Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Everything between you and a pass, in order: 8 h 51 min of reading and practice in all. Each step ticks off as you finish it, on this device and in your account.
Start with the first lesson. It takes about five minutes.
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Describe cloud concepts
25–30% of the exam. Every lesson ends with a short quiz; the checkpoint mixes questions from the whole skill area.
- What is cloud computing?Lesson and its quiz
- The shared responsibility modelLesson and its quiz
- Public, private and hybrid cloudLesson and its quiz
- The consumption-based model, pricing models and serverlessLesson and its quiz
- High availability and scalabilityLesson and its quiz
- Reliability and predictabilityLesson and its quiz
- Security, governance and manageabilityLesson and its quiz
- IaaS, PaaS and SaaSLesson and its quiz
- Checkpoint: cloud concepts15 questions, pass at 70%
Describe Azure architecture and services
35–40% of the exam. Every lesson ends with a short quiz; the checkpoint mixes questions from the whole skill area.
- Regions, availability zones and region pairsLesson and its quiz
- Resources, resource groups and subscriptionsLesson and its quiz
- Virtual machines, scale sets and availability setsLesson and its quiz
- Containers, App Service and FunctionsLesson and its quiz
- Virtual networks, VPN Gateway and ExpressRouteLesson and its quiz
- Public and private endpoints, Azure DNSLesson and its quiz
- Storage accounts, redundancy and tiersLesson and its quiz
- Blob, Files, Queues, Tables and DisksLesson and its quiz
- Moving data: AzCopy, Storage Explorer, File Sync, MigrateLesson and its quiz
- Microsoft Entra ID and authenticationLesson and its quiz
- Conditional Access, RBAC and Zero TrustLesson and its quiz
- Defense in depth and Microsoft Defender for CloudLesson and its quiz
- Checkpoint: architecture and services15 questions, pass at 70%
Describe Azure management and governance
30–35% of the exam. Every lesson ends with a short quiz; the checkpoint mixes questions from the whole skill area.
- Factors that affect costLesson and its quiz
- Pricing calculator and Cost ManagementLesson and its quiz
- TagsLesson and its quiz
- Azure Policy and resource locksLesson and its quiz
- Microsoft PurviewLesson and its quiz
- Portal, Cloud Shell, CLI, PowerShell and ArcLesson and its quiz
- Infrastructure as code and ARM templatesLesson and its quiz
- Azure Advisor and Service HealthLesson and its quiz
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application InsightsLesson and its quiz
- Checkpoint: management and governance15 questions, pass at 70%
Full-length practice
Sit Mock 1 once the study guide is done, review what you missed, then work through the other four. Aim for 800 or more.
- Mock test 150 questions in 45 minutes, then review
- Weak-spots reviewA quiz on every question you've missed
- Mock test 250 questions in 45 minutes, then review
- Mock test 350 questions in 45 minutes, then review
- Mock test 450 questions in 45 minutes, then review
- Mock test 550 questions in 45 minutes, then review
Exam day
Format, strategy and the most-confused pairs, the night before you sit it.
Two weeks at about an hour a day. Short on time? Do the lessons faster, but keep the five mocks.