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Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
2024-02-11 09:00 - 2024-02-14 17:00, 2024-02-25 09:00 - 2024-02-28 17:00, 2024-04-21 09:00 - 2024-04-24 17:00, 2024-05-05 09:00 - 2024-05-08 17:00, 2024-06-09 09:00 - 2024-06-12 17:00 UTC
Audience Profile
The audience for this course are data professionals and business intelligence professionals who want to learn how to accurately perform data analysis using Power BI. This course is also targeted toward those individuals who develop reports that visualize data from the data platform technologies that exist both in the cloud and on-premises.
Prerequisites
Successful Data Analysts start this role with experience of working with data in the cloud.
Specifically:
Understanding core data concepts.
Knowledge of working with relational data in the cloud.
Knowledge of working with non-relational data in the cloud.
Knowledge of data analysis and visualization concepts.
You can gain the prerequisites and a better understanding of working with data in Azure by completing Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals before taking this course.
Course Outline (Topics)

Get data from different data sources.

Clean, transform, and load the data.

Model the Data

Visualize and Analyze the Data

Use the Analyze feature in Power BI

Deploy and Maintain Assets

Manage workspaces.

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Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
2024-02-25 09:00 - 2024-02-29 17:00, 2024-06-23 09:00 - 2024-06-27 17:00
Introduction:
The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator course explores how to design, implement, and operate an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Microsoft Entra ID. Learn to manage tasks such as providing secure authentication and authorization access to enterprise applications.
Audience Profile
This course is for the Identity and Access Administrators who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing identity and access administration tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an administrator or engineer that wants to specialize in providing identity solutions and access management systems for Azure-based solutions, playing an integral role in protecting an organization.
Prerequisites

Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:
Security best practices and industry security requirements such as defense in depth, least privileged access, shared responsibility, and zero trust model.
Be familiar with identity concepts such as authentication, authorization, and active directory.
Have some experience deploying Azure workloads. This course does not cover the basics of Azure administration, instead the course content builds on that knowledge by adding security specific information.
Some experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages is helpful but not required. Course labs may use PowerShell and CLI.

Course outline
Module 1 : Explore identity in Microsoft Entra ID
Module 2 : Implement initial configuration of Microsoft Entra ID
Module 3 : Create, configure, and manage identities
Module 4 : Implement and manage external identities
Module 5 : Implement and manage hybrid identity
Module 6 : Secure Microsoft Entra users with multifactor authentication
Module 7 : Manage user authentication
Module 8 : Plan, implement, and administer Conditional Access
Module 9 : Manage Microsoft Entra Identity Protection
Module 10 : Implement access management for Azure resources
Module 11 : Plan and design the integration of enterprise apps for SSO
Module 12 : Implement and monitor the integration of enterprise apps for SSO
Module 13 : Implement app registration
Module 14 : Plan and implement entitlement management
Module 15 : Plan, implement, and manage access review
Module 16 : Plan and implement privileged access
Module 17 : Monitor and maintain Microsoft Entra ID

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Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)
2024-03-03 09:00 - 2024-03-07 17:00, 2024-06-09 09:00 - 2024-06-13 17:00
Introduction:
The course introduces essential elements of modern management, co-management approaches, and Microsoft Intune integration. It covers app deployment, management of browser-based applications, and key security concepts such as authentication, identities, access, and compliance policies.
Audience Profile
The Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator is responsible for deploying, configuring, securing, managing, and monitoring devices and client applications in a corporate setting. Their duties include managing identity, access, policies, updates, and apps. They work alongside the M365 Enterprise Administrator to develop and execute a device strategy that aligns with the requirements of a modern organization.
Prerequisites
The Modern Desktop Administrator must be familiar with M365 workloads and must have strong skills and experience of deploying, configuring, and maintaining Windows 11 and later, and non-Windows devices.
Target Audience

Microsoft SaaS beginners
Office 365 / Microsoft 365 consultants (aspiring)
Anyone who wants to learn the benefits and administration of Microsoft 365 (level 100 to 300)
For clearing Microsoft Certification MS-100, MS200T02, MS201, MS300T01, MS300T03, MS500T01, MS500T04 & MS900
Office 365 Administrators
Microsoft 365 Administrators

Course Outline
Module 1: Explore endpoint management
Module 2: Execute device Enrollment
Module 3: Configure profiles for users and devices
Module 4: Examine application management
Module 5: Manage authentication and compliance
Module 6: Manage endpoint security
Module 7: Deploy using on-premises based tools
Module 8: Deploy using cloud-based tools
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Certification Name : Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (Exam : AI-102)
2024-04-21 09:00 - 2024-04-24 17:00
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102)

Introduction
AI-102 Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution is intended for software developers wanting to build AI infused applications that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. The course will use C# or Python as the programming language.
Audience Profile
Software engineers are concerned with building, managing, and deploying AI solutions that leverage Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, and Microsoft Bot Framework. They are familiar with C# or Python and have knowledge on using REST-based APIs to build computer vision, language analysis, knowledge mining, intelligent search, and conversational AI solutions on Azure.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students must have:

Knowledge of Microsoft Azure and ability to navigate the Azure portal.
Knowledge of C# or Python
Knowledge of JSON and REST programming semantics

To gain C# or Python skills, complete the free Getting Started with C# or Python for Beginners learning paths before attending the course. If you’re new to AI and want an overview of AI capabilities in Azure, consider completing the Azure AI Fundamentals certification before taking this one.
Module 1: Introduction to artificial intelligence in Azure
Module 2: Developing AI applications with Cognitive Services Cognitive
Module 3: Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Module 4: Building Voice-Enabled Apps
Module 5: Creating Language Understanding Solutions
Module 6: Creating a QnA solution.
Module 7: Conversational IA and Azure Bot Service
Module 8: Introduction to computer vision
Module 9: Development of Custom Vision solutions
Module 10: Detection, analysis, and recognition of faces
Module 11: Reading the text of images and documents.
Module 12: Creating a Knowledge Mining Solution
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104T00)
2024-05-12 09:00 - 2024-05-15 17:00
Azure Administrator Role
The Azure Administrator implements, manages, and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate. Candidates should have a minimum of six months of hands-on experience administering Azure. Candidates should have a strong understanding of core Azure services, Azure workloads, security, and governance. Candidates for this exam should have experience in using PowerShell, the Command Line Interface, Azure Portal, and ARM templates.
Prerequisites
Successful Azure Administrators start this role with experience in virtualization, networking, identity, and storage.

Understanding on-premises virtualization technologies, including: VMs, virtual networking, and virtual hard disks.
Understanding network configurations, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.
Understanding Active Directory concepts, including users, groups, and role-based access control.
Understanding resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

Course Outline
Module 01 – Administer Identity
Module 02 – Administer Governance and Compliance
Module 03 – Administer Azure Resources
Module 04 – Administer Virtual Networking
Module 05 – Administer Intersite Connectivity
Module 06 – Administer Network Traffic
Module 07 – Administer Azure Storage
Module 08 – Administer Azure Virtual Machines
Module 09 – Administer PaaS Compute Services
Module 10 – Administer Data Protection
Module 11 – Administer Monitoring

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500T00)
2024-05-19 09:00 - 2024-05-23 17:00
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500T00)
Audience
This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and plays an integral role in protecting an organization’s data.
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course students should:

Understand security best practices and industry security requirements such as defense in depth, least privileged access, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, shared responsibility, and zero trust model.
Be familiar with security protocols such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Internet Security Protocol (IPSec), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), disk and data encryption methods.
Have some experience deploying Azure workloads. This course does not cover the basics of Azure administration, instead the course content builds on that knowledge by adding security specific information.
Have experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages. This course will use PowerShell and the CLI.

Course Outline
Learning Path 1: Manage Identity and Access

Module 1: Secure Azure solution with Azure Active Directory
Module 2: Implement Hybrid identity
Module 3: Deploy Azure AD identity protection
Module 4: Configure Azure AD privileged identity management
Module 5: Design an enterprise governance strategy

Learning Path 2: Implement platform protection

Module 1: Implement perimeter security
Module 2: Configure network security
Module 3: Configure and manage host security
Module 4: Enable Containers security

Learning Path 3: Secure your data and applications

Module 1: Deploy and secure Azure Key Vault
Module 2: Configure application security features
Module 3: Implement storage security
Module 4: Configure and manage SQL database security

Learning Path 4: Manage security operation

Module 1: Configure and manage Azure Monitor
Module 2: Enable and manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Module 3: Configure and monitor Microsoft Sentinel

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