Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Beginner Azure fundamentals course and practice bank.
Official study guideDescribe cloud concepts
Cloud fundamentals for AZ-900: shared responsibility, cloud models, consumption pricing, service types, serverless, and the major benefits of cloud adoption.
25-30%
Describe cloud concepts
Cloud fundamentals for AZ-900: shared responsibility, cloud models, consumption pricing, service types, serverless, and the major benefits of cloud adoption.
Cloud computing foundations
Beginner18 minCloud computing delivers technology services over the internet using provider-managed infrastructure. AZ-900 expects you to recognize how consumption pricing, shared responsibility, and cloud deployment models change operational decisions.
- Consumption pricing:
- Pay for resource usage instead of buying capacity up front.
- Shared responsibility:
- Microsoft secures the cloud platform, while customers secure data, identities, and configurations.
- Public cloud:
- Services run on provider infrastructure shared across customers.
- Hybrid cloud:
- Public cloud services connect to private or on-premises environments.
Service models and cloud benefits
Beginner20 minIaaS gives the most control, PaaS reduces platform management, SaaS delivers a complete application, and serverless hides infrastructure allocation. Benefits include high availability, scalability, reliability, security, governance, predictability, and manageability.
- IaaS:
- You manage operating systems, runtime, applications, and data.
- PaaS:
- You manage application code, data, and configuration.
- SaaS:
- You use a finished application managed by the provider.
- Serverless:
- Code runs on demand without managing servers.
Describe Azure architecture and services
Azure architecture and services for AZ-900: regions, availability zones, resource hierarchy, compute, networking, storage, identity, access, and security.
35-40%
Describe Azure architecture and services
Azure architecture and services for AZ-900: regions, availability zones, resource hierarchy, compute, networking, storage, identity, access, and security.
Core Azure architecture
Beginner24 minAzure organizes resources with management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources. Region, availability zone, and region-pair choices affect latency, compliance, and resilience.
- Management groups:
- Apply governance across many subscriptions.
- Subscriptions:
- Provide billing, access, and quota boundaries.
- Resource groups:
- Group resources with similar lifecycle and management needs.
- Availability zones:
- Separate datacenter locations inside supported regions.
Azure services
Beginner30 minCore Azure services include compute, networking, storage, and identity services. AZ-900 focuses on recognizing the right service category and the tradeoff in realistic business scenarios.
- Compute:
- Virtual machines, containers, app hosting, and functions run workloads.
- Networking:
- Virtual networks, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, peering, DNS, and endpoints connect resources.
- Storage:
- Blob, Files, Queue, Table, and Disk storage cover different data patterns.
- Identity:
- Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, MFA, Conditional Access, and external identities control access.
Describe Azure management and governance
Azure management and governance for AZ-900: Microsoft Cost Management, tags, Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy, resource locks, deployment tools, Azure Arc, and monitoring.
30-35%
Describe Azure management and governance
Azure management and governance for AZ-900: Microsoft Cost Management, tags, Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy, resource locks, deployment tools, Azure Arc, and monitoring.
Cost, governance, and deployment
Beginner28 minGovernance keeps Azure environments consistent as they grow. Cost tools estimate and control spend, policy tools enforce standards, and deployment tools make resource creation repeatable.
- Microsoft Cost Management:
- Analyze spending, budgets, alerts, and cost allocation.
- Azure Policy:
- Audit or enforce resource rules such as locations and required tags.
- Resource locks:
- Prevent accidental deletion or modification.
- ARM templates:
- Deploy resources repeatedly with declarative infrastructure as code.
Operations and monitoring
Beginner22 minAzure operational tools answer different questions. Azure Monitor observes resources and applications, Azure Advisor recommends improvements, and Azure Service Health reports platform incidents and maintenance affecting your services.
- Azure Monitor:
- Metrics, logs, alerts, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
- Azure Advisor:
- Recommendations for cost, reliability, security, performance, and operations.
- Azure Service Health:
- Personalized Azure service issues and planned maintenance.
- Azure Arc:
- Extends Azure management to hybrid and multicloud resources.