Just a rough draft! These days I am helping my company's competency manager to draft a learning plan for Azure.

1. Microsoft Azure
Training Reference - L1 & L2

2.  Introduction to Cloud computing and Azure
 Azure web sites
 WebMatrix
 Managing Virtual Machines
 Continuous delivery with TFS Server
 Azure storage
o Blob Service
o Table Service
 Azure SQL
 Azure mobile services
L1

3.  Introduction to Azure
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/fundamentals-introduction-to-azure/
 Azure web sites
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/web-sites/
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/web-sites/
 WebMatrix
 http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/
 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Web+Camps+TV/Vishal-Joshi-Introduces-WebMatrix-3
 Managing Virtual Machines
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/virtual-machines/
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/
L1 - References

4.  Azure storage: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-introduction/
o Blob Service
• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-blobs/
o Table Service
• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-tables/
 Azure SQL
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-get-started/
 Azure mobile services:
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/mobile-services/
 Continuous delivery with TFS Server
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-continuous-delivery-use-vso/
L1 - Reference

5. L2
 Access Control (WIF, OAuth and ADFS)
 Azure AD and SSO
 Caching and CDN
 Azure Media services
 Service Bus Queues
 BigData and MongoDB
 Performance Counter
 Email, Voice and Image processing

6. L2 - Reference
 Access Control (WIF and WAAD)
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-dotnet-how-to-use-access-
control/
 http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2014/02/07/step-by-step-provisioning-windows-azure-
active-directory-free-for-production-use.aspx
 Azure AD and SSO
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn151790.aspx
 Caching: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/cache/
 Azure CDN: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cdn/
 Azure Media services
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/

7. L2 - Reference
 Service Bus Queues
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/messaging/
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/service-bus/
 BigData and Hadoop
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/big-data/
 Performance Counter
 http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-use-performance-
counters/

8. Additional Resources
 http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/get-started-with-windows-azure-today-jump-start
 http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/azure