AZ-900 · Foundational

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Get comfortable with cloud concepts and the Azure services behind them.

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Questions: 50
Time limit: 45 min
Coverage: 3 domains

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Is AZ-900 your next step?

For people establishing an Azure foundation before deeper technical study. It suits learners who want to recognise common cloud services and explain their purpose, management and governance.

Explain the cloud model

Distinguish service models, shared responsibility and the trade-offs of public, private and hybrid cloud.

Recognise the right Azure service

Connect common compute, networking, storage and identity needs to the relevant Azure capability.

Understand management and governance

Separate resource organisation, policy, monitoring and cost-management tools by the problem each solves.

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Describe Cloud Concepts28.21% practice balance

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Describe Cloud Computing

Public and Private Cloud Models
Hybrid Cloud Models
Serverless Computing Overview
Consumption-Based Pricing
Cloud Pricing Metrics

Describe the Benefits of Using Cloud Services

High Availability and Scalability
Manageability in Cloud Services
Elasticity and Business Agility
Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance
Security and Governance in Cloud

Describe Cloud Service Types

IaaS and Customer Responsibilities
PaaS and Managed Database Services
SaaS Responsibilities and Examples
Shared Responsibility Across Service Types
Serverless and Function-as-a-Service

Describe Azure Architecture and Services38.46% practice balance

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Describe the Core Architectural Components of Azure

Regions, Geographies, and Availability Zones
Tenants, Subscriptions, and Billing Boundaries
Resource Groups and Azure Resource Manager
Governance Hierarchy, Naming, and Tags

Describe Azure Compute and Networking Services

Compute Types and Virtual Machines
Application Hosting Options
Azure Virtual Networks
Virtual Network Peering
Public and Private Endpoints
DNS and Hybrid Connectivity

Describe Azure Storage Services

Azure Storage Services Overview
Storage Tiers and Cost Management
Storage Account Types
Redundancy and Availability Options
Data Transfer Tools and Techniques
Azure Migration Options

Describe Azure Identity, Access, and Security

Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access
Azure Role-Based Access Control
Authentication Techniques and Governance
Security Models and Strategies
Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Describe Azure Management and Governance33.33% practice balance

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Describe Cost Management in Azure

Cost Drivers in Azure
Azure Pricing Calculator
Budgeting and Alerts in Azure
Tagging for Cost Allocation

Describe Features and Tools in Azure for Governance and Compliance

Microsoft Purview
Azure Management Groups
Azure Policy Definitions and Initiatives
Resource Locking for Governance

Describe Features and Tools for Managing and Deploying Azure Resources

Azure Portal for Resource Management
Azure CLI and PowerShell Usage
Hybrid Resource Management with Azure Arc
Infrastructure as Code Fundamentals
Azure Resource Manager and Templates

Describe Monitoring Tools in Azure

Azure Advisor for Best Practices
Azure Service Health Monitoring
Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
Azure Monitor Alerts and Application Insights
Metrics, Logs, and Activity Log

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Describe Azure Compute and Networking Services Describe Azure Identity, Access, and Security Describe Azure Storage Services Describe Cloud Computing Describe Cloud Service Types Describe Cost Management in Azure Describe Azure Architecture and Services Describe Azure Management and Governance Describe Cloud Concepts

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Read the scenario. Consider your answer, then reveal the reasoning.

Start with what each service does and when it is useful. Detailed Azure administration is the focus of AZ-104.

A team wants alerts when monthly Azure spending is projected to exceed a defined threshold. Which feature should they configure?

A virtual network service endpoint
An application security group
Budgets and alerts in Azure Cost Management
A storage account container lease

Show answer and explanations

A virtual network service endpoint — Service endpoints secure network access to platform services and do not monitor spending.

An application security group — Application security groups help define network rules and do not create budget notifications.

Budgets and alerts in Azure Cost Management — Azure Cost Management budgets and alerts notify stakeholders when actual or forecasted spending approaches configured thresholds.

A storage account container lease — Container leases coordinate blob access and are unrelated to cost alerts.

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Explore hands-on tasks connected to AZ-900. These are real Labs from the catalogue.

Lab

Find out who can already reach the machine

Rewrite the inbound rules so TCP 3389 on 10.10.3.4 is reachable from 10.10.1.0/24 and from nowhere else in the virtual network, while the application subnet keeps reaching the machine on TCP 443. Azure's default rules appear at the bottom of the table and cannot be deleted. Your own rules take a priority between 100 and 4096.

easy · About 10 min

Lab

Make the tagging policy actually stop untagged resources

Repair policy-definition.json so a resource cannot be created without a CostCenter tag. A resource tagged only with Owner must not satisfy it. Keep the definition as one policy rule with an if and a then block, and leave resources that already carry the tag alone.

easy · About 10 min

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