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This module helps users understand the hybrid data platform capabilities of SQL Server 2025.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Business Continuity with Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Azure Arc Enabled
• Near Real Time Analytics Synapse Link for SQL
• Azure Active Directory Azure Ad Authentication
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: SQL Server

Roles: Database Administrator, Data Engineer, Administrator

Level: Beginner

Subjects: Databases

Duration: 58 minutes

Explore how Microsoft Entra ID defines who can deploy, invoke, and manage AI workloads in Azure through identity types, authentication flows, and role scope decisions.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Identity Control Layer AI Solutions
• Management Data Plane AI Workloads
• Authentication Flows Microsoft Foundry
• Human Workload Identities AI Environments
• Role Scope AI Environments
• Common Identity Misconfigurations AI
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Azure, Entra Id

Roles: Security Engineer, Identity Access Admin

Level: Intermediate

Subjects: Security, Cloud Security, Identity Access

Duration: 38 minutes

Learn package management concepts including package feeds, feed managers, public and private sources, and how to consume, create, and publish packages using Azure Artifacts.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Explore Packages
• Understand Package Feeds
• Explore Package Feed Managers
• Explore Common Public Package Sources
• Explore Self Hosted and Saas Based Package Sources
• Consume Packages
• Introduction to Azure Artifacts
• Publish Packages
• Package Management with Azure Artifacts
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Azure, Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Devops, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Github

Roles: Administrator, AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Developer, Devops Engineer, Platform Engineer, Security Engineer, Security Operations Analyst, Service Adoption Specialist, Solution Architect, Startup Founder, Technology Manager

Level: Advanced

Subjects: Devops

Duration: 87 minutes

Learn how to manage and monitor capacity in Azure NetApp Files.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Capacity Management
• Regional Capacity
• User Group Quotas
• Large Volumes
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Azure Netapp Files, Azure Virtual Machines

Roles: Administrator, Solution Architect

Level: Intermediate

Subjects: Cloud Computing, Storage, Migration

Duration: 29 minutes

Understand retention in Microsoft Purview

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Retention Overview
• Retention Labels Retention Policies
• Decide Apply Retention
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: M365, Microsoft Purview

Roles: Administrator, Auditor

Level: Intermediate

Subjects: Data Management

Duration: 24 minutes

Learn what a security operations center (SOC) is, key roles like analysts and threat hunters, and how SOCs detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• What Is Soc
• Why Are Socs Important
• What Roles Exist Soc
• What Does Soc Look Like
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Microsoft Sentinel, M365 Defender, Security Copilot

Roles: Student, School Leader

Level: Beginner

Duration: 36 minutes

Understand Microsoft Entra ID sign-in and Microsoft Graph authorization through explained Java code samples, without a hands-on lab.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Authentication Authorization
• Exercise Register Azure Ad App
• Sign in with Msal
• Exercise Sign in with Msal
• Authorize Access to API
• Exercise Authorize Access to API
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Azure, Msal Java

Roles: Developer

Level: Beginner

Subjects: Identity Access

Duration: 39 minutes

Apply the AILit Framework to school scenarios, identifying decision domains, forming domain-first questions, and using reflection loops to guide safeguards, communication, and responsible AI use.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Introduction AI Literacy Framework
• Understand AI Literacy Framework
• Use AI Literacy Framework Clarify Decisions
• Use Shared Language Support Better AI Decisions
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Ms Copilot, Office Onenote

Roles: K 12 Educator, School Leader, Higher Ed Educator

Level: Beginner

Duration: 29 minutes

Understand how the Active Directory Domain Services schema defines directory data, controls behavior, replicates through a forest, and supports governed extensions.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Build Schema Mental Model
• Locate Schema Partition
• Interpret Object Classes
• Interpret Schema Attributes
• Inspect Schema
• Track Schema Versions
• Govern Schema Changes
• Apply Schema Extensions
• Evaluate Schema Performance
• Protect Schema Data
• Troubleshoot Schema Replication
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Windows Server

Roles: Administrator, Solution Architect

Level: Advanced

Subjects: Identity Access

Duration: 145 minutes

Understand how Active Directory domain controllers store and replicate directory data and SYSVOL.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Understand Local Directory Database
• Trace Directory Replication
• Understand System Volume Replication
• Connect Group Policy Data Stores
• Apply Safety Backup Version Boundaries
• Investigate Directory Data Stores
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Windows Server

Roles: Administrator

Level: Advanced

Subjects: Identity Access

Duration: 69 minutes

In this module, you'll learn about the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Empower to Move Forward
• Cost Coverage
• Summary

Products: Windows 10

Roles: Business Owner, Technology Manager

Level: Beginner

Duration: 7 minutes

Learn about the history of natural language processing (NLP), including how the Transformer architecture revolutionized the field and helped us create large language models (LLMs). Work with LLMs in Azure Machine Learning through the foundation models in the model catalog.

Units in this learning path:

• Introduction
• Statistical Techniques
• Deep Learning
• Transformers
• Explore Foundation Models
• Exercise
• Knowledge Check
• Summary

Products: Azure Machine Learning

Roles: Data Scientist

Level: Intermediate

Subjects: Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Duration: 54 minutes