Get serious about the Windows Azure Platform – 6 week training!
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032449971&Culture=en-GB
Event Overview
The “Microsoft Azure Self-paced Learning Course” is a free, interactive, self-paced, technical training course covering the Microsoft Azure platform – Windows Azure, SQL Azure and the Azure AppFabric. The course takes place over a six week period from May 10th – June 18th 2010, with weekly coursework assignments. During the course you will work from your own home or workplace, and get involved via interactive Live Meetings session, watch on-line videos, work through hands-on labs and research and complete weekly coursework assignments.
It’s a self-paced course, so you can work in your own time, and wherever is most convenient. There are weekly checkpoints to help keep you on track. The mentors and other attendees on the course will help you in your research and learning, and there are weekly Live Meetings where you can raise questions and interact with them. The course will require around 4 to 5 hours per week to complete the core elements, with the option for additional exercises and labs.
This is a technical course, aimed at programmers, system designers, and architects who want a solid understanding of the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, hence a prerequisite for this course is at least six months programming in the .NET framework and Visual Studio.
The course outline is:
Week 1 - Windows Azure Platform
Week 2 - Windows Azure Storage
Week 3 - Windows Azure Deep Dive and Codename "Dallas"
Week 4 - SQL Azure
Week 5 - Windows Azure Platform AppFabric Access Control
Week 6 - Windows Azure Platform AppFabric Service Bus