Microsoft 365 Administration and Security Training Course

This course empowers participants to master Excel in the most efficient manner, enabling them to create, consolidate, and manage data effectively. By leveraging a suite of tools designed to streamline workflows, you can significantly reduce the time previously spent on these activities. Additionally, the skills acquired will allow you to design applications capable of performing new and complex tasks.

This course is designed for learners who already have a foundational understanding of VBA and wish to deepen their expertise while maximizing the language’s capabilities.

A training program designed for individuals who use Microsoft Excel and wish to enhance their proficiency and productivity.

This instructor-led, live training in India (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level analysts who wish to use Excel VBA to automate repetitive work, clean and transform data, and improve reporting processes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to: record and edit macros, write simple VBA procedures, work with Excel objects for reporting tasks, and debug basic automation solutions.

Please consider the following questions:

• Is your daily work in Excel a never-ending cycle of copy-pasting commands?
• Are you wasting time repeating similar operations to prepare data for analysis?
• Do you know all the Excel keyboard shortcuts but remain unsatisfied with the results?
• Are you spending too much time on data analysis and preparation instead of deriving insights?
• Do you have to manually verify the accuracy of data obtained from various systems?
• Do you find yourself staying late at work or taking Excel files home because you couldn't complete tasks during the day?
• Is your job primarily to prepare reports based on large datasets?
• Do you feel that working in Excel leads you to convoluted and inefficient ways of achieving results?

If you can answer YES to any of these questions, it is time to put an end to this nightmare. This training is designed for you.

Discover how to accelerate your daily operations and maximize your use of MS Excel.

WARNING

After this training, your life will change dramatically. Tasks that once occupied your entire day will now take just a few moments. Are you ready for this transformation?

Excel is a popular spreadsheet program created by Microsoft. It is used to store, organize, and analyze data in a tabular format. Here are some key features and functions of Excel: 1. Spreadsheets: It consists of sheets, where each sheet is a grid of cells arranged in rows and columns. It allows creating multiple sheets in one file, which helps in organizing different sets of data. 2. Calculations and formulas: It enables performing various mathematical, statistical, and logical calculations using formulas. It has a wide range of built-in functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, IF, VLOOKUP, etc. 3. Data formatting and appearance: It provides tools for formatting data, including changing fonts, colors, styles, and creating charts, pivot tables, and diagrams. 4. Sorting, filtering, and grouping: It allows sorting data based on specific criteria. It enables filtering data to display only selected information. It offers the ability to group data according to needs. 5. Data analysis: Tools for performing advanced analyses, such as scenario analysis, trend analysis, forecasting, and creating macros. 6. Sharing data: It allows sharing and collaborating on data in real-time, enabling multiple users to work on the same data simultaneously. 7. Task automation: It allows creating macros and automating tasks using the VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) programming language. Excel is widely used in various fields, from business to science and education. Its versatile features enable data analysis, report creation, budgeting, scheduling, data management, and many other applications.

This course equips learners with the essential knowledge and skills to architect and implement DevOps processes and practices. Participants will learn to plan for DevOps adoption, manage source control, scale Git for enterprise environments, consolidate artifacts, design dependency management strategies, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, establish container build strategies, design release strategies, set up release management workflows, implement deployment patterns, and optimize feedback mechanisms.

Audience profile

This course is ideal for individuals interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or those aiming to pass the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam.

Job role: DevOps Engineer

Preparation for exam: AZ-400

Skills gained

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Design a tool integration strategy
• Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Design an authentication and access strategy
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
• Describe the benefits of using Source Control
• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
• Build organizational knowledge on code quality
• Explain how to structure Git repos
• Describe Git branching workflows
• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
• Leverage Git hooks for automation
• Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
• Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
• Define Site Reliability Engineering
• Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
• Design processes to automate application analytics
• Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
• Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
• Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
• Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
• Manage organizational security and compliance policies
• Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
• Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings

This course equips IT Security Professionals with the essential knowledge and skills to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. The curriculum covers identity and access management, platform protection, data and application security, and security operations.

Audience profile

This course is designed for Azure Security Engineers who are preparing for the associated certification exam or who perform security tasks in their daily roles. It is also beneficial for engineers wishing to specialize in securing Azure-based digital platforms and playing a pivotal role in protecting an organization’s data.

Skills gained

• Implement enterprise governance strategies, including role-based access control, Azure policies, and resource locks.
• Implement an Azure AD infrastructure encompassing users, groups, and multi-factor authentication.
• Implement Azure AD Identity Protection, covering risk policies, conditional access, and access reviews.
• Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management, including Azure AD roles and Azure resources.
• Implement Azure AD Connect, focusing on authentication methods and on-premises directory synchronization.
• Implement perimeter security strategies, such as Azure Firewall.
• Implement network security strategies, including Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups.
• Implement host security strategies, including endpoint protection, remote access management, update management, and disk encryption.
• Implement container security strategies, including Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Kubernetes.
• Implement Azure Key Vault for certificates, keys, and secrets.
• Implement application security strategies, including app registration, managed identities, and service endpoints.
• Implement storage security strategies, including shared access signatures, blob retention policies, and Azure Files authentication.
• Implement database security strategies, including authentication, data classification, dynamic data masking, and Always Encrypted.
• Implement Azure Monitor, including connected sources, log analytics, and alerts.
• Implement Azure Security Center, including policies, recommendations, and just-in-time virtual machine access.
• Implement Azure Sentinel, including workbooks, incidents, and playbooks.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to efficiently utilize advanced data analysis tools such as scenarios and pivot tables. They will also learn to leverage built-in features for date calculations and text processing, and create macros tailored to specific needs to automate spreadsheet workflows.

Audience

Financial or market analysts, managers, accountants

Course Objectives

Facilitate and automate all kinds of financial analysis with Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel serves as a robust spreadsheet tool designed for organizing, analyzing, and visualizing information.

This instructor-led, live training session (available online or at your premises) targets beginner-level data analysts eager to leverage Excel for data analysis and reporting tasks.

Upon completing this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Create and manage spreadsheets within Excel.
• Format and organize data to enhance clarity and efficiency.
• Employ formulas and functions to automate calculations.
• Visualize data through charts, tables, and conditional formatting.
• Collaborate and share workbooks securely using Microsoft 365.

Training Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Numerous exercises and practice sessions.
• Hands-on implementation within a live-lab environment.

Customization Options

• For requests regarding customized training for this course, please get in touch with us to make arrangements.

This instructor-led, live training in India (online or onsite) targets intermediate-level system administrators who wish to effectively deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Hyper-V environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand virtualization concepts and configure Hyper-V.
• Create and manage virtual machines, VM storage, and networking.
• Utilize advanced Hyper-V features and secure Hyper-V environments.
• Monitor and optimize Hyper-V performance.

Explore Office 365 Administration, covering essential components of Office 365, strategies for migrating an organization to Office 365, configuring Office 365, and managing deployments of Office 365 ProPlus.

Intended Audience

This course is tailored for professionals aiming for the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator role who have already completed one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification paths.

Key Competencies

• Understanding Office 365
• Executing organizational migration to Office 365
• Configuring Office 365
• Managing Office 365 ProPlus deployments

This instructor-led, live training in India (online or onsite) is designed to help participants prepare for the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certification exam.

The course covers the concepts of developing Azure solutions, including Azure compute, storage, and security features. It provides a comprehensive introduction to Azure development, including tools and services for building, testing, and deploying applications.