Azure Challenges

The Azure Challenges are a series of practical exercises to be performed in an Azure FREE Student Account to create a practical experience for students.

The exercises are focused on data and AI solutions using the Microsoft Azure environment and building architecture solutions end-to-end.

This way the students can develop a good understanding of the main Azure Resources, and features, and gain familiarity with the environment and different options available in Azure.

Please note that during the development of the challenges you can face different screens/options because this is the nature of the cloud environment — always changing!

The Azure Challenges are broken down into:

CHALLENGE#1 — Storage

(1.1) Create your SQL Database

(1.2) Connect with your SQL Database using Azure Data Studio

(1.3) Creating a Storage Account (Blob Storage)

(1.4) Moving Data to your Storage Account

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CHALLENGE#2 — Ingestion

(2.1) Azure Data Factory

(2.2) Using Query Editor to visualize your data

(2.3) Using Azure Data Studio to visualize your data

(2.4) Check your Azure Subscription Costs

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CHALLENGE#3 — Process

(3.1) Azure Machine Learning

(3.2) Azure ML Studio

(3.3) Create your compute

(3.4) Train a regression model with AutoML and Python

(3.5) Analyze the results

(3.6) Check your subscription

Challenges Submission Requirements

CHALLENGE#4 — Azure AI Services

(4.1) Azure Cognitive Services

(4.2) Using APIs | Translator | Face | Computer Vision

(4.3) Azure AI Services — Security

(4.4) OCR | Text Analytics | Speech

CHALLENGE#5 — Azure IoT

(5) Azure IoT Hub

CHALLENGE#6 — Synthetic Data

(6) Synthetic Data — YData Fabric

Synthetic Data — YData Fabric

CHALLENGE#8 — Azure AI Services + Power BI

(8) Azure AI Services + Power BI

CHALLENGE#9 — Azure OpenAI

(9) Azure OpenAI

Azure OpenAI — DALL-E

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