Developing Intelligent Bots with Azure Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to learn how to build microservices on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (ASF).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use ASF as a platform for building and managing microservices.
• Understand key microservices programming concepts and models.
• Create a cluster in Azure.
• Deploy microservices on premises or in the cloud.
• Debug and troubleshoot a live microservice application.

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 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.

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Azure ML's drag-and-drop platform to deploy Machine Learning workloads without having to purchase software and hardware and without having to worry about maintenance and deployment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Write highly-accurate machine learning models using Python, R, or zero-code tools.
• Leverage Azure's available data sets and algorithms to train and track machine learning and deep-learning models.
• Use Azures interactive workspace to collaboratively develop ML models.
• Choose from different Azure-supported ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms.

Audience profile

Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Job role: DevOps Engineer

Preparation for exam: AZ-400

Skills gained

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Design a tool integration strategy
• Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Design an authentication and access strategy
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
• Describe the benefits of using Source Control
• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
• Build organizational knowledge on code quality
• Explain how to structure Git repos
• Describe Git branching workflows
• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
• Leverage Git hooks for automation
• Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
• Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
• Define Site Reliability Engineering
• Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
• Design processes to automate application analytics
• Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
• Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
• Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
• Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
• Manage organizational security and compliance policies
• Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
• Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings

Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment

This training permits delegates to improve their Microsoft Azure solution design skills.

After this training the delegate will understand the features and capabilities of Azure services, to be able to identify trade-offs, and make decisions for designing public and hybrid cloud solutions.

During training the appropriate infrastructure and platform solutions to meet the required functional, operational, and deployment requirements through the solution life-cycle will be defined.

Azure is a comprehensive set of cloud services that enables developers, IT professionals, and organizations to build, deploy, and operate applications and infrastructure services. The Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) is an open source, cross-platform command line tool that makes creating and managing Azure resources easier.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to get started using the Azure CLI.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of using the Azure CLI
• Learn techniques for managing resources using the Azure CLI
• Apply their learnings to practical real-world problems involving virtual machines, resource management, storage accounts, web apps, and SQL databases
• Automate their API using Azure service principals

Audience

• Developers
• IT Professionals
• Technicians
• DevOps E

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at DevOps engineers, developers, and project managers who wish to utilize Azure DevOps to build and deploy optimized enterprise applications faster than traditional development approaches.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental DevOps vocabulary and principles.
• Install and configure the necessary Azure DevOps tools for software development.
• Utilize Azure DevOps tools and services to continuously adapt to the market.
• Build enterprise applications and evaluate current development processes upon Azure DevOps solutions.
• Manage teams more efficiently and accelerate software deployment time.
• Adopt DevOps development practices within the organization.

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists who wish to use Azure Machine Learning to build end-to-end machine learning models for predictive analysis.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Build machine learning models with zero programming experience.
• Create predictive algorithms with Azure Machine Learning.
• Deploy production ready machine learning algorithms.

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at security administrators who wish to secure Azure workloads.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Administrate host security, network security, and more.
• Set up storage and database security in Azure.
• Implement security monitoring using Azure resources.
• Prevent malicious cyber attacks on data and infrastructures.

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at security administrators who wish to learn how to configure Azure cloud security to secure workloads running in Azure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure host and network security.
• Configure Azure advanced security options.
• Use Azure to secure cloud computing workloads.
• Use endpoint protection services security against malware and viruses.
• Secure container workloads that are running in Azure.

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data engineers who wish to learn how to use Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for effective data analytics solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and key features of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
• Optimize data storage and access for cost and performance.
• Integrate Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 with other Azure services for analytics and data processing.
• Develop solutions using the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 API.
• Troubleshoot common issues and optimize storage strategies.

In this instructor-led, live training in the US (onsite or remote) participants will learn the fundamental concepts, components, and services of Microsoft Azure as they step through the creation of a sample cloud application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of Microsoft Azure
• Understand the different Azure tools and services
• Learn how to use Azure for building cloud applications

Internet of Things (IoT) is a network infrastructure that connects physical objects and software applications wirelessly, allowing them to communicate with each other and exchange data via network communications, cloud computing, and data capture. Azure is a comprehensive set of cloud services which offers an IoT Suite consisting of preconfigured solutions that help developers accelerate development of IoT projects.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to develop IoT applications using Azure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of IoT architecture
• Install and configure Azure IoT Suite
• Learn the benefits of using Azure in programming IoT systems
• Implement various Azure IoT services (IoT Hub, Functions, Stream Analytics, Power BI, Cosmos DB, DocumentDB, IoT Device Management)
• Build, test, deploy, and troubleshoot an IoT system using Azure

Audience

• Developers
• Engineers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in the US (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to deploy Machine Learning workloads to Azure cloud.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Kubernetes, Kubeflow and other needed software on Azure.
• Use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to simplify the work of initializing a Kubernetes cluster on Azure.
• Create and deploy a Kubernetes pipeline for automating and managing ML models in production.
• Train and deploy TensorFlow ML models across multiple GPUs and machines running in parallel.
• Leverage other AWS managed services to extend an ML application.