As a Microsoft CRM technical consultant/developer/architect you should have at least a basic understanding of Azure Cloud and how you can combine Dynamics 365 CE and Azure.
Although I have been using Azure Cloud together with multiple Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement projects since 2015 I thought it was a good idea to check my overall understanding by doing the AZ-900 exam (which I passed). The exam does not cover any topics in depth but studying for it gives you a good overview and can be used as a starting point to delve deeper in specific topics;
Listed below are some of the links and resources that I used - mainly on topics where I had less hands-on experience from projects so this is definitely not an exhaustive list.
General training material to get started
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals - start with the learning paths from Microsoft Learn on this page
- Azure in bullet points - AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
- Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (Video) on O'Reilly Learning (subscription required) - 5 hours of training material
- Exam AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Study Guide - YouTube playlist by @TechTrainerTim
- Azure Tips & Tricks - great overall resource on Azure platform - probably to overwhelming as a starting point for AZ-900 but handy starting point if you are stuck on a specific topic.
- Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches (Audiobook)
Architectural components
- Availability zones fundamentals: regions and availability zones
- Subscriptions, licenses, accounts and tenants for Microsoft's cloud offering
- Azure subscription - account administrators
- Azure Resource Groups
- Azure global infrastructure - Azure geographies
Core resources
- Storage account overview
- Data redundancy - Azure storage redundancy
- App Service pricing and App Service limits
- Azure Site Recovery
- What is Azure backup service?
- What is Azure Sphere?
- What is Azure IOT Central?
- IoT concepts and Azure IoT Hub
- What is Azure Virtual Desktop?
- Maintenance for virtual machines in Azure
- Azure Disk Encryption for Windows VMs
- Choose an Azure Compute service for your applications
Management tools
- How to install the Azure CLI and Install the Azure Az PowerShell module - both install on Windows, macOS, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu,etc...)
Security and identity management
Networking
- Azure Network security groups
- Azure Security Center (name changed to Microsoft Defender for Cloud) - secure your management ports with just-in-time-access
- What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure Security Center)?
- How network security groups filter network traffic
- What is Azure Firewall
- Tutorial: Create a Site-to-Site connection in the Azure portal
- Connect an on-premises network to a Microsoft Azure virtual network
- What is VPN Gateway? There are different configurations available for VPN gateway connections - see Planning table to determine which to choose
- What is Traffic Manager?
- Tutorial: filter inbound internet traffic with Azure Firewall policy DNAT using the Azure portal
- Azure DDoS protection - designing resilient solutions
- What is defense in depth?
Governance and compliance
- What is Azure policy?
- Quickstart: create a policy assignment to identify non-compliant resources
- What is Microsoft Compliance Manager?
- Microsoft Privacy Statement, Online Service Terms and Data Protection Addendum
- What is Azure Blueprints?
- What is Azure Advisor? and Reduce service costs by using Azure Advisor
- What is Azure Cost Management + Billing?
- Azure support plans
- Lock resources to prevent unexpected changes
- What is the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure?
