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Learn the business value of Microsoft Azure

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Overview

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  • Module 1: Introduction to Azure solutions
  • In this module, you will:

    • Explore why Azure is a great platform for digital transformation.
    • Learn about the unique value that Azure provides.
    • Review the Azure solutions.
  • Module 2: Every modern business is powered by applications, such as internal procurement applications, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, retail websites, and third-party products. As your business prepares for digital transformation, it’s important to begin modernizing and migrating your applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Azure is a key component of that process. You can choose to migrate, modernize, or build cloud native solutions depending on your business goals and how you assess your application portfolio. This is a strategic decision. You’ll be able to choose the path that’s right for your organization.
  • In this module, you will learn to:

    • Identify the value of modernizing your applications and infrastructure.
    • Describe the common triggers driving modernization.
    • Evaluate your application portfolio to determine a migration and modernization strategy.
    • Identify the advantages of different migration and modernization strategies.
  • Module 3: Establishing a modern data estate is a foundational step toward digital transformation. A modern data estate enables timely insights and decision making across all your data, and sets the foundation for AI. A data estate is all of the data an organization owns. When you migrate this data to the cloud or modernize your environment on-premises you can gain important insights to fuel innovation.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Understand the importance and benefits of modern data estates.
    • Learn about Microsoft solutions for data migration and modernizations.
    • Understand how applications are built using globally distributed data.
    • Understand the value of cloud scale analytics.
    • Learn how to gain insights from data using modern business intelligence.
  • Module 4: This module provides an overview of Azure AI and demonstrates how Microsoft tools, services, and infrastructure can help make AI real for your organization, whether you want to unlock insights from your latent data with knowledge mining, develop your own AI models with machine learning, or build immersive apps using AI.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Understand the Microsoft vision for Azure AI.
    • Identify ways you can use Azure AI.
    • Define what Azure AI is, how it works, and how it's built.
  • Module 5: The demos in this module provide an opportunity to see Azure in action.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Watch a demo that shows an application server lift-and-shift migration that uses Azure Migrate
    • Watch a demo that shows how to modernize an application by using Azure Logic Apps
    • Recognize the value of Azure, as illustrated by these demos
  • Module 6: Learn how to use the Cloud Adoption Framework to develop best practices for cloud adoption in real-world scenarios.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Learn how to leverage the Cloud Adoption Framework to identify where your organization is in the digital transformation journey.
    • Identify triggers and opportunities for cloud adoption.
    • Recognize the components needed to develop a digital transformation strategy around your business, people, and technology.
  • Module 7: Microsoft runs on trust
  • In this module, you will:

    • Define the four Microsoft Trusted Cloud principles.
    • Discover how Microsoft demonstrates these principles.

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Introduction to Azure solutions
    • Introduction
    • Enable digital transformation with Azure
    • The unique value of Azure
    • Azure solutions
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 2: Applications and infrastructure migration and modernization
    • Introduction
    • Triggers for migration and modernization
    • Application portfolio assessment
    • Infrastructure and app migration
    • Application modernization
    • Comparing types of app modernization
    • DevOps
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 3: Microsoft data estate migration and modernization
    • Introduction to Microsoft data estate migration and modernization
    • Data modernization
    • Globally distributed data
    • Cloud scale analytics
    • Gaining insights from your data
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 4: Microsoft Azure Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy and solutions
    • Introduction to Azure Artificial Intelligence
    • Knowledge mining
    • Machine learning
    • Apps and agents
    • AI impact and ethics
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 5: See Azure in action
    • Module overview
    • Demo - Microsoft Azure migration
    • Demo - Modernizing .NET applications
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 6: Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
    • Introduction
    • Overview
    • Define strategy
    • Plan
    • Ready
    • Adopt
    • Govern and manage
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary and resources
  • Module 7: Microsoft runs on trust
    • Introduction
    • Security
    • Privacy
    • Compliance
    • Transparency
    • Knowledge Check
    • Summary and resources

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