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This PREMIUM LAB COLLECTION helps you earn the Microsoft Applied Skills credential by showing you how to secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob storage
One-time payment. No recurring fees.
As you work through this Azure lab, you’ll create a new storage account and configure basic security and networking settings. In doing so, you’ll build out the foundational environment for the training and testing activities for the SurfCity Boats IT department.
As you work through his lab, you’ll create a new storage account in Azure and configure high availability, ensuring it has anonymous public access enabled. You’ll also provision a new blob storage container, enable soft delete, and then you’ll configure blob versioning.
In this lab, you’ll create a storage account specifically for your company’s private documents. You’ll configure redundancy, a shared access signature, and you’ll configure lifecycle management. You’ll also replicate storage from one storage account to another.
In this lab, you’ll provision a new storage account in Azure that’s configured specifically to host file shares. You’ll then create a file share and directory within the new storage account to organize data within the storage account. To protect against data loss, you’ll configure snapshots, which you’ll also test by deleting and restoring data. Lastly, you’ll restrict access to the storage from a specific virtual network.
In this lab, you’ll create a storage account and set up a managed identity for a fictitious application. You’ll then secure access to the storage account by creating a key vault and generating a key within it. You’ll also configure the storage account to use a customer-managed key stored in the key vault. Lastly, you’ll configure a time-based retention policy and establish an encryption scope to further secure the data.
One-time payment. No recurring fees.
Fast lookup for orchestration modes, autoscaling, load balancing, updates & CLI.
| Mode | Profile | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible | Standard Azure VMs | New workloads (default) |
| Uniform | Identical VMs | Legacy large-scale workloads |
| Feature | Flexible | Uniform |
|---|---|---|
| Standard VM APIs | Yes | No |
| Mix instance types | Yes | No |
| RBAC per VM | Yes | No |
| Azure Backup | Yes | No |
| Site Recovery | Yes | No |
| Fault domains | 1–3 | 1–5 |
| Type | Layer | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Internal LB | L4 | Backend pools |
| Public LB | L4 | External traffic |
| App Gateway | L7 | HTTP/HTTPS + WAF |
| Policy | Rollout | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic | Batch | App can tolerate disruption |
| Rolling | Controlled | Gradual, managed updates |
| Manual | On-demand | Full control; explicit API calls |
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