Visual guides¶
Explore 36 illustrated guides to preparation, safe execution, troubleshooting, cleanup, and the five checkpoints in every lab. The black and navy artwork uses original symbolic icons. Open any visual at full size to inspect its labels.
The roadmaps show the learning sequence. Use each lab's architecture diagram for the service topology, and its instructions for exact commands, permissions, cost gates, and verification. Azure exercises remain offline-validated.
Build safe habits¶
Your Azure toolchain
PowerShell hosts Azure CLI, Bicep, AzCopy, Python, and Node; confirm every tool resolves correctly.
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Confirm the right context
Compare cloud, tenant, and subscription with the intended context before making changes.
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Define your run boundary
A unique run ID, deterministic names, tags, and an ignored state record identify the lab run.
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Review cost and cleanup
Preview cost gates and ownership checks, then plan the residual-resource audit.
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Prove readiness
Read every blocking readiness result and resolve failures before continuing.
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Follow a safe run
Complete read-only checks, review the preview, pass the explicit execution gates, and validate the result.
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Diagnose with evidence
Observe the failure, inspect context and prerequisites, query the current state, repair the cause, and revalidate.
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Clean up within ownership
Verify run ownership before removal; report any deliberately retained or soft-deleted items separately.
Read the lesson →Roadmaps for every lab¶
Safe Azure lab bootstrap
Preview the five tasks, then follow the guided instructions.
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Create and manage Microsoft Entra users and groups
Preview the five tasks, then follow the guided instructions.
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Manage Entra licenses, guests, and self-service password reset
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Assign and interpret Azure RBAC at multiple scopes
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Manage hierarchy, resource groups, tags, and locks
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Enforce policy and manage costs with budgets and Advisor
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Secure storage accounts, redundancy, encryption, and keys
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Restrict storage networking and issue scoped SAS access
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Manage Blob lifecycle, tiers, versioning, replication, and AzCopy
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Configure Azure Files, snapshots, soft delete, and identity access
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Interpret, modify, deploy, export, and decompile ARM and Bicep
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Manage VM lifecycle, size, disks, and host encryption
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Design VM resilience, scale sets, and mobility
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Publish images with ACR and run Azure Container Instances
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Deploy and scale Azure Container Apps
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Scale App Service and operate deployment slots
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Configure App Service TLS, DNS, backup, and networking
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Create VNets, subnets, peerings, and public IPs
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Control traffic with routes, NSGs, ASGs, and effective rules
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Compare service endpoints and private endpoints
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Configure Azure DNS and secure administration with Bastion
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Load balance workloads and troubleshoot with Network Watcher
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Collect and analyze Azure Monitor metrics, logs, and Insights
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Build Azure Monitor alerts, action groups, and processing rules
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Configure Azure Backup policies, protection, restore, reports, and alerts
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Replicate and fail over an Azure VM with Site Recovery
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Capstone — Build a governed, secure, observable Azure workload
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Capstone — Operate, troubleshoot, back up, and recover an Azure workload
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