AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certification - 2026

Explore the shift from standalone PCs to cloud-based services and how compute, memory, storage, database, and network reduce server sprawl for a distributed workforce.

Cloud computing unlocks unlimited computing power, storage, and remote access, letting startups and enterprises scale quickly and reduce costs.

Cloud computing, defined by NIST and ISO/IEC 17788, enables ubiquitous, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable resources with minimal management effort.

Trace the evolution of cloud computing from time-sharing to internet-based services, and explore the three service models: iaas, paas, and saas.

Explore cloud models—IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS—with examples like AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine, and Azure App Services. See how these offer scalable computing, development environments, and cloud software.

Explore the shared responsibility model across iaas, paas, and saas, detailing what cloud providers and users protect, encrypt, and govern to safeguard data.

Explore how pizza as a service demonstrates cloud models—from traditional IT to iaas, paas, and saas—emphasizing shared responsibility for data security and compliance.

Explore the five characteristics of cloud computing, including on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service, and learn how these pillars enable scalable, cost-efficient it infrastructure.

Explore how cloud computing cuts upfront costs, boosts efficiency, and scales resources with demand, accelerating innovation and enabling global reach with secure, compliant collaboration.

Understand capex versus opex and how cloud computing enables flexible, cash-flow friendly operations, as shown by Netflix, Dropbox, and Adobe.

Cloud data centers form the global foundation, balancing proximity, renewable energy, and regulatory needs to deliver low-latency services worldwide across AWS, Azure, and Google regions.

Gartner's magic quadrant evaluates cloud providers on ability to execute and completeness of vision, highlighting leaders like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google.

Explore public, private, and hybrid clouds, noting elasticity, scalability, cost effectiveness, and the balance of control and compliance across on-premises and cloud environments.

Compare cloud vendors from titans like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to challengers and niche innovators, highlighting hybrid, data analytics, and AI strengths.

Leverage infrastructure as code to automate provisioning with cloud apis, enabling version control, collaboration, security, and compliance while accelerating deployment speed and scalability across prod, dev, and stage environments.

Master serverless by comparing traditional hosting to pay-per-use cloud computing, where the cloud provider scales automatically and you focus on code, paying only for execution and enabling faster deployment.

Learn how microservices break large applications into smaller, specialized services, like food stalls, to improve quality, maintenance, and faster innovation through coordinated, secure communication.

Explore how microservices in an e-commerce app each handle a specific function—from authentication to payments—with independent databases and apis that connect services for a seamless user experience.

Explore the Azure architecture, learn about Azure services and products, and understand solutions and management tools to gain foundational cloud knowledge.

Azure groups data centers into regions, enabling you to deploy resources in a chosen region with low-latency networks. This global footprint supports data residency, compliance, and resiliency across multiple regions.

Discover Azure special regions, including Azure Government, Azure China Cloud, and Azure Germany Cloud, and how data residency, compliance, and sovereignty drive their use, despite limited services and higher latency.

Explore Azure regional pairs, two geographically separated data centers that enable automatic failover and cross-data-center replication to boost resilience, data protection, and business continuity.

Explore Azure's physical geography: regions shape latency, compliance, and data locality. Learn about Azure Government, China regions via 21 Vianet, and region pairs for disaster resilience.

Azure feature availability varies by region due to development and compliance. Use the Azure portal or the Azure products by region page to verify regional support, considering latency and compliance.

Utilize Azure availability zones to deploy applications across geographically separated data centers within a single region, achieving enhanced availability, fault tolerance, and robust disaster recovery.

Learn how availability sets in Azure distribute virtual machines across fault domains to improve fault tolerance, uptime, and cost-effective resilience within a single region.

Group related Azure resources into resource groups to improve organization, deployment, management, access control, and cost tracking across development, testing, and production environments.

Azure Resource Manager is a deployment and management service that uses JSON templates to provision resources, enforce consistent configurations, enable infrastructure as code, and centralize role-based access control.

Explore azure services and products, including compute (virtual machines, vm scale sets, app services, functions), networking, storage, databases, marketplace, IoT, data mining, machine learning studio, serverless, devops, and cloud tooling.

Discover Azure compute and its on demand, scalable options—virtual machines, app service, functions, AKS, and container instances—and learn how to choose the right compute for web apps, APIs, and microservices.

The course covers the rise of virtualization and cloud-based virtual machines, showing how hypervisor-enabled VMs maximize resources, offer rapid deployment, scalability, and built-in security via Azure global data centers.

Provision and configure an Azure virtual machine from the portal, including subscription, resource group, region, image, size, and security; understand licensing and inbound port considerations.

Encrypt vm disks, choose disk size and os type (ssd or hdd), select key management (platform or customer managed), and decide on new or existing disks with ultra disk support.

Configure Azure virtual machines networking by attaching a network card to a virtual network and subnet, with public ip or vpn access, and enforce security with network security groups.

Explore azure vm management with Defender for cloud security, threat detection, and vulnerability scanning; enable entry ID managed identities for vm access and automate backups, site recovery, and os updates.

Configure alerts for cpu, memory, disk iops, and network to proactively address issues in Azure virtual machines. Use diagnostics and health checks to monitor app performance and identify bottlenecks.

Navigate the Azure virtual machines tab to fine-tune deployment with extensions, VM applications, and custom data for configuration, and leverage NVMe storage, capacity reservations, and proximity placement for better performance.

Azure virtual machine tags use key-value pairs as labels to categorize, search, and automate management, with examples like environment production, operating system Windows Server 2019, role web server, owner Rob.

Finalize Azure virtual machines by provisioning a vm, obtaining its ip, and logging in via Microsoft Terminal Services console after opening port 3389 in network security groups; Linux uses PuTTY.

Discover how containers differ from virtual machines, highlighting their lightweight, portable, and efficient software-level isolation, and learn when to use containers for cloud-native, microservice architectures.

Create and deploy a docker container to Azure container instances via the Azure portal, using the Microsoft Hello World image, and configure ports, DNS label, restart policies, and environment variables.

Compare containers and virtual machines to understand container-based virtualization, lightweight isolation, and the stronger security boundary of full OS isolation, with deployment via Docker and Kubernetes.

Explore how containers provide isolation, speed, and portability compared to virtual machines, enabling faster deployment, short startup times, versatile cloud-native apps, and improved resource utilization through lightweight, single-image deployment.

Create Azure container instances in the portal, select sample images such as hello world or nginx, and configure registry options, ports, DNS label, env vars, and restart policy.

Learn to access and manage containers in Azure Container Instances, view metrics, inspect events, and use managed identities with Key Vault integration, while preparing to deploy via Azure CLI.

Deploy and manage Azure container instances from the CLI using cloud shell, creating public-facing containers, and customizing with your own images from Azure container registry, GitHub, or Docker Hub.

Learn to create custom images and web apps by cloning GitHub projects, building Docker images, pushing to Azure container registry, and deploying to Azure container instances in a serverless world.

Learn Azure networking with virtual networks (VNets) to isolate and connect resources and on-premises systems. Use security groups to filter traffic and emulate firewalls for controlled VM communications.

Gain hands-on with creating a virtual network in Azure, configuring CIDR blocks and subnets (default and manufacturing), provisioning virtual machines with private IPs, and validating inter-subnet connectivity.

Distribute traffic originating from the internet to the backend pool of virtual machines using the Azure load balancer to ensure high availability and 100% uptime for web applications.

Extend networks to Azure with encrypted VPN tunnels and hybrid connectivity. Configure policy-based or route-based gateways with redundancy in availability zones and IKEv2 or OpenVPN, considering region latency and cost.

Explore Azure Application Gateway's layer seven traffic management with URL-based routing, cookie-based session affinity, and a built-in web application firewall to secure and scale web applications.

Discover how Azure CDN delivers content to global users by caching assets at edge servers and using intelligent routing to reduce latency and costs, while offloading load on origin servers.

Explore how Azure CDN caches content at edge servers, handles hits and misses, and fetches from origin to deliver fast, secure global delivery with TTL management.

Explore configuring an Azure CDN profile to front a web app with endpoints, origin settings, and cache controls, including time to live, compression, and geo filtering for global content delivery.

Explore the Azure storage ecosystem, including blob storage, file storage, queue storage, and table storage, plus data lake storage and IoT edge for secure, scalable global data management.

Explore general purpose v2, GP v1 legacy, block blob and premium file shares, and learn to choose storage accounts for data lakes, VM disks, and high throughput with cost optimization.

Explore how the Azure storage account powers web applications with blob storage, supports backups and disaster recovery, and enables big data analytics with data lake storage.

Explore the pillars of digital data: structured, unstructured, and semi-structured, with examples like SQL databases and JSON/XML. Understand how each type enables data analysis in AI and big data contexts.

Explore structured data, organized in rows and columns, enabling machines to search, understand, and analyze transactions, from Azure SQL Database to Azure Table Storage for scalable, secure cloud storage.

Explore unstructured data across text, images, emails, and videos. Discover how Azure Blob storage and Cognitive Services analyze sentiment, trends, and customer insights in real time.

Master semi-structured data, balancing structure and flexibility with JSON, weblogs, and XML, and learn how Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Table Storage scale, query, and support dynamic web applications.

Create a storage account in Azure portal by selecting subscription, resource group, a unique name, region, and performance, then review and deploy with redundancy options like Lirs, GRS, and Zrs.

Learn to administer an Azure storage account, covering permissioning, security, networking, replication, monitoring, activity logs, and governance through tags, exports, and blob data access roles.

Migrate data to Azure with AZ copy for blobs and Data Factory for ETL, and automate post-upload tasks with Logic Apps or Azure Functions.

Explore azure storage accounts' four pillars: blobs (block, page, append), file shares, tables, and queues. Learn blob tiers hot, cool, archive, SMB file sharing, and queue messaging for applications.

Explore how to secure and optimize an Azure storage account through public versus private network access, private endpoints, custom domains, and routing options, balancing performance, cost, and compliance.

Compare Azure front door and content delivery networks to improve global performance, availability, and security. Use front door for web apps and API distribution; use CDN for static content caching.

Explore Azure Storage redundancy options: lirs, zrs, crs, grs, and ra-gers, to balance durability, availability, and cost while supporting cross-region and zone resilience.

Learn how access keys authenticate against Azure storage, including primary and secondary keys, rotation, and best practices. Discover how SAS tokens mitigate full account access.

Explore creating shared access signatures to grant restricted, time-limited access to Azure storage services (blobs, files, queues, tables) with defined permissions, resource types, IP restrictions, and https-only enforcement.

Understand two encryption options for storage accounts: MMC, where Microsoft manages keys with AES-256, and Cmmc, where you control key lifecycle and rotation via Key Vault.

Learn how Azure Defender for Cloud protects storage accounts by surfacing recommendations, enabling private link and restrictive network access, and guiding remediation with shared access keys for secure data storage.

Learn how Azure storage tasks automate and schedule storage operations with assignment runs and task assignments, providing audit trails, monitoring data lifecycle policies, archival, backups, and deletions.

Explore Azure storage redundancy options, including local redundant storage, geo redundant storage, read-access geo-redundant storage, and zone-redundant storage, and understand their disaster resilience, protection scope, and costs.

Protect and recover your Azure storage by enabling blob backups, container point-in-time restore, container soft delete, versioning, blob change feed, and version-level immutability to ensure security, recoverability, and compliance.

Enable object replication across storage accounts by configuring a replication policy, selecting source and destination, and creating replication rules to ensure asynchronous, geo-distributed backups.

Configure and schedule blob inventory reports for Azure storage, defining rules by container, blob type, versions, time range, fields, and export formats such as csv or parquet.

Enable static website hosting on azure storage to serve HTML, CSS, JS, and images cost-effectively, using the dollar web container with index.html and 404.html, dns and ssl/tls for https.

Learn to set up blob lifecycle management by creating rules with filters and prefixes that move to cool storage or delete data based on age, last modification, or last access.

Enable secure transfer and encryption in transit for storage accounts. Manage access with keys, SAS expiry, Entra, and optimize with blob tiers and large file shares up to 100 tb.

Upgrade your storage account to data lake gen2 to gain a hierarchical namespace, enhanced security, and integration with Databricks, Synapse, and HDInsight; validate and start the upgrade, then review blobs.

Configure cross-origin resource sharing in Azure storage by defining per-storage-service rules, specifying allowed origins, methods, headers, and max age (3600 seconds) to enable secure cross-domain access.

Discover how Azure Advisor provides storage-focused recommendations across cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance. Learn to move to colder tiers, rightsize storage, enable encryption, threat protection, RBAC, and monitoring.

Explore Azure storage endpoints for blob, files, queues, tables, data lake storage, and static website, and understand their distinct URLs, roles in client interactions, authentication, and SDK usage.

Learn how Azure logs and resource locks, including read-only and delete options, protect storage accounts by preventing accidental or unauthorized modifications and deletions, ensuring governance, data integrity, and compliance.

Learn to monitor Azure storage accounts with visual dashboards, alerts, and metrics. Configure thresholds, use Metrics Explorer, logs, and diagnostic settings to optimize performance and reliability.

Discover how Azure database services offer fully managed, scalable, and highly available solutions with pay-as-you-go pricing, covering SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB, Redis, and MariaDB.

Create an Azure SQL database in the portal, choosing subscription, resource group, server, and region, then configure compute, storage, sample data, security, and query access.

Explore azure marketplace as your one-stop shop for cloud solutions. From virtual machines and databases to ai tools, microsoft vets these solutions via certification for compatibility and reliability.

Explore what IoT is, how sensors and connectivity collect and analyze data, and how automated actions power smart homes, remote patient monitoring, and industrial efficiency.

Learn how IoT hub acts as a cloud-based central point for Azure devices, enabling bidirectional, secure data exchange. Organize data, support device registration, and enable automated actions and alerts.

Explore how to create and configure an IoT hub in the portal, choose between free and standard tiers, and connect a Raspberry Pi simulator to stream temperature and humidity data.

Explore Azure big data and analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Databricks to process, analyze, and visualize massive data for data-driven decisions.

Explore Azure Synapse Analytics as a cloud-based, unified data warehousing and analytics engine that combines data storage, pipelines, Spark processing, and Power BI visuals to enable scalable, insights-driven decision making.

Leverage Azure HDInsight to unlock big data insights in the cloud, enabling real time analytics, data warehousing, and scalable machine learning on large datasets with Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

Explore Azure Data Lake Analytics, a cloud-based, scalable tool that analyzes structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data in a massive, secure data lake using usql for powerful queries.

Explore the general concepts of machine learning, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning, and see how data and models drive automation and personalized experiences with Azure tools.

Explore Azure Machine Learning Studio, a web-based drag-and-drop tool inside the Azure ML workspace. Leverage data preparation modules, pre-built algorithms, and automated machine learning to deploy as a web service.

Explore Azure Machine Learning workspace as the centralized hub for data sets, experiments, models, endpoints, and deployments, enabling collaboration, scalable compute, and end-to-end ML workflow with secure MLOps.

Explore serverless computing, where cloud providers dynamically manage servers so you focus on your code and time to market, using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid.

Bridge dev and operations teams through DevOps by fostering collaboration, automating testing, deployment, and monitoring, and sharing responsibility to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and reduce production risks.

Discover Azure management tools to access, deploy, monitor, and secure resources using the Azure portal, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, and ARM templates, with Azure Monitor and Defender.

Manage azure resources with azure powershell in cloud shell, using get and new cmdlets to create resource groups and a lab vnet, with variables and subnet 10.0.0.0/24.

Learn to provision resources with the Azure CLI in Cloud Shell, creating a resource group in East US, virtual network with subnets, and a static public IP, with JSON output.

Explore Azure Resource Manager quickstart templates to deploy resources with JSON templates, review 796 options, customize parameters, and use PowerShell or CLI via Cloud Shell for VM provisioning.

Azure Advisor acts as a personal consultant that continuously analyzes your Azure resources, offering tailored recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance and reliability, and strengthen security with actionable insights.

Explore Azure architecture basics, regions and availability zones, automate deployment with JSON, PowerShell, and Azure CLI, and manage core services like Virtual Machines, App Services, and Kubernetes.

Manage Azure resources on the go with the mobile app, handling subscriptions, resources, and permissions, plus cloud shell scripting with PowerShell or Bash and MFA security.

Install Azure PowerShell modules on your device to manage resources on Azure—SQL, Active Directory, Storage, and Backup—using administrator privileges, module verification, and login commands.

Explore how to secure Azure networks and implement core Azure identity services. Learn about security tools, governance and risk, compliance, monitoring, and privacy and data protection standards in Azure.

Explore how Azure Firewall protects cloud resources at the network layer with scalable, intelligent threat intelligence, rule customization, and integrated security across Azure services.

Explore a hands-on azure firewall lab that builds a resource group and vnet with jump, prod, and firewall subnets, deploys two vms, and implements firewall rules.

Azure DDoS protection detects abnormal traffic, redirects it to scrubbing centers, and filters to keep your resources available during attacks, delivering peace of mind and cost savings.

Apply network security groups to subnets or network interfaces to filter inbound and outbound traffic within an Azure virtual network, using rules by source, destination, ports, and protocols.

Explore application security groups in Azure to simplify security by role tagging. Automatically update memberships and apply rules to ASGs for scalable, secure, three-tier web app architectures.

Choose a defense-in-depth approach by combining Azure DDoS protection, network firewalls, and network security groups to limit connectivity, segment resources, and protect web applications with WAF and application gateway.

Explore authentication and authorization as the two pillars of cloud security, including MFA, certificates, and managed identities, with Intro ID, RBAC, and Key Vault to guard Azure resources.

Azure Active Directory provides cloud-based identity and access management. It enables authentication, self-service password reset, multifactor authentication, single sign-on, and device management for Microsoft and third-party apps.

Learn how multi factor authentication adds a security layer beyond passwords with azure mfa, using one-time passwords or approvals and factors: something you know, something you possess, something you are.

Identify vulnerabilities across your Azure subscription with Azure Security Center and receive threat protection. Monitor security settings on Azure workloads and on-premises, analyze inbound attacks, and enforce just-in-time port access.

Explore Azure Security Center through lab activities, review the compliance score, apply remediations, enable multifactor authentication, and monitor threat protection with Log Analytics and alerts.

Centralize your application secrets with Azure Key Vault, enabling secure access and permission control for tokens, passwords, certificates, and API keys. Support encryption key management and certificate provisioning across regions.

Azure information protection helps organizations classify and protect documents and emails by applying labels—auto, manual, or both—in a cloud-based system, while tracking access and data flows to prevent leakage.

Azure advanced threat protection, a cloud-based security solution that uses on-premise Active Directory signals and machine learning to detect, investigate, and protect identities.

Learn how Azure policy enforces compliance by defining and assigning policies and initiatives to specific scopes, then apply a lab to restrict virtual machines to West Europe and block others.

execute an Azure policies lab to create and assign an initiative that blocks virtual machine creation in Western Europe, validating policy compliance and understanding policy definitions and assignments.

Explore Azure role based access control to grant users only the rights they need, providing fine-grained access management across subscriptions, resource groups, and resources.

Assign a single user's permissions with Azure RBAC, giving the virtual machine contributor role and verifying access is limited to managing virtual machines, not networks or storage.

Explore how Azure locks prevent accidental deletion or modification of resources by applying delete and read-only locks at the deletion and modification levels, including resource groups.

Learn to prevent accidental deletion of a resource group by adding a lock in the logs, choosing read only or delete, and then removing the lock to delete.

Learn how Azure blueprints let cloud architects define repeatable Azure resources that comply with organization standards, enabling rapid, compliant environment provisioning.

Explore Azure subscription governance, including billing, access controls such as RBAC, and limits; learn to organize subscriptions by department for chargeback reports and plan deployment boundaries.

Tag resources with a name and value to organize, filter, and manage Azure billing and governance, while understanding limits and inheritance and using Azure policy to enforce tagging.

Azure Monitor collects data from applications, operating systems, and resources to analyze performance, metrics, and logs, and proactively identify issues across Azure, other clouds, or on-premises.

Create a resource group and a Windows 2019 virtual machine, then monitor cpu utilization, memory, network, and iops with Azure Monitor integrated into the VM dashboard.

Explore azure service health and azure status for a global view of service health and up-to-the-minute availability, with a customizable dashboard to track events, maintenance, advisories, and alerts.

Explore Azure Monitor features across analyze, respond, visualize, and integrate, including Azure Insights, Application Insights, Azure Monitor Container, Azure Monitor for Virtual Machines, dashboards, alerts, and Power BI integration.

Understand how regulated industries apply compliance requirements such as PCI, DSS, Fisma, FDA practices, and Hipa standards in cloud deployments, and how Microsoft audits data centers to stay compliant.

Learn how Microsoft processes personal data in its data centers and what data is processed. The privacy statement provides openness about data handling in its products and services.

Explore the Microsoft Trust Center for security, privacy, compliance, and transparency across Microsoft cloud products, with guidance for tenant admins, data risk assessment, privacy officers, and legal compliance teams.

Discover how the service trust portal provides audit reports, compliance guides, and trust documents for Microsoft cloud services to help meet ISO, SOC, NIST, FedRAMP, and GDPR standards.

Operate within a physically isolated Azure government cloud for US federal, state, and local agencies, with six government-only data centers, FedRAMP, DoD level four, CJIS, and DoD level five approvals.

Azure Germany delivers trusted cloud security, privacy, and compliance with data residency in two German data centers under the data trustee T-systems, offering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS under German regulations.

Azure China 21Vnet operates a physically separated cloud instance in China, managed by 21Vianet. It delivers world-class security, complies with regulations, and notes some Azure services require rehome.

Explore Azure subscriptions and management groups, cost planning with the pricing calculator and cost management tools, support options and SLAs, and the lifecycle from previews to general availability, release management.

Explain how an Azure subscription grants entitlement to deploy resources, highlighting free trial with $200 credit, pay as you go, postpaid options, and member offers.

Discover how Azure management groups provide enterprise-grade governance by organizing multiple subscriptions into groups, applying policies at the group level that automatically govern all contained subscriptions and resources.

Explore Azure purchasing options for three customer types: enterprise with negotiated annual spend and customized pricing, web direct with monthly credit card billing, and customer solution providers handled by CSP.

Monitor Azure resources. Meters track usage and usage records determine your bill, with metrics like compute hours, IP address hours, data transfer, disk iops, and blob operations.

Discover how resource types, services, and user location influence Azure billing. Learn how meters track usage and billable units, and how location affects costs and data transfer.

Learn the difference between availability zones and zones for billing, and how isolated data centers protect apps from zone-level failures while bandwidth and data transfer pricing are billed by zone.

Explore how the Azure pricing calculator estimates costs by selecting and configuring Azure products, adjusting regions and billing options, and generating estimates before using it, not quotes.

Use the total cost of ownership calculator to estimate cost savings from migrating to Azure by defining your on premise workloads, adjusting cost assumptions, and viewing the comparative report.

Plan your Azure solution wisely and analyze costs using pricing and total cost of ownership calculators. Match provisioned resources to demand, use Azure Advisor, spending limits, reservations, and cost tagging.

Explore how Azure cost management monitors budgets, alerts, reports, and tagging to optimize costs and accountability. Forecast usage with historical data and leverage Azure Advisor recommendations at no extra cost.

Explore Azure support options from free basic access to paid plans—developer, standard, professional, and premier—offering 24/7 engineering support, architectural guidance, onboarding, reviews, and a dedicated technical account manager.

Explore Azure's alternative support channels beyond official plans, including mSDN forums, StackOverflow, Server Fault, Azure feedback forums, Twitter, and the Azure knowledge center.

Azure's service level agreement defines performance targets, uptime, and connectivity guarantees, with service credits if performance falls short; note that free or shared tiers are excluded from slas.

Explore how combining SLAs from a web app and an SQL database yields a composite uptime around 99.94%. Learn how independent fallbacks like a queue improve availability.

Improve your application's architecture and understand workload requirements to create Azure-based, self-diagnosing SLAs that meet business needs and enhance resiliency.

Discover how Azure previews provide private and public evaluation access to beta features, and how SLAs and customer support may not apply to these previews.

Azure customers provide feedback on portal preview features via the smile button or the Azure Portal Feedback Forum, and you can revert to the default portal at portal.azure.com.

Explore how features move from public or private preview to general availability, becoming part of Azure's default feature set with SLAs and user feedback driving improvements.

Explore how Microsoft updates Azure portals, tracks customer feedback, and reveals roadmaps and announcements for Azure products, services, and features.

Celebrate completing all four modules, complete the chapter review and the practice test to confirm your understanding of cloud, and good luck on the Azure 900 exam.

Learn networking fundamentals by comparing home networks to cloud networks, focusing on routers, devices, IP addresses, and DNS to understand how data finds its path.

Explore how networks and subnets interconnect, learn cidr blocks and private ip ranges defined by rfc 1918, and see how gateways route traffic between devices and subnets.

Explore the basics of compute with elastic cloud compute (ec2), and how core components—cpu, ram, storage, and network—come together when provisioning an ec2 instance.

Explore how object, file, and block storage differ, and how storage arrays, volumes, and bulk cloud storage enable scalable, secure access to unstructured data.

Discover how Azure delivers compute, storage, and networking through VMs (IaaS), App Services (PaaS), containers (ACI, AKS), and Azure Functions, plus diverse data stores.

Explore the Azure portal to manage resources, create virtual networks, virtual machines, and dashboards, customize settings, and use Azure Shell or PowerShell for provisioning and management.

Explore the Azure portal and its CLI, PowerShell, SDK, and mobile app options for provisioning virtual machines, and manage subscriptions, resource groups, regions, images, disks, monitoring, and security.

Discover Azure beyond compute and storage, including migration with Azure Migrate, identity with Azure Active Directory, DevOps pipelines, IoT, analytics, AI, and integration with Logic Apps.

Design an Azure e-commerce architecture by integrating App Service, Azure SQL Database, Azure Cognitive Search, Azure Active Directory B2C, queue storage, Azure Functions, blob storage, and Azure Cache for Redis.