Azure Training Courses in South Africa

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 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.

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa (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

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

The Azure Bot Service combines the power of the Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure functions to enable rapid development of intelligent bots.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to easily create an intelligent bot using Microsoft Azure

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

- Learn the fundamentals of intelligent bots
- Learn how to create intelligent bots using cloud applications
- Understand how to use the Microsoft Bot Framework, the Bot Builder SDK, and the Azure Bot Service
- Understand how to design bots using bot patterns
- Develop their first intelligent bot using Microsoft Azure

Audience

- Developers
- Hobbyists
- Engineers
- IT Professionals

Format of the course

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

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.

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite), participants will learn how to set up and manage a production-scale container environment using Kubernetes on AKS.

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

- Configure and manage Kubernetes on AKS.
- Deploy, manage and scale a Kubernetes cluster.
- Deploy containerized (Docker) applications on Azure.
- Migrate an existing Kubernetes environment from on-premise to AKS cloud.
- Integrate Kubernetes with third-party continuous integration (CI) software.
- Ensure high availability and disaster recovery in Kubernetes.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (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 South Africa (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.

Microsoft Azure Cloud offerings are the most comprehensive set of services w.r.t. AI, ML, DL

From Vision, Speech to Language to Conversational bots, Azure is empowering organizations to process their data to derive insights

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at AI enthusiasts who wish to use Azure to build AI scenarios in the cloud

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

- Build Azure based AI scenarios.
- Understand the end to end functioning of API based infering
- Build conversational bots for business needs

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request more details or customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in (online or onsite) is aimed at machine learning engineers who wish to use Azure Machine Learning and Azure DevOps to facilitate MLOps practices.

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

- Build reproducible workflows and machine learning models.
- Manage the machine learning lifecycle.
- Track and report model version history, assets, and more.
- Deploy production ready machine learning models anywhere.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (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.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (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 instructor-led, live training in South Africa (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 course teaches IT Professionals how to manage their Azure subscriptions, secure identities, administer the infrastructure, configure virtual networking, connect Azure and on-premises sites, manage network traffic, implement storage solutions, create and scale virtual machines, implement web apps and containers, back up and share data, and monitor your solution.

This course is for Azure Administrators. The Azure Administrator implements manages and monitors identity, governance, storage, compute, and virtual networks in a cloud environment. The Azure Administrator will provision, size, monitor, and adjust resources as appropriate.

This course teaches Solutions Architects how to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions. Lessons include virtualization, automation, networking, storage, identity, security, data platform, and application infrastructure. This course outlines how decisions in each theses area affects an overall solution.

Audience profile

This course is for IT Professionals with expertise in designing and implementing solutions running on Microsoft Azure. They should have broad knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform, budgeting, and governance. Azure Solution Architects use the Azure Portal and as they become more adept they use the Command Line Interface. Candidates must have expert-level skills in Azure administration and have experience with Azure development processes and DevOps processes.

This course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations.

Audience profile

This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and play an integral role in protecting an organization's data.

Skills gained

- Implement enterprise governance strategies including role-based access control, Azure policies, and resource locks.
- Implement an Azure AD infrastructure including users, groups, and multi-factor authentication.
- Implement Azure AD Identity Protection including risk policies, conditional access, and access reviews.
- Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management including Azure AD roles and Azure resources.
- Implement Azure AD Connect including authentication methods and on-premises directory synchronization.
- Implement perimeter security strategies including Azure Firewall.
- Implement network security strategies including Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups.
- Implement host security strategies including endpoint protection, remote access management, update management, and disk encryption.
- Implement container security strategies including Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Kubernetes.
- Implement Azure Key Vault including certificates, keys, and secretes.
- Implement application security strategies including app registration, managed identities, and service endpoints.
- Implement storage security strategies including shared access signatures, blob retention policies, and Azure Files authentication.
- Implement database security strategies including authentication, data classification, dynamic data masking, and always encrypted.
- Implement Azure Monitor including connected sources, log analytics, and alerts.
- Implement Azure Security Center including policies, recommendations, and just in time virtual machine access.
- Implement Azure Sentinel including workbooks, incidents, and playbooks.

Microsoft Azure Service Fabric (ASF) is a platform as a service (PaaS) used for deploying scalable microservices-based cloud applications.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will 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

Audience

- Developers

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
- To learn more about Service Fabrice, please see: https://github.com/Microsoft/service-fabric

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