Microsoft · AZ-900
Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Cloud concepts, core Azure services, and Azure pricing, governance and support.
40 practice questions · Foundational
What you’ll learn
- Describe cloud concepts including shared responsibility and the service models
- Compare public, private and hybrid cloud deployment models
- Identify core Azure compute, networking and storage services
- Describe Azure identity, access and security features
- Use Azure cost management, governance and compliance tooling
About this exam
AZ-900 is the standard first Azure certification and the one most people take before anything else in the Microsoft cloud track. It covers cloud computing concepts — shared responsibility, the service models, public versus private versus hybrid — then the core Azure services and the management layer around them: cost management, governance, compliance and support.
It is conceptual rather than hands-on. The exam wants to know that you understand what Azure offers and how it is billed and governed, not that you can configure it.
Course content
3 sections · 9 topics
Cloud concepts3 topics
- Benefits of cloud computing
- Capital versus operational expenditure
- IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
Azure architecture and services3 topics
- Regions, availability zones and resource groups
- Compute and networking services
- Storage services and migration options
Management and governance3 topics
- Cost management and the pricing calculator
- Azure Policy, locks and role-based access control
- Monitoring and support plans
Domain weighting
The practice test draws questions in these proportions, and scores you against them at the end.