
Define cloud computing as renting on-demand resources from a provider like Microsoft Azure, enabling scalable, pay for what you use services backed by the shared responsibility model.
Explore the shared responsibility model in Azure, clarifying what Microsoft handles—data centers, infrastructure, platform—versus what you manage—data, access, configurations—across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS for the AZ-900 exam.
Understand public, private, and hybrid cloud models and their use cases, advantages, and data considerations for scalable, compliant workloads.
Explore Azure's consumption-based pay-as-you-go model, paying only for what you use with no upfront costs, and learn to estimate and monitor costs using pricing calculator and budgets.
Compare consumption-based pricing with reserve and commitment pricing in Microsoft Azure, showing pay for what you use versus long-term commitments and guidance for workload choices.
Use the Azure pricing calculator to estimate a Linux VM in Australia East, comparing pay-as-you-go and reserved or savings plans. Identify cost drivers like region, operating system, disks, and bandwidth.
Explore what serverless means in Azure, where you focus on application logic while Azure manages servers, scaling, and billing under a consumption-based, event-driven model.
Understand cloud governance as a framework of rules, policies, and standards that keep Azure resources organized, secure, and scalable across teams.
Explore how the Azure cloud enhances reliability and predictability by delivering high availability, backups, replication, automatic scaling, and real-time monitoring to reduce outages and stabilize costs.
Explore high availability in the cloud, emphasizing redundancy, health checks, and automatic failover to stay up. Understand SLA targets, backups, replication, and load balancing across zones for resilience.
Define scalability as increasing capacity to support more users and resources, and explain elasticity as automatic capacity adjustments to match demand in Azure cloud services.
Explore cloud security fundamentals with Azure built-in protections, monitoring, and identity controls, and learn the shared responsibility model between Microsoft and customers to protect data and access.
Explore platform as a service (PaaS) and its best use cases, showing how Azure manages the infrastructure while you focus on building and scaling your apps and data.
Discover software as a service as ready to use cloud software where the provider manages infrastructure and updates. Focus on using the app and benefit from fast start and maintenance.
Explore Azure global infrastructure by learning how regions group data centers into geographic areas and how availability zones inside some regions provide fault isolation with independent power, cooling, and networking.
Explore Azure global infrastructure by examining regions, region pairs, and sovereign clouds, and learn how data residency, latency, resilience, and cross region recovery guide deployment decisions.
Discover how Azure resources are organized into resource groups, subscriptions, and management groups. Learn to group related resources by lifecycle, apply policies, and manage access with locks.
Explore the Azure hierarchy from management groups to subscriptions, resource groups, and resources, and learn how subscriptions provide billing, governance, and access control boundaries.
Explore the Azure portal basics, learn how to create a resource group, and review subscription basics from the portal's navigation, search, and RBAC features.
Understand Azure virtual machines: start from image, pick a size for compute, attach operating system and data disks, and connect via a network interface to a VNet, with resource groups.
Explore Azure hosting models, comparing web apps and containers: use web apps for managed hosting of websites and APIs, and containers for portable, container-first deployments like microservices.
Discover Azure app hosting options and where apps can run. Compare VMs, App Service, containers, and Functions to balance control with serverless simplicity.
Want to pass the Microsoft AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals exam and finally understand how Azure actually works?
This beginner-friendly AZ-900 course is designed to take you from little or no cloud knowledge to a clear, practical understanding of Microsoft Azure, cloud computing, and the key services tested in the exam.
AZ-900 is a fundamentals exam, but it can still catch people out. Many questions are scenario-based, meaning you need to know more than simple definitions. You need to understand which Azure service fits which situation, how cloud pricing works, how identity and security are handled, and how Azure resources are managed.
That is exactly what this course is built to help you do.
You will learn through clear video lectures, visual PowerPoint-style explanations, practical Azure demos, downloadable summary documents, section quizzes, and two full-length practice tests with 50 questions each.
This course covers all major AZ-900 exam domains:
Cloud Concepts
You will start with the foundations of cloud computing, including what the cloud is, why organizations use it, and how the shared responsibility model works.
You will learn the difference between public, private, and hybrid cloud, understand consumption-based pricing, explore serverless computing, and compare important cloud benefits such as high availability, scalability, elasticity, reliability, security, governance, and manageability.
You will also learn how to compare IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, one of the most important topics for the AZ-900 exam.
Azure Architecture and Services
Next, you will learn how Azure is structured and how to recognize the most important Azure services.
This includes Azure regions, region pairs, availability zones, datacenters, resource groups, subscriptions, management groups, and the Azure resource hierarchy.
You will also learn core Azure services across compute, networking, storage, migration, identity, access, and security.
Topics include:
Virtual machines, containers, functions, and web apps
VNets, subnets, peering, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and endpoints
Storage accounts, storage tiers, redundancy, backup, and file transfer tools
Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box
Microsoft Entra ID, MFA, SSO, Conditional Access, Azure RBAC, Zero Trust, defense in depth, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
The goal is not just to memorize service names. The goal is to understand when and why you would choose each service.
Azure Management and Governance
In the final part of the course, you will learn how Azure environments are controlled, governed, monitored, and managed.
You will cover Azure cost management, tags, the Pricing Calculator, Microsoft Purview, Azure Policy, resource locks, Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, Azure Arc, ARM, ARM templates, Azure Advisor, Azure Service Health, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, and Application Insights.
These are key AZ-900 topics because they show how organizations keep Azure environments secure, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective.
What You Get in This Course
This course includes:
Beginner-friendly AZ-900 video lectures
Practical Azure demos
Clear PowerPoint-style explanations
Downloadable summary documents
Mini quizzes and section quizzes
Scenario-based exam practice
Two full-length practice tests
50 questions in each practice test
Explanations to help you understand why answers are correct or incorrect
Who This Course Is For
This course is ideal for:
Complete beginners to cloud computing
Students preparing for the Microsoft AZ-900 exam
IT support and helpdesk professionals
Project managers and business analysts working with Azure teams
Sales, pre-sales, and non-technical professionals
Developers, network engineers, and security beginners starting with Azure
Anyone who wants a clear, structured introduction to Microsoft Azure
No previous Azure experience is required. Everything is explained from the beginning using simple language, practical examples, demos, and exam-focused comparisons.
By the end of this course, you will understand the core Azure concepts, recognize the major services, avoid common exam traps, and feel much more confident approaching the AZ-900 exam.
Start learning Azure Fundamentals today and build the cloud foundation you need for your Microsoft certification journey.