Azure Challenge Labs

Hands-on Labs
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Whether you’re new to Azure or experienced, this series of guided Challenge Labs is a risk-free way to practice, validate and improve your skills – guaranteed!
Includes 300+ challenge Labs.

$ 75.00
Self-Paced

Who should take this training:

  • Anyone preparing for Azure Administrator certification
  • Anyone interested in learning about Microsoft Azure's IoT services
  • Azure administrators
  • Azure developers
  • Anyone interested in practicing Azure IoT skills

What you'll learn:

Microsoft Azure is arguably the fastest growing cloud provider because companies are eagerly adopting more and more cloud services from Microsoft Azure since it’s so powerful and flexible. It’s valuable to understand Microsoft Azure and Cloud Institute’s Azure labs can take you from a novice to an expert with all of these Azure labs. There are so many Azure skills to learn and perfect such as:

  • Ingest IoT Data by Using Azure IoT Hub
    Practice provisioning an Azure IoT hub, and send data to the IoT hub from a device emulator, and confirm that data has been ingested into the IoT hub.

  • Manage IoT Devices with the Azure IoT Hub
    In this challenge, you will provision an Azure IoT hub, register an emulated device with IoT hub, and test the ability of the IoT hub to communicate with the device. 

  • Process IoT Data with Azure Stream Analytics
    Learn how to provision an Azure Stream Analytics instance, configure Stream Analytics to process messages coming into an Azure IoT hub, and define endpoints to route messages. 

  • Store IoT Data with Cosmos DB
    In this challenge, you will provision an Azure Cosmos DB database and populate it with IoT data. You will then use native Cosmos DB capabilities to analyze the data.

  • Use Azure Time Series Insights to Analyze IoT Data
    Practice provisioning an Azure Time Series Insights instance to analyze IoT data, generate charts based on time-based analysis, and then create a dashboard to display the IoT data analysis.
  • Can You Provision an End-to-End IoT Solution?
    In this challenge, you will provision an Azure IoT hub, use an IoT device emulator to send data to the hub, and send commands from the hub to the device emulator.

  • Can You Store and Analyze IoT Data?
    You will use Cosmos DB and Time Series Insights to analyze IoT data, use Cosmos DB to perform a variety of analyses on the raw IoT data, and generate charts and other analytic assets with Time Series Insights.

  • Can You Manage IoT Devices with Azure IoT Hub?
    In this challenge, you will provision an Azure IoT hub, register an emulated device with IoT hub, and test the ability of the IoT hub to communicate with the device. 

  • Can You Process Incoming IoT Data in Real Time?
    Learn to process incoming IoT data in real time, use IoT consumer groups, and stream analytics to process messages coming through an IoT hub. 

Pre-requisites:

There are no pre-requisites for this training. It's suitable for anyone wanting to practice and validate Azure IoT solutions skills.

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Sudhanshu Pandey

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Sudhanshu is Redhat Certified and a Computer Science graduate. He has worked on multiple technologies including Devops, ML, Python, Redhat Linux, MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud Computing, web development and mobile app development. He is currently working as an ML engineer for a startup and as a trainer on a content delivery team for Linuxworld.

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Khalil Demeri​

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Khaleel has many years of experience in servers administration on Linux and Windows platforms, managing 4000+ servers running different flavors of Linux and web hosting control panels. He helps the team to deal with Windows (MCSE) and Linux Server related issues and services administration. Install, configure and integrate system/solution/OS at site and remotely.

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Things I am passionate about: Technology, Community, Cyber Security, AWS and all things Cloud. I have strengths in cloud migration and strategy, PCI compliance, infrastructure consolidation and the design and implementation of high performance architectures. I enjoy working with business leadership and external partners on digital strategy and solution roadmaps. What I've been: Cloud Practice Director, CIO, CTO, VP of Technology, Director of Infrastructure. What I am now: Director of Solutions Architecture & Engineering at JetSweep and AWS User Group Leader. Who I am: A passionate, high energy, sarcastic, "glass is probably fuller than it looks" kind of guy.