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AZ-104 Azure Administration

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Introduction: 

There are many cloud computing solutions in the modern market, but the most in-demand today is Microsoft Azure. Azure is a cloud computing platform that contains more than 200 services on the cloud as well as products that are designed to help with business solutions. They are designed to solve challenges in business and help in the development as well as the functioning of applications on multiple clouds, on-premise, or hybrid solutions.

Cloud computing is the delivery of multiple services over the internet which include but not limited to storage of data, servers, networking, database management, and software. It is an online activity and generally follows a pay-as-you-go methodology.

What is AZ 104? 

Before we talk about AZ 104, we need to understand what cloud computing really is? 

There is an ever-increasing need for highly skilled and certified professionals in the cloud computing landscape today. As such, AZ 104 is an apt certification to begin your first steps in the world of Azure. The certification is better suited to professionals with at least 6 months of practical experience with the administration of Azure workload.

The AZ 104 exam is taken in order to get a Microsoft Certification – Azure Administrator Associate Certification. This certification is best for individuals who help in the management of cloud services which cover topics such as security, computing capabilities, networking, and storage. The candidates taking this certification are expected to have an in-depth understanding of all services across the IT Lifecycle. With the help of this certification, individuals will be able to recommend different types of services which help in optimizing performance as well as scale.

Benefits of AZ 104? 

In building a career in Azure, AZ 104 is pivotal to begin off with the base certifications. These certifications help professionals by having progressive development in their career, enable structured learning, receive higher salaries, and have greater career flexibility. 

According to a recent survey, the Avg. The Annual Salary of an Azure Administrator in the US ranges from $80,000 to $125,000.

There are several companies such as Accenture, Aptean, Wipro, Capgemini, and many more who have job openings and opportunities.

Is the certification worth it? 

In the current market scenario, Microsoft Azure Administrators are most sought after. Due to the ever-increasing demand for azure and with it is also becoming a leading cloud solution provider on a global scale, there is an ever-increasing demand for professionals certified in Azure technologies.

As we can see that there has been a gradual increase in interest in AZ 104 worldwide.

AZ-104 Azure Administration


Prerequisites for AZ 104? 

  1. Fundamental knowledge about cloud concepts
  2. Knowledge of IT infrastructure, Virtual Machines, and networking concepts
  3. Hands-on experience
  4. Knowledge of Azure workloads, services, and usage of PowerShell, Azure Portal, and more.

About AZ 104 Certification  About AZ 104 Certification 

The AZ 104 – Azure Administrator Certification exam costs US$ 165 (pricing to vary based on country). 

The main domains covered during the certification exams are:

  1. Deploying Virtual Machines 
  2. Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks 
  3. Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources 
  4. Managing identities in a cloud infrastructure 

Where to Learn about AZ 104 certification? 

If you wish to know about AZ 104 certification, you can visit:  
https://azurea2z.com/certification/MicrosoftAzureAdministrator 

To prepare for certification with the help of videos, you can check up: 
https://www.bestdotnettraining.com/az-104-online-training  

To register for the certification, you can visit: 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/exams/az-104  

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Want to know more about it? 

Join us on the demo lecture for the upcoming batch AZ-104- Azure Administration On 7th December. 

Register yourself @ https://www.bestdotnettraining.com/courses-and-webinars/?source=dss 

Watch Live Webinar @ https://bit.ly/33P1KUp 

To know more: 

Contact us @ +91 8555823343 / +91 8008327000  

AzureA2Z Virtual Conference 2020

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AzureA2Z Virtual Conference 2020

Deccansoft Software Services is organizing a Live Virtual Conference on topics and functions related to Microsoft Azure. The conference is a single day event specifically for Microsoft Azure Aspirants and Professionals. The Virtual Conference will be broadcasted live on YouTube on 8th November 2020, beginning at 9AM. This Conference is divided into 4 parts as Knowledge share, Interactive sessions, Quizzes, and Keynote speeches. You will be connecting and interacting with industry experts in Azure and engaging in thought-provoking conversations about Azure. Mr. Sandeep Soni, (MCT) is the Keynote speaker for this Virtual Conference. Keeping in mind the current situation, we are proud to be able to organize this event on our YouTube Channel (BestDotNetTraining) so that the participants can watch, learn and interact from the safety and comfort of their homes.

The Topics to be discussed during the Conference are as follows:

  1. Automated Machine Learning on Azure
  2. Build Efficient & Cost-Effective Solutions Using Azure Functions.
  3. Azure cognitive services.        
  4. Transform Data using Azure Data Factory.
  5. Power BI Services on Azure.
  6. Implementing MSAL Authentication in Xamarin Forms.

To add more excitement to this conference there will also be a Quiz Competition conducted at the end of every session and the overall winners will win prizes worth Rs. 25,000. To know more, please visit the link:

https://www.azurea2z.com/conference

Quote from CEO of Deccansoft.

Sandeep Sir, CEO, Deccansoft Software Services “I, on behalf of Deccansoft Software Services is proud to invite and welcome everyone to AzureA2Z Virtual Conference 2020. Our multiple educational platforms have always aimed at providing education and sharing knowledge to everyone possible. And conducting this Virtual Conference for the first time is just adding another feather to our cap, which wouldn’t have been possible without the responses we have received from our participants. So I invite you all to be a part of our family, and take away as much learning as possible so that we can keep sharing and keep learning and keep growing together”

Date & Time: 28th Nov 2020, 9AM onwards

Virtual Location: BestDotNetTraining (https://www.youtube.com/user/Deccansoft123)

So do make sure you add this conference to your calendar and do not miss an opportunity to learn what’s new and exciting in the industry today to build a better, stronger, and smarter tomorrow.

To get more information about the event contact

Ms. Sana Dhanani

Mobile / WhatsApp: +91 85558 23343 , +91 8008 327 000

Email: sana.d@deccansoft.com

Importance of Azure Certification

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Business industries are experiencing changes in their technologies – mostly towards cloud computing. Cloud computing, defined as a web-based computing model, enables users to instantly share information with other devices and computers. This allows many people to access the same files and data with minimal effort and gives users the opportunity to easily store large amounts of data.

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DevOps Practice Tool

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DevOps Tools

To expedite and actualize DevOps process apart from culturally accepting it, one also needs various DevOps tools like Puppet, Jenkins, GIT, Chef, Docker, Selenium, Azure/AWS etc to achieve automation at various stages which helps in achieving Continuous Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Monitoring to deliver a quality software to the customer at a very fast pace.

Tools Required for

  • Version Control System
  • Configuration management
  • Ticketing System
  • Resource Monitoring
  • Provisioning

What is CI and CD

  • Continuous integration is a software development practice where developers regularly merge their code changes into a central repository, after which automated builds and tests are run. The key goals of continuous integration are to find and address bugs quicker, improve software quality, and reduce the time it takes to validate and release new software updates.
  • Continuous delivery is a software development practice where code changes are automatically built, tested, and prepared for a release to production. It expands upon continuous integration by deploying all code changes to a testing environment and/or a production environment after the build stage. When continuous delivery is implemented properly, developers will always have a deployment-ready build artifact that has passed through a standardized test process.

CI and CD enables agile teams to increase deployment frequency and decrease lead time for change, change-failure rate, and mean time to recovery key performance indicators (KPIs), thereby improving quality and delivering value faster. The only prerequisites are a solid development process, a mindset for quality and accountability for features from ideation to deprecation, and a comprehensive pipeline.

DevOps as a profession – DevOps Engineer

When the company’s management decides to shift to DevOps, the need arises to train IT department specialists to master certain practices and use new tools. In this case, either developers or system administrators need to assume new job responsibilities. A better alternative may be hiring a professional with a clear understanding of the DevOps approach and an ability to set all the necessary processes properly.

After getting software requirements specifications, a DevOps engineer starts setting up the IT infrastructure required for the development. When the IT infrastructure is ready and provided to developers, testers, and other specialists involved in the development cycle, a DevOps engineer ensures that the development and testing environments are aligned with the production environment.

If you ask the DevOps engineer what exactly they do, the answer will likely mention “automation”. What they actually mean is the following:

  • Automating software delivery from the testing environment to the production.
  • Managing physical and virtual servers and their configurations.
  • Monitoring the IT infrastructure’s state and the application’s behavior.

Things to know to become a DevOps engineer

1.Linux and/or Windows Administrator
2.Programming Skills
3.Cloud Management Skills
4.Practical Experience with Containers and orchestration

Below is a more comprehensive list of tools most commonly required to get a job in DevOps:

  • Version control systems (Git, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Apache Subversion, etc.).
  • Continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis CI, TeamCity, and others). ·Software deployment automation platforms (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.).
  • Systems monitoring tools (Grafana, Zabbix, Prometheus, and the like).
  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Alibaba Cloud, and more).
  • Container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Apache Mesos, OpenShift, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), WS EKS)

DevOps engineers’ average salary in the US is twice as high as that of a system administrator. The reason is quite simple —a competent DevOps engineer can greatly increase the efficiency of software development and operations.
More: https://www.scnsoft.com/blog/how-to-become-a-devops-engineer

Azure DevOps Features
You can use one or more of the following features based on your business needs:
1.Azure Boards delivers a suite of Agile tools to support planning and tracking work, code defects, and issues using Kanban and Scrum methods.
2.Azure Repos provides Git repositories or Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) for source control of your code.
3.Azure Pipelines provides build and release services to support continuous integration and delivery of your apps.
4.Azure Test Plans provides several tools to test your apps, including manual/exploratory testing and continuous testing.
5.Azure Artifacts allows teams to share Maven, npm, and NuGet packages from public and private sources and integrate package sharing into your CI/CD pipeines.

Azure DevOps supports adding extensions and integrating with other popular services, such as: Campfire, Slack, Trello, UserVoice, and more, and developing your own custom extensions. Azure DevOps provides extensive integration with industry and community tools. It is far from the closed-off single vendor solution that was the early version of TFS. As noted above, there is a market place which makes hundreds of extensions available, so if Azure Develops doesn’t do something out of the box, odds are a tool exists in the market which does.

Pricing:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/devops/azure-devops-services/

To Create an DevOps Account / Organization:
Sign up with a personal Microsoft account
1.Visit https://azure.microsoft.com/services/devops/
2.Click Start free
3.Either Login with Existing Microsoft Account or Create a New one.
An organization is created based on the account you used to sign in. Sign in to your organization at any time,
(https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}).

Create a Project to get started

  • If you signed up for Azure DevOps with a newly created Microsoft account (MSA), your project is automatically created and named based on your sign-in.
  • If you signed up for Azure DevOps with an existing MSA or GitHub identity, you’re automatically prompted to create a project. You can create either a public or private project.
  • A public Git Hub repository is accessible to everyone, whereas a private repositoryis accessible to you and the people you share it with. In both cases, only collaborators can commit changes to a GitHub repository.

Create Users
1.Create an outlook ID
2.Activate your Subscription (FREE account or Azure Pass Sponsorship or get owner rights other users subscription)
3.Visit https://portal.office.com
4.Go to Azure Active Directory and create users user1@orgname.onmicrosoft.comand user2@orgname.onmicrosoft.com

Invite team members
1.Create couple of outlook ids
2.Use primary email id and visit https://dev.azure.com/.
3.Start Free
4.Create a project to get started
 a. Project Name = “Demo Project”
 b. Description = “For Demo”
 c. Visibility = “Private”
 d. Expand Advanced, Version Control = Git, Work Item process = “Agile”
 e. Create Project
5.Invite Users
 a. Use bread crump and navigate to Organization
 b. Select Organization settings.
 c. Select UsersàAdd new users.
 d. Users = <Email Id of another User), Access level = Basic, Add to project = <project created before>, Azure DevOps Group=Project Contributors
Note: Youwill have to now login as another use and accept the invitation. Do the same in different browser..

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