL certificates, custom domain names, using Docker containers, authentication, deployment slots, hybrid connections, and more. You might also encounter problems such as errors, a slow website, or slow pages. In this course, you learn how to deal with all of these configuration and troubleshooting scenarios, and by the end of the course you’ll be an expert in Web Apps running on Azure App Service.”
Created by: Intellipat
Length: 70+ hours
Cost: $316+ USD
“Are you curious to learn both Azure and DevOps? If yes, here’s an amazing Training course for you. With Intellipaat’s Azure with DevOps Training course, learners will master the concepts of both DevOps and Azure, and develop formidable skills in cloud architecture, Azure Resource Manager, Virtual Network Connectivity, Windows PowerShell, Azure administration, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker among others. In this course you will receive material issued by Microsoft for ‘Integrating On-premises Identity Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure’ and ‘Implementing security in all modules of Azure Infrastructure’.”
Created by: Michael Krout
Length: 30 hours
Cost: starting at $400 USD/year per student
“Microsoft Azure is a service created by Microsoft to provide cloud computing for creating and managing applications and services using a cloud environment. Azure provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The platform supports many programming languages and frameworks and can be used alone or in a multi-vendor cloud environment. This course focuses on the Fundamentals of Azure Infrastructure including infrastructure as a service.”
Created by: Intellezy Trainers
Length: 1 hour
Cost: $40 USD
“This course will introduce students to the Cloud, types of Cloud services, Azure services, and Azure PowerShell. This course is suggested for IT-related professionals that possess limited/no knowledge of cloud technologies and would like to become familiar with Microsoft Azure. Basic computer skills are required. Familiarity with the concept of cloud computing and storage is helpful, but not required.”
Created by: Iain Foulds
Length: 3 hours
Cost: starting at $49 USD/month
“Security is often a major concern as companies look to move to the cloud. Cloud platforms like Azure offer a number of security features above and beyond what traditional on-premises environments provide. Unfortunately, most available content on security in Azure focuses on specific components and features, while current training courses are too lightweight and are often quickly out-of-date since the Azure platform changes so much. This three-hour hands-on course gives you a fundamental understanding of managing security in Azure.”
Created by: Scott Duffy
Length: 2 hours
Cost: $50 USD
“Learn about the new Serverless model for Cloud Apps, using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid. Students will learn what Serverless means, which features of the Azure platform are Serverless, triggers, input binding and output bindings, and to try creating your own Azure functions and logic apps.”
Created by: ExpertRating
Length: 40 minutes
Cost: $10 USD
“The Azure Skills Test has been specifically designed to assess an individual’s job prospects by evaluating working skills and job readiness. For this reason, emphasis is laid upon evaluating the knowledge of applied skills gained through real work experience, rather than theoretical knowledge. Those who take this test need to know about ARM templates, Azure Automation, Azure IaaS, PaaS, and DBaaS, Azure site recovery, and VMware ESXi.”
Created by: Mike Pfieffer
Length: 4 hours
Cost: starting at $49 USD/month
“Azure Resource Manager—Azure’s deployment and management service—allows you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account, using features like access control, locks, and tags to secure and organize your resources after deployment. Microsoft MVP Mike Pfeiffer walks you through developing Azure Resource Manager templates so that you can create infrastructure-as-code solutions that run in the Azure cloud. Join in to learn the foundations of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and how to use declarative syntax to author templates to repeatedly and reliably deploy solutions to the Azure cloud.”
Created by: Tim Warner
Length: 3 hours
Cost: starting from $29 USD/month
“In this course, Configuring Azure AD for Microsoft Azure Workloads, you learn how to secure Azure Active Directory for use as an identity store for your Azure-based cloud applications. This course’s audience is the Microsoft Azure security engineer.”
Created by: Thomas Mitchell
Length: 1.5 hours
Cost: $30 USD
“Learn How to Create Resource Groups, Dashboards, VMs, and More in Azure. Students will learn how to deploy Azure Resource Groups, Azure Dashboards, Azure Virtual Machines via the Portal, Azure Virtual Machines via PowerShell, Azure Virtual Networks via the Portal, Azure Virtual Networks via PowerShell, Network Security Groups, Public IP Addresses in Azure, and Firewall Rules in Azure.”
Created by: Kenny Mobley
Length: 19 hours
Cost: starting at $400 USD/year per student
“This course in an introduction to Microsoft Azure services. Students will gain familiarity with core Azure topics and practice implementation of infrastructure components.”
Created by: Nick Coyler
Length: 2 hours
Cost: $20 USD
“Learn about Azure Virtual Machines and get started in your Azure Journey. Students who take this course will learn about deploying Azure Virtual Machines, PowerShell DSC and VM Extensions, Virtual Machine Storage, how to do basic VM monitoring, and how to continue on their Azure journey.”
Created by: Packt Publishing
Length: 6 hours
Cost: $110 USD
“Learn Azure functions and logic apps with up-to-date techniques and practical examples. Students who take this course will learn about how to use the different languages supported by Azure functions, how Azure functions can talk to other Azure and external services, what serverless architecture is and how to create it, how to test, monitor, and debug your Azure functions, how to explore automation business processes in the cloud with Azure logic apps, how to solve common problems by understanding the fundamentals for Azure Logic Apps, and how to work with Logic Apps designer environment to build your app.”
Created by: Yuri Diogenes
Length: 5 hours
Cost: $240 USD
“In this video, leading Microsoft security expert Yuri Diogenes helps you apply Azure Security Center’s robust protection, detection, and response capabilities in key operational scenarios. Learn comprehensive Azure Security Center techniques for safeguarding cloud and hybrid environments. Walk through securing any Azure workload and optimizing key facets of modern security, from policies and identity to incident response and risk management. Reflecting Azure Security Center updates as of March 2020, coverage includes single-click remediation, IoT, improved container security, Azure Sentinel, and more.”
Created by: ExpertRating
Length: 40 minutes
Cost: $10 USD
“The Microsoft Azure has been specifically designed to assess an individual’s job prospects by evaluating working skills and job readiness. For this reason, emphasis is laid upon evaluating the knowledge of applied skills gained through real work experience, rather than theoretical knowledge. Those who take this test need to know about applications, services and roles, data and storage, networking, SQL Azure, and Azure web services.”
Created by: John Academy
Length: 47 minutes
Cost: $24 USD
“Azure Automation gives you the ability to automate frequent, time-consuming, and error-prone cloud management tasks. On the other hand, Log Analytics helps you to collect, correlate, and visualize structured and unstructured data. Using Log Analytics, you can monitor cloud and on-premises environments to maintain availability and performance. You will also monitor and systems to maintain availability and performance. Throughout the course, you will learn how to use these two services for making your office work easy. You will explore the strategies of creating an automation account, Runbooks, and creating and viewing OMS workspace. Finally, you will be familiarized with the Azure security Centre.”
Created by: John Academy
Length: 1 hour
Cost: $24 USD
“Microsoft Azure Storage is the durable, highly available, massively scalable, secure, durable, and redundant cloud storage solution of Microsoft. It includes Azure Blobs (objects), Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Files, Azure Queues, and Azure Tables. In the course, you will learn how to work with Azure storage accounts. You will learn how to expose file shares to multiple VMs in Azure at the same time. The course guides you the procedures of using Blob storage, File Storage, and Content Delivery Network. Additionally, you will know how to monitor the storage and look at Azure File Sync.”
Created by: John Academy
Length: 54 minutes
Cost: $24 USD
“The course explains these cloud services with a special focus on the services provided by Microsoft Azure which is an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network. You will learn the procedures of managing Azure from the Classic, New Portal and Azure PowerShell. You will know the steps of authenticating Azure PowerShell.”
Created by: John Academy
Length: 43 minutes
Cost: $24 USD
“The course familiarizes you to virtual network configuration through the Microsoft Azure Portal. You will learn how to use network services to configure and load balance network traffic using tools such as Azure DNS. The course teaches you about IP Address space and shows you the procedures for creating a Vnet or virtual networking. You will understand Vnet peering and DNS in Azure Vnet. The course guides you to configure a Point to Site VPN and a Site to Site VPN. Lastly, the course focuses on the procedures of Azure Vnet peering, and shows you how peering between Vents can reduce the need to build Vnet-to-Vnet VPN gateways.”
Created by: Barry Luijbregts
Length: 1 hour
Cost: starting at $29 USD/month
“At the core of implementing cache using Azure is a thorough knowledge of Azure Redis Cache. In this course, Microsoft Azure Developer: Implementing Azure Cache, you’ll learn how to implement Azure Redis cache in your applications. First, you’ll learn why you should cache data. Next, you’ll explore what Azure Redis Cache is. Finally, you’ll discover how to implement Azure Redis Cache in your application. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a foundational knowledge of implementing cache using Azure that will help you as you move forward to implement Azure Redis Cache in your applications and make them more performant.”
Created by: Matt Milner
Length: 2 hours
Cost: starting from $29 USD/month
“Microsoft Azure is a huge collection of services for building applications in the cloud and can often be overwhelming. In this course, Microsoft Azure: The Big Picture, you will learn foundational knowledge to begin planning solutions using Microsoft Azure. First, you will learn about cloud computing and the different ways to run your application code. Next, you will discover the data storage, processing, and analysis capabilities in Azure. Finally, you will explore how to create networks; integrate, manage, and secure your applications; and develop for Azure. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Microsoft Azure needed to begin working on your cloud solutions.”
Created by: John Savill
Length: 3 hours
Cost: starting from $29 USD/month
‘Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you’re using the right type of service while minimizing how much your organization spends. This course, Understanding and Using Azure Storage, is the vehicle to get you there. First, you’ll get an introduction to storage fundamentals and a walk-through of the key types of Azure Storage available, including Standard and Premium. Next, you’ll see how Azure IaaS VMs utilize storage. You’ll finish the course by reviewing and seeing demonstrations on the StoreSimple Appliance. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have a firm understanding of the Azure Storage capabilities and how they can be leveraged in infrastructure services, such as Azure IaaS VMs.”
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This article was written by Daniel Hein on September 17, 2020
Dan is a tech writer who writes about Cybersecurity for Solutions Review. He graduated from Fitchburg State University with a Bachelor’s in Professional Writing. You can reach him at [email protected]
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