Summer Practice: Top 10 Microsoft Virtual Academy Courses

    We move on and continue to pump skills in the Microsoft MVA virtual academy . In the last selection there were the most interesting courses for beginners, today you will learn the popular courses for trained specialists: Windows 10 on the corporate network, JSON and C #, the use of Docker containers in the Microsoft Azure cloud, disaster tolerance in applications, virtualization of Windows Server Hyper-V servers and System Center, importing a local Linux system into the cloud, writing scripts in PowerShell and using PowerShell Desired State Configuration technology, as well as LINQ, Data Science, and Machine Learning.




    1. Windows 10 on the corporate network

    If you still haven’t decided whether or not to migrate to Windows 10, this course will introduce you to migration approaches and tools, device management capabilities in Windows 10, and some OS security technologies.

    2. Introduction to using the JSON format in C #

    JSON (short for English JavaScript Object Notation, notation of JavaScript objects) is a format for storing data and exchanging it. In this course, you will learn how to work with JSON in C #, get acquainted with its syntax and structure, learn how to create, analyze and use JSON files to load and save application data.

    3. Using Docker Containers in Azure IaaS Cloud

    As you know, Docker is a must have tool for the developer and project administrator, which provides automation of deployment and application management. With Docker, you can safely run applications isolated in the container. In this course, you will learn about the Docker management system and its use in IaaS systems, both from the theoretical and practical sides.

    4. Providing disaster tolerance and high availability of applications and services

    You will learn more about such basic concepts as fault tolerance, high availability, disaster recovery after failures, as well as the principles of designing disaster-tolerant systems, for example, Azure Site Recovery. The issue of using a cloud service to protect virtual machines, manage their asynchronous replication between data centers and orchestrate the process of switching backup data centers in the event of an accident will also be disclosed.

    5. Server virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

    During the course, you will learn how to configure, manage, and maintain Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager, including network and storage services. As well as how to configure Microsoft Server virtualization features, such as second-generation virtual machines, replication extension, interactive export, online migration between different versions, changing the VHDX file size over the Internet, setting up dynamic migration and load balancing of a dynamic virtual switch.

    6. Import a local Linux system into the cloud and back

    From the course you will learn how to prepare an image from scratch and transfer the local Linux system to the Microsoft Azure cloud and vice versa, and what transfer options exist in principle. The course authors tried to consider various transfer cases, for example, if the existing system works in the KVM virtualization system and is available as a ready-made image of QCOW / QCOW2, VHD or the like, or if the existing system works in the VServer / OpenVZ container or on bare metal, and its image not available.

    7. Advanced features and scripting in PowerShell 3.0 (Jump Start)

    How to turn real-time management and automation scripts into useful tools and cmdlets? Easy! You will learn about this from the course, and also get a lot of useful tips from the developer and creator of PowerShell, Microsoft's leading specialist, Jeffrey Sverver.

    8. PowerShell Desired State Configuration

    PowerShell allows you to complete Windows system configuration tasks. As part of the Windows Management Framework 4.0, there is PowerShell Desired State Configuration technology, with which you can declaratively configure the system. In this course, you will learn about this technology, about configuration scripts, built-in and user DSC resources, and how to centrally apply configuration for several computers.

    9. Reveal the secrets of LINQ

    Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a set of features introduced in Visual Studio 2008 that significantly expand the syntax of C # and Visual Basic, and are a simple and convenient language for querying a data source. In this course, you will learn about LINQ core elements and their interactions, how query expressions are mapped to methods, and learn about performance issues and much more.

    10. Fundamentals of Data Science and the Learning Machine (eng)

    Any questions on Data Science and Machine Learning? During the course, you will dive into the study of data through Azure Machine Learning, R, and Python, as well as learn about the basic methods of Data Science and the construction of Machine Learning algorithms.

    More courses for trained professionals can be found on the Microsoft Virtual Academy website in the Intermediate and Advanced sections .

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