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Duration 4 Days 24 CPD hours This course is intended for Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. 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 Prerequisites Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of: Cloud computing concepts, including an understanding of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS implementations. Both Azure administration and Azure development with proven expertise in at least one of these areas. Version control, Agile software development, and core software development principles. It would be helpful to have experience in an organization that delivers software. AZ-104T00 - Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-204T00: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure 1 - Introduction to DevOps What is DevOps? Explore the DevOps journey Identify transformation teams Explore shared goals and define timelines 2 - Choose the right project Explore greenfield and brownfield projects Decide when to use greenfield and brownfield projects Decide when to use systems of record versus systems of engagement Identify groups to minimize initial resistance Identify project metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) 3 - Describe team structures Explore agile development practices Explore principles of agile development Define organization structure for agile practices Explore ideal DevOps team members Enable in-team and cross-team collaboration Select tools and processes for agile practices 4 - Choose the DevOps tools What is Azure DevOps? What is GitHub? Explore an authorization and access strategy Migrate or integrate existing work management tools Migrate or integrate existing test management tools Design a license management strategy 5 - Plan Agile with GitHub Projects and Azure Boards Link GitHub to Azure Boards Configure GitHub Projects Manage work with GitHub Project boards Customize Project views Collaborate using team discussions Agile Plan and Portfolio Management with Azure Boards 6 - Introduction to source control Explore DevOps foundational practices What is source control? Explore benefits of source control Explore best practices for source control 7 - Describe types of source control systems Understand centralized source control Understand distributed source control Explore Git and Team Foundation Version Control Examine and choose Git Understand objections to using Git Describe working with Git locally 8 - Work with Azure Repos and GitHub Migrate from TFVC to Git Use GIT-TFS Develop online with GitHub Codespaces 9 - Structure your Git Repo Explore monorepo versus multiple repos Implement a change log 10 - Manage Git branches and workflows Explore branch workflow types Explore feature branch workflow Explore Git branch model for continuous delivery Explore GitHub flow Explore fork workflow Version Control with Git in Azure Repos 11 - Collaborate with pull requests in Azure Repos Collaborate with pull requests Examine GitHub mobile for pull request approvals 12 - Identify technical debt Examine code quality Examine complexity and quality metrics Measure and manage technical debt Integrate other code quality tools Plan effective code reviews 13 - Explore Git hooks Implement Git hooks 14 - Plan foster inner source Explore foster inner source Implement the fork workflow Describe inner source with forks 15 - Manage Git repositories Work with large repositories Purge repository data Manage releases with GitHub Repos Automate release notes with GitHub 16 - Explore Azure Pipelines Explore the concept of pipelines in DevOps Describe Azure Pipelines Understand Azure Pipelines key terms 17 - Manage Azure Pipeline agents and pools Choose between Microsoft-hosted versus self-hosted agents Explore job types Explore predefined agent pool Understand typical situations for agent pools Communicate with Azure Pipelines Communicate to deploy to target servers Examine other considerations Describe security of agent pools Configure agent pools and understanding pipeline styles 18 - Describe pipelines and concurrency Understand parallel jobs Estimate parallel jobs Describe Azure Pipelines and open-source projects Explore Azure Pipelines and Visual Designer Describe Azure Pipelines and YAML 19 - Explore continuous integration Learn the four pillars of continuous integration Explore benefits of continuous integration Describe build properties Enable Continuous Integration with Azure Pipelines 20 - Implement a pipeline strategy Configure agent demands Implement multi-agent builds Explore source control types supported by Azure Pipelines 21 - Integrate with Azure Pipelines Describe the anatomy of a pipeline Understand the pipeline structure Detail templates Explore YAML resources Use multiple repositories in your pipeline 22 - Introduction to GitHub Actions What are Actions? Explore Actions flow Understand workflows Describe standard workflow syntax elements Explore events Explore jobs Explore runners Examine release and test an action 23 - Learn continuous integration with GitHub Actions Describe continuous integration with actions Examine environment variables Share artifacts between jobs Examine Workflow badges Describe best practices for creating actions Mark releases with Git tags Create encrypted secrets Use secrets in a workflow Implement GitHub Actions for CI/CD 24 - Design a container build strategy Examine structure of containers Work with Docker containers Understand Dockerfile core concepts Examine multi-stage dockerfiles Examine considerations for multiple stage builds Explore Azure container-related services Deploy Docker containers to Azure App Service web apps 25 - Introduction to continuous delivery Explore traditional IT development cycle What is continuous delivery? Move to continuous delivery Understand releases and deployments Understand release process versus release 26 - Create a release pipeline Describe Azure DevOps release pipeline capabilities Explore release pipelines Explore artifact sources Choose the appropriate artifact source Examine considerations for deployment to stages Explore build and release tasks Explore custom build and release tasks Explore release jobs Configure Pipelines as Code with YAML 27 - Explore release recommendations Understand the delivery cadence and three types of triggers Explore release approvals Explore release gates Use release gates to protect quality Control Deployments using Release Gates 28 - Provision and test environments Provision and configure target environments Configure automated integration and functional test automation Understand Shift-left Set up and run availability tests Explore Azure Load Testing Set up and run functional tests 29 - Manage and modularize tasks and templates Examine task groups Explore variables in release pipelines Understand variable groups 30 - Automate inspection of health Automate inspection of health Explore events and notifications Explore service hooks Configure Azure DevOps notifications Configure GitHub notifications Explore how to measure quality of your release process Examine release notes and documentation Examine considerations for choosing release management tools Explore common release management tools 31 - Introduction to deployment patterns Explore microservices architecture Examine classical deployment patterns Understand modern deployment patterns 32 - Implement blue-green deployment and feature toggles What is blue-green deployment? Explore deployment slots Describe feature toggle maintenance 33 - Implement canary releases and dark launching Explore canary releases Examine Traffic Manager Understand dark launching 34 - Implement A/B testing and progressive exposure deployment What is A/B testing? Explore CI-CD with deployment rings 35 - Integrate with identity management systems Integrate GitHub with single sign-on (SSO) Explore service principals Explore Managed Identity 36 - Manage application configuration data Rethink application configuration data Explore separation of concerns Understand external configuration store patterns Examine Key-value pairs Examine App configuration feature management Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Pipelines Manage secrets, tokens and certificates Examine DevOps inner and outer loop Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure DevOps Enable Dynamic Configuration and Feature Flags 37 - Explore infrastructure as code and configuration management Explore environment deployment Examine environment configuration Understand imperative versus declarative configuration Understand idempotent configuration 38 - Create Azure resources using Azure Resource Manager templates Why use Azure Resource Manager templates? Explore template components Manage dependencies Modularize templates Manage secrets in templates Deployments using Azure Bicep templates 39 - Create Azure resources by using Azure CLI What is Azure CLI? Work with Azure CLI 40 - Explore Azure Automation with DevOps Create automation accounts What is a runbook? Understand automation shared resources Explore runbook gallery Examine webhooks Explore source control integration Explore PowerShell workflows Create a workflow Examine checkpoint and parallel processing 41 - Implement Desired State Configuration (DSC) Understand configuration drift Explore Desired State Configuration (DSC) Explore Azure Automation State configuration (DSC) Examine DSC configuration file Explore hybrid management Implement DSC and Linux Automation on Azure 42 - Implement Bicep What is Bicep? Install Bicep Understand Bicep file structure and syntax 43 - Introduction to Secure DevOps Describe SQL injection attack Understand DevSecOps Explore Secure DevOps Pipeline Explore key validation points Explore continuous security validation Understand threat modeling 44 - Implement open-source software Explore how software is built What is open-source software Explore corporate concerns with open-source software components Explore common open-source licenses Examine license implications and ratings 45 - Software Composition Analysis Inspect and validate code bases for compliance Explore software composition analysis (SCA) Integrate Mend with Azure Pipelines Implement GitHub Dependabot alerts and security updates Integrate software composition analysis checks into pipelines Examine tools for assess package security and license rate Interpret alerts from scanner tools Implement security and compliance in an Azure Pipeline 46 - Static analyzers Explore SonarCloud Explore CodeQL in GitHub Manage technical debt with SonarCloud and Azure DevOps 47 - OWASP and Dynamic Analyzers Plan Implement OWASP Secure Coding Practices Explore OWASP ZAP penetration test Explore OWASP ZAP results and bugs 48 - Security Monitoring and Governance Implement pipeline security Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud Examine Microsoft Defender for Cloud usage scenarios Explore Azure Policy Understand policies Explore initiatives Explore resource locks Explore Azure Blueprints Understand Microsoft Defender for Identity 49 - Explore package dependencies What is dependency management? Describe elements of a dependency management strategy Identify dependencies Understand source and package componentization Decompose your system Scan your codebase for dependencies 50 - Understand package management Explore packages Understand package feeds Explore package feed managers Explore common public package sources Explore self-hosted and SaaS based package sources Consume packages Publish packages Package management with Azure Artifacts 51 - Migrate consolidating and secure artifacts Identify existing artifact repositories Migrate and integrating artifact repositories Secure access to package feeds Examine roles Examine permissions Examine authentication 52 - Implement a versioning strategy Understand versioning of artifacts Explore semantic versioning Examine release views Promote packages Explore best practices for versioning 53 - Introduction to GitHub Packages Publish packages Install a package Delete and restore a package Explore package access control and visibility 54 - Implement tools to track usage and flow Understand the inner loop Explore Azure Monitor and Log Analytics Examine Kusto Query Language (KQL) Explore Application Insights Implement Application Insights Monitor application performance with Application Insights 55 - Develop monitor and status dashboards Explore Azure Dashboards Examine view designer in Azure Monitor Explore Azure Monitor workbooks Explore Power BI Build your own custom application 56 - Share knowledge within teams Share acquired knowledge within development teams Integrate with Azure Boards Share team knowledge using Azure Project Wiki 57 - Design processes to automate application analytics Explore rapid responses and augmented search Integrate telemetry Examine monitoring tools and technologies 58 - Manage alerts, blameless retrospectives and a just culture Examine when get a notification Explore how to fix it Explore smart detection notifications Improve performance Understand server response time degradation Reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts Examine blameless retrospective Develop a just culture

SNMPc training course description A hands on course providing a solid foundation on network management using SolarWinds. The course specifically focusses on SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor. The course starts with configuring agents and device discovery, onto exploiting SNMP with SolarWinds and then Alerts, reports and customisation of menus, views and maps. What will you learn Discover devices using Solarwinds. Use Solarwinds. Poll and monitor devices using Solarwinds. Create Alarms and reports. Diagnose faults using Solarwinds. SNMPc training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Solarwinds. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days SNMPc training course content Getting started with SNMPc Manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, mapping network devices. Hands on Using SNMPc. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs. Hands on Device discovery. Adding devices. Customising maps. Using SNMPc Polling, obtaining MIB information, MIB walking. Compiling MIBs. Hands on Monitoring devices. Groups. MIB walking. SNMP traps. Alarms Events and alarms, thresholds, event actions. Hands on Automatic alarms. Reports Creating reports, trend reports, customising reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. Administration Users, customised views, backups, the database. Hands on Adding a user. Backups.

WhatsUp Gold training course description A hands on course focusing on network management using WhatsUp Gold. What will you learn Discover devices using WhatsUp Gold. Use WhatsUp Gold. Poll and monitor devices using WhatsUp Gold. Create Alarms, alerts and reports. Diagnose faults using WhatsUp Gold. Administrate a WhatsUp Gold system. WhatsUp Gold training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with WhatsUp Gold. Prerequisites: None. Duration 2 days WhatsUp Gold for engineers Getting started with WhatsUp Gold Starting WhatsUp Gold, manual discovery, automatic discovery, controlling IP discovery, mapping network devices. Hands on Using WhatsUp Gold. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. MIBs. Hands on Device discovery. Adding devices. Customising maps. Using WhatsUp Gold Polling, obtaining MIB information, MIB walking, Active monitors, critical monitors, passive monitors. Hands on Monitoring devices. Groups. MIB walking. SNMP trap monitor. Syslog monitor. Alarms Actions, Alert centre, thresholds, actions on events. Hands on Using the alert centre. Web tools. Reports Creating reports, automatic reports, customising reports. Hands on Performance reports. Graphs. Administration Users, backups, the database. Hands on Adding a user. Backups.

Zeroconf and Bonjour training course description A hands on training course focusing on Microsoft and Apple implementations of Zeroconf. The course covers all three main areas: Interface configuration, name resolution and service discovery. Hands on with Apple Bonjour and Microsoft UPnP compliment all the major theory sessions. What will you learn Explain how mDNS and LLMNR work. Explain how DNS-SD and SSDP work. Recognise the role of service discovery gateways. Zeroconf and Bonjour training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Zeroconf. Developers using Zeroconf. Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation for engineers Duration 2 day Zeroconf and Bonjour training course contents What is Zeroconf? Zeroconf, architecture, Microsoft UPnP, Apple, Bonjour, devices, components. Home networks, enterprise networks, BYOD. Plug and play without Zeroconf DHCP, DNS, A, PTR, SRV records, DDNS. Hands on DHCP configuration. Address selection IPv4 link local addresses, IPv6 link local addresses. Hands: Addresses without DHCP. Name resolution mDNS, finding names, announcing names, .local DNS namespace, LLMNR. Hands on Names without DNS. Role of multicasting Multicast addresses, multicasts and switches, multicasts and routers. Hands on Multicasts, TTL. Service discovery DNS-SD, SRV and TXT lookups, SSDP, HTTP. Hands on Browsing for services Zeroconf in a routed environment Service Discovery gateways, configuration, service filters, DNS-LLQ, NAT-PMP. Miscellaneous Security, automatic multicast addresses, wireless auto configuration.

ZigBee training course description A hands on course covering the entire ZigBee protocol stack. ZigBee operation, primitives and frame formats are covered in detail using software tools to test and analyse ZigBee commands and demonstrate how these affect the 802.15.4 MAC. Analysers are used to decode packet formats. What will you learn Describe the ZigBee architecture and applications. Explain the workings of ZigBee protocol stack including the 802.15.4, NWK, APS and ZDO sub layers. Describe in detail the ZigBee primitives and how they are used to pass data; make networks; join networks and repair networks. Secure ZigBee networks. ZigBee training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff requiring grounding in ZigBee including application engineers. Prerequisites: RF fundamentals. Duration 2 days ZigBee training course contents Wireless data overview What is 802.15.4 and ZigBee? WLAN, WPAN, Bluetooth vs. ZigBee. Markets. Applications and architecture. ZigBee demonstration. ZigBee Standards and technology The 7-layer model, IEEE WPAN standards overview, 802.15.4 & ZigBee, ZigBee alliance. ZigBee Protocol stack The ZigBee 5 layer model, The network (NWK) sub layer, Application support sub layer (APS), the ZigBee Device Object (ZDO). 802.15.4 Radio Frequencies, modulation, power, DSSS, BPSK/ O-QPSK, channels, symbols, chips and bit rate. 802.15.4 PHY PHY data transfer primitives. The PHY packet. PHY PIB management. 802.15.4 MAC layer The MAC layer overview, CSMA/CA, addresses, frame types, super frames, MAC layer: Data, Data control, Scan and join, PAN maintenance, MAC PIB. Hands on 802.15.4 frame analysis. ZigBee Topologies Point to point topology, star topology, cluster tree, wired integration. Hands on Building a ZigBee network. ZigBee frame formats General frame format, data frames, command frames. Hands on Analysing ZigBee frames. ZigBee NWK NWK data primitives: Request. Confirm. Indication. NWK management primitives: Network discovery, network formation. Permit joining. Start router. Join. Direct join. Leave. Reset. Sync. NWK database management. Hands on NWK analysis ZigBee APS Address mapping, matching devices, binding devices, binding tables. Hands on APS analysis. ZigBee ZDO Device roles, binding requests, initiating and responding, device discovery, service discovery, network management. ZDO Endpoint 0. ZigBee Security Security issues, security modes, MAC security, NWK security, APS security. Applications Writing ZigBee applications, application profiles, End points, Endpoint addressing, clusters of attributes, broadcasts. Hands on Sample ZigBee application.

LTE Airside training course description This course provides a concise insight into the LTE airside. Key parts of the course are detailed looks at the air interface protocol stack, cell acquisition, transmission and reception of data and of he layer 1 procedures along with layer 2 procedures. What will you learn Explain the RF optimisation flowchart. Describe the importance of Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP). List many of the 3GPP recommended KPIs. Describe the concept of APN AMBR and UE AMBR within LTE. Describe the use of planning and optimisation computer tools. LTE Airside training course details Who will benefit: Anyone working with LTE. Prerequisites: Essential LTE Duration 2 days LTE Airside training course contents Introduction and review of LTE This section describes the requirements of LTE and key technical features, and reviews the system architecture. LTE Architecture, UE, E-UTRAN and EPC. Specifications. OFDMA, SC-FDMA and MIMO antennas This section describes the techniques used in the LTE air interface, notably orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas. Communication techniques for fading multipath channels. OFDMA, FFT processing and cyclic prefix insertion. SC-FDMA in the LTE uplink. Multiple antenna techniques including transmit & receive diversity and spatial multiplexing. Introduction to the air interface This section covers the operation of the air interface, the channels that it uses, and the mapping to the time and frequency domains of OFDMA and SC-FDMA. Air interface protocol stack. Logical, transport and physical channels. Frame and slot structure, the resource grid. Resource element mapping of the physical channels and physical signals. LTE spectrum allocation. Cell acquisition This is the first of three sections covering the air interface physical layer. Here, we cover mobile procedures to start low-level communications with the cell, and base station transmission of the corresponding information. Primary/secondary synchronisation signals. Downlink reference signals. The master information block. Physical control format indicator channel. Organisation and transmission of the system information. Data transmission and reception In this section, we cover procedures used for data transmission and reception on the shared channels, and describe in detail the individual steps. Data transmission and reception on the uplink and downlink. Scheduling commands and grants on the PDCCH. DL-SCH and UL-SCH. Physical channel processing of the PDSCH and PUSCH. Hybrid ARQ indicators on the PHICH. Uplink control information on the PUCCH. Uplink demodulation and sounding reference signals. Additional physical layer procedure This section concludes our discussion of the air interface physical layer, by discussing a number of procedures that support its operation. Transmission of the physical random access channel. Contention and non-contention based random access procedures. Discontinuous transmission in idle and connected modes. Uplink power control and timing advance. Air interface layer 2 This section describes the architecture and operation of layer 2 of the air interface protocol stack. MAC protocol, interactions with the physical layer, use for scheduling. RLC protocol, transparent, unacknowledged and acknowledged modes. PDCP, including header compression, security functions and recovery from handover.

This Level 4 course aims to equip professionals with the knowledge about the skills and practical behaviours which are required for them to step into a leadership/management role. The demand for management roles is expected to grow in the coming years. This is due to a number of factors, including: The ageing population, which is leading to a shortage of skilled workers. The increasing complexity of businesses requires more managers to oversee operations. The growing importance of technology is creating new opportunities for managers to lead and innovate.

OpenView training course description A hands-on course focusing on network management using HP OpenView network node manager on Microsoft Windows or UNIX. What will you learn Recognise the benefits of ADSL. Describe the network management architecture. Use HP OpenView. Diagnose faults using HP OpenView. Recognise the MIB structure. OpenView training course details Who will benefit: Technical staff wanting to learn DNS. Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation Duration 2 days OpenView training course contents Network management What is network management?, Benefits, issues, demonstration. Getting started with HP OpenView Starting HP OpenView, IP discovery, IP monitoring, controlling IP discovery. Using HP OpenView Mapping devices, map layouts, maps and submaps, objects and symbols, object attributes, colour codings, polling. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. Parts of SNMP SNMP architecture, MIB's, The protocol. HP OpenView SNMP configuration HP OpenView alarm browser HP OpenView alarms, alarm categories, filtering alarms, alarm details window. MIB's MIB1, MIB2, The MIB2 groups, additional MIB's, MIB compilers, vendor MIB's. HP OpenView MIB loader and browser. Monitoring devices Polling, obtaining MIB information. Diagnostic tools Poll node, the ping window, protocol test, locate route HP OpenView fault management Alarms, polling, fault management, setting thresholds and configuring traps.

NNMi for engineers training course description A hands on course focusing on network management using Network Node Manager (NNMi) on Microsoft Windows or UNIX. What will you learn Describe the network management architecture. Use NNMi. Diagnose faults using NNMi. Recognise the MIB structure. NNMi for engineers training course details Who will benefit: Network administrators. Network operators. Those wishing to find out more about how their NNMi works. Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers Duration 2 day NNMi for engineers training course content Network management What is network management? Benefits, issues, demonstration. Getting started with NNMi Starting NNMi, IP discovery, IP monitoring, controlling IP discovery. Using NNMi Mapping devices, map layouts, maps and submaps, objects and symbols, object attributes, colour codings, polling. Agents Configuring Cisco devices for SNMP support, communities, traps, syslog. Parts of SNMP SNMP architecture, MIBs, The protocol. NNMi SNMP configuration NNMi alarm browser NNMi alarms, alarm categories, filtering alarms, alarm details window. MIBs MIB1, MIB2, The MIB2 groups, additional MIBs, MIB compilers, vendor MIBs. NNMi MIB loader and browser. Monitoring devices Polling, obtaining MIB information. Diagnostic tools Poll node, the ping window, protocol test, locate route NNMi fault management Alarms, polling, fault management, setting thresholds and configuring traps.