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Microsoft AzureAzure Essentials: Proactive Resiliency
This course focuses on understanding existing architecture, applying reliability design principles, and implementing proactive resiliency strategies for Azure workloads. During the hands-on activity, participants will explore tools WAF assessments and WARA module to assess, enhance, and validate infrastructure resiliency across availability zones and regions.
5 hours(Suggested: 2 days, 2.5h/day)TechnicalProject ReadyHands-on Labs
MS Course ID: 00322
Last Updated: Sep 26, 2025
Course Syllabus
1
Module 1: Understand the existing architecture and implication
• Task 1: Understand the existing architecture and components.
• Task 2: Explore reliability design principle and key considerations
60 mins
Lecture
2
Hands on Labs
• Lab 1: Discover and generate the WAF recommendations from existing Infrastructure with the APRL script
• Task 1: Install the WARA module in PowerShell on the local machine
• Task 2: Use the Config.txt file to ensure workload definition is accurate
• Task 3: Initiate collection using Start-WaraCollector to generate JSON file
• Task 4: Initiate analysis using the Start-WaraAnalyzer to generate Expert Evaluation spreadsheet
• Task 5: Evaluate the impacted items that need manual confirmation and either remove or confirm recommendations
• Task 6: Once review of recommendations is completed -initiate Start-Wara Report to generate customer materials
• Task 7: Modify the PPTX file as needed to ensure information is accurate
90 mins
Lab
3
Hands on Labs
• Lab 2: Review the Spreadsheet report and recommendations to apply to Azure environment
• Task 1: Apply the critical updates to Azure environment asper APRL recommendations to make the Infra highly reliable
• Task 1.1 Deploy the VMs in different Zones in primary and secondary regions and configure cross-region load balancer to enable Availability Zone and Multi-Region Resiliency
• Task 1.2 Enable the zone redundancy and create replicas in other regions for azure SQL database to make it multi-region resilient and highly available
• Task 1.3 Update the storage account redundancy to RA-GZRS to avoid single point failure
• Task 2: Re-run the APRL process to generate the report again and review the difference with the previous report
• Lab 3: Fault Injection - use Chaos Studio to take down a Virtual Machine and validate the resiliency
• Task 1: Set Up Azure Chaos Studio
• Task 2: Role Assignment on Virtual Machine
• Task 3: Create and execute Chaos Experiments
• Task 4: Validate Resiliency
150 mins
Lab
What You'll Learn
Understand core concepts and best practices
Hands-on experience with real-world scenarios
Learn from certified Microsoft experts
Prepare for relevant certifications
Access to lab environments
Post-training support and resources
Course Details
- Duration
- 5 hours
- Level
- Intermediate
- Role
- Technical
- Course Type
- Project Ready
- Partner Segment
- SMB, Enterprise
- Course Stage
- Available
- Hands-on Labs
- Yes