Microsoft Azure Master Class: Free Course

About this course

Build a connected understanding of Microsoft Azure through John Savill’s complete master-class sequence. This free course retains the introduction, all eleven numbered parts and the closing video. It covers the cloud platform from foundations and identity through networking, application services, monitoring and infrastructure as code.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Relate Azure foundations, identity, governance and resiliency to the requirements of a cloud workload.
• Connect storage, networking, virtual machines and application services within a broader platform design.
• Recognise the roles of database, AI, monitoring and security services in the master-class curriculum.
• Explain how infrastructure as code and delivery practices can support repeatable cloud operations.

Skills you’ll gain

• Azure architecture
• Identity and governance
• Cloud networking
• Compute and storage
• Monitoring and security
• Infrastructure as code

Course Overview

The publisher’s playlist is the complete master class and is being updated from v2 to v3. Its current sequence contains newer recordings for Parts 1–7 and the existing v2 recordings for Parts 8–11, followed by closing thoughts. No numbered part is omitted. The course connects platform services with architectural decisions: identity and governance influence access, resiliency changes deployment choices, and storage and networking support the workloads above them. Later parts address application services, databases and AI, monitoring, security and delivery. Read the original lesson titles to see the recording edition, and use current documentation for implementation details.

How to study the course

• Follow Parts 1–4 to establish the platform and its control mechanisms. Use a small application scenario to make each architectural choice concrete.
• Continue through the storage, network and workload sections. Compare alternatives in terms of requirements and responsibilities rather than popularity.
• Complete the later operational and delivery sections and retain the closing video. The mixed recording editions are stated clearly; the eleven-part curriculum is intact.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

This course is for IT professionals, developers and technical learners who want a broader picture of Azure. It is useful alongside administration study, but it is not a separate AZ-104 exam, assessment or official credential.

Before you start

Basic networking and computing knowledge is helpful. Follow demonstrations in an appropriate practice environment if you choose to work hands-on. Azure resources and separate services may require paid access; watching the lessons is free.

Put the lessons into practice

Sketch a simple application with a compute component, stored data and a user identity. For each component, write one requirement and one operational responsibility. Use the master-class sections to justify the service categories you choose, then consider how monitoring, recovery and infrastructure as code would change the design. Keep the exercise as a planning document unless you have a suitable lab environment. Check current service behaviour before implementing anything that could create costs or affect an existing system.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment. The training is by John Savill; it is not a Microsoft certification exam or a guarantee of passing one.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: John Savill. Videos play from the John Savill's Technical Training channel on YouTube.