About this course:

This course teaches developers how to create end-to-end solutions in Microsoft Azure. Students will learn how to implement Azure compute solutions, create Azure Functions, implement and manage web apps, develop solutions utilizing Azure storage, implement authentication and authorization, and secure their solutions by using KeyVault and Managed Identities. Students will also learn how to connect to and consume Azure services and third-party services, and include event- and message-based models in their solutions. The course also covers monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Azure solutions.

Audience:

• Students in this course are interested in Azure development or in passing the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate certification exam.

Prerequisites:

• Students should have 1-2 years professional development experience and experience with Microsoft Azure. They must be able to program in an Azure Supported Language. 

Course Outline

Module 1: Creating Azure App Service Web Apps

Students will learn how to build a web application on the Azure App Service platform. They will learn how the platform functions and how to create, configure, scale, secure, and deploy to the App Service platform.

Lessons

• Azure App Service core concepts
• Creating an Azure App Service Web App
• Configuring and Monitoring App Service apps
• Scaling App Service apps
• Azure App Service staging environments

Module 2: Implement Azure functions

This module covers creating Functions apps, and how to integrate triggers and inputs/outputs in to the app.

Lessons

• Azure Functions overview
• Developing Azure Functions
• Implement Durable Functions
  

Module 3: Develop solutions that use blob storage

Students will learn how Azure Blob storage works, how to manage data through the hot/cold/archive blob storage lifecycle, and how to use the Azure Blob storage client library to manage data and metadata.

Lessons

•   Azure Blob storage core concepts
• Managing the Azure Blob storage lifecycle
• Working with Azure Blob storage

Module 4: Develop solutions that use Cosmos DB storage

Students will learn how Cosmos DB is structured and how data consistency is managed. Students will also learn how to create Cosmos DB accounts and create databases, containers, and items by using a mix of the Azure Portal and the .NET SDK.

Lessons

• Azure Cosmos DB overview
• Azure Cosmos DB data structure
• Working with Azure Cosmos DB resources and data 

Module 5: Implement IaaS solutions

This module instructs students on how to use create VMs and container images to use in their solutions. It covers creating VMs, using ARM templates to automate resource deployment, create and manage Docker images, publishing an image to the Azure Container Registry, and running a container in Azure Container Instances.

Lessons

• Provisioning VMs in Azure
• Create and deploy ARM templates
• Create container images for solutions
• Publish a container image to Azure Container Registry
• Create and run container images in Azure Container Instances

Module 6: Implement user authentication and authorization

Students will learn how to leverage the Microsoft Identity Platform v2.0 to manage authentication and access to resources. Students will also learn how to use the Microsoft Authentication Library and Microsoft Graph to authenticate a user and retrieve information stored in Azure, and how and when to use Shared Access Signatures.

Lessons

• Microsoft Identity Platform v2.0
• Authentication using the Microsoft Authentication Library
• Using Microsoft Graph Authorizing data operations in Azure Storage
  

Module 7: Implement secure cloud solutions

This module covers how to secure the information (keys, secrets, certificates) an application uses to access resources. It also covers securing application configuration information.

Lessons

• Manage keys, secrets, and certificates by using the KeyVault API
• Implement Managed Identities for Azure resources
• Secure app configuration data by using Azure App Configuration
  

Module 8: Implement API Management

Students will learn how to publish APIs, create policies to manage information shared through the API, and to manage access to their APIs by using the Azure API Management service.

Lessons

• API Management overview
• Defining policies for APIs
• Securing your APIs
  

Module 9: Develop App Service Logic Apps

This module teaches students how to use Azure Logic Apps to schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks, business processes, workflows, and services across enterprises or organizations.

Lessons

• Azure Logic Apps overview
• Creating custom connectors for Logic App

Module 10: Develop event-based solutions

Students will learn how to build applications with event-based architectures.

Lessons

• Implement solutions that use Azure Event Grid
• Implement solutions that use Azure Event Hubs
• Implement solutions that use Azure Notification Hubs 

Module 11: Develop message-based solutions

Students will learn how to build applications with message-based architectures.

Lessons

•   Implement solutions that use Azure Service Bus
• Implement solutions that use Azure Queue Storage queues

Module 12: Monitor and optimize Azure solutions

This module teaches students how to instrument their code for telemetry and how to analyze and troubleshoot their apps.

Lessons

• Overview of monitoring in Azure
• Instrument an app for monitoring
• Analyzing and troubleshooting apps
• Implement code that handles transient faults 

Module 13: Integrate caching and content delivery within solutions

Students will learn how to use different caching services to improve the performance of their apps.

Lessons

• Develop for Azure Cache for Redis
• Develop for storage on CDNs

Coach Culbertson Bio

Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Benjamin “Coach” Culbertson has been in technology for 20+ years with military, government agencies, and corporates of all sizes.  

He’s worked in multiple disciplines and specialties, and while he primarily specializes in cloud technologies these days, he also works in AI, app development and ERP solutions, just to name a few. Coach’s ability to deliver a highly effective as well as entertaining class has made him a favorite around the world as well as in the U.S.

When he’s not learning the latest machine learning or app dev technique, you can find him at the local climbing gym, exploring Austin food trucks with his family, and singing karaoke in local establishments as well as his living room.

Course Overview

This exciting and dynamic online training course provides cybersecurity team members with a proactive approach based on Agile methodology. You’ll learn how to enhance your company’s business resilience, deliver stakeholder value and optimize Risk Management across the enterprise.

Course Outline

01. Organizational Governance

• Organizational Strategy, Goals, and Objectives
• Organizational Structure, Roles, and Responsibilities
• Organizational Culture
• Policies and Standards
• Business Processes
• Organizational Assets

02. Risk Governance

• Enterprise Risk Management and Risk Management Framework
• Three Lines of Defense
• Risk Profile
• Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance
• Legal, Regulatory and Contractual Requirements
• Professional Ethics of Risk Management

03. IT Risk Identification

• Risk Events
• Contributing Conditions
• Loss Result
• Threat Modelling and Threat Landscape
• Vulnerability and Control Deficiency Analysis (Root Cause Analysis)
• Risk Scenario Development

04. IT Risk Analysis and Evaluation

• Risk Assessment Concepts, Standards, and Frameworks
• Risk Register
• Risk Analysis Methodologies
• Business Impact Analysis
• Inherent and Residual Risk

05. Risk Response

• Risk Treatment / Risk Response Options
• Risk and Control Ownership
• Third-Party Risk Management
• Issue, Finding, and Exception Management
• Management of Emerging Risk

06. Control Design and Implementation

• Control Types, Standards, and Frameworks
• Control Design, Selection, and Analysis
• Control Implementation
• Control Testing and Effectiveness Evaluation

07. Risk Monitoring and Reporting

• Risk Treatment Plans
• Data Collection, Aggregation, Analysis, and Validation
• Risk and Control Monitoring Techniques
• Risk and Control Reporting Techniques
• Heatmap
• Scorecards
• Dashboards
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
• Key Control Indicators (KCIs)

08. Information Technology Principles

• Enterprise Architecture
• IT Operations Management
• Change Management
• IT Assets
• Problems
• Incidents

09. Information Security Principles

• Information Security Concepts, Frameworks, and Standards
• Information Security Awareness Training
• Business Continuity Management
• Data Privacy and Data Protection Principle

Meet Your Course Instructor:

 Derrick Coston is a world-recognized Cybersecurity expert and instructor. Derrick has experience as a cybersecurity auditor for numerous organizations and Fortune 500 clients.         

About this course:

These days, project management is one of the most critical jobs in any organization and to have the option to deal with such an enormous job, organizations are searching for talented and proficient people. This is actually what this course causes you to accomplish. From credential from accredited experts in the field to passing on some most fundamental secrets of project management, our expert trainers are fit for everything. The information and aptitudes you learn in this course comply with the Project Management Institute regulations.

If you are accredited and skilled by an expert, you will get an opportunity to get acknowledged in top organizations with amazing chances. This course is fundamentally for people who need to get ready and pro the exam of PMP. Our course experts understand what should be learned and practiced with the end goal for you to breeze through the exam. With the assistance of this course, people can without much of a stretch deal with the most basic projects and maintain a strategic distance from issues that may come to their direction.

Obtain the certification of Project Management Professional with Ease!

The certification of PMP is hands down one of the most basic credentials required to turn into an expert project manager. No place in the expert world will you be perceived without this credential. If you obtain this credential, you will be acknowledged and accepted by the Institute of Project Management. Your vocation will go very high starting here forward.

Project Management Training Importance

There is a variety of significant processes of project management that a decent project manager should be familiar with. So as to turn into a specialist project manager, it is necessary for you to take up this course. Not exclusively does this instructional course gives you satisfactory information on the field, but it likewise sets you up for the exam of PMP that supports your profession further. From considering the hazard to gauging the scope of various tasks, this training course of project management gives you complete information about the profession.

We assist you in entering the Exam of PMP!

So as to show up for the exam of PMP, you should have a minimum of 35 contact theory hours. At the point, when you enlist our full PMP course, you get top to bottom information on each part of the project management used by experts in the business. Our course is particularly intended for those needing to become brilliant project managers. When you complete our course, you will be finishing your exam of PMP effortlessly. We additionally provide practical exercises so you comprehend what it resembles to be out there.

Salary Estimate:

After completing this course by passing the PMP exam, you can easily gain up to $125,000/ annually

Course Objectives:

This course will be useful for you with the following:

• Define the fundamentals of project management.
• Define the methodology of project management.
• Explain project management within the industry.Initiate a project.
• Plan a project schedule.
• Make a project management plan and components of a plan.
• Plan for resources, quality, and procurements.
• Plan project costs.
• Plan stakeholder communications and engagement.
• Plan for risk.
• Execute a project.
• Work with stakeholders.
• Control project scope, changes, costs, schedule, resources, quality, and procurements.
• Monitor project scope, work, stakeholder engagement, risks, and communications.
• Close a project.

Targeted Audience:

• Project Leaders
• Managers (Directors, General Managers)
• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Professionals interested in applying for the PMP® Exam.

Patrick Sanford

MSc(IT)

Patrick Sanford serves as the Director of Training for IQShare, a position he has held since 2004. In this role, he provides management oversight to organizational development services, career development programs, a comprehensive companywide training program and co-directs Workforce Planning. He coordinates IQ-Share's participation in system wide development programs and represents IQShare in engagements with peer functions across the US and abroad.

Prior to his current role Patrick was a trainer and internetworking consultant for over 15 years. He has changed the philosophy in many corporations about the need to stay current on their security and their security training. He has trained both individuals and corporate IT personnel on everything from Cisco and Microsoft Windows to all the latest security technologies. He is considered one the foremost experts in the security field and has been contracted out to some of the biggest corporations and government entities around the world to train their trainers and staff to secure their networks.

His IT Certifications and continuing Education inclides: MCSE (NT 4.0, 2000, 2003)  MCITP, MCDBA, MCT,  MS Project Server, CCNA, CCNP, CISSP, ISSAP, ISSEP, ISSMP, CISM, CEH, A+, N+, Security+, Linux+, CASP, ITIL, Six Sigma, Project+ and Project Management Professional.

Military:  US Army 1^st Special Forces 5^th Special Forces Group Bravo Company 1979 to 1985 Taught at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare school 1981

Education:  University of Denver 1986 to 1991