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The 'Kobayashi Maru' of Azure Networking: A 16-Hour Deep-Dive Complex Exercise for Networking Experts

The modern cloud network is no longer a simple extension of the on-premises data center. It has evolved into a disjointed, highly abstract mesh of overlay networks, software-defined perimeters, and platform-native connectivity patterns that often defy traditional networking intuition. For a Senior Cloud Engineer, mastery is not demonstrated by the ability to deploy a Virtual Network (VNet); it is demonstrated by the ability to troubleshoot a dropped packet in a split-tunnel, asymmetric, multi-region architecture where the control plane is opaque and the data plane is encrypted.