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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

01

Describe cloud concepts

What the cloud is, why it matters, and the service types.

25–30%
  1. What is cloud computing?
  2. The shared responsibility model
  3. Public, private and hybrid cloud
  4. The consumption-based model, pricing models and serverless
  5. High availability and scalability
  6. Reliability and predictability
  7. Security, governance and manageability
  8. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
02

Describe Azure architecture and services

Regions, compute, networking, storage and identity.

35–40%
  1. Regions, availability zones and region pairs
  2. Resources, resource groups and subscriptions
  3. Virtual machines, scale sets and availability sets
  4. Containers, App Service and Functions
  5. Virtual networks, VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute
  6. Public and private endpoints, Azure DNS
  7. Storage accounts, redundancy and tiers
  8. Blob, Files, Queues, Tables and Disks
  9. Moving data: AzCopy, Storage Explorer, File Sync, Migrate
  10. Microsoft Entra ID and authentication
  11. Conditional Access, RBAC and Zero Trust
  12. Defense in depth and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
03

Describe Azure management and governance

Cost, governance, deployment tools and monitoring.

30–35%
  1. Factors that affect cost
  2. Pricing calculator and Cost Management
  3. Tags
  4. Azure Policy and resource locks
  5. Microsoft Purview
  6. Portal, Cloud Shell, CLI, PowerShell and Arc
  7. Infrastructure as code and ARM templates
  8. Azure Advisor and Service Health
  9. Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights
  10. Exam day: format, strategy and final review