Microsoft Azure Advanced Training
Architect enterprise Azure estates with landing zones, multi-region resilience, Zero Trust security, FinOps and migration plans. Learn Microsoft Azure through a clear Foundation to Advanced path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Microsoft Azure levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About Microsoft Azure Advanced Training.
Understand where Microsoft Azure fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
Microsoft Azure is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool Microsoft Azure program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private Microsoft Azure training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate Microsoft Azure training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to Microsoft Azure usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Choose any level. The page still shows the full progression.
Foundation, Essential, Intermediate and Advanced are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get all levels by default, even if they start from only one course page.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | All 4 levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | Microsoft Azure Advanced Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after Microsoft Azure training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Deploy on Azure confidently
Create, deploy and manage Azure compute, storage, database and container services.
Automate Azure delivery
Use Bicep, Terraform, pipelines and policy to deliver secure, repeatable Azure environments.
Architect enterprise Azure
Design resilient, governed and cost-optimised Azure platforms and migrations.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected Microsoft Azure responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why Microsoft Azure matters
- Microsoft Azure helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, Microsoft Azure becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using Microsoft Azure effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand Microsoft Azure concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply Microsoft Azure in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use Microsoft Azure for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical Microsoft Azure usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on Microsoft Azure.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: subscriptions, tools, identity basics and first resourcesDay 1
- Azure building blocks: tenants, subscriptions, management groups, resource groups and resources
- Regions and availability: region choice, availability zones, paired regions and service availability
- Working tools: Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell, logging in and selecting a subscription
- Azure Resource Manager: resource providers, ARM requests, locks and deployment history
- Identity basics: Microsoft Entra ID users and groups, MFA and the built-in Owner, Contributor and Reader roles
- Service map: compute, networking, storage, databases, containers, AI and management services at a glance
- First virtual machine: image, size, disk, NSG rules, SSH or RDP and Bastion access
- First web app: App Service plan, web app creation and deploying code from Git or a ZIP file
- Storage first steps: storage account, blob container, upload and access with Storage Explorer
- Cost basics: Pricing Calculator, Cost Management, budgets and alerts and tagging for cost owners
- Clean-up discipline: deleting resource groups, auto-shutdown and avoiding orphaned resources
Essential Level = Foundation + building and deploying cloud applicationsDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- Azure App Service in depth: deployment slots, app settings, scaling rules and custom domains with TLS
- Azure Functions: triggers and bindings, hosting plans including Flex Consumption and local development with Core Tools
- Containers on Azure: Azure Container Registry builds and Azure Container Apps revisions and scale rules
- Data services: Azure SQL Database and Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server, firewall rules and backups
- Azure Cosmos DB: APIs, partition keys, consistency levels and request units
- Blob and queue storage for apps: SDK access, SAS tokens, lifecycle rules and static website hosting
- Messaging and events: Service Bus queues and topics, Event Grid and Event Hubs use cases
- Secrets and identity for apps: Key Vault references and managed identities instead of connection strings
- App configuration: Azure App Configuration and feature flags
- Application Insights: auto-instrumentation, live metrics, failures and dependency tracking
- CI/CD to Azure: GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines with OIDC federated credentials
- Bicep basics: resources, parameters, outputs and az deployment group create
Intermediate Level = Essential + AKS, networking, automation, monitoring and securityDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Azure Kubernetes Service: node pools, workload identity, ingress options, autoscaling and upgrades
- Networking for applications: VNet integration, private endpoints, private DNS zones and NAT Gateway
- Traffic management: Application Gateway with WAF, Azure Front Door and Traffic Manager compared
- API Management: products, policies, rate limits, versioning and backend authentication
- Reusable infrastructure as code: Bicep modules, Azure Verified Modules, deployment stacks and what-if
- Terraform on Azure: azurerm provider, remote state in Storage, and plan and apply in pipelines
- Azure DevOps: multi-stage YAML pipelines, environments, approvals and service connections
- Azure Policy for delivery teams: allowed SKUs, required tags, deny public endpoints and remediation tasks
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud: recommendations, workload protection plans and DevOps security posture
- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics: KQL queries, workbooks, alert rules and action groups
- Autoscale and performance: VM Scale Sets, App Service autoscale, KEDA on AKS and load testing
- Troubleshooting: Network Watcher, Resource Health, activity log and deployment error analysis
Advanced Level = Intermediate + landing zones, resilience, Zero Trust, cost and migrationDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- Azure landing zones: Cloud Adoption Framework design areas, platform and application subscriptions, ALZ accelerators
- Multi-region active-active: Front Door routing, Cosmos DB multi-region writes and zone-redundant services
- Disaster recovery: Azure Site Recovery, backup vaults, cross-region restore and RTO and RPO testing
- Zero Trust identity: Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, access reviews and workload identity federation
- Network architecture: hub and spoke versus Virtual WAN, Azure Firewall Premium and DDoS Protection
- Governance at scale: management group hierarchy, policy initiatives as code and regulatory compliance dashboards
- FinOps on Azure: reservations, savings plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, Advisor and cost allocation
- Hybrid and multicloud: Azure Arc-enabled servers, Kubernetes and data services
- AI workloads: Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI integration with private networking and quotas
- Migration: Azure Migrate discovery and assessment, server, database and web app migration waves
- Well-Architected reviews: reliability, security, cost, operational excellence and performance trade-offs
- Capstone: design and present a multi-region, governed Azure platform for a business application
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys Foundation, Essential, Intermediate or Advanced as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access is granted to all four levels by default.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes all four levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- All four Microsoft Azure levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
First Azure resources from the CLI
Create a resource group with a budget alert, deploy a Linux VM and an App Service web app from the Azure CLI, then tag, inspect and clean everything up.
Deploy a cloud-native app pipeline
Deploy an API to Container Apps and a Function that processes Service Bus messages, backed by Cosmos DB, with Key Vault secrets and a GitHub Actions pipeline.
Private AKS platform with guardrails
Provision a private AKS cluster and API Management with Bicep modules, deploy an app through an Azure DevOps pipeline, enforce Azure Policy and alert with KQL.
Capstone: enterprise-ready Azure architecture
Deploy a landing zone, run a business app across two regions with Front Door and Cosmos DB, prove failover and present governance and cost controls.
Microsoft Azure is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use Microsoft Azure with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool Microsoft Azure certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected Microsoft Azure level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
Microsoft Azure Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this Microsoft Azure path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool Microsoft Azure Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Foundation, Essential, Intermediate, Advanced | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | All four levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because access includes all four levels by default.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, all four levels for the selected course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Foundation → Essential → Intermediate → Advanced. The agenda is designed so each level builds on the previous one.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which Microsoft Azure level fits your team.
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