Getting Started with Azure Virtual Machines (Udemy.com)
Learn about Azure Virtual Machines and get started in your Azure Journey
Created by: Refactored LLC
Last updated January 2019
What you will learn
- Learn to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines
- Learn about PowerShell DSC and VM Extensions
- Learn about Virtual Machine Storage
- Learn how to do basic VM monitoring
- Get ready to continue on their Azure journey
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 30% of them
- Reviews680#505 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length1.9 hoursshorter than 85% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2019earlier than 90% of them
Course Description
This is a beginners course to Azure Virtual Machines that covers the following core fundamental topics:
Azure Overview
Access to PowerShell Admin Guide
Deploy Workloads on ARM VMs
Perform Configuration Management
Design and Implement VM Storage
Monitor ARM VMs
Manage ARM VM Availability
Scale ARM VMs
This course is designed to give you a basic introduction to all the different VM types and specializations in Azure, as well as how to complete a basic deployment. It is meant to be a short course to help you get a feel for Azure and deploying some of the most common IaaS services from the portal.
Consider the AZ-100 certification course if you want to continue on to Azure certification.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
680 Reviews
Refactored LLC
Technology is increasingly becoming a way of life, a way of work, a way in which we move forward faster. With our combined experience in Azure, working with customers in IT on the day-to-day, enabling them to use the powerful platform to deliver services faster, we realized there's a gap: Education! Our courses were created on the basis that we could help people to become empowered by learning Azure themselves, rather than having someone else tell them what to do.
Refactored gives people the depth of knowledge they need to get Microsoft Azure certifications which have a high-demand for professional careers in the job market. Our goal is to always bring you the most up to date material needed to not only pass the exam, but gain the real world experience necessary to excel in your IT career, putting you in the driver's seat.
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Reviews
By Mary Anne Harding on 8/15/2023
I don't hear well, so I have to run with sound off and captions on. 1. On some slides, the captions cover the slide content, so I can't see it. 2. Did you make the captions with voice-to-text? Apparently nobody did any proofreading. There are captions that don't make any sense at all. I can figure out what you probably meant in some of them, but not all.
By Daniel Goetzman on 9/16/2020
Just needed an basic overview for Azure to understand features and functionality. This course provided exactly that.
By Christian Kasungu on 9/9/2019
pace and the voice of the narrator is great. just watched the first module and i like the feel of the knowledge delivery and getting. there you go.
By Jonathan Tate on 8/2/2019
Good course. I just needed to start somewhere in Azure. I did AWS, but my company is switching to Azure. Thank you
By Alok Mehrotra on 7/25/2019
It was good session very much informative . Please include some practice document also so that after completing video sessions we can follow the same and do practice .
By Subramanian Gopalakrishnan on 4/26/2019
Nick Colyer have given a very detailed explanations with demo about using the azure vm , which is best to know. thanks to this wonderful course.
By Gokul G on 11/18/2018
This course was a good refresher for my Azure knowledge but it is very short, concise and crisp. Not very deep either. :)
By Irving Green on 9/7/2018
The instructor was very knowledgeable in navigating around the azure portal and his explanations on how to reciprocate the tasks in PowerShell. The course content did exceed some of my expectations particularly as it was a free course. Irving
By Jirka Slaba on 8/26/2018
Quick owerview with examples. I would prefer more details and deeper approach but this is just a free course and so it is appropriate.
By Neeral Patel on 8/20/2018
Does give you a good understanding using Ms Azure. Defo helped me. I just need to company to buy some subcriptions or I can do it myself within a home lab enviroment
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Overall Score : 88 / 100












