• Describe Azure architecture components, including infrastructure, tools, and portals
• Compare various infrastructure, server-less, database and communication services; such as App Services, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Azure Cosmos DB, SQL Database, and Container Service in Azure
• Comparing Microsoft Azure and AWS features and services
• Explain the primary methods for integrating an on-premises environment with Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services.
• Describe the Azure services that provide data storage, management, and analytics capabilities in hybrid scenarios.
• Explain the use of Azure disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Explain how to design and implement cross-premises applications.
• Describe Azure monitoring and management solutions that offer hybrid capabilities.

• Plan and implement storage, backup, and recovery services.
• Implement container-based workloads & automate by using Azure Automation runbooks
• Deploy, configure, monitor, and diagnose cloud services.
• Implement and manage virtual networking within Azure and configure cross-premises connectivity
• Configure, manage, and monitor Azure VMs to optimize availability and reliability
• Incorporate various Azure platform services, such as Cognitive Services and Media Servicers into an overall Azure solution
• Create automated DevOps solutions using a combination of ARM templates, configuration management utilities, Azure CLI, and the Cloud Shell
• Implementing and managing Azure Resource Manager and Resource Groups
• Implementing and managing Azure Active Directory
• Implement and configure directory synchronization and manage synchronized directories.
• Use Azure AD as a directory service for an on-premises environment, configure single sign-on (SSO) in Azure AD, and protect privileged identities
• Implement multi-factor authentication
• Configure alerts and monitor directory services infrastructure

The Azure System Administrator Learning Path is intended for IT professionals who have knowledge of cloud technologies and want to gain an intermediate to advanced understanding of hands-on Azure Administration and Management. Typical audience, but not always, for this Learning Path will include IT Professionals who have experience working with Windows 2012 Server or Windows 2016 Server. Such administrators will have different needs:

• IT Professionals who want to deploy, configure, and administer services, containers, and virtual machines (VMs) in Azure
• IT Administrators who use Microsoft System Center to manage and orchestrate server infrastructure.
• Windows Server Administrators who are looking to evaluate and migrate on-premises Active Directory roles and services to the cloud
• IT professionals who are experienced in other non-Microsoft cloud technologies and want to crosstrain on Azure

It is expected that learners have some prior experience with Azure / Cloud Services in general, as well as experience with Windows / Linux Server Administration, including but not limited to, virtualization technologies. More specifically learners are expected to have an understanding of the following:

• On-premises virtualization technologies
• Network configuration
• Active Directory concepts including Domains, Forests, Domain Controllers, replication, Kerberos, and LDAP
• Database concepts including Tables, queries, Structured Query Language (SQL), and database schemas
• Resilience and Disaster Recovery operations