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You don't need to sign up to Azure to complete this exercise. This exercise offers a sandbox account. You can activate the sandbox and go to https://portal.azure.com with the same login used to activate the sandbox.
After login, Please search for subscriptions and you should be able to see a sandbox subscription available for an hour to use. Using this subscription you should be able to complete the exercise.
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