Developing Solutions with Microsoft

OVERVIEW
Building Strategic Influence in Matrix Organizations

This course by Cognixia discusses Microsoft Azure, a cloud-computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Why you shouldn't miss this course

By the end of this course, participants will have the leadership toolkit to shape and steer GenAI portfolios across their organization.

01Extend their existing skills to the cloud development model
02Build simple applications and deploy it to the cloud
03Create a worker role project
04Store persistent data
05Develop a scalable database application
06Connect several cloud-based applications
07Design a multi-tier solution that can scale to meet user demand

PREREQUISITES
Recommended experience

CURRICULUM
Structured for
Strategic Application

Management portals

  • Constructing Azure virtual machines
  • Azure virtual machine workloads
  • Migrating Azure virtual machine instances
  • Highly available Azure virtual machines
  • Virtual machine configuration management
  • Customizing Azure virtual machine networking
  • Host web applications in Azure
  • Configuring, publishing, and managing Azure websites
  • Monitoring and analyzing running Azure websites
  • Azure SQL databases overview
  • Managing SQL databases in Azure
  • Use Azure SQL databases with SQL server data tools
  • Migrating data to Azure SQL databases
  • Application design practices for highly available applications
  • Build high performance applications using ASP.NET
  • Common cloud application patterns
  • Cache application data
  • Introduction to Azure storage
  • Introduction to Azure storage tables
  • Table entity transactions
  • Azure storage blobs
  • Controlling access to storage blobs and containers
  • Configuring Azure storage accounts
  • Azure files
  • Azure storage queues
  • Azure service bus
  • Azure service bus queues
  • Azure service bus relay
  • Azure service bus notification hubs
  • Azure SDK client libraries
  • Scripting Azure service management using PowerShell
  • Azure REST interface and resource manager
  • Azure active directory
  • Azure AD directories, AD access control service, and AD multi-factor authentication

RECOMMENDED PARTICIPANT SETUP
This course follows Cognixia's AI-first,
hands-on learning model

Access to sanitized process maps, KPI definitions, candidate initiative lists, and basic cost baselines (time, cycle time, error or rework rates)

INTERESTED IN THIS COURSE?
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Speak with a Cognixia specialist about enrollment options, custom cohorts for your leadership team, or tailored delivery formats for your organization.

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Available in 5 delivery formats globally
Volume pricing for teams of 10+
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WHY COGNIXIA
Why Cognixia for This Course

KEEP EXPLORING
Mapped Official Learning
Leadership
Equip enterprise leaders to drive culture, skills, policy, and operating-model change required for sustainable Generative AI adoption at scale.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Enterprise-grade security, governance, and Responsible AI controls to protect, govern, and operate GenAI and agentic systems safely at scale.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Build portable, enterprise-grade GenAI systems that run consistently across Databricks, AWS, and Google Vertex AI—without vendor lock-in, quality drift, or governance gaps.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Systematic testing, evaluation, and quality engineering frameworks for validating GenAI and agentic AI systems at enterprise scale.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Production-grade GenAIOps and LLMOps practices to deploy, monitor, evaluate, and govern enterprise-scale LLM and agentic applications with reliability and control.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led
Applied
Design, build, evaluate, and operate production-grade agentic AI systems with multi-agent orchestration, tool integration, and enterprise-grade safety controls.
In-Person Workshop, Virtual Instructor-Led

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of the future

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