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