Azure Course Blueprints

Overview

The Course Blueprint is a comprehensive visual guide to the Azure ecosystem, integrating all the resources, tools, structures, and connections covered in the course into one inclusive diagram. It enables students to map out and understand the elements they've studied, providing a clear picture of their place within the larger Azure ecosystem. It serves as a 1:1 representation of all the topics officially covered in the instructor-led training. Formats available include PDF, Visio, Excel, and Video.

Links:

Each icon in the blueprint has a hyperlink to the pertinent document in the learning path on Learn.

Layers

The Visio Template+ for expert-level courses like SC-100 and AZ-305 includes an additional layer for each associate-level certification, allowing you to compare courses along the same path—such as SC-100, SC-200, SC-300, and AZ-500—within a single diagram. Likewise, you can compare any combination of AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-700, and AZ-140 to identify differences and study gaps. Since associate certifications like SC-300 and AZ-500 are potential prerequisites for SC-100, and AZ-104 or AZ-204 for AZ-305, this comparison is especially useful for understanding the extra knowledge and skills required to advance to the next level

Advantages for Students

• Defined Goals: The blueprint presents learners with a clear vision of what they are expected to master and achieve by the course’s end.
• Focused Learning: By spotlighting the course content and learning targets, it steers learners’ efforts towards essential areas, leading to more productive learning.
• Progress Tracking: The blueprint allows learners to track their advancement and assess their command of the course material. 
• Topic List: A comprehensive list of topics for each slide deck is now available in a downloadable .xlsx file. Each entry includes a link to Learn and its dependencies.

Demos are an integral part of achieving end-to-end understanding of Azure. To make this seamless, we partnered with Peter De Tender to align the Trainer Demo Deploy with the corresponding Blueprint, enabling trainers to easily deploy the full scenario and reinforce learning objectives.

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 Benefits for Trainers:

Trainers can follow this plan to design a tailored diagram for their course, filled with notes. They can construct this comprehensive diagram during class on a whiteboard and continuously add to it in each session. This evolving visual aid can be shared with students to enhance their grasp of the subject matter.

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