Competencies: Cloud > Microsoft Azure

Azure Fundamentals

Core Azure concepts including resource groups, subscriptions, Azure Active Directory (Entra ID), regions, availability zones, and basic compute, storage, and networking services.

High

Cloud Engineer, Solutions Architect, Infrastructure Engineer

Azure VMs & Compute

VM scale sets, availability sets, managed disks, Azure Batch, Azure Functions

High

Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer

Azure Networking

VNets, subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway

High

Cloud Engineer, Network Engineer, Solutions Architect

Azure Storage

Blob storage, Azure Files, managed disks, storage tiers, lifecycle management

High

Cloud Engineer, Data Engineer, Solutions Architect

Entra ID (Azure AD)

Users, groups, app registrations, service principals, managed identities, conditional access

Critical

Identity Engineer, Security Engineer, Cloud Engineer

Azure Kubernetes Service

AKS clusters, node pools, Azure CNI, AAD integration, container insights

High

DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, SRE

ARM & Bicep Templates

Infrastructure as Code, template specs, deployment stacks, what-if analysis

High

DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer

Azure Monitor & Logging

Log Analytics, Application Insights, diagnostic settings, alerts, workbooks

High

SRE, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer

Azure Security

Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel SIEM, policy compliance, network security

Critical

Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps

Azure SQL & Databases

Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, database scaling, geo-replication, managed instance

High

Cloud Engineer, DBA, Backend Developer

Azure DevOps Integration

Pipelines, repos, artifacts, service connections, Azure-native CI/CD

High

DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer

Azure Fundamentals

Awareness

CHLA uses Azure/Sentinel; basic understanding of resource groups, subscriptions, Azure AD (Entra ID); KQL exposure through Sentinel

CISSP Study Guide

No Azure VMs, no VNets, no Azure Firewall, no Azure Functions, no ARM/Bicep templates