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Azure Core Compute
1 Lab
1 Hours
Skill IQ
Build practical Azure compute fluency by learning how to configure, operate, troubleshoot, and evaluate Azure virtual machines, scaled VM workloads, Azure Functions, and serverless container workloads.
Choose this path if you already understand basic Azure concepts and need a clearer working model for when to use instance-based, serverless, or containerized compute in real operational scenarios.
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Azure Core Compute
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What You'll Learn
- 1. Configure and validate Azure virtual machine workloads, including instance configuration, access paths, lifecycle actions, reusable deployment patterns, and common recovery steps
- 2. Operate scaled and managed compute patterns using Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Application Gateway, Azure Functions invocation behavior, and Azure Container Apps service health signals
- 3. Recognize when Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, or Azure Kubernetes Service best fits a workload based on control requirements, operational burden, scaling model, and container orchestration needs.
Prerequisites
- You should be comfortable navigating the Azure portal and understand foundational Azure concepts such as regions, availability zones, Microsoft Entra ID roles, virtual networks, subnets, network security groups, managed disks, and basic Azure Monitor metrics. This path assumes practitioner-level Azure fluency and is designed for learners moving toward cloud engineering, infrastructure operations, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or architecture roles that require a dependable working knowledge of Azure compute services.
Related topics
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure Networking
- Azure Storage and Persistence
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