KodeKloud Notes

Welcome to the administer governance and compliance module of the AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator course. In this lesson, you’ll explore essential strategies for effectively managing your Azure environment. This module is designed around three key learning objectives:

Configuring Subscriptions and Azure Resource Manager Resources
Configuring Azure Policies
Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Below, each section is detailed to provide clear guidance on best practices and key focus areas.

Configuring Subscriptions and Azure Resource Manager Resources

In this section, you will learn to organize and manage your Azure subscriptions and resources efficiently. Topics include:

Managing Subscriptions: Techniques to keep your Azure subscriptions organized.
Resource Groups and Limits: Strategies to structure your resources while maintaining preset limits.
Understanding the Hierarchy: A clear breakdown of the Azure resource structure for effective management.
Azure Resource Tags: Methods to simplify the organization and retrieval of Azure resources using tags.
Azure Resource Locks: Approaches to safeguard your resources from accidental deletion or modification.

The image lists learning objectives for configuring subscriptions and Azure Resource Manager resources, including managing subscriptions, resource groups, understanding hierarchy, Azure resource tags, and locks.

Managing Cost: Explore proven techniques to monitor and control your Azure spending effectively.

The image lists learning objectives related to configuring subscriptions and Azure Resource Manager resources, including managing subscriptions, resource groups, understanding hierarchy, resource tags, resource locks, and managing costs.

Configuring Azure Policies

This section focuses on utilizing Azure Policy to enforce organizational standards and assess compliance at scale. You will discover:

Azure Policy Implementation: How to apply policies that ensure continual compliance across your environment.
Initiatives: Ways to group related policies to achieve specific compliance goals.

Note

Understanding Azure Policies is key to maintaining security and governance standards in your environment.

Configuring Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

In this section, we dive into Azure RBAC, which is essential for assigning the proper levels of access to users. Topics include:

Defining Azure RBAC: Learn how to manage and implement permissions effectively.
Comparing with Microsoft Entra ID Roles: Although Microsoft Entra ID roles are covered in a separate module, you will also explore the differences between Azure RBAC and Entra ID roles, and understand when to apply each for optimal security.

The image outlines learning objectives related to configuring Azure policies and role-based access control, including Azure Policy, Initiatives, and comparisons between Azure RBAC and Microsoft Entra ID Roles.

With these objectives in mind, we now transition to our first topic: managing subscriptions.

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