Free online courseMicrosoft Azure complete course

Course Description

Learn how to work confidently in Microsoft Azure and turn cloud concepts into practical, job-ready skills. This free online course guides you through the core building blocks used in real deployments, helping you understand how Azure is organized, how resources are created and managed, and how to make decisions that impact performance, reliability, and cost. Instead of staying at a purely theoretical level, you’ll connect fundamental cloud principles to what you actually do inside Azure: launching services, configuring compute, and preparing secure, reachable workloads.

You’ll explore what defines cloud computing and why those characteristics matter when you design solutions that must be scalable and resilient. You’ll also see how Azure thinks about availability and continuity through ideas like fault domains and paired regions, so you can plan architectures that remain stable during maintenance events or outages. Along the way, the course supports a certification-minded view of Azure, helping you interpret common exam themes while still keeping the focus on real operational understanding.

On the hands-on side, you’ll work with virtual machines and learn how sizing choices affect CPU, memory, and storage behavior. You’ll get comfortable with managed disks, understand why they simplify administration, and practice common tasks like finding VM images, creating resource groups, and automating setup steps. The course also brings server administration into the cloud by walking through the practical installation flow for popular web stacks and platforms, reinforcing the skills needed to deploy services quickly and troubleshoot with confidence.

By the end, you’ll be able to navigate core Azure workflows, deploy and modify VM-based environments, and understand key storage options such as local versus geo-redundancy. You’ll also gain experience with commands used to open network access, prepare directories and permissions, and manage data disks from creation to attachment and resizing. Whether you’re aiming to strengthen your portfolio, transition into a cloud role, or support applications that run on Azure, this course provides a solid, practice-oriented foundation you can build on immediately.