In this course, you will practice deploying and administering Linux virtual machines. this course prepares you for an Applied Skills credential.

Microsoft Applied Skills is a new verifiable credential that validates that you have the targeted skills needed to implement critical projects aligned to business goals and objectives. Applied Skills gives you a new opportunity to show your skills, empowering you to showcase what you can do and what you can bring to key projects in your organization.

This course is designed for students who are planning to take the Deploy and administer Linux Virtual Machines on Azure credential, or students who are performing Azure Administrator virtual machine workload tasks in their day-to-day job. This course provides students with a bridge between fundamental level skills and entry-level associate skills. This course helps learners progress in multiple IT roles, including infrastructure, storage, security, and monitoring.

Before starting this module, you should be familiar with:

• Experience using the Azure portal and CLI to create resources.
• Familiarity with identity management and role-based access control.
• Experience creating and configuring Azure virtual machines.
• Working knowledge of administering operating systems based on the Linux kernel.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Create and configure workloads on virtual machines
• Access blob and file storage
• Monitor and triggering alerts
• Back up virtual machines

Course Subjects

• Configure virtual machines
• Add and size disks in Azure virtual machines
• Monitor your Azure virtual machines with Azure Monitor
• Protect your virtual machines by using Azure Backup
• Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI
• Implement access management for Azure resources
• Configure Azure Files and Azure File Sync
• Copy and move blobs from one container or storage account to another using the AzCopy command
• Guided Project: Deploy and administer Linux virtual machines on Azure