This course teaches Azure administrators and Azure Stack Hub operators how to plan, deploy, package, update, and maintain the Azure Stack Hub infrastructure. Lessons include deploying Azure Stack Hub, managing the Azure Stack Hub Marketplace, offering App Services and Event Hub resource providers, managing Azure Stack Hub registration, and maintaining system health. This course outlines how decisions in each theses area affects an overall solution. Students will learn through a mix of live demonstrations and hands-on lab activities. This course assumes a working knowledge of Azure and familiarity with virtualization, networking, and identity management. Students are expected to have used the tools common to within Azure environment, such as the Cloud Shell and Resource Explorer.

Successful Azure Stack Hub students have prior experience with operating systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking:

• Understanding of on-premises virtualization technologies, including VMs and virtual networking.
• Understanding of network configuration, including TCP/IP, Domain Name System (DNS), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and encryption technologies.

• Understanding of Active Directory concepts, including domains, forests, and domain controllers.

Prerequisite courses (or equivalent knowledge and hands-on experience):

• Course: AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator