• Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resources • Implementing and Managing Storage • Deploying and Managing VMs • Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks • Managing Identities using Azure Active Directory • Evaluating and Performing Server Migration to Azure • Implementing and Managing Application Services  • Implementing Advanced Virtual Networking. • Securing Identities using Azure AD. • Design and Connectivity Patterns  • Hybrid Networking  • Address Durability of Data and Caching  • Measure Throughput and Structure of Data Access • Use shell commands to create an App Service Web App • Create Background Tasks • Use Swagger to document an API • Create a reliable service • Create a Reliable Actors app • Hands-on with Reliable collections • Understand the Azure Container Registry • Use Azure Container instances • Understand how to Implement authentication using certificates, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, and tokens. • Implement Role-aBsed Access Control (RBAC) authorization. • Implement secure data for end-to-end encryption. • Implement secure data for implementing SSL and TLS communications. • Use Azure Key Vault to manage cryptographic keys. • How to configure a message-based integration architecture • Understand how to Develop for Asynchronous Processing • Begin creating apps for Autoscaling • Understand Azure Cognitive Services Solutions • Integrate their existing solutions with external identity providers using Azure AD B2B or B2C. • Design a hybrid identity solution. • Determine when to use advanced features of Azure AD such as Managed Service Identity, MFA and Privileged Identity Management. • Secure application secrets using Key Vault. • Secure application data using SQL Database and Azure Storage features. • Detail the various APIs available in Cognitive Services. • Identify when to use the Face API, Speech API or Language Understanding (LUIS) service. • Describe the relationship to Bot Framework and Azure Bot Services. • Determine the ideal pricing option for Azure Storage based on a solution’s requirements. • Identify performance thresholds for the Azure Storage service. • Determine the type of Storage blobs to use for specific solution components. • Use the Azure Files service for SMB operations. • Identify solutions that could benefit from the use of StorSimple physical or virtual devices. • Compare and contrast monitoring services for applications, the Azure platform, and networking. • Design an alert scheme for a solution hosted in Azure. • Select the appropriate backup option for infrastructure and data hosted in Azure. • Automate the deployment of future resources for backup recovery or scaling purposes. • Create a resource group. • Add resources to a resource group. • Deploy an ARM template to a resource group Integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service. • Design an App Service Plan or multi-region deployment for high performance and scale. • Integrate an API or Logic App with the API Management service. • Design an App Service Plan or multi-region deployment for high performance and scale. • Describe various patterns pulled from the Cloud Design Patterns. • Distribute network traffic across multiple loads using load balancers. • Design a hybrid connectivity scenario between cloud and on-premise. • Design an availability set for one or more virtual machines. • Describe the differences between fault and update domains. • Author a VM Scale Set ARM template.