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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) exam objectives
Microsoft publishes 3 exam domains with official weightings. The weight tells you where your marks come from — study time should roughly follow it.
AZ-900FundamentalsBeginner
1. Describe cloud concepts
28%- Cloud benefits: high availability, scalability, elasticity, reliability, predictability
- The shared responsibility model and how the line moves between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
- Cloud models — public, private, hybrid — and what drives the choice
- Consumption-based pricing, and capital versus operational expenditure
2. Describe Azure architecture and services
39%- Regions, region pairs, availability zones and how they underpin resilience
- The management hierarchy: management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, resources
- Core compute and networking — VMs, App Service, containers, Azure Functions, virtual networks, VPN and ExpressRoute
- Storage and database services, including tiers, redundancy options and migration tooling
3. Describe Azure management and governance
33%- Cost management: the pricing and TCO calculators, budgets, tags and cost analysis
- Governance tooling — Azure Policy, resource locks, and the Microsoft Purview governance surface
- Identity and access: Microsoft Entra ID, authentication versus authorisation, conditional access, RBAC and Zero Trust
- Deployment and monitoring — ARM templates, Bicep, Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Service Health
Our practice exam distributes its questions across these exact domains at these weightings — so your score per domain tells you precisely where you stand.
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