Episode 4 of 6
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In this session, Senior Technical Trainer Alexandra Zakharova walks you through two essential pillars of Azure: storage and identity. You’ll explore Azure storage services—including blobs, files, queues, tables, and managed disks—and learn how redundancy options such as LRS, ZRS, GRS, and GZRS ensure durability and business continuity. Alexandra also demonstrates access tiers, lifecycle management, migration tools like Azure Migrate and Data Box, and practical file-movement utilities such as AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, and Azure File Sync.
Next, you’ll dive into identity, access, and security fundamentals with Microsoft Entra ID. You’ll learn how authentication and authorization work, how external identities enable secure collaboration, and how features like MFA, conditional access, and Azure role-based access control (RBAC) protect your environment. The session concludes with Microsoft’s defense-in-depth model, Zero Trust principles, and an overview of Microsoft Defender for Cloud for security posture management and threat protection.
Connect with your trainer on LinkedIn: https://aka.ms/alexandra
Learn more about this course and take the certification exam to test your new skills: https://aka.ms/AZ-900onLearn
