DP-300 Administering Microsoft Azure SQL Solutions
Course Code:
DP-300
Duration:
4 Days
Delivery Mode:
Classroom
Start Date:
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End Date:
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Fees:
$3,052.00

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to administer a SQL Server database infrastructure for cloud, on-premises and hybrid relational databases and who work with the Microsoft PaaS relational database offerings. Additionally, it will be of use to individuals who develop applications that deliver content from SQL-based relational databases.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Prepare to maintain SQL databases on Azure 
  • Describe Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform Roles
  • Understand SQL Server in a Azure virtual machine
  • Design Azure SQL Database for cloud-native applications
  • Explore Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Lesson 2: Deploy IaaS solutions with Azure SQL
  • Explain IaaS options to deploy SQL Server in Azure
  • Understand hybrid scenarios
  • Explore performance and security
  • Explain high availability and disaster recovery options
  • Exercise: Deploy an Azure SQL Database
Lesson 3: Deploy PaaS solutions with Azure SQL
  • Explain PaaS options for deploying SQL Server in Azure
  • Explore single SQL database
  • Deploy SQL database elastic pool
  • Understand SQL database hyperscale
  • Examine SQL managed instance
  • Describe SQL Edge
  • Exercise: Deploy an Azure SQL Database
Lesson 4: Evaluate strategies for migrating to Azure SQL
  • Understand compatibility level
  • Understand Azure preview features
  • Describe Azure database migration options
Lesson 5: Migrate SQL workloads to Azure SQL databases
  • Choose the right SQL Server Instance option in Azure
  • Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database offline
  • Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database online
  • Load and move data to Azure SQL Database
Lesson 6: Migrate SQL workloads to Azure Managed Instances
  • Evaluate migration scenarios to SQL Database Managed Instance
  • Migrate to SQL Database Managed Instance
  • Load and Move data to SQL Database Managed Instance
Lesson 7: Configure database authentication and authorization
  • Describe Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
  • Describe authentication and identities
  • Describe Security Principals
  • Describe database and object permissions
  • Identify authentication and authorization failures
  • Exercise: Authorize Access to Azure SQL Database with Azure Active Directory
Lesson 8: Protect data in-transit and at rest
  • Explore Transparent Data Encryption
  • Configure server and database firewall rules
  • Explain object encryption and secure enclaves
  • Enable encrypted connections
  • Describe SQL injection
  • Understand Azure Key Vault
  • Exercise: Configure a server-based firewall rule using the Azure portal
Lesson 9: Implement compliance controls for sensitive data
  • Explore data classification
  • Explore server and database audit
  • Implement Dynamic Data Masking
  • Implement Row Level security
  • Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL
  • Explore Azure SQL Database Ledger
  • Implement Azure Purview
  • Exercise: Enable Microsoft Defender for SQL and Data Classification
Lesson 10: Describe performance monitoring
  • Describe performance monitoring tools
  • Describe critical performance metrics
  • Establish baseline metrics
  • Explore extended events
  • Describe Azure SQL Insights
  • Explore Query Performance Insight
  • Exercise: Isolate problems with monitoring
Lesson 11: Configure SQL Server resources for optimal performance
  • Explain how to optimize Azure storage for SQL Server virtual machines
  • Describe virtual machine resizing
  • Optimize database storage
  • Control SQL Server resources
Lesson 12: Configure databases for optimal performance
  • Explore database maintenance checks
  • Describe database scoped configuration options
  • Describe automatic tuning
  • Describe intelligent query processing
  • Exercise: Detect and correct fragmentation issues
Lesson 13: Explore query performance optimization
  • Understand query plans
  • Explain estimated and actual query plans
  • Describe dynamic management views and functions
  • Explore Query Store
  • Identify problematic query plans
  • Describe blocking and locking
  • Exercise: Identify and resolve blocking issues
Lesson 14: Evaluate performance improvements
  • Describe wait statistics
  • Tune and maintain indexes
  • Understand query hints
  • Exercise: Isolate problem areas in poorly performing queries
Lesson 15: Explore performance-based design
  • Describe normalization
  • Choose appropriate data types
  • Design indexes
  • Exercise: Identify database design issues
Lesson 16: Automate deployment of database resources
  • Describe deployment models in Azure
  • Automate deployment by using Azure Resource Manager templates and Bicep
  • Automate deployment by using PowerShell
  • Automate deployment by using Azure CLI
  • Exercise: Deploy an Azure SQL Database using an Azure Resource Manager template
Lesson 17: Create and manage SQL Agent jobs
  • Create a SQL Server maintenance plan
  • Describe task status notifications
  • Exercise: Create a CPU status alert for a SQL Server
Lesson 18: Manage Azure PaaS tasks using automation
  • Explore Elastic jobs
  • Understand Azure Automation
  • Build an automation runbook
  • Automate database workflows by using Logic Apps
  • Monitor automated tasks
  • Exercise: Deploy an automation runbook to automatically rebuild indexes
Lesson 19: Describe high availability and disaster recovery strategies
  • Describe recovery time objective and recovery point objective
  • Explore high availability and disaster recovery options
  • Describe Azure high availability and disaster recovery features for Azure Virtual Machines
  • Describe high availability and disaster recovery options for PaaS deployments
  • Explore an IaaS high availability and disaster recovery solution
  • Describe hybrid solutions
Lesson 20: Explore IaaS and PaaS solutions for high availability and disaster recovery
  • Describe failover clusters in Windows Server
  • Configure Always-on availability groups
  • Describe temporal tables in Azure SQL Database
  • Describe active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database
  • Explore auto-failover groups for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Exercise: Configure geo replication for Azure SQL Database
Lesson 21: Back up and restore databases
  • Back up and restore SQL Server running on Azure virtual machines
  • Back up a SQL Server virtual machine
  • Back up and restore a database using Azure SQL Database
  • Exercise: Backup to URL

Course Fee (inclusive of 9% GST)

$3,052.00 *Funding not available
Course Prerequisite
Successful Azure Database Administrators start this role with professional experience in database management and technical knowledge of cloud technologies. Specifically:
  • Working with, maintaining, and developing with SQL Server
  • Experience with Azure, such as deploying and managing resources
At a minimum, you should know the information in the following online training before attending the course:
  • AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
  • DP-900 Azure Data Fundamentals
Important Notes
All Trainees must take note of the following:
  1. Must attend at least 75% of the course before being eligible to take the assessments.
  2. Dynamic QR Code Attendance Taking:a. Scan the QR Code that will be displayed by the Trainer on each session. Use your SingPass App to scan and submit your attendance. If you fail to do so, you will be deemed absent from that session.b. The QR Code is only accessible on:• Morning Session: between 9.00 am to 1.00 pm. • Afternoon Session: between 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm. c. Please take the attendance one at a time as the system can only register you one by one.
  3. Sign daily on the Attendance Sheet as a backup if any technical glitch happens.
  4. Submit Course Evaluation by the end of each module to help us improve the course and your future learning experience with us.
The course completion requirements for this course as follow:
  1. Attended at least 75% of the course.
  2. Declared as competent during the assessments.
Who Should Attend?
The audience for this course is data professionals managing data and databases who want to learn about administering the data platform technologies that are available on Microsoft Azure. This course is also valuable for data architects and application developers who need to understand what technologies are available for the data platform with Azure and how to work with those technologies through applications.

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