AZ 900 - Microsoft Azure Cloud - Basic learning path - Part 1

Updated - 06/26 - I cleared AZ900 and here is my AZ900 quick learning path. 

For my career, right now it's high time I up-skilled and get certified in Cloud. I currently work on an Insurance framework which is hosted on an AWS Cloud platform. Though my current work confines me inside an AWS VM machine at all times, I understand that the world is moving aggressively towards cloud platforms and it is easy to fall behind if you don't keep up with that pace.

Thankfully a bunch of colleagues have started a group team learning session to share knowledge around Cloud with the aim of getting the team certified. 

The plan is to get myself certified on the below, before the end of the year, more than getting certified, get a detailed understanding of how cloud works. 

• AZ-900 - Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
• DP-200 - Implementing an Azure Data Solution

In Parallel, I have also started at looking multiple materials on the Azure Cloud. Here are a few materials online, which helped me get a basic understanding of Cloud for AZ-900 certification.

Microsoft Azure for Enterprises: What and Why ? - PluralSight

           Duration : 1 hour 13 minutes. 

           Author: David Chappel

            I was very fortunate to come across this course in April 2020, when PluralSight really opened up it's courses for Free. The course was published in 2015, despite that the course covers Cloud computing basics, and it explains a wide range of scenarios of how Cloud can be implemented by Enterprises and how it can add significant value over the in house systems.

The author is a very experienced cloud architect/practitioner, who at all points in the course, keeps it simple and straight forward. There is no overuse of technical jargon. Easy to understand scenario examples.

Each time I learn something new, I keep a bookmark to a 'Back to the basics course', and this would definitely be the one for Cloud Computing. 

Microsoft Documents Library for getting started with Azure.       

         Going through official documentation is not always a pleasant and fruitful experience. Some tools/frameworks have such complex documentation that you end up being more puzzled than before you referred it. This case it is really simple and straight forward. I already completed two units and it's really easy. My suggestion is you take up a video course and in parallel go through this Microsoft documentation.

I am also looking at finding and shortlisting one Udemy course, there are a handful of ones with good review and rating.  I am trying to shortlist one and write note in the Part 2 version of this blog series - Learning Cloud.

There is also a plan for me to make this a series, I will try to prepare a cheat-sheet notebook and try sharing it here.