Lab guides and Azure / Office 365

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Good afternoon,
I'm currently studying for the MD-101 and looking into heading into some Azure courses beyond completion. I'm finding that in the Azure, AWS, MD-101 videos etc. that there are no virtual labs. I get the reasoning behind this as they can't give you access to just any Azure environment. However I've liked the virtual labs a lot in the other courses simply because of the guides that they take me through to make sure that I'm getting exposure to the exam objectives. I have a free trial of Azure activated but I've had a hard time just labbing at wild to try to cover the exam objectives. Does anyone out there have something that would be helpful in the way of getting some lab guides that would be directed towards the exam objectives for the Azure and MD-101 courses?

I must mention I'm a novice in the cloud space that is just getting started and that isn't helping everything throughout this course has pushed me to a new level but I really like what I see.

Thanks!
Alex

@Alex-Evans ,

I hope all is well. There are no formal lab guides for the Azure/Office (Microsoft) 365 courses, as everything is cloud based, and changes so frequently based on vendor updates to the platforms.

The best way for you to practice and hone your skills is to create a subscription and use your tenant to follow along and reproduce the skill(s) from any episodes that you want to practice.

The episodes tell you what we are going to do, show you where and how to do it, and provide the guidance that a lab guide would, so you should be able to do everything that you need to.

Good Luck !!!

Cheers,

Adam

@Alex-Evans

I suggest signing up for Linux Academy or A Cloud Guru (A Cloud Guru purchased Linux Academy, but the subscriptions are still separate at the moment, I think.)

Anyway, those two platforms offer virtual labs for Azure, GCE and AWS. They also train you for most of the certifications associated with those cloud platforms. Additionally, they give you a playground to spin up servers, as well (I don't think you can spin up Windows servers, only Linux on the individual subscriptions). You can also generate a sandbox cloud account, too.

The downside is they don't offer any courses on Windows Server specifically and like I said above, I don't think you can spin up Windows server sandbox environments unless you have an enterprise account. It's mostly cloud-based training and then Linux server training, as well as programming. They also don't have any Cisco network training, SCCM, vSphere, and the variety of other platforms that ITPRO.TV offers training on.

Linux Academy does have a network course, but it is Linux-based. I use both platforms.