In this section, you'll build a strong foundation in Microsoft Azure and learn how its cloud platform supports modern applications, infrastructure, and business workloads. You'll begin by exploring Azure fundamentals and gain an understanding of Azure Cloud and its core services. As you progress, you'll discover Azure cloud services and regions, learning how Microsoft's global infrastructure supports scalability, availability, and reliable resource deployment. You'll also explore Azure's key features, benefits, and common use cases to understand how organizations use Azure to improve flexibility, efficiency, and innovation. The section further introduces the Azure Cloud Console, providing a guided overview of its interface and essential capabilities. You'll learn how to navigate the portal and become familiar with managing Azure resources and services. By the end of this section, you'll have a solid understanding of Azure fundamentals, services, regions, benefits, and the Azure portal, enabling you to confidently begin working with Microsoft Azure.

In this section, you'll build a strong foundation in Azure compute services, learning how to deploy, scale, and maintain virtual machine-based workloads. You'll begin by exploring Azure Virtual Machines and gain an understanding of their capabilities, configurations, and common use cases for running applications in the cloud. As you progress, you'll learn how to create Azure Virtual Machines and explore Availability Sets and Availability Zones to understand how Azure helps improve application availability and resilience. You'll also discover Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and how they enable automatic scaling and management of multiple virtual machine instances. Through guided demonstrations, you'll gain practical experience creating and configuring Virtual Machine Scale Sets and understand how they can support scalable and highly available applications. By the end of this section, you'll have a solid understanding of Azure compute fundamentals, including Virtual Machines, Availability Sets, Availability Zones, and VM Scale Sets, enabling you to deploy reliable and scalable compute workloads on Azure.

In this section, you'll build a strong foundation in Azure storage and Microsoft Entra ID, learning how to securely store data and manage identities and access across Azure environments. You'll begin by exploring Azure Storage accounts and services, gaining an understanding of the different storage capabilities available for applications and data workloads. As you progress, you'll gain hands-on experience creating Azure Storage accounts and explore storage redundancy options to improve data availability and durability. You'll also learn how Azure Storage encryption helps protect data at rest and gain practical experience configuring storage security. The section further introduces Microsoft Entra ID and its product family, helping you understand how cloud-based identity and access management enables secure authentication and authorization. Through a guided demonstration, you'll become familiar with Microsoft Entra ID and its core capabilities for managing identities and access. By the end of this section, you'll have a solid understanding of Azure Storage and Microsoft Entra ID fundamentals, enabling you to manage cloud storage securely and implement identity and access management in Azure environments.